botanic garden before the execution of the mcmillan plan was the bartholdi fountain. it has a fascinating history. we going to take a closer look at the fountain now. this block, this triangular block, was created to house the features of the botanic garden since they were moved according to the mcmillan commission plan, beginning and completed in the 1930's. the fountain itself is a one account -- one of a kind founatin, designed by the sculptor of the statue of liberty specifically for the philadelphia centennial celebration in 1876. congress loved it. they bought it for $6,000. they put it with the original botanic garden on what's now called union square and moved it over here piece by piece in the early 1930's. the bartholdi fountain is really interesting because when it was first created it was kind of a technological marvel and that it was created out of iron and featured gas lighting that were both considered to be very high-tech for their time. and keeping with that tradition, the bartholdi fountain in its original location on union square was one of the firs

. >> the story focuses on walter mcmillan. there was a murder. a young white woman was murdered. the police could not solve the crime. a great deal of pressure. they were talking about impeaching the sheriff sheriff, and we think they decided to arrest someone and walter mcmillan became that man. he was having an interracial affair with a young white woman which brought him to the attention of law enforcement, so he was arrested and put on death row before the trial. the only case where i've had a a client put on death row. i was shocked by that fact. i was shocked by the fact that at the time of the crime he was 11 miles away with 20 people from his church raising money. it would have been so much better if he had been by himself. we feel like we have been convicted. the third the third thing that got me plugged into this case as soon as i filed a notice of appearance i got a call from the judge who told me he did not want me involved. he was convicted and sentenced to death. we got involved after the sentence. the book is about our efforts to expose his wrongful conviction. i t

mcmillan's thought there. one more second on walmart. what did you make of the sales today? very favorable. >> this is the second time in a row, the second quarter in a row, we see better results out of walmart. i think it's notable, the fact it's coming from traffic. much has been said about whether or not gas prices are actually benefitting the consumer. i think this is a strong sign that they are. so numbers were good. obviously, the outlook a little bit disappointing. currency is one factor there. and then this cost of paying people more. >> you know, let's talk a little bit now about gasoline prices and your thoughts about how much if at all, those falling gasoline prices are translating into better sales at other retailers apart from gasoline stations. it seems like an awful lot of that money is getting saved or being driven towards paying down debt. what are you seeing? what are you sensing? >> this is an impact that we should see for the lower end consumer a bit more than the consumer broadly. the lower end consumer has been lagging. they've really been struggling an

port dispute with mcmillan. starting to see some impact on the shelves of goods not making it into the country. a lot of seasonal things patio furniture. kelly and bill back to you. >> that's our carl cantonea. thank you, carl for that report. >> let's talk more about walmart's wage hike. we have larry kudlow and former democratic congressman and cnbc contributor, barry frank. >> larry, the stock down 2.5%. some of that could be earnings. is this wage increase the best use of capital for walmart? >> i think it reflects a stronger economy. i think it reflects free market pressures. you know, oil prices are down consumer spending is up. i think walmart wants to stay competitive. there is a hunt for talent as the ceo suggested. is it the best move for walmart? yeah i think in the long run it's a great move. >> wonder barney if you have any idea about the way in which other companies here might have to follow suit. i can't imagine you have any issue with this move from a philosophical point of view. >> no, i very mu

. >> it could be mccloud and mcmillan and wife. it could be -- >> gilligan's island.ou went to the sitcom sell m. what about ben kasey. he had a beard. i snow there is a guy in his seconds going it is -- dennis we ever. no, it is the other guy with the beard and the air. the blind guy bannicheck. one guy gyms francisco -- james francisco and what is his eye. begins with a c. banicheck is what happens sometimes. >> do your cats at home mimic your depressing life? >> i -- there are a couple of options here. i think maybe the guy trained his bird to do that and now he is claiming it is mick -- mimicking the previous owner to get publicity. we don't know for a fact that the bird is mimicking real people. it could have been ray caw stan swraw parents or sitcom parents and it is mimicking them. >> i couldn't tell what the bird was saying. it is possible the couple was fighting about the damn bird. >> if they were fighting about the bird it would mimic a yelling husband. there is no way the guy was like, let's get that bird. >> unless that was the reason for divorce. >> the

but last summer, we brought on jesse mcmillan, the creative director at virgin america.he mustache has been around for two years now. let's work on what is next. >> they get a little dirty after a while. >> the mustache has had some issues. they did not weather well. >> talk to me about how you look at your business in a world that puts you and uber out there in the lead. >> obviously, it's a very competitive space. there is the bread and butter of fast pickup times. we need enough cars to have them minutes away from you. but it's about the brand and the experience. lyft is focused on having the most welcoming, affordable and memorable ride. we have developed a system for scaling the lyft community. it's at the core of what makes lyft specialty and it is a core of drivers that makes everybody's day a little bit better. we have developed an interesting system for scaling the system across the country, what we call a mentor program. we have top drivers. they onboard each new applicant. >> how does that work? >> you hit a button and in 30 seconds you are matched with one of

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as harold mcmillan, the british prime minister, set about politics.e fears of vents the most. -- events the most. the israelis will sit still for only so long. this is a dynamic situation where things can happen in unexpected ways. what i worry about for america -- we are creating systems of dynamic unpredicted ability. >> when you look at the world today, what role does china want to play? >> china is very much like germany before the first world war. it wants its place in the sun. it wants to be recognized as a leading, if not the leading power in the world but it does not know what that power ought to be about. it is a fundamentally insecure country. that is why i think you see this odd quality to chinese foreign-policy. it is demanding respect but respect for what is not clear. my great fear for the chinese is not so much of it will continue to rise economically. but that rise will slow in a way to create a fatal gap between the expectations of the chinese people and what the communist party is able to deliver. >> a rise of nationalism. i'm always

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he was described in any sport he played as -- >> brand mcmillan and andrew played basketball with aaron school. >> he was twice the size of me. we had the same height, but he was just more athletic obviously. he practiced like all the time. >> practiced because his father dennis pushed him constantly. >> his father was pretty strict. he told me his father used to make him shoot 500 shots before he went sometimes to play with his friends. his dad clearly kept him anchored. >> i saw a closeness with them that i had never seen before. it was something about dennis and the way they intertwined. it was just magic in my eyes. >> but in a heart beat, that closeness is gone. >> i was sitting in class with another teammate, the phone rang, went to pick up the phone, she said you need to go up to the coach's room. coach walks in and he says dennis has passed away. dennis hernandez, aaron's father, his anchor, dies after routine hernia surgery. it hit 16-year-old aaron hard. >> he was just sad. couldn't stop the tears. >> felt uncomfortable to see him so hurt. i felt bad for him. >> that father-so

. >> so the mcmillan brothers are here today with their mommy.nk has seen by now don't youy? >> yes over 2 million views i've heard. >> so whose idea was it? take the pictures from 18 years ago bring them to up date. >> so i thought of it. we've seen a lot of re end abilitiment pictures of the past my mom and dad got calendars. >> by the way, who is the dude behind you? >> the middle brother unfortunately couldn't be here today, but he's here in spirit. >> did he know you were use that photo? >> not real. >> i now when you say you wanted calendar, did you mean this? thinking this at all? >> no clue, no simple calendar to keep my dates on. >> women, let's look at the cover. eighteen years ago where is this? >> in front of a church just leaving a wedding, and this was the picture that just cracks me up the most, i couldn't get past it to see the 6-foot son being held by my husband. i just think they stood out in public and did this. >> my gosh. that's something. now the clothes, did you guys have to go and try and find a match? how long did that ta

i like what mcmillan's doing. a big reset. a gigantic battleship to turn. maybe this reset sets stage for 2016 where he's cut estimates to point they could be beaten. >>> an important move, no doubt. list. walmart our country's largest private employer of course many would say had the focus on it for many years, well over a decade, in terms of its wages. many would argue, perhaps correctly, it's reflective of the u.s. economy as it exists yes, 50 years ago the largest employer in the country was gm and paid employees well. one would hope the decision to do this is in part they need to get better people and they can't get them without paying them more. i don't know if that's the case or if there's more of a political side to this than a market base side to it. >> reporter: yeah, there's going to be i think, probably a slight period here where they're given some credit and then the pushback, were they reading the political tea leaves? four states last fall voted to hike the minimum wage. arkansas was one of them. 6 in 10 americans think the federal minimum wa

. >> katherine mcmillan has been in segregation for almost two years. >> i have an 11 to 14-year sentence as a habitual felon and i am in prison for making checks on the computer and cashing checks. i got into a fight. i beat a girl up down in the seg quad and she had two black eyes and she had to go to the hospital and i ended up coming up here. >> there are two classifications of inmates in the segregation unit, intensive control or icon, and maximum control, also known as mcon. both require isolation, but mcon inmates pose the most serious threat. >> why do i have this on? because i'm an mcon inmate. mcon inmates have to where this right here. technically, i'm supposed to have on leg irons, but since i have a medical from the doctor, i can't wear those for six months. once i become an icon inmate, i go in handcuffs. when i come outside, we put our hands through there and they take them off. yeah, the fresh air feels good. because you got people that stink and they don't like to take baths and you are shut up in a building all day and it's kind of cloggy in there and it stink. >> after

as walmart president and ceo doug mcmillan explained, the move enables the country's largest employer to better retain talent. >> we've got about 75% of our store management in the united states that comes from our hourly ranks. so today's cashier is tomorrow's store manager. tomorrow's store manager may have my job. so we want to make sure that that opportunity is there for people as it has been for some many of us in the past. >> upon hearing walmart's decision to pay its workers an hourly wage nearly $2 more than the federal minimum wage that currently sits at $7.25 an hour and hasn't been raised in over five years, the white house hailed the announcement and used it to put pressure on congress, tweeting, quote, good to see walmart raising wages for about 500,000 employees. now it's time for congress to hashtag raise the wage. today's news also comes after years of political pressure from a national movement of low-wage workers and groups supporting them, from black friday protests and nationwide strikes to actions outside stores to workers exercising their right to unionize and al

first is theodore roosevelt, a book with mcmillan called the deer family called "the deer of north america." he went to save the elk and created the wichita reserve for the graham reserve in oklahoma and another buffalo reserve in montana at the flathead reservation. the point being aristocratic hunters were in those days the original conservationists in many ways because you save this species to hunt the species. but secondarily, even if the american museum of natural history next door, you could go into the bird drawers and see all the carcasses. before we had dna or aerial photography or bird banding even the way that scientists would study animals is by collecting specimens. if you wanted to understand the eastern bluebird you shoot 20 eastern bluebirds and studied variations and coloration and beak size and stuff. so he did not see himself as an animal slaughterer. he saw himself as a wildlife bile jiflt biologist man of science. with that said, his kill ratio in africa seems to me to have well succeeded what he needed to have shot for his museums. and it leads people to think of him

my name is erin mcmillan, and i'm a senior at lakewood high school, and i was just curious, i know youaven't talked about it tonight about your opinion on the united nations and if it's still a relevant and effective way to an effective tool of diplomacy. >> yes. it is absolutely relevant, and how effective it is kind of depends on us. it depends on the member states. you know, when i hear u.n. bashing, what are they bashing? are they bashing the countries in the u.n. who are voting in the u.n. and making u.n. decisions? so i feel that sometimes people blame the u.n. when what they really should be doing is blaming whoever, you know, the security council voted on something. so i think the u.n. takes a lot of grief that it doesn't really deserve. they have very dedicated people, many of whom have been killed in the line of duty. and i've known some of them. and so the u.n. is only as good as the member states make it to be. and there are many occasions when you want an international presence because to have the u.s. there in and of itself would not be helpful to the situation. so you ne

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but mcmillan is probably the best leader walmart had for 15 years so you should see a turn around. >>tronger dollar has been a big concern this earnings season but given that walmart has high domestic exposure 4,000 stores in the u.s. does the stronger dollar work as a tail wind versus a head wind for walmart? >> you're raising a really pressing point. with 59% of the total worldwide revenue based in the u.s. and significant amount based in canada and the u.s. walmart's north american operations are a real tail wind for the company which will help relative to international competitors. that said walmart still has a long way to catch up versus it's best international competitor which is costco. >> let's talk about e-commerce. they're doing better than other bricks and mortar retailers but is it still a margin killer for them? >> it is both a margin killer and walmart invested in e-commerce five times in the last 15 years. walmart is starting to succeed this time but what we're seeing in our store checks worldwide and particularly walmart in america is with e-commerce walmart is short s

for the coming year, and more specifically that port dispute on the west coast which, according to mcmillan, is showing itself in the stores. >> beginning to show up. you won't see much an impact to food and consumables. we buy the vast majority in the u.s., but it shows up in patio furniture, easter seasonal goods. now, we move freight not only through the west coast ports, but up through houston and through the east coast. we have some diverseifyication there, but it would be great to see this resolved quickly. i think customers will pay for it at some point as well as the economy. >> reporter: we covered ground regarding guidance for the year, lowered in part because of the strong dollar. for more check it out on cnbc.com. back to you guys. >> and we're covering all sides of the story. let's get more on how the wage increase will impact the company's bottom line. >> yeah, exactly, susan, and the cost of walmart's announcement regarding employers' training is part in addition to the issued guidance below wall street's consensus. walmart says the total program costs a billion dollars. the

can't leave before the last event, we're going -- i'm going to talk with donald meren and steve mcmillan about the application of scoring bills other than to tax bills which is also required in some circumstances by the new house rule. so with that let me invite len and doug to come up and then we'll get started. i should mention that, if we can keep this on time we're going to have questions after each of the three panels and in case you didn't notice there's tv cameras in the back. one is for our webcast, so there's people watching this live. it will be archived on our web site and the other is c-span. and we also have on our web site a little annotated bib leography, with references to the dtc and cto on this as well as things written by each of the people we have as panelists today. doug and len, let me get started with you. and doug, i want to start with you. i wonder if you could describe to us a little of what was going through your mind when you were at cbo and you decided that it was appropriate to do a dynamic score, that is to factor in the macroeconomic effects of the preside

they brought in doug mcmillan who started last february. they have a new head of their u.s.nimum wage has been a big -- a hot topic in the past year. and walmart is the largest retailer -- the world's largest retailer. i think they're trying to take the lead on this. >> they're doing so and are getting to nine bucks an hour, certainly better than $7.25. that said won't these workers still be below the poverty line? >> once it goes up to $10 an hour next february, that's still less than $22,000 a year. so, yes, depending on the makeup of your family how many children you have under 18 in a household, you could still be below the poverty line. >> the wages apparently aren't the only change here. here's the company's ceo. let's take a listen. >> the changes that we're making include structural changes in the stores wage increases, training programs and this company, as you probably know has always been a people business. our associates their pride in the company, the ownership that they take these things are vital to running a good detail today. today we're investing in them an