welcome back with me for tonight's big picture politics panel are marc harrold team o'meara and huey newsome let's get back to it as part of his twenty fourteen plan to breakthrough republican obstructionism president obama is expected to announce tonight that is going to raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers this is where the federal government puts out a contract to a private corporation to do something you know a bit of work in a cafeteria staff the gift shops in the smithsonian whatever it may be. man if. the construction is a whole variety of things this is going to be done by executive order it will only affect workers employed by future government contracts. my first question on this is whatever happened to davis bacon i thought that this was already the law of the land that if the federal government puts out a contract that the prevailing wage has to be the minimum wage is anybody know about this. is that for contractors with just well i thought it was i thought that were you know and i'm going back a long way here twenty thirty years i don't jimmy carter was th

twenty one contributor townhall dot com nicole williams democratic strategist and spring and marc harrold libertarian commentator and attorney thank you all for joining us tonight and my rant about chris christie. it's seems that the question that was only sort of asked yesterday and that the media is not really focusing on so much is isn't he shouldn't he have apologized for creating an atmosphere. fear among his leadership circle where people working for him would not only think this sort of thing was appropriate but they've done this sort of thing in the past and that they might do it in the future and give him plausible deniability dodge whether he created this type of atmosphere in the past to work or he didn't whether he knew about this or not what difference at this point does it make sorry had to be sorry because i want to you know look i did a leading republican who's the number one he's the head of he's now the head of the republican governors association he's the most powerful is probably the most powerful republican in america and he stepped up ok he took responsibility for an

figures do not represent the true number of children killed by foreign forces professor marc harrold of the university of new hampshire suggests the un numbers are underestimated by as much as forty percent. shocking statistics there indeed but thanks for this update margaret held there now egypt's military backed leaders there are weighing a referendum landslide but not everyone is convinced about the next constitution coming up later in the program we hear expert opinion on whether the current regime will do previous governments in going too far with change. or write the iranian and syrian foreign minister as our moscow for a meeting hosted by russia's chief diplomat paving the way to the long delayed peace talks in syria scheduled in a week moscow insist that iran should be one of the main players to scott is following the fresh round of syrian diplomacy taking place in the russian capital. reiterated their desire for iran to take part in next week's peace talks on syria in geneva moscow believes that tehran should be represented as an equal member of the discussions and should no

so for example she didn't like prime minister harrold mcmill less than. she felt patronized by him. she liked the alec because he treated her like a gentleman. she knew it about every person she dealt with. and she's a woman. she had a strong sense how the man is instinctively reacting to her. i think that's how she saw it. and she wasn't trying to overthrow everything about old britain. what she was trying to do is regalvanize the greatness. >> host: a point you make about her being very conservative on the constitutional matters. she was a believer in the national health service. so although she was about small government, she wasn't about pushing back the frontier of the state. >> . >> >> guest: well, i think she was about pushing back the frontier of the state. more in term of economic management than in term of the social provision. she did want to reform the welfare state. she did some. but actually not enough. so one of the -- a lot of -- the bad bit of the legacy. not so much the things she tackled but the thing she is didn't. and the national health service one of them. she

[applause] >> the only thing i would add is one of the things harrold washington did say is not the man it's the plan. and it is about what is our agenda? how do we lift up the issues? it's true we can't wait for the one person that save us and rescue us. it doesn't work that way. what happens when a man is no longer here and the movement. right. what are we left in terms of what we've actually still got. i think for us we have a political organization where we're committed to elected who come from our base of folks who don't jump in just because they see an opportunity. but at the fight long before an election came around. i think that how do we actually create a space that for real independent politics in the city. because it's clear that the democrats in chicago, chicago democrats aren't the apps for us. they never have been. i think there are a lot of tensions in term of institutions like labor and sort of struggles all the time with speaker or the governor or, i mean, there's -- even the person that people were thinking would be the one who could take on the mayor, you know, democr

we have the "boston globe" and the boston harrold in our lobby checking on what we did overnight. we have community groups march together police station every time there's a problem. there's -- it's a dynamic environment at the local level. and the mayor from portland talked about police having cameras on the eye glasses. when it happens, i it will. i will able to take my 25 investigatorrers and put them on the street. everything will be documented. >> when that happens, will you allow people being arrested to use google glass to film your officers? >> that's an important component to the conversation that nobody talked about. more of that information we're collecting right now is exculpatory. they are going to use the information to put me in prison. it's going clear a lot of people. it already has. at what point in time if you want to pursue the goal of justice. at what point in time do you stop collecting that ?fertion at what point of time do you get read rid a license plate reader collection that might clear somebody of a rape or murder charge. it cuts both ways. >> so in oth

they are responsible for the harrold interlocking which is a large portion of the project.so there may be a way of doing this without special legislation. it needed we'll call it to your -- >> you adopt think so? >> i don't think so on the face. >> can you get back to me. >> sure. >> the tunnel, as you know we have an interest in restoring the tunnel. give me a status report how it's going. the repair is going. >> my understanding is things are going along well. this is one of the benefits that you get from closing the entire facility. you not have to worry about the safety risk posed by the workers. you have the ability to put all kinds of equipment in the tunnel because you don't have to move trains through at the same time. i've heard nothing to the effect they are off schedule or over budget. indeed, in some of the tument -- tunnels we are making the local resiliency funding some investment to move the utility to the roof of the tunnel. should we have flooding again, we won't lose all the signaling capacity and exabling and stuff. yes, sir? [inaudible] >> i want to than

[applause] [applause] >> let me begin by thanking my good friend and former colleague harrold for arranging this event. as he mentioned many years ago what is called the house energy and commerce committee we worked together helping to craft the bipartisan communications act of 1996. he went on to serve with the distinction as a commission of the federal communications commission. over the years he's been a thoughtful adviser to me on many issues. i also want to thank the hudson institute and the exceptional scholars at work including my friend and predecessor former fcc commissioner. as previously mentioned, i am the newest fcc commissioner. i was fortune enough to be confirmed alongside our new chairman tom wheeler. in our short tenures, we both have come to be known for certain tagline that prompted further questioning. is this competition? mine has been freedom. i would like to explain the work what i mean by mine. i bring to my position the core belief that the most enduring value of america is freedom. our nation began with a desire to be free from the paternalist monarchy in britain.