Week. Its been six years since the minimum wage was raised. Some in congress say now is the time to raise it again. Things are Getting Better. They are only Getting Better for some. We know corporate profits have continued to break records while americans are working harder and getting paid less. Some say raising the minimum wage will cost jobs, citing a nonpartisan study by the congressional budget office. If we mandate a higher minimum wage, we would lose 500,000 to one million jobs immediately. Thats the last thing we want. We dont want to create more unemployment. We want higher employment. More education and better worker training are the key to improving the lives of minimum wage workers. Now its time to meet one of the students on the grand prizewinning team. She is joining us. Where were you when you heard the news you won the grand prize . I was in the principals office. For the first time i didnt have anything to say. Were you surprised that you won . My team and i would joke around. We just wanted to get the word out and let people know. We had no idea. There is always Something Better out there, and we didnt know this was a possibility. How did you choose the topic . We were looking through the clips, and we are passionate about human rights. I was like, lets look at this. Minimum wage. Give more money. Help them out. We were like, thats what we want to do. Help people. When people watch your video you have a point of view that you speak through. Was it your opinion when you started out the piece . Know, our opinion changed. When we first started researching, we saw the top line. If you give people money they will be happy and buy more things. We started to dig deeper, found out the cost of inflation. People can put people out of a job. We decided its not best for the workers and our communities. How did you find the people to interview for your piece . My father had a job connection. He found them through a job fair. We were able to coordinate those interviews through a program called jubilee jobs. We said, we have three people. If you would like to interview them we are happy to tell the story. Were you surprised they were willing to share their lives with you . Absolutely. One of the gentleman said no, i dont think its a good idea. That shocked us. It was very interesting. Absolutely. Have you worked with video before, or is this your first project . This is my first time. Michael is very experienced. He helped out with the technical aspect. How did you put your Team Together . It was originally katie and i. We have been friends since fourth grade. We were like, who is going to figure out how to make this into a news story and not just fact. We were like, how about you help us out . We all worked well together. We are on speech teams, so we get along very well. How will you celebrate, and what will the three of you do with your money . Starting out, we didnt do this would happen didnt think this would happen. I havent made new plans. Invest in the stock arctic, you something worth stock market and do something worthwhile. Do you know how your school will celebrate . We will watch this on tv. We are going to have an assembly and all sorts of stuff. I am sure the other kids will be happy to cheer you on. Congratulations for your big win. We are proud of you. Thank you so much. There were winners in the first prize category. The first rise went to a team of nine graders from maryland. They produced a video on school lunches. Their provider is comcast. The first rise went to a senior from oklahoma. The topic was Public Access to natural resources. Cox cable is their local cable company. Another Cox Communications it he won first rise at high school west, a team of three seniors from phoenix, arizona. Here is our first prize in middle school. It went to two young ladies from silver spring, maryland with their Cable Service provided by comcast. They chose medical research for the video. Finally, our first prize winner from jenks oklahoma, won our first fan favorite prize. This is the first time allowing the public to preview and cap their votes. Cast their votes. You should know all main prizes were decided independently of the public vote. The documentary received 119,000 of those votes. She will be recognized as this years fan favorite, and she will win an extra 500,000 cash prize. Congratulations to all of the winners and all the students who entered this year. You can watch the winning entries at our website. Coming up, Nicholas Burns talks about foreignpolicy challenges facing the u. S. Ben michael dell talks about starting his Computer Company at the age of 19. After that members of the House Foreign Affairs committee here the latest on the Ukraine Russia conflict. After that washington journal, live with the days news. The cspan city tour takes both tv and American History tv on the road, traveling to u. S. Cities to learn about the literary life. We traveled to galveston, texas. The rising tide, the rising wind threw them drew them. We watched in amazement. We had wooden outhouses bathhouses over the gulf of mexico. We had a huge pavilion. As the storm increased in intensity, these structures literally were turned into matchsticks. The 1900 storm struck galveston saturday, september 8, 1900. The storm began before noon increased in dramatic intensity and finally tapered off toward the night. That evening. Toward midnight. This hurricane was and still is the deadliest recorded natural event in the history of the United States. Watch our events saturday at noon eastern on book tv. And sunday afternoon at two on American History tv. Next, Nicholas Burns talks about former policy including with israel. And the threat posed by isis. This is 50 minutes. On journal continues. Host and we are back. We will now turn to foreignpolicy challenges facing the united date and joining that discussion from boston the United States and joining that discussion from boston this morning is Nicholas Burns diplomacy repressor at Harvard Kennedy school. Let me begin with the headline in the wall street journal this morning on the steel that the United States is trying to broker with iran, being helped with five other countries. And the headline is iran said to near deal on nuclear fuel limits. What do you make of this, mr. Ambassador . Guest thank you for having me on your show. Im pleased to be here. The Obama Administration has done a good job of trying to negotiate with the iranian government from a position of strength to my because as you say, we have European Countries as well as russia and china on our side of the table all saying to the iranian government, we will not permit you to become a Nuclear Weapons power. What we are trying to do is get the iranians to limit themselves to Civil Nuclear power, to construct Nuclear Power plants and have a limited amount of enriched uranium and have that verified by the iaea and to keep iran away from a Nuclear Weapon. I served in the Bush Administration as undersecretary of state. I was one of the people working on the iran issue. We tried very hard to sanction iran economically and to try to persuade it not to become a Nuclear Weapons power. I think president obama has pretty much taken up the baton from president bush. I see a lot of similarities between the two administrations on this issue, and i hope will that there might be a negotiated agreement. Secretary of state john kerry was in switzerland earlier this week trying to negotiate a steal. It is not ready yet, but it looks like iran and the other countries negotiate this deal. It is not ready yet, but it looks like iran and the other countries involved are close. Two days ago, Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of congress on this issue. He was very much opposed to what the u. S. And other countries are doing. We can talk about that as well if you would like. Host i do want to talk about that and show our viewers a little bit of priming mr. Nishiyamas speech before congress and have your reaction to Prime Minister netanyahus speech before congress and have your reaction to this part. [video clip] at come here to tell you we dont have to that the security of the world on the hope that iran will change for the better. We dont have to gamble with our future and with our childrens future. We can insist that restrictions on Irans Nuclear program not be lifted for as long as iran continues its aggression in the region and in the world. [applause] before lifting those restrictions, the world should demand that iran do three things. First, stopped its aggression against its neighbors in the middle east. Second [applause] second stop supporting terrorism around the world. [applause] and third, stop threatening to annihilate my country, israel, the one and only jewish state. [applause] host mr. Burns, what do you make of what the israeli Prime Minister is saying, outlining the case of why iran should not be allowed to do this, or have some sort of deal with the country echoed with the country . Guest if you look at the entire speech and i did it was very powerful and effectively delivered. And if you were a supporter of Prime Minister netanyahu, you have to say it was successful from that perspective. But two other points, im sorry that he gave this speech in the u. S. Congress. We have a tradition in the united take that when congress invites a foreign leader to address a joint session, the president has to agree to that invitation. In this case, and for the first time in my memory and several decades, the Republican Leadership invited Prime Minister netanyahu against the wishes of president obama. I thought that was a problem and im sorry congress made that invitation. Secondly, as an american citizen and someone who worked for our government, and i work for republican as well as democratic administrations, to see a foreigner come into the heart of our capital and really denounce the president now, he said the nice things about the president at the beginning flowery language, but he took the president s policy against about iran and really eviscerated it. I dont think you for leadership come into the capital and try to denigrate the president s policy on arguably the most important policy facing most important issue facing country. And thirdly, it was a speech that offered no alternative. It was a speech that said no. It wasnt a speech that offered instead of the president s policy, the we should do this or that. That was the great weakness of the speech. In essence, we have the entire world with us. We are sanctioning iran. We are isolating the iranians. And we have partly been successful in doing that because we have been working with the europeans and the russians and the chinese. We have the South Koreans and the indians and japanese buying less oil from them because we asked them to. There is pressure on iran. And lest we get into a third big war in the middle east, inc. It is best to trust diplomacy to see if we can negotiate i think it is best to trust diplomacy to see if we can negotiate an agreement. If we agree to let them have Civil Nuclear power, but i think that is a better deal for the United States and i think that may be the deal that president obama is able to negotiate. So i didnt like this betray much from that perspective. Host and an editorial yesterday saying that the Prime Ministers concerns are worthy of a response. Then you have the wall street journal this morning. It is not just israel, arab allies also fear president obamas deal. The rhetoric is that saudi arabia come other countries, egypt, they fear that they worried that the nuclear deal may enable of ron enable i ron enable iran and the middle east. Guest some of the middle Eastern States are very much opposed, it appears, to a negotiated agreement with iran because it feel they it will strengthen irans position. I oppose all most everything they are doing, but they are the dominant power. There are one of the dominant powers, unfortunately, and negatively, in syria to the Iranian Revolutionary guards fighting there, and through their proxy, which is fighting in syria. So we have to deal with that. For the gulf arab states, you cant make peace with iran on a Nuclear Issue because we have our own problems, the United States has to do it is best for the united dates. What is best for our country is to try and stop a ron iran from being a Nuclear Power. It is better to do that to diplomacy, if you can do it, and try diplomacy first. Rather than resort to military a and war. We are just coming out of two big land wars. Our troops have been fighting for 14 years. In afghanistan, we fought for eight years in iraq, and now we have several thousand special forces back in iraq to combat isis. I think the president is right, we should try for a diplomatic solution. And i really think the Prime Minister and the critics in the gulf in saudi arabia, emirates come and elsewhere should wait for this deal to be finished before they start opposing at the way they have. We havent even seen what the terms are yet, those of us outside government. So i trust the president and secretary kerry on this one. Host when you say we need to deal with it, and youre talking about the conflicts between sunni and shiite, how . You said earlier you were a part of that negotiating team under the Bush Administration. How do you deal with that . Guest well, you know, we cant resolve all the problems of the muslim world. The muslim world is very badly split, particularly in the middle east, between sunni and shiite islam. It is a big part of the problem in syria. We cant be the kingmaker. I think president obama has tried very hard, i think, to decide where the united dates can use its influence and where we can hold back. My own view is i think we should obviously be supporting the Iraqi Government to try keep iraq together and american air power has been striking isis for the last six months. I think that is appropriate use of american u. S. Force. We have special advisers in iraq, but they are not in frontline combat. Theyre trying to help the Iraqi Government to reconstitute itself. So that the Iraqi Government can take backmosul. I do think, greta, that the artist dates and president obama could be more assertive in syria. I dont mean that we should go to war there, but there are 11 million homeless in syria and a population of 22 million. We have to do more to try and help the homeless there through refugee and humanitarian assistance. And i do think we should be arming the moderate syrian rebel groups. Not putting american troops in but arming them so they can fight isis. Host ok. Lets get the calls. We go to florida, a democratic caller. Jj, youre up first. Caller yes, i just wanted to make a statement. The statement that i want to make is the jewish leader came here before. And made a big stink about Saddam Hussein. And we jumped on that. And we got them riled up like when over there and we ended up getting into a war that started all this here conflict that is going on right now. I think the president is very wise about to see what is going on. Because we dont want to jump into Something Like that again. Just over what you think about when he came and made that big stink about all the mass destruction with Saddam Hussein and the Nuclear Weapons and all of that. Host ok, got it, jj. Guest thank you very much for your comment. I think the Prime Minister and the israeli people have a right to be concerned about iran. The iranian government is a very irresponsible government. It is aggressive. The iranian supreme leader, the top official of the country, has vowed to destroy i ron excuse me, israel, on several occasions. So you really have to look at that problem very carefully. And you have to defenders of but having said that, i think United States has to be very careful here to see if we can get our way through intimidation economic sanctions through the threat of force, but mainly through diplomacy. All of that comes together sometimes when you are dealing with thugs and the iranian government is thuggery. I think president obama and president bush before him, in the second term, felt that he had to try to at least see if that negotiated agreement was possible before you resorted to war. That is exactly where we are. If the negotiations fail, and if i run iran heads for its Nuclear Weapon, we might have to use airstrikes to knock the program back. But if negotiations succeed and we can keep them away from a Nuclear Weapon, i, for one think that is a better deal for the United States. And that is why supportive why i am supportive. Host why is it a better deal teco guest you have to