founded john mcdonald said it was the belgium beer he sipped in paris 30 years ago that moved him to open his own brewery in kansas city, missouri, in 1989. boulevard is known for novel and american-interpretations of belgium beer styles. the two company heads called the merger a fit. but many say it will dill lieutenant the brand. this is not the first time that a big beer swallowed up a craft company. miller coor's owns the craft pierre, and so what is making craft beer flow? we went to churchke in washington, d.c. and met with a beer so sommelier. >> i feel that craft beer is always secondary to flavor impact. non-craft beer is first determined by more business acumen. >> he sees a world of difference between craft beer and big brewers lik anheuser-busch and coor's. >> it's flavor. you know, on a visceral level, craft beer is something that you can't stay away from because it is so engrossing when you come to its textures, it's tastes and aromas. >> one of a growing number of restaurant and bars catering to craft beer lovers or simply different. >> it is a fun bar with a very larg

john? >> thousandsf mcdonald's employees are currently protesting here in front of the air and space museumork inside at the mcdonald's. there is a large crowd and they have been challenging police throughout the morning, blocking traffic and disrupting the area. is the type of protest we've been seeing around the country today. thousands of minimum-wage employees in hundreds of cities around the country are not working today. -- thee protesting protests at this broadway mcdonald's started before dawn. withyees marched out demands an hour before lunch time. the iconic obama posters have been changed from hope to help. they are wearing santa hats and jingle bells, but it is a union to moveational movement them from $7.25 an hour to more than double to nearly $15. the fast food industry warns if you raise the minimum wage, you create fewer jobs and raise the prices of meals by as much as 20%. perhaps fueling this one-day strike and demonstrations is the fact that president obama has expressed support in the past couple of days for the movement that has drawn nearly 50,000 signatures on an onl

john zedler drives for a car service. sharmain works at mcdonald's. >> do you realistically think you're going to win? >> no, you've just got to take the chance. >> they don't care. they're not merely buying a ticket. they're buying just a little bit of hope. >> i have a great feeling this is the right number. >> sure, it's a dream, but at least for tonight, it can be real. >> make sure me and my daughter is okay first, and then i can help other. >> i'm going to give my mother a whole lot of money because her house burned down in february. >> buy a ranch in texas. >> i'm going through a divorce and i would really like to win and hire the best lawyer ever and sock it to him. >> okay, that's not just hope. that's something else. but who knows, in this game of long-shot luck where nothing is certain, there is actually one thing that's for sure. >> you don't win if you don't play. >> if you do happen to win and this is your lucky night, you can begin receiving those winnings within days of claiming your winning ticket. in maryland and the district, you c

nbc's john jiang outside mcdonald's in chicago where protesters are gathering. hn, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. the crowd here growing in numbers and volume just in the last few minutes. nationwide, organizers hope this will be their biggest day yet in their campaign to focus on ways they say are way too low. amber is the single mom of a 2-year-old and a second on the way. trying to support a growing family on $8.40 an hour at wendy's means tough choices. >> i need work pants, work shoes. i have to decide am i going to get that or am i going to get my bus fare to go to work. >> reporter: today from coast-to-coast, organizers are staging strikes by fast food workers in 102 cities and support rallies in 84 more, demanding a $15 an hour wage. industry officials say that would be a job killer. >> doubling the base wage, the starting wage and of course would dramatically increase the cost of operations for the business owner. prices would have to go up and less jobs would be created. >> make our wages supersized. >> reporter: federal minim

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mcdonald's, devices. >> developing now secretary of state john kerry is in jerusalem with talks with benefitingin netanyahu. they are discussing the recent nuclear deal struck with iran. kerry then heads to ramallah with a meeting with mahmoud abbas. the secretary is trying to get to those peace talks kick-started between the israelis and the palestinians. we have a live report for you from jerusalem that is in our next half hour. >>> vice president biden trying to ease tensions between japan and incline. he is in beijing. biden telling chinese leader that america will not recognize the zone. both japan and china claim to have sovereignty over the disputed region. >>> the head of the operations says preparations are on track to start moving the deadly chemical agents but right now, a lack of security on the main road connecting damascus is causing a lot of concerns for them. if all goes as planned, the arsenal could be destroyed by the middle of next year. >>> the white house is in full holiday mode. first lady michelle obama showing off the decorations. the visitors the next two weeks will be treated to t

nutrition curriculums creates a bun mcdonald's and fried potato chip manufacturers all schools in the u.s. so forced to watch something called channel one t.v. every day the john hopkins university study found an incredible eighty percent of the content was normally educational fillers and pay five dollars. for sick leave unclear and. just going into so as the director of the campaign for a commercial free childhood c c f c it's great to see why shouldn't corporations write the school curriculum. years ago top universities like they were completely free government because of pushing fees to impossible levels stanford science degree cost forty two thousand dollars at a told german university the same degrees one hundred fifty dollars points out public funding keeps it around the same cost as in kamya german firms like miss eighty's siemens and pull shit to pay for. thousands of top qualified engineers each year now in the u.s. an astonishing four hundred thousand high school graduates each year who want to go to college can't afford it they want to higher education most teens must. be overcoming it. and i got you a job at it and i like also expects to be paying

that's something that doesn't require john boehner, the house of representatives to approve. this is something mcdonald's could do tomorrow. they could sit down with their workers, participate in what's really been an american tradition of workers an businesses bargains together to restore higher wages for the jobs that are really forming the core of the economy today. that's what we did in the manufacturing sector the beginning of this economy and it really built the american middle class. it's what we need to do now. manufacturing jobs have gone away. it's fast-food jobs, retail jobs, service sector forming the core of the u.s. economy. those are the jobs we need to raise wages for. >> jack brings up an important point, seven out of ten growth occupyings through 2020 are low-wage jobs. this the american job market. the president has supported this, we have a lot of democrats who have come out and supported thchl i think it is much harder, actually, for conservatives to dismiss the minimum wage in the way they dismiss other parts of the social safety net. this is not an entitlement program. there's econ

. >> or mcdonald's is encouraging people to apply for food stamps. john, in terms of the debate on this, you know, the president paraphrased some conservative thinkers who argue against raising the minimum wage. if you look at what states are doing -- i mean, arizona, florida, missouri and nevada, red or swing-ish states have raised the minimum wage. this is not this notion of paying workers more, it's not simply a blue-state idea. >> yes, and i wouldn't rule out the possibility that depending on what the political circumstances next year that some deal might not be struck. you know, the history of minimum wage is that republicans have resisted democratic calls for raising the minimum wage until the last minute and then sometimes they cut a deal. i will say that republican leaders in the house and senate, i think, are looking or paying closest attention to a different group of republicans than "the huffington post" republicans ryan was just talking about. >> "the huffington post" republicans, is that a phrase you just used? but bill, to the point of, you

melissa: actually, no, if they weren't working at mcdonald's we would have give them double assistance that it was. john, christian says we need people to handle the food and need people to take care of the sick. a lot of those jobs are being turned over to robots. they can do most of those tasks. >> i'm sure christian could make the same argument people at blockbuster who lost their jobs now to netflix who lost their jobs to redbox. i mean, look at those people. where are they? because of automation. what if you guys came in, you know what, fox news has tons of money. you pay all your guests $5,000 to show up, would we be even having segment? would we be better off? we wouldn't be better off. melissa: i ask how why you wrote the article and you wrote incendiary things and you wrote that these people don't deserve the $15 they're getting. you go through example after example people not working hard, who were stealing, conditions, how bad they are. why would you come out and say these things? what point are you trying to make? what is your agenda? >> well i'm just trying to give people a realistic assess

nutrition curriculums created by mcdonald's and fried potato chip manufacturers all schools in the u.s. so forced to watch something called channel one t.v. every day john hopkins university study found an incredible eighty percent of the content was normally educational fillers and adds a five dollars to three four six four six even clear and. just go into so as the director of the campaign for a commercial free childhood c c f c it's great to see why shouldn't corporations write the school curriculum. a few decades ago top universities were completely free when costs of pushing fees to impossible levels the stanford science degree cost forty two thousand dollars at a told german university the same degrees one hundred fifty dollars points out public funding keeps it around the same cost as in kenya german firms like siemens and pull she gets a paid for. thousands of hope qualified engineers each year now in the u.s. an astonishing four hundred thousand haws school graduates each year who want to go to college cons afford it they want a higher education most teams most astonishing amounts. of money. and i graduate. like robots also expects to be paying

john anderson. so, he would rendezvous and the goal was for him at the right time to rendezvous with mcdonald, get outwest point, pretend to put up the fight, but in the end, overrun and it looks like taking captive west point, the hudson the lungs to the british and the war is over. there's also a school of thought and it seems logical that washington was due at west point not only did he want to give away west point but pretend like he didn't want to, but he wanted to hand over washington as well. from the guy that got the commission he always wanted and got the respect he always sought. >> host: so the british could get commander in chief of the american army and the key to the hudson river. >> guest: right. and the number one most fortified base in what would be the country. so it gets thwarted, but they are up and talmadge knew that there was a general and the mets and an officer in their midst looking to switch sides and we believe 355 had the most role to play in that and infiltrated the social circles over here in the plots come here in major on trade talk. he had a big mouth and liked to drin

mcdonald's, americans apparently are not loving it. dropped point eight percent. moving and shaking this hour, hedge fund billionaire johncoming about -- is making a comeback. a number of wrong way bets helped to cut his assets and half from their peak two years ago. paulson's fund is up two percent this year, and his recovery fund is up 55%. loser, still has one big his goal fund which has strong to $370 million. cory johnson is here with me "in the loop" this morning. ever since he made those egg wins in housing, he has been scrutinized in those losses. >> he raised a lot of money in the down market. gold has been a really rough investment. aboutis excitement alternate currencies, whether it is cold, whether it is other trades, and of coarse bitcoin -- of course bitcoin. it is good to see him making a little bit of a comeback, especially in the things that work at first. lampert --ng any eddie lampert now vulnerable. senior markets are spotted julie hyman has the latest on june -- any lambert options. what is his current exposure to sears? now 48%take in sears is command that is because his clients have been asking for

john's and dominoes, maybe people are eating pizza than hamburgers this quarter. you have to look what the consumer choice across the board. that has been trouble for mcdonald's. as choice proliferates and costs become a negligible issue as incomes begin to incrementally rise, people will move away from the low cost provider and slightly healthier choice. that is what we're seeing across the consumer spectrum. that is a tough transition for mcdonald's to continue to have to shift its menu around and cater to more healthy lifestyle. i don't think they have got that message through and you're seeing some consumers, particularly in the medium and lower end make different kinds of choices. david: some of the healthy eating stocks have done extremely well, if you look at them them. guys, thank you very much. cheryl: i still like french fries. david: jamie cox, good to see you my friend. ellis, lincoln, we'll check in with you in couple minutes when s&p futures close. appreciate it, gentlemen. cheryl: it is an unprecedented alliance against unrestricted government surveillance programs. some of the biggest names in the tech world putting aside their rivalry for this

mcdonald's or popeye's. so your $3.25 big mac is now $6. >> it's not going to be $6. >> i don't know if it would be wouldn't be the worst thing. >> john?at everybody obviously could emphasize with mary. going to high school, i actually -- i helped clean up a burger king and set it up for the next morning and did menial tasks like that in the night shift. i know what it's like to work like that. but i think one of the dichotomies we see right now is that we have people collecting 99 weeks of unemployment. some of them in florida, let's say, where the unemployment -- the unemployment benefit is only $13 an hour equivalent. so you have people on unemployment not working for 99 weeks getting paid $13 in florida. yet we have a lady who wants to work. she wants to work more. but she just wants to get paid a little bit more. why can't we just, like he said, you know, maybe give a subsidy. maybe give some type of living wage, right? where you're transferring money, you're cutting it down from 99 weeks back down to 54 weeks. yet you're giving a subsidy to raise the minimum wage. >> got to go. >> same thing with people on disability and food sta

mcdonald, the outgoing governor of for jeanette, a bad year. and the quarterback of the redskins, not such a good year. johnrry, traveling in asia, a good year. and the best year in politics, is chris christie. he won reelection as the new jersey governor. independent line -- bruce in virginia. caller: good morning. peopledle-class working and lower income people have had the worst year. -- republicans have told us that we are not important muslim make $250,000 per year. they send out stuff overseas. that is what we had to do. everybody in the republican party has been complaining about obamacare. i agree that it is very flawed. none of them has even offered one hint of a suggestion of a better way that people can choose medicine and food. a lot of people are in debt and they cannot have those. we need to improve the working class people's opportunities. we have been wrong about utilities and drug people. >> when you're continuously robbing them for the extra quarter, it is just not right. thank you for the time. host: philip on the republican line. all, this is af for some of ever called. i'm glad i can he