william mccants joins us. and a discussion on the effectiveness of so-called federal green energy process. and later, "time" magazine national security correspondent mark thompson on access to mental health care by u.s. veterans. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--] host: good morning and welcome to "washington journal" on this tuesday, may 1, 2012. it's the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden at his compound in pakistan. secretary of state hillary clinton and tim geithner are on their way to beijing are on their way to discuss u.s.-china relations. our question for you this morning is about the minimum wage. nationally, it's $7.25. do you think it's high enough? and what about your state? here are the numbers to call -- host: you can find us on twitter, facebook or website. the minimum or more? the minimum wage in most states is $7:25. -- 7:25. many ar

host: we will leave it there and get a response from william mccants. guest: you will always find some that will sign up for a cause, not saying that they are irrational, but you always find extremists. the question is how many people will sign up? if they have other venues for venting their extremism, will they walk away from violence? i think they will. you will not deter everybody, but i think a lot of the problem, particularly with al qaida is that you have many regimes in the middle east that are quite repressive, but do not allow people a voice in the government, and you have had a series of conflicts that also gives military is a place to meet the military a place to train -- the military a place to train with one another. we've seen a transition to democratic governments, and i think with that he will see a lessening of this violence. host: from cnn today -- host: the story goes on to say that the plots included seizing cruise ships and carrying out attacks. what do you make of this? then also, the level of encryption where these documents were