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it's time for our under-the-radar segment where everyone goes around and mentions the most important story we didn't get to cover Tommy start with you thank you so I don't know that he's under the radar but after declaring that everyone believes he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize no no no president Trump is now saying he doesn't know if his meeting with Kim jong-un is going to happen coins may I know they got those cool coins he's blaming the Chinese for Kim's change of heart in a press conference yesterday sort of like what happens like I don't care it's no big deal this was predictable he took the meeting with no deliberation no coordination with his team they didn't try to make sure everyone's on the same page he just wanted the headline and so I I personally would love love to see the u.s. engaged North Korea in a diplomatic process but this is technical this is complicated the details really matter and what worries me is that if these if these talks fall apart and Trump's ego gets bruised then what he just tore up the Iran deal and this week he sent out a Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to spell out their their new plan such as it is and what that plan was was a wish list that said Iran should stop doing everything that they do that we don't like or else they will face sanctions or military force and the problem with that is that the Europeans are ripshit pissed at us for tearing up the Iran deal and they're not gonna put on more sanctions and the Russians and the Chinese sure as hell aren't gonna pay attention what he says about Iran so that means we either back down or there's conflict so this is very real very scary stuff and there are no adults in the room speaking out and navigating these very shallow rocky waters of trumps intellect and ego and that is not good and one last thing I just want to say which is not my under the radar news which I just want to thank the the wheeler family for being here tonight they lost their son band at Sandy Hook and they wake up every day and they live with that reality and they watch the news and they see parkland and they see Santa Fe and they keep fighting and working to get real gun control past and if they can wake up and fight for that and then we can too [Applause] Alysa okay what do you got for us let's talk about our Secretary of the Interior who wants to just burn down the parklands and give it to like developers and also does not have the love of animals that I do I guess so I just want everyone to know about this story in case you've missed it because obviously so many other insane things are happening on Monday the Secretary of the Interior who is known to have like mounted animal heads and a taxidermy bear in his office he and the Trump's have decided that they're gonna roll back the rules of the Obama administration which precluded things like bears with mama bears with their cubs being shot in their dens coyote pups being shot in their dens bears being killed while they hibernate caribou who are swimming are allowed we're not at the time under Barack Obama Ken Salazar in Sally Jewell the caribou we're not allowed to be shot while they swam by motor boats and so the new Secretary of the Interior Ryan zenki he's rolling back all of those protections and so it is his good idea that especially in Alaska but you know according to news reports to be rolled out to many other states that animals can be killed in the most inhumane brutal ways that we have sort of fought against for years and that when we sort of when the Obama rules came out everyone was like well of course bears shouldn't be shot while they're hibernating but that was before Don junior and Eric and they just thought that like Cecil the lion would have been such a good get so anyway there is a petition that is it's it's up for review it's a 60-day review this rule that they want to pass and it's up for comment I think that I was the first comment on the interior page but I will again circulate but everyone should shop because there are so many terrible things happening that they think we don't see things like you know disgusting trophy hunting like this isn't for people to eat you know this isn't for people who need food these are for people who want to mount this on their walls and so anyway that's my under the radar story and follow me and I will circulate the petition that you too can sign shoot a buffalo from the Train love it what do you got we had a labor activist and expert named Saru Jayaraman on love it or leave it and it blew my mind so I learned a lot about this so the the current federal so the minimum wage is the minimum wage we're all fighting for a higher minimum wage the federal minimum wage for tipped workers do you guys know what it is it's to jump Wow that's two dollars and 13 cents 43 states have a minimum wage between $2 and $7 this is I think one of those issues where if Democrats really grabbed onto it I think it would be obviously an important policy because we're talking about raising the wages for people that work for all for Olive Garden that work for IHOP you know one in roughly 1 in 11 Americans work in a restaurant half of all Americans will at some point work in a restaurant seventy percent of tipped workers at restaurants are women forty percent are mothers this is an economic issue over and over again people who work in restaurants are some of the poorest working people in the United States in part because we have this 2 dollar minimum wage and there are some states that have passed higher minimum wage especially a place like California I think New York is in the process of raising their minimum wage for tipped workers but 43 states again it's between two and seven dollars it's also a issue around race because it's a disproportionately people of color that are working in these tip jobs and people of color are tipped less than than white people and white men also it's a harassment issue because when you tell people that they're not actually paid by their employer that they're paid by customers they're expected to endure a greater level of abuse which is why 7% of a pea of people work in the restaurant industry 37% of sexual harassment claves are from restaurants and finally it's a political issue I think that if Democrats started talking more about this there are 12 million people I think that would come out to vote for a higher wage because they're currently working in restaurants there are lots of people who no longer work in restaurants who remember what it was like to be harassed and underpaid and relying on tips it's an antiquated system and you know we've talked a lot about the need to kind of have bigger and bolder ideas to think differently about politics because of what happened and the fact that someone like Donald Trump could become president and I think one of those things that we need to think about is how to make people who are working every day some of the poorest working people in United States feel as though politics is about them and one of the ways we could do that is it is by raising the federal tipped wage above $2.13 an hour and the restaurant industry I am sure will come back and say that oh this is about mom and top restaurants there are exceptions you can do there are lots of things you can do this is about corporations that are making millions and millions and billions of dollars off the backs of poor working people and they deserve a living wage so that tips are on top of what they earn and not instead of what they earn and I think more Democrats need to talk about it it's help them organize and win in Michigan we stopped it when the Trump administration tried to get tips from people and this is a this is it kind of under the radar issue that I think could help get millions of people to the polls yes praise be really super fast event so we talked about that on pad save the people and one of the things I learned after that thanks to the internet and Twitter is that one of the things one of the unintended ramifications of that can be that kitchen staff then get cut out of pay raises so that doesn't mean that we shouldn't raise the tipped minimum wage because we absolutely should it means that we Democrats write the laws on this they have to ensure that kitchen staff have access and guaranteed eligibility absolutely and I think in addition to yeah no totally and I just every stat I just said I stole from Sarah Russo just that's Brittany what do you got trust women I have that I do Porto Rico is what I have we haven't heard much about Porto Rico in a few months and that might lead all of us to believe that everything is fine there since Hurricane Maria and I couldn't be further from the truth so what is it it's May 23rd right now May 31st was the deadline is still the deadline to have restored 100% of power to all residents on the island as of today there are 14,500 people still without power which means that less than 1% of energy customers actually have access to their power so we were supposed to be at 100 percent in like a week and we're at less than 1% in addition there's a lovely gentleman running for Congress in Florida John I remember his name doesn't matter he's running and he believes that the folks who had the access and privilege to actually be able to flee from Puerto Rico to Florida should not be able to vote when they get there even though these people are Americans they're American I'm not even trying to hide it he's probably like ms-13 right yeah of course and then on top of all of that just two weeks ago peaceful protesters who were in the streets protesting measures such as school closings and increased university tuitions and the cutting of several benefits were met with tear gas just two weeks ago and I can personally tell you tear gas is not fun there are a couple of things that come to mind about this one is that every single person there is a fellow American and even if they weren't their fellow human beings and if I'm honest and if we're honest with ourselves we can't blame Trump all the way for all of us having forgotten about Puerto Rico like that's on us and I guarantee you that if we were talking about an island or a state full of white folks we would not be having the same conversation people would have their power people would be nobody would be questioning their vote nobody would be trying to close their schools or tear gassing them in the streets Trump would be there every other Sunday but every yes because of the beautiful green pastures yes but the call to action here is to remember what did he go to remember our fellow citizens there and after you go and donate to Stacey Abrams which you need to do Hey now the next piece of homework is to find local Puerto Rican charities and organizations that are doing the work down there and donate to them because it's really a shame that we haven't been getting to talk about this and here's mine so Democrats had a very big night on Tuesday last night a bunch of primary elections across the country she want to give a few highlights in Kentucky six House districts we nominated the first marine woman to fly an f-18 jet Amy McGrath in Texas we nominated a Democratic candidate who would be the first Latina and the first openly gay woman to serve as governor Lupe Valdez we nominated a Filipina Air Force intelligence officer in the Texas 23rd named Gina Ortiz Jones in Georgia gun reform activist Lucy bass the mother of Jordan Davis goes to a runoff for the six house district and we nominated a candidate who will be the first black female governor in American history [Music] [Applause] here's the deal it was a good night for Democrats turnout was up but a lot of these places that all these people won are very red and a lot of them start off as underdogs a lot of these candidates so we have a lot of work to do we have 23 seats that we need to flip the house there are five here in New York there are five in New Jersey that's 10 right there so after you're done here tonight go to swing left org and find the district closest to you and donate and sign up to help for our California friends who are listening go to crooked comm slash crooked eight we can flip seven eight seats in California and if you live in New York you can also go to vote org to make sure you are registered to vote by June 1st is the deadline to vote in the June 26th primary right here in New York go register be a voter John can I just add yeah and then we can take that gavel from Paul Ryan's hat replaces them before then because he's a quitter [Laughter] we will be right back you