all the best to you at kentucky state university. the lives of people on your watch. you're a leader. good to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> that's the ed show. "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks to you for tuning in. we start with breaking news out of iraq. the u.s. launching additional air strikes against the islamic militant group isis. striking a mortar position and a convoy of seven vehicles. the pentagon just released this video of the fighter jets involved in those missions. this video from on the ground in iraq reportedly shows the first airstrikes earlier today. the images aren't confirmed by nbc news. the strikes aimed at isis targets outside the northern

we need to get the federal wage to be at the same level the kentucky university has. >> i think we have to follow kentucky statersity to see what this does to their bottom line. is this going to hurt the university? is the university fwoing to -- not going to -- going to deliver its function? we've heard the republican and conservative argument all along, we can't pay people because it is bad for business. i'm interested to see if this is bad for kentucky university. >> this is poppycock. the employees will have more disposable income. obviously not to scale, but it will improve the micro economies of those directed impacted. and the quality of life of workers of that university will be improved, so the quality of life of those that good to university and work there, will be improved. there is no suggestion that getting to a living wage will be disrupted. when you put the income in the pockets of the people that spend their money, that's working class, they spend their money and it is completely against logic that we haven't made minimum wage $10 across the board. >> since it is kentucky state university, i wou

earlier this month, the president of kentucky state university set a great example by giving himself90,000 pay cut so he could give raises to his lowest paid employees. his sacrifice will give more of his workers and their families a little extra money to help make ends meet. build thew america greatest middle class the world has ever known. i making sure that everyone who is willing to work hard and play by the rules can get ahead. that is the bedrock this country is built on, hard work, responsibility, sacrifice, and looking out for one another as one united american family. that's keep that in mind this labor day, and every day. have a great weekend, everybody. proudly serving indiana's eighth congressional district. i am honored to be speaking with you from the heartland of america on this weekend when we tip our hat to the working man and woman. american workers make our country go. our goal should be to make the economy work for them. traveling around indiana this week, going from job fairs to listening sessions with small businesses, it was easy to see how our workers are stil

all the best to you at kentucky state university. thanks for changing the lives of people on your watch. you're a leader. good to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> that's the ed show. "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks to you for tuning in. we start with breaking news out of iraq. the u.s. launching additional air strikes against the islamic militant group isis. striking a mortar position and a convoy of seven vehicles. the pentagon just released this video of the fighter jets involved in those missions. this video from on the ground in iraq reportedly shows the first airstrikes earlier today. the images aren't confirmed by nbc news. the strikes aimed at isis targets outside the northern city of erbil. where there is a u.s. consulate. at the same time the u.s. military moving to address the urgent humanitarian crisis. this is the latest video we are getting of the refugees said to be fleeing the militants in a disturbing turn the u.s. has confirmed that militants kidnapped hundreds of

kentucky state university president raymond birth.ave up 90,000 bucks every his own personal compensation so that his employees could make more than the minimum wage. he was the school's president from 1982 to 1989, and he agreed recently to return to the position on the condition that the 24 clerical and maintenance workers got a raise. thanks to him, the workers went from 7.25 an hour to 10.10. >> well forget the football feel. that's true hero. >> that is the great, that is the greatest boss. >> yes. >> i mean, our boss is all right, just teasing, he is good. >> unusual something like that could happen in a good way. what's going on for today? transitional day. it was pretty warm, humid yesterday. with the high of 90 degrees. clear, mild this morning. it is really not that bad out there. but it will be 82 degrees, by lunchtime, and it will be kind of muggy throughout the day. maybe more clouds than sunshine. some isolated thunderstorms popping up in in the afternoon, sunset time 8:09. our high temperature today, 86 degrees. we're g

and earlier this month, the president of kentucky state university set a great example by giving himself a $90,000 pay cut, so that he could give raises to his lowest-paid employees. his sacrifice will give more of his workers and their families a little extra money to help make ends meet. that's how america built the greatest middle class the world has ever known. not by making sure a fortunate few at the top are doing well, but by making sure that everyone who's willing to work hard and play by the rules can get ahead. that's the bedrock this country is built on. hard work. responsibility. sacrifice. and looking out for one another as one united american family. let's keep that in mind this labor day and every day. have a great weekend, everybody. >> hello, i'm dr. larry bucshon, proudly serving indiana's eighth congressional district. i'm honored to be speaking with you from the heartland of america on this weekend when we tip our hat to the working man and woman. america's workers make our country go, so our goal should be to make our economy work for them. but traveling around india

. >>> well, the interim president at kentucky state university is paying it forward in a big way.t of his own pocket. it's costing him $90,000 or quart over his salary. >>> they found 65% of americans support increasing the federal minimum wage. raymond burse joins us for an interview you'll only see on "cbs this morning." good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning, raymond. this was one of the most popular stories on our website because people thought, wow, what a generous boss. $90,000 of your salary? why did you decide to do this? >> you know i guess at the time that the chairman of the board of trustees at kentucky state started talking to me about would i be interested in being the into rum president returning, one of the thoughts i had in mind is when i went there, i wanted to do something meaningful impactful. my second question when i met with them is how many employees make below $10.10 an hour. they calculated it and gave me the number. for the better of it. i told my board chair about it. asked them to put it in my contract to use the money to raise the salaries of

raymond would make 350 grand as interim president of kentucky state university but slashing it by 90 to learn $10.25 an hour instead of $7.25 which is the lowest wage allowed by federal law. pretty cool and maybe that means he won't be interim president. who knows, this may be so popular. >> an incredible gesture, think it's so incredible. >> perhaps a trend setter. maybe it can happen in other plays. >> real movement to raise this minimum wage up to a living wage. >> love it. next up in the "heat index," house calls are making a comeback with a high-tech twist. it could take weeks or even longer to get an appointment. a new app is bringing the doctor into your home. abc's rebecca jarvis has the details. >> could you show me how hard lilly got hit. >> a head bounce. >> how are you feeling? >> fine. >> so is lilly. >> reporter: like in this episode of "modern family" doctors' visits respect that pleasant but now the doctor is in 24/7 and you don't even have to leave home. thanks to a new service called healthtapprime. can you have a 30-minute video consultation with the doctor any tim

kentucky state university is paying it forward in a big way to help his school's lowest paid workers.um wage. good morning. >> this was one of the most popular stories on our website because people thought, wow, what a generous boss. $90,000 of your salary. why did you decide to do this? >> i guess at the time the chairman of the board of trustees started talking to me about it if i would be interested in returning, and one of the thoughts i had in mind is when i went there i wanted to do something meaningful and impactful. my second question was how many employees make below $10.10 an hour, and they gave me a number and for the better part of a number i thought about it and i board chair i was going to do that and they looked surprised, and it was put in my contract that they would use that money to raise the salaries of the lowest paid employees. and i wanted to do that to get them committed to the institution to let them know we were an important part of what we do. >> we joked this guy is rich. but you know a lot about that when it comes to working for those wages. >> yeah i have

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for florida we have robert from florida state university. for kentucky julia from the university of kentucky and texas david warner from the university of texas at austin. for maryland jocelyn and for west virginia more of christopher. so we're going to start off with michael. go ahead mike ling. >> thank you. alabama is probably best categorized as a state of passive resistance to the affordable care act and its many provisions. the state is not a rich state as i'm sure most of you are aware and it's basically made the decision that it's not spending money either to support or really to oppose the legislation. and certainly much of the opposition is philosophical but as was pointed out, much of the opposition really comes down to the nuts and bolts of how to play all of this out in a state that doesn't have a lot of revenue. first of all, it's clear alabama did not expand its medicaid program, even though there were strong economic incentives to do so. but as it turns out, the states are on the hook for ultimately 10% of the additional healthcare cost.

this would be the president of united states rewritten in north carolina dash and we had flown into raleigh and other north carolina was playing university of kentucky in basketball so clinton wanted to go to the cave so we went in the state police told us to park our car next to the entrance that we watch them beat kentucky and when we got out the campus police had towed the car. so fortuna half-hour's the next president was sitting at the police station in chapel hill trying to get his car back. but the one we will never forget it. >> the reds day. [laughter] >> probably the most heroin was the flight between denver and shy and wyoming. it was april but we had of blizzard we had four seats with five people one person had to sit on the john and the only thing we had have was to pilots we didn't have to have seized the we had to have pilots. [laughter] so what we thought were clouds were snow-covered mountaintops i knew we rich in trouble with bill take tough the phone to call hillary and tell her how much he loved her. [laughter] but luckily we made it and some of these things are important because wyoming had an early caucus and to the secretary o

states. we were down in north carolina, actually we had flown into raleigh and learned that north carolina was playing the university of kentucky in basketball and clinton wanted to go to the game. got tickets and went and the state police told us to park near the main interest and went in and watched them play and when we got out the campus police towed the car. for two and a half hours the next president of the united states sat in chapel hill, north carolina trying to get his car back at a police station. >> it is a red state. >> it was jim martin -- probably the most harrowing of the experiences was a flight between denver and wyoming. it was april. we had a blizzard and a four seater with five people on it so one person had to sit on the john. i am sure marilyn has the same rule. we had to have two pilots. no seats needed but two pilots. we go up in what we thought were clouds but were snow covered mountain tops. i knew we were in trouble with clinton picked up the phone to call hillary and tell her how much he loved her. luckily we made it. some of these things were important. wyoming has an early caucus. and that caucus,

be the president of the united states, but we were down in north carolina and we had flown in and we had learned that north carolina was playing at the university of kentuckynd basketball and clinton wanted to go to the game, and so we ran and had tickets. the state police told us to park our car next to the main entrance and we watched north carolina beat kentucky december of 1990. when we got out, the campus police had told our car. for 2.5 hours the next president of the united states was sitting at the campus police stations in chapel hill, north carolina, trying to get his car back. but probably the one that we'll never forget, and it was jim martin. [laughter] it was probably the most harrowing of all of our experiences was the flight between denver and cheyenne, wyoming. it was a false, but we had a blizzard. and we have a horse feeder with five people on it. one person had to sit on the john. and the only thing we had to have were two pilot. we didn't have to have any feet. so what we saw were actually snow-covered mountain tops and i knew that we were in trouble and luckily we made it in some of these things are really important because wyoming wa

history from the center college of kentucky and a masters in history from the maxwell school at syracuse university. after he got his masters, he served in the united states marine corps in the late 1960s and quickly thereafter joined the cia. mr. daigler was a cia operations officer in the east asia decision of the national clandestine service all the way to 2003 when he finally roadway tired. -- retired. mr. daigler authored the founding fathers and black dispatches. both are available to the public on the cia's web site, so go check those out. their very fascinating -- they're very fascinating. and he's also written numerous articles in his true name as well as the p.k. rose pseudonym including articles about intelligence for the cia's studies of intelligence and the association of former intelligence officers' journal. he is here to talk about his newest book, spies, patriots and traitors, and i'd like to introduce him now wherever he may be. he was -- there he is, all right. please join me and the international spy museum in welcoming ken daigler. [applause] >> thank you. okay. i want to start by telling you that when you write a book, the first thin