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No minimum wage increase. you were listening and i saw you shaking your head there. what were you shaking your head at? >> the initiative that raises the minimum wage to $10.10 and that's key. if you are a waiter and a waitress, you are paid lower and the tipping are supposed to bring you up to a minimum wage. that is a very unstable way to live. >> the idea of a waiter or waitress is going to make the full minimum wage and tips on top of that. >> tips are in addition what they make. >> that's a huge difference. >> it's a huge difference. tipped workers have twice the poverty rate as a whole. ...

Learned the wrong lesson from internal gop politics. >> i think learning the wrong lesson is evident no more clearly than the fact that herman cain is again considering running for president. herman cain, if you're listening, please run for president. brian, thank you as aultz always. >> thank you so much. just minutes from now, seattle is set to become the latest place to vote on a major minimum wage increase. and guess what, rich business guys are into it! the details coming up next. ♪

Over seven years. the move will give a raise to 100,000 low wage workers in seattle and cut the poverty rate from 13% to 9%. one of the architects of the increase is multimillionaire venture capitalist nick hanour. responding to critics, he told the "l.a. times" we capitalists love our customers to be rich but our employees to be poor. you show me a low wage country and i'll show you a hellhole. $15 may seem high but the calculus is in part based on inflation and the value of what workers are actually producing. $15 is the middle ground between $10.50, which is what the minimum wage would have...

What do you say we start with minimum wage, since they can't file their taxes properly. come on! it's the focus. their priority needs to be here, not on the middle class and not on how low wage workers in this country file their taxes and who is helping them. now, the committee was concerned about, you know, how much money the treasury was losing because middle class americans didn't have a qualified tax preparer. you know what? that's just playing around on the edges on the treasury problem. the white house is making a big push for minimum wage increase and this plays in all together. it is a...

They get it. mostly we've got to move some of the republicans on this. i would point out the last time we increased the minimum wage in this country was around a republican president. it was under george bush. >> i know. >> there's no reason they can't work with us to get this minimum wage increase. we're going to start that noise and start pushing on this next week in the united states senate on the floor and you'll see a vote. >> mayor, thank you for joining us. i'm going back to my old saw here. noise, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. noise matters. i don't hear the noise. senator klobuch...