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They could afford it, i think. more broadly, $25,000 a year, unfortunately these people don't make anything anywhere near that. even if the minimum wage were increased to $9.25 that president obama is talking about, for a 35-hour workweek that would come out to about $17,000 a year. so there's a long way to go. i don't think walmart will support an increase in a minimum wage any time soon in this world, but maybe in this world they at least will buy their employees turkeys. >> well, it is right now -- it's hard to comprehend when we think about what the living wage is in this country and the d...

And yet republicans have been pretty clear in their obstruction against any ideas like that coming from president obama. >> obama's proposal, which is nice as far as it goes, $9.25 i think it is, still doesn't do much of anything at all. if the minimum wage had kept pace with productivity gains in the american workplace in the last 30 or 40 years, it would be $20 an hour today. if it had even kept pace merely with inflation, it would be close to $11 an hour today. so that's a big difference. i can't do math that fast to see how that compares to $15,000 a year, but it compares obviously favorab...

>> i have an extensive criminal history. i'm where i need to be and i don't think i was very good when i was out there. i mean, i could have been better. i know i can be better. >> joe watson committed armed robbery after his gambling addiction spiraled out of control. but that didn't stop him from taking the biggest gamble of his life after he landed in jail. facing a possible sentence of 25 to life, he's chosen to represent himself. but that gamble has paid off. >> filing so many motions, my prosecutor in response to one of my motions has basically conceded that i'm not facing any more than ...

Conceded that i'm not facing any more than 9.25 years and i had to read it about three times over and over and over again before i finally got it. and it was really emotional. it was really an emotional moment, because after sitting in here for three years now and not knowing what's going to happen and believing that there was even potential for me to spend the rest of my life in prison and now that that is completely gone, knowing that i will have an actual second chance at life, you know, a chance to redeem myself. it's a huge relief. if something is unjust and unfair, you have to fight. unf...

We've had people -- i know one guy, he had 12 phones. had a gentleman in florida said they had one gentleman had over 30 phones. and they were receiving. this was one way to try to cut down on the fraud. >> brian: right. what you're doing is you want to charge $5 per phone and so far in terms of the numbers, they're staggering. $819 million for this program. there has got to be a way to crack down on it. five dollars for a phone sounds reasonable. >> well, seems reasonable to me. but it's not just a consumer that we have the problem with. like i said, some of the cell phone companies. we had o...