will turn to a conversation with carla bruni. she recently released her fourth cd. we are glad you have joined this conversation with bernie sanders and carla bruni. ♪ ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: please to have senator bernie sanders, who last week thought valiantly along with democrats on the floor of the senate against an effort by republicans to not increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. republicans won that fight, that i suspect the fight will continue. senator sanders, good to have you back on this program. you guys thought to push this to $10.10 an hour? the republicans fought against it. you lost. tell me why and how. vote, 54 the majority votes. we have to deal with republican filibusters. we need 60. it is very clear to me that the republican party has moved toward being an extreme right-wing party. historically, they supported raising the minimum wage and now they don't. seven dollars 25 cents an hour, which is what the national minimum wage today is, is a starvation wage. you have millions o

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prosecutors can include the weight of the brunie, the flower and the butter and the chocolate to calculatehe weight of the illegal substance. in texas. >> evangeline, for some reason marijuana and hash oil are different to the tune of one is two ounces is a misdemeanor and one, a few drops, is a felony in the first degree. what is this? >> absolutely. it's insanity. this is the same state where a judge decided that a teen rapist, rapist, should only serve 45 days in jail, and now in the state is saying this person, this juvenile, should be charged with a felony. what i think is happening here is they want to scare this assume and other copycats that -- this juvenile and other copycats but i believe the state will allow him to plead to a misdemeanor. >> his father says five years to life? i'm sorry. i'm a law-abiding citizen. i'm a conservative. i love my country. i'm a vietnam van but i'll be damned. this is damn wrong, he told a local station. if jacob his son did something wrong she be punished but it must make sense. this is insane. >> it is. >> that doesn't change the fact that the sen

. >> all of a sudden, bruni has an investment in the beverly hills hotel and i give credit to those whoe spoken out. this has been going on for as long as i have been in media, and we have discussed it, and i have taken a lot of heat for stepping up. in this country, the democrats claim republicans or conservatives are engaged because they don't want to pay for birth control pills and maybe they are prolife and maybe life begins at conception. you're describing a real war on women but women in this country are -- on the left have been virtually silent. what is your reaction to that? >> it's an insult to my intelligence. when i'm here in america, i escaped life in the middle east -- >> in cairo. and your father died fighting israelis. >> jihad. men's number one data is not their families, number one duty is jihad, sacrifice their life. >> holy war. >> holy war. i come to america and enjoy this country. i had it on my mind. it took me years to get rid of the oppressions, the baggage i came with. when 9/11 happened, a lot of americans say where are the arab americans to speak against jihad