floor. what about, for example, for servers? servers make, you know, $3.25 an hour compared to a hostess that makes $7.25. we differentiate based on the type of labor. there is a movement in massachusetts, where workers who work for tips to bring them up to the same it s actually not 3.25. i believe it s $2.13 an hour for the federal minimum wage staff. there is a movement. a lot of states are, whoing to move it. massachusetts has a ballot issue that will raise it to $60% of the minimum wage, which will be over $6 bucks an hour the west coast states, california, states like massachusetts. i love the west coast states require the tip workers get the full minimum wage. many of the states have the top growth restaurant states, states like california, arizona, florida and it shows it doesn t have an impact on job growth. it s a key women s pay equity,
would be. limited, targeted effort that will not be american boots on the ground with respect to the civil war. reporter: and would not even when secretary kerry for a moment seemed to open the door to u.s. boots on the ground. i don t want to take off the table an option that might or might not be available to the president of the united states to secure our country. obviously that gets to the heart of it, you know, leaving that door open. jim, was the administration able to change any minds today? i know we were talking about john boehner and eric cantor obviously significant development there, but there are still so many who are undecided who are leaning voting no. you got a window on the administration strategy here, clearly they had something for the skeptics and that is the constant return to the sense that this would be a very limited action, in scope and in time frame. and then for those other side, senator mccain among them, whoing questioning whether a limited actio
whoing questioning whether a limited action will really make any difference. secretary kerry went to a broader strategy saying it is indeed the administration s goal still to aremove assad by supporting the opposition. so, they are trying to gain both the hawks and the doves on this and at least in the committee it does appear they have the votes just based on the kinds of questions that were coming to secretaries kerry and hagel. thank you very much, and by the way, welcome. we re thrilled to have you here at cnn. welcome. great to be on. republican senator rand paul of kentucky sits on the foreign relations and homeland security committees. obviously he was in that room today with john kerry. and thanks very much for being with us, senator paul, we really appreciate you taking the time. you and secretary kerry got into it today during the hearing and i waited all day for it and then, of course, you delivered. over the question of whether assad would use chemical weapons and i j
december start this is weekend. how far apart are the two sides? are you even close? melissa: no, i don t think we are close and it is a shame because we agree on a number of things. mainly we don t want taxes to rise for 98% of the american people and 97% of small businesses. we could solve that part of the cliff problem in an hour. there are ways we could proceed we have total agreement on. bill: we re waiting. melissa: unfortunately there are a lot, there is lot of garbage being thrown into this package. bill: john yarmouth, thank you tore your time. melissa: my pleasure, anytime. bill: congratulations to your victory over rutgers. melissa: thank you, bill. bill: a lot of people happy over that. john yarmouth, democratic congressman from kentucky. here s martha. martha: this might be the best videotape of the day. caught at a convenience store. this gentleman walks up there he sell whoing at ticket, he looks at numbers, compares the numbers, to the big huge lotterry jackpot. a live
no guy wears them to the beach. and including, very worrying, my own. he goes bonkers doing jim morrison. take a look it s in a book a reading rainbow behind bars but $70,000 richer. this is piers morgan tonight kwoecht. our big story tonight, america s choice 2012, the race for the white house may come down to the economy and nothing but the economy. if it does, many democrats think that could spell big trouble for president obama. listen to what james carville said on good morning america today. i m worried when the white house and the campaign talk about the progress being made, people take that as a signal that things are fine and people, i feel, don t believe that. so, is the president in trouble over the km economy. joining us an economist and author. it does ring a lot of true bells. this election is going to be about the economy. nicole, there s a lot of argument raising on both sides at the moment, is anybody winning that argument? i don t thin