rubble or adam whitely editor in chief at net right daily erica new democratic strategist and michael warren writer with the weekly standard thank you all for joining me tonight great to have you with us earlier this week a group of house democrats led by jesse jackson jr proposed raising the minimum wage to ten bucks sounds like a lot but it turns out they actually called the act the catching up with one hundred sixty eight act because if you were to inflation adjust the minimum wage of nine hundred sixty eight to today it would actually be over ten dollars so you know republicans are running around saying they want people to keep their hard earned money through tax cuts tax cuts that would affect people who make minimum wage but nonetheless why not pay people a living wage for their hard earned work what's wrong with the ten dollars minimum wage likely there's an economic argument against minimum wage is entirely. there absolutely is because you know it's a pretty good way milton friedman made made the case that i was wrong. made the right case i think that if you said what the minimum wag

tonight are adam by the editor in chief of net right daily eric a new democratic strategist and michael warren writer with the weekly standard and let's get to our quick fire question the bush era tax cuts are set to expire in january first of next year and president obama is making it clear he's not going to extend that the tax at least that piece of it that is the tax cuts for the wealthiest americans when asked about the president's stance on the tax cuts earlier this week press secretary jay carney told reporters quote he the president will not support an extension of the upper income bush tax cuts you could not be more clear and quote so will republicans play hostage taker again and hold the middle class hostage over tax cuts for the very rich is going to happen until the present budget is out there not holding the middle class hostage to suggest that they are is absurd so there's going to be a threat to the government if they don't i think if mr obama is correct mr curry who says what mr obama saying is correct then mr obama appears to be holding middle class hostage i think the middle c

michael warren. so many of them have been modified. so it is the question of where we go? in home, in schools talking about portraying young folks for the workplace you must respect yourself have confidence in yourself, believe in yourself, you come from a great tradition, a great heritage and people in the midst of a crisis generated all but its courage and vision and so forth. a lot of these newsletters and newspapers can't tell them that we have to do it ourselves at home, church, our muslim brothers and sisters can play a role. synagogues, jewish, black, white, whatever. we have to be honest. and we have to say that we live in a society that has more priorities we can find money for drones to kill innocent folks with sticks in virginia, unmanned aerial. do you know how much money it takes to do that? , geneina energy you have to invest but we can't have a priority of making sure our children are safe. making sure that there's enough jobs in the communities of the underground economy of guns that come from our side and drugs that come from our side don't overwhelm so th

. >> michael, you'd agree warren buffett's a smart guy. he says it's a great time to invest and he's going to increase by a billion dollars that his company is investing. he's a pretty smart guy. >> guess what? because warren buffett's got the leverage to do that. a small business owner doesn't necessarily have that leverage. >> and president obama has cut taxes on small business owners 18 times. >> maybe he needs to cut 19 times because no one's feeling it. and the other point i think it's important to make for all this coming out today about what he's going to do, he had the opportunity in his grasps to do and he blinked. >> i can't let that go. [ overlapping speakers ] >> michael, you can't do simpson bowles without -- >> yes you could. he could say this is my plan. and he didn't. >> michael, you know you can't unless the other side raises revenue. >> it's not what you can do at times it's what you're willing to do. >> okay, guys. we have an interesting set of words here. i'm a sycophant, the president speaks in blubber. thank you for t

house speaker michael bush is on vacation and not available today for comment. i'm pat warrenporting from annapolis. now, back to you on tv hill. >> the governor is committed to calling a special session. including changes that would have to get voter approval in november. >>> the unemployment line is growing in maryland. the labor department says local employers cut 7500 jobs in may. bringing maryland's unemployment to 6.8%. but that still below the national rate, which is 8%. >>> tonight, nik wallenda attempts to tight-rope walk his way into history books, crossing over niagara falls on a two-inch wire. randall pinkston speaks to nick nik wallenda before has stunt. >> reporter: world famous daredevil nik wallenda is about to try to walk a tightrope, 1800 feet across niagara falls on a two-inch cable, 200 feet above the churning waters of the niagara gorge. >> what will be for you the most significant moment of your walk across the falls? >> well, there's two points. it's the moment i step food foot on the cable, and the moment i step foot off the cable. >> reporter: wallenda

warren owns a cleaning service. she has been charged with criminal trespasses. >>> there is a proposal to ban large sized sodas. mayor michaelberg saying it another step to fighting the country's obesity problem. it would include restaurants movie theaters and concession stands but not grocery or convenience stores. >>> baltimore writer and journalist has died. he chronicled his 18 month journey with the disease. respected journalist, he worked for the new york times and the baltimore sun. his work on his final book was almost complete when he died yesterday. >>> a return to the white house for former presidential george w. bush and first lady laura bush. their official portraits were unveiled. president obama and his wife michelle hosted the ceremony. also in attendance another former president george herbert walker bush. it shows the president standing in the oval office. >>> a 6-year-old girl steals the show at the national spieling bee. everyone wanted to talk to the dynamo from virginia even though they isn't make it. >> reporter: 6-year-old lorie ann madison said she will be on stage for next year's national spelling b

michael bush is on vacation. and not available today for comment. i'm pat warren, reporting from annapolis., back to you on tv hill. >> and the governor is committed to calling a and session to approve changes in the law, including changes that would have to get voter approval in november. >>> the treasury department releases new details of serious allegations against secret service agents. the documents describe a long list of complaints against secret service employees dating back to 2004. some of the cases are still being investigated. and others have been resolved within the agency. the report is being made public under a freedom of information request by the media, following the prostitution scandal in april. >>> in los angeles, police are investigating a violent fight amongst parents at a preschool graduation. denise is in the newsroom with a brawl caught on camera. denise? >> reporter: well, mary, an anonymous parent turned the video over to an education blogger. it happened at a los angeles elementary school, during a preschool culmination ceremony. children can be heard screaming,

that's why warren buffett doubling up the fleet of net jets and look at michael kors. i'm not going to say that's the highest end but nonetheless a luxury retailer doing very well beating by a nickel. i think you continue to buy that one. >> saudi arabia's oil minister defending record out put despite falling prices, yesterday the largest oil producer committed to keeping markets amply supplied. ceo of quantum reservoir impact former head of oil management. great to have you here. >> glad to be here. >> what do you think is driving oil prices right now. >> supply and demand. all the fundamentals of supply and demand. on the supply side we're seeing a very robust picture. saudi arabia is only one component of the whole supply picture. maybe iraq, you look at the u.s. production on an upswing. on the demand side, all the factors whether the european crisis or general malaise on the demand side are creating a very favorable factor towards lower prices, hence, the lower end of what i consider the stable window of prices. >> you say in your most recent op-ed in the "wall st

warren explains strategies include some high-level fund-raising. >> reporter: from lawmakers to fund raisers, after signing the bill into law, governor o'malley and house speaker michael bush are raising money to get voters to support same-sex marriage on the november ballot. >> the governor has been behind us all the way through the legislative process, now signing the law, and now helping us make sure that we can defend it on the ballot. >> reporter: this e-mail is just one of the governor's many appeals to marylanders to contribute to a same-sex marriage campaign. baltimore mayor blake is attending a rally for same-sex marriage this weekend. more than a hundred thousand voters have signed a petition to put the issue up for a vote in november. and derek mccoy of the maryland marriage alliance, which supports traditional marriage, tells wjz by phone, he believes the governor and the mayor are out of line. >> well, obviously they have chosen to represent a portion of their constituency. i think they are really shortsided as far as in their fund-raising efforts. they should be considering where other people are on the issue in the state. >> reporter: both sides intend

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eric warren, p.f.c., cal miller, corporal keithen coffey, ryan wilson, second lieutenant travis mogado, specialist aaron phils. sergeant michael knapp. sergeant knox and specialist samuel watts. mr. speaker. we are continuing to spend money that we do not have. every day our debt goes up. every day we borrow money from foreign governments, and yet we will not bring our troops home from afghanistan. it's kind of ironic that the administration has signed a security agreement that will continue a financial relationship with afghanistan after our troops come home in 2014. that relationship is for 12 years. it's been projected that we will spend approximately $4 billion a month for those 12 years to pay for a corrupt leader and a corrupt government that will not survive. it does not matter how much money we spend, afghanistan's history is that no nation has ever gone into afghanistan and changed one thing. i do not understand why we in the house continue to find the money -- of course, it's borrowed money, by the way, probably from the chinese -- to send to afghanistan and yet we vote on programs to cut milk for children in the mor