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

project 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