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Day. they're hand in glove with the chamber of come%. they're thinking the more that they can get people mad in this country, then people will take it out on congress and obviously, who runs congress, the democrats. so they're blocking things. for example, ed, you said what are we trying to do before we leave in august? trying to increase unemployment benefits. that puts money in the hands of people unemployed. they can then go out and buy things and spend money and get the wheels of the economy starting to go again. republicans are opposed to that. they've been opposing it for months now. jus...

Forward. but what we're clearly seeing here is that people are looking for jobs, they're looking for prosperity and hope. and when republican leaders like tom emmer are saying the solution is to literally lower the minimum wage or get get rid of it, they know they're being sucker punched. >> would this take money away from workers? >> ed, you've got it absolutely right. what this is is part of a national trend where they're trying to back off the minimum wage. in emmer's case repudiating it, unwilling to agree that the minimum wage should exist. when people are under stress, minimum wage is ha...

Out that oil. it's like people can sigh a breath of relief for the first time since this started because this is something as one man said to me, i go to bed with it at night, wake up with it in the morning. it never leaves you. people have been walking around for 87 days with a pit in their stomach because they can't pay their bills. one man said it's not just our livelihood, it's our diet, their recreation, their backyard. this is everything thevalue rolled up into one. but do you have to take a look at the fact that this is by no means the finish line. even bp will say they have managed to ...

Don't talk to people who have lost jobs who have then lost their insurance and in some cases lost their homes. we know the humanitarian side of this. but even the economic side of it we know even from john mccain's top economic adviser in his presidential race a dollar spent on unemployment stimulates the economy and because of the so-called multiplier effect that dollar is spend on groceries, spent on rent, it's spent on utilities. it's spent buying clothes for the kids. a dollar, $300 check a week really gets spent over and over and over in a neighborhood, in a community. so it's good econom...

Make something happen before november. joining me is tom harken, chairman of the senate health committee. good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be back with you. >> you bet. i want to talk first about the unemployed. what's going to happen if anything before the senate goes on recess? what do you think? >> first of all, i want to thank you for your commentary. you're right on the mark. you got to ask where is the patriotism of these companies that are holding all this cash? if they hire people, and people have money and they can spend it and we get the wheels of the economy going. but t...