well, even worse than that, chris, is the fact that if you re paying somebody $3 an hour, $4 an hour, the only thing they re buying is food. they re not buying any new food or new adidas or sport equipment or boats or anything else. you are going to have this economy go really in the tank if you drop the minimum wage, just like they don t want unemployment benefits. if you don t have unemployment benefits, people haven t got money to spend. well, maybe some of these republicans are trying to make politics look easy with this stuff, but i don t know how you can defend opposing minimum wage. by the way, it s $7.25, about $290 a week f you worked a full week. thank you, u.s. congressman jim mcdermott out in seattle. joining me now is an old pal of this show, afl-cio president, richard trumka. this guy worked in a mine, half mile down. you know what it was like by the way, let s start with that because it s very human interest. we haven t talked about it tonight, but it is thrilling
hour, $4 an hour, the onlything they re buying is food. they are not buying any new clothes or new adidas or any sports equipment or boats or anything else. you are going to have this economy go really in the tank if you drop the minimum wage, just like they don t want unemployment benefits. if you don t have unemployment benefits, people haven t got money to spend. well, maybe some of these republicans are trying to make politics look easy with this stuff, but i don t know how you can defend opposing minimum wage. by the way it is $7.25 about $290 a week now, if you work the full week. thank you, u.s. congressman jim mcdermott out in seattle. joining me now is an old pal of this show, afl-cio president, richard trumka. this guy worked in a mine, half mile down. by the way you let s start with this, very human interest. we haven t talked about it tonight, but it is thrilling to watch those guys much you were there at the chilean embassy. i was when they were bringing the first mine
think jan brewer is the only governor who will sign tough anti-immigration laws? think again. a whole crowd of gubernatorial candidates are hawking bills similar to the one in arizona. how many states? at least 20. out of 37 states with races for governor this year. everywhere from massachusetts to georgia to alabama, candidates pushing the anti-illegal immigration line. 20 states are doing it tonight s big number. coming up, we re exactly two months away from the midterm elections. the democrats have finally starred fighting back to avoid big laws. you re watching hardball only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] wouldn t it be cool if cars didn t need keys? [ clicking ] if you could talk to them with this? [ beep ] wouldn t it be cool if you made a legend available to everyone? if there was a step right there? if you turbocharged this little guy? wouldn t it be cool if old water bottles
of california. north carolina bracing for a hit tonight. the rest of the east coast also anticipating hits from the storm. evacuation orders are in effect. new states of emergency declared today to tell you about. we ll bring you the latest. we ll show you what it looks like right now on the beaches. also, my interview with congresswoman johnson. she s at the center of a scholarship scandal in texas. she says she didn t know about rules against giving donated money to her relatives. money donated to a charitable organization that was tax exempt. she said she didn t even know it was unethical. we re keeping them honest. plus, governor brewer s debate debacle. she s at a loss for words during a debate. it s one of the oddest moments we ve probably ever seen in a debate. we ll show you the tape. those stories a lot more, larry, at the top of the hour. larry: it is an incredible tape. a.c. 360. 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. let s go back to chad myers. he s at the weather desk. what s t
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