logistical challenge to get everybody here and then to get them all to leave. and so this is what we re going to see is everybody sort of starting to wrap up and going home tomorrow. okay. reporter: so that s the main agenda. but as far as we re concerned, it s going to be joe biden meeting the queen and then heading on to brussels. i know. i m looking forward to that. i think you ll be with me as we cover that tomorrow. i also wish we could have brought our viewers the flyover, which is scheduled any time now with the red arrows, sort of their version of the thunder birds or the blue angels, but we will stay tuned for that, everybody. as i thank you, mr. ambassador hill, peter spiegel, matt bradley, guys, thank you so much. that s a wrap. i m all out of time for this edition of alex witt reports. see you tomorrow at noon eastern. my friend, yasmin vossoughian, will continue our coverage and maybe she ll get you a shot of the red arrows flying overhead.
that was, what, 15 years ago? and now minimum wage only went up like $2. i got three kids. and so, like i said, that s just not enough. reporter: what will you do when the $300 a week stops coming? hey, what i was doing before, just trying to make it. reporter: in all, 25 republican state republican-led states plan to end this federally funded unemployment aid early. it was going to originally end in september. the four states ending it today, it s just the beginning. yasmin in ? and it s because of stories like that man that you have the governor of rhode island saying, no, we re going to up, in this state, the minimum wage to make sure that folks aren t making those low wages. so, ellison, barber, thanks for covering this. the justice department and democrats are on the hunt for
today as we continue to watch some of these live pictures and the flyover. reporter: well, i mean, obviously, this was a lot of the same in terms of glad handing and people meeting. there were plenary sessions. the focus of today s meetings was drilling down on this idea of sort of confronting china, and china has been the main one of the main topics of the whole weekend. and confronting china not necessarily militarily but in terms of infrastructure, because one of the things that china has been doing with its huge belt and road initiative is funding, through loans, through inexpensive loans, to developing countries, infrastructure improvements. now, this has been essentially a way for china to develop infrastructure in foreign countries so that china can trade with them. things like ports and railways. basically, creating a runway for china to increase its own trade. now, this is something that the
reporter: yeah, i mean, you know, critics like mississippi governor tate reeves, they have argued that this aid, while it maybe made sense a few months ago, that at this point they no longer feel like it is necessary and that it is contributing to labor shortages. they say that it is incentivizing people to stay home instead of going to work because this aid combined with state unemployment aid can potentially and often is more money than some people make going to work. we met one restaurant owner in biloxi, mississippi, who told us this is the right decision the governor has made to pull the pandemic unemployment checks. he said he made the decision within his restaurants, he owns 14 of them, to increase the minimum wage to $12 because he said no one can live on the minimum wage here, which is the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. but he says that he s still been having difficulty getting the last 10% of his workers back to meet the demand from customers, and he believes that t
this a fishing expedition. do you agree with that assessment? as broad as it was and the manner it was done, it s clearly a fishing expedition to target the people they don t like. it s a page out of richard nixon s book, right? target your enemies. the matter in which this was done, it certainly appears that the president instigated this and his sycophants, the just department, were more than glad to work with him. congressman quigley of illinois, thank you. coming up, by the way, a little later on this hour, my friend, nbc news legal analyst, is going to join me live to dig into his one big question about trump s doj spying on democrats. i want to go back to that mass shooting in austin. i want to go live to morgan chesky who s following this for us in austin. what do you know? reporter: yeah, yasmin, good