in a piece on the labor secretary, "the new york times" says he coming labor secretary in 2014, mr. perez has continued to be an advocate for underdogs and most recently issuing new laws to protect investors. he has found a surprisingly receptive audience against permission- reduce -- pollution and promote well-being. host: let's get to a business owner in new castle, indiana. caller: thank you for taking my call. this change, i think, is long overdue. the reason why i say that, i have seen changes in the way repaying, hired and or gotten rid of across the spectrum of type of work. i live in an area that is fairly rural, fairly low wages compared to the coast. the numbers they are talking about, as far as people getting paid salary, would be laughable if i was living in philadelphia or say, san francisco. the amount of money they are talking about is the difference ,etween people surviving getting their kids fed and , and the- clothed lights caps on. -- kept on. when employers can hire people and say, i am a contractor, for me, for example. say i have to work on a house, i have to take ho

. >> thank you, mr. perezclapping). >> next speaker >> good evening and welcome. >> hi good evening here i am again spoken to you so many times it seems like i'm speaking to tone-deaf areas no common sense the community is unhappy a reason for that and as far as the solution the form yeah, it's net but the first thing is for chief suhr to go not only for the murder but the track record if my resume were like chief suhr i wouldn't get promoted and now the highest paid conceiving if the country and as far as or more let's say it the hiring process needs to be reformed you know there small business police officers should be required to say have a degree i want to police for more well-rounded and trinity why does the public have no say in the requirements of hiring mr. marshall said if chief suhr goes we'll not find anyone better if that's the case we're screwed think about it (clapping.) and i mean, i'll pleading with you to use your intelligence like the mraith it is really aggravating and insulting our intellig

in a piece on the labor secretary, "the new york times" says he coming labor secretary in 2014, mr. perez has continued to be an advocate for underdogs and most recently issuing new laws to protect investors. he has found a surprisingly receptive audience against permission- reduce -- pollution and promote well-being. host: let's get to a business owner in new castle, indiana. caller: thank you for taking my call. this change, i think, is long overdue. the reason why i say that, i have seen changes in the way repaying, hired and or gotten rid of across the spectrum of type of work. i live in an area that is fairly rural, fairly low wages compared to the coast. the numbers they are talking about, as far as people getting paid salary, would be laughable if i was living in philadelphia or say, san francisco. the amount of money they are talking about is the difference ,etween people surviving getting their kids fed and , and the- clothed lights caps on. -- kept on. when employers can hire people and say, i am a contractor, for me, for example. say i have to work on a house, i have to take ho

so, deputy marshall and deputy and mr. pereznto a position that he could reach into the car and free his legs from under the dash and able to pull him out all the way out of the vehicle then. >> i feel like watching the video my heart rate is going up. i can't imagine what that moment was like having to go in toward the flames and in many ways risk your own lives. deputy marshall how did that feel for you at any moment did you consider not going in? >> >> there was actually quite a few moments before even what that video shows that deputy scneger. folk and fire extinguisher was pouring out at us. it was really hard just to breathe. >> i guess his legs were pinned under the dashboard there so it was kind of a harrowing effort to pull him out thereof. deputy, do you know how the man is doing, what we have is that a driver is in serious but stable condition at a hospital. do you have an update on that? >> last we heard, the driver was in critical condition and passenger was in stable condition. >> just doing what you do following y

perez. welcome, mr. secretary, thank you for joining us. >> good to see you, again, liz, long time no seen. liz: it's been a while, we said the last two months were down, ridley revised, and a miss here, and having trouble seeing it especially the suggestion of minimum wage hikes. that will put money in people's pockets but i was with berkshire hathaway's warren buffett and he says hiking the minimum wage would hurt job creation? >> well, we've only studied that issue about 280 times, and debunked that myth. and go to the state of washington. typical example. they've had the highest state minimum wage in the country for something like the last 20 years. i think it may change this we're with the other state actions. you have a wonderful laboratory there, and they have no tip credit. so look at the experience there. if the rest of the nation had washington state's job growth numbers over the last 20 years, our economy would be even better off, and so this, this hypothesis has been debunked with regularity.

labor secretary tom perez. mr. secretary good to have you with us. good morning. >> good morning. >> explain to the business community at least why this is necessary. >> well, this is necessary because the overtime rules have lost their luster because over the course of the last 30 or 40 years they have nonbeen indexed and as a result people who had middle class jobs 30 years ago are no longer having middle class jobs. if you index this to the 1975 level, the threshold should have been 57,000. and so what we have right now are workers who work 70 hours a week and frankly get paid for 40 hours because the threshold right now is at 23,000 and change. and that is too low. and so it's brought about a litigation explosion as a result of the 2004 bush rule which changed the duties test and frankly shifted leverage from workers to employers. and so i think what this is going to provide for employers is clarity, what it's going to provide for workers is either more money or more time with their family. and for us what it does is it fortifies the basic pillars of worker protection, which i

mr. allen: please identify yourself. >> my name is henry stephenson perez. i'm a physician and i specialize in helping people at an grasp the level concepts that are staring us in the face. intelligence. i'm a cancer doctor. we are changing the way we are thinking about cancer. for 100 years we focused on the cancer cells and now we are focusing on the intelligence of the surrounding environment. that's the only word that we can use. they don't really have a word for that, not really. my question is simply this. if you think about how scientists might think about the , at theof intelligence start of the industrial revolution, or 100 years before that when we were solidly in the agricultural economy, we certainly would have come up with different definitions for what we thought intelligence was in 1816 versus 1916. here we are in 2016 and i'm wondering if this is a good time just to think thoughtfully about what it is that his intelligence and the 21st century as we start to retool the whole thing. thanks for your patience. mr. bolden: that's a good question.

mr. allen: please identify yourself. >> my name is henry stephenson perez. i'm a physician and i specialize in helping people at an individual level grasp the concepts that are staring us in the face. intelligence. i'm a cancer doctor. we are changing the way we are thinking about cancer. for 100 years we focused on the cancer cells and now we are focusing on the intelligence of the surrounding environment. that's the only word that we can use. they don't really have a word for that, not really. my question is simply this. if you think about how scientists might think about the concept of intelligence, at the start of the industrial revolution, or 100 years before that when we were solidly in the agricultural economy, we certainly would have come up with different definitions for what we thought intelligence was in 1816 versus 1916. here we are in 2016 and i'm wondering if this is a good time just to think thoughtfully about what is intelligence in the 21st century as we start to retool the whole thing. thank you for your patience. mr. bolden: that's a good

. >> thank you, mr. perezclapping). >> next speaker >> good evening and welcome. >> hi good evening here i am again spoken to you so many times it seems like i'm speaking to tone-deaf areas no common sense the community is unhappy a reason for that and as far as the solution the form yeah, it's net but the first thing is for chief suhr to go not only for the murder but the track record if my resume were like chief suhr i wouldn't get promoted and now the highest paid conceiving if the country and as far as or more let's say it the hiring process needs to be reformed you know there small business police officers should be required to say have a degree i want to police for more well-rounded and trinity why does the public have no say in the requirements of hiring mr. marshall said if chief suhr goes we'll not find anyone better if that's the case we're screwed think about it (clapping.) and i mean, i'll pleading with you to use your intelligence like the mraith it is really aggravating and insulting our intellig