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And end up putting people out of work? >> i would say come to the great state of vermont. we have the fourth lowest unemployment rate in the country. i think it's 4.4%. we have the third highest minimum wage rate, not as high as it should be, but it's $8.60 an hour, i have not heard too many employers in the state of vermont that are telling me that the minimum wage is too high and should go lower. >> bernie sanders, independent senator for vermont, thank you so much. >> thank you. up next, we'll hear from a mother of three who has to live on $8 an hour. and a businessman who says raising th...

By the way for taxpayers, who are not having to subsidize walmart employees because of their low wages. >> what do you say to people that will look at this and say, this is cynical posturing, this is populism and if you do this, it's basic economics, you raise the wage, you constrain labor and end up putting people out of work? >> i would say come to the great state of vermont. we have the fourth lowest unemployment rate in the country. i think it's 4.4%. we have the third highest minimum wage rate, not as high as it should be, but it's $8.60 an hour, i have not heard too many employers in the...

>> i would say come to the great state of vermont. we have the fourth lowest unemployment rate in the country. i think it's 4.4%. we have the third highest minimum wage rate, not as high as it should be, but it's $8.60 an hour, i have not heard too many employers in the state of vermont that are telling me that the minimum wage is too high and should go lower. >> bernie sanders, independent senator for vermont, thank you so much. >> thank you. up next, we'll hear from a mother of three who has to live on $8 an hour. and a businessman who says raising the minimum wage will not only help her, ...

Reeva steencamp in the town of port elizabeth. and a dramatic fall from grace, this morning, oakley and other sponsors are cutting ties with him. and turning now to gas prices, the surprising pace at which they are climbing, regular unleaded going up for the past two days, the national average at 3.73, a gallon, 15 cents in a week, and 40 cents in a month. >> reporter: at gas stations across the country, customers are asking the same question, what could possibly send gas prices up 43 cents in a month? that is an extra 8.60 on a 20 gallon car. in chicago, more than that. up 70 cents a mont...

Week, possibly as early as monday and he'll have opportunity to explain his site of t side of the story. >> there comes the challenge, explaining his side of the story based on this, there will be a credibility issue. tell me the battle he faces. >> this is serious, uphill, steep battle. first of all, we going to explain the phone calls between he and his wife. i'm sure the prosecutor is going to play those phone calls. >> the ones they were talking about financing, but in code? >> they're speaking in code for example. saying, oh, i've got $8.60. but that's code for $86,000. so this goes direc...