we're going to bring in congresswoman debbie wasserman shultz from florida, live from the hill. are you? >> good, ari, great to be with you. >> talk us through this thing here, we heard about the minimum wage in the president's state of the union. your colleagues are now leading the charge here to do something called a discharge petition, try to force this, because, according to your arguments, speaker boehner will not hold the up or down vote. what's going on here? >> well, ari, the majority of the american people, 74%, overwhelmingly support an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, because they want to make sure that people who work full time don't have to live in poverty. no one should have to provide for their families through food stamps, and that's why the private sector like the gap are making the decision to increase the minimum wage for their employees, but also why we are going to keep up relentless pressure through procedural moves like a discharge petition to try to force the republicans to bring the bill to the floor, because we know that if it comes to th

joining me now, debbie wasserman shultz, great to see you, thank you very much there was a meeting lastht. >> the president has right along both during his own re-election campaign and as well as since then been focused on making sure that we can elect democrats to the house of representatives and hold onto the senate majority because he knows when it comes to implementing his agenda, focusing on creating more ladders of opportunity to join the middle class, that having a democratic majority in congress is going to be the key to be able to do that in a much more robust way. the president has been incredible, particularly helpful with the dnc and the dscc where he's going to be out there for democratic governors as well. i know that our candidates and our elected officials are very appreciative. >> you're playing tag team as democratic chair with chris christie, the head of the republican governors. you're heading to texas and you were in florida when he was down there for rga event. obviously trying to draw attention to christie's political troubles, do you really want to force him to g