hillary clinton or joe biden. we'll ask richard trumka on ask al jazeera.m taking appropriate action in the face of such an >> we're back on talk to al jazeera with richard trumka president of the afl-cio. the minimum wage hasn't been changed since 2009. somebody who works 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year would make, at a level, is that a problem of unions but has that been a failure of some fashion? >> it's a national disgrace. we haven't kept pace of inflation. the fact that you're paying somebody 40 hours a week, every week of the year you're still below the poverty level, that's not what someone wishes to emulate. the index for inflation and kept there forever, so workers we truly do reward work. you can't say you reward people for working and pay them literally poverty wages. >> the fact that it hasn't been changed, who's to blame? >> all of us, the politician he are to blame. corporations that are to blame. economists that make the bogus arguments that they've been making for 100 years that if you increase the minimum wage, it will cost jobs. 35 incre

it doesn't matter whether it's hillary clinton or joe biden, that's the nature of politics. nothing back from benghazi and hillary clinton is still the most admired woman in the world. >> i have to so much it there. but also we all know she's a very popular woman, but the minute you become a politician again, your popularity immediately goes down. >>> up next, why this week could be a pivotal turning point in u.s. iranian relations. create moments of value. build character through quality. and earn the right to be called a classic. the lands' end no iron dress shirt. starting at 49 dollars. clean energy is creating good jobs all across our country. like here, in california, where we're creating more jobs and getting more power from the sun and the wind. i'm tom steyer. each week, we're taking a look at the keystone xl pipeline proposal -- separating fact from fiction. this week -- the truth about jobs. today, america's energy sector is growing stronger as we diversify, creating hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs here at home, while reducing our dependence on oil from

it doesn't matter if it is hillary clinton or joe biden. they'll find something to attack.e of politics. if you look at the republicans over the last year and a half two years, they have thrown everything they could. they held nothing back in benghazi. hillary clinton remains the most admired woman in the world. so is it going to be an issue she has to deal with? yes. is it going to be a drag on the candidacy? i don't think so. >> she is also a very popular woman. the minute you become a politician, your popularity goes down. there is that. >>> the new president of iran launches a charm offensive against the u.s. why this could be a turning point in u.s.-iranian relations. create moments of value. build character through quality. and earn the right to be called a classic. the lands' end no iron dress shirt. starting at 49 dollars. congestion, for the smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the buses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution into the air. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the env

or below it. i don't know how you raise families under those circumstances. >> can hillary clinton match the progressive message of joe bidenor howard dean, for that matter? i mean, those two candidates, warren and dean, what i think push clinton and biden to be more progressive to speak to the very issues we mentioned. >> the only thing about senator elizabeth warren, she was reluctant to run for senate so i don't know if she would right away want to jump into a presidential race. but i think that as long as hillary's advisers are giving her the messaging around these progressive issues, she'll do really well, because she has the experience to back that up. >> will the president play a factor in '16? >> don't -- >> here's the president with abc over the weekend with george stephanopoulos. play this. >> what i would say to folks out there is we are tremendously lucky to have an incredible former secretary of state who couldn't have served me better. and an incredible vice president who couldn't be serving me better. and i suspect if he has both of them, they would say it's way too premature to start talking about -- >> he's

joe biden. why aren't people all atwitter over that? >> well, who's to say what people will be -- how they'll view the presidential campaign landscape in 2016 or 2015? i think hillary clintonratic party almost exactly half who wanted her to be the nominee and wanted her to be the president, so you start off with all those individuals who are still excited about her candidacy. joe biden has been a loyal vice president. but he obviously has -- he's run two times before. you might be too young to remember this, brooke, but when i was in college, joe biden ran for president. then of course he ran in 2008. now he's possibly going to run in 2016. he's not as fresh a face. let's just put it that way. >> yeah. i'm going to keep my inner dialogue to myself, my friend, jake tapper. >> you shouldn't, no, share. >> jake tapper, i'm going to live it there. we'll see you at the top of the hour on "the lead." thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> all right, big news today. blackberry is going private. it has agreed to be acquired for nearly $5 billion. last friday, blackberry confirmed its quarterly earnings plummeted $1 billion and it would lay off 4,500 workers. now its largest shareh