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Originally from here but now i live in a hotel in city i have a stand there i've been selling the same noodle dishes as you. for seven years. so how's business and. it's going ok you know. how about you. the pretty good there are good days and bad days you know. compact cars on. the last. two lines briefly crossed palm seven lunch on the make all people going their own separate ways again. but they remain kindred spirits and that's not some old vietnamese saying it happens across the world. hi thomas there is no taste like home. sounds like japan to

Francis? >> hi thomas. here we are in the ideal place to see how people are thinking. should the death penalty be abolish add crossed across the country? how do you respond? >> i feel it should be banned throughout the country. there's two issues. you have the wrongly accused put to death. it is actually cheaper for a life sentence versus the death penalty. you have the privatization of the jail system. it could turn out to be more money. i think it needs complete overhaul. >> it may seem like a money law. some say it's bigger punishment to stay in jail. you stand firm on your thoughts. thank ...

Living in l.a. msnbc's zach roth is live in illinois the site of the protests. set the scene and how things have been going so far. in a matter of an hour the gathering has gotten much larger. >> reporter: yeah, hi thomas there is by now a crowd i would estimate over 1,000 people. heavily young and minority in keeping with the profile of this movement and the mood is upbeat and optimistic. coming off of a big victory in l.a. having said that they are very focused still on that goal of $15 an hour and union. i spekoke to a worker from kansas city who works at both mcdonald's and burger king. ha...

The next couple of hours. msnbc's zach roth joins me live from oak brook, illinois. explain how much this is expected to get there. >> reporter: yeah, hi thomas. organizers say they're actually expecting 3,000 or 4,000 protesters to show up very shortly. now they say unlike last year's shareholder meeting where there were over 100 arrests, they say this time we come in peace. they say the recent successes of the movement in los angeles, as you talked about, in new york in other places mean they don't need to adopt those kind of tactics. they say they're calling on mcdonald's to do the right ...

Approve or that the united states excuse me shouldn't approve trade deals that are unbalanced and that aren't subject to congressional scrutiny and that's an interesting position to take in this field against potentially that trade deal that's working its way through congress that the president is of course in favor of, but democrats like bernie hand sanders are opposed to. he wasn't specific enough in his speech to say for sure and i have asked the campaign but did seem as though he was in some ways opposed to that thomas. >> casey hunt reporting for us in arkansas. great to see you. thank yo...