joining melike is michael burnett. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> this is a big jump, right? $16 to $20 an hour. that's $4 more. how will this impact the cost of food at various schemes improve wages to career ladders, other skill upgrading of low wage workers. nearly all of them have modest or no affect. so this is an approach to improve wages directly. and these other impacts. >> yeah, i can imagine. i mean is it going to put pressure on other industries that will employee a large amount of minimum wage workers to increase their pay raise? their pay hikes? >> yeah, a number of interesting dynamics going on. and one is a lot of employers who will pay workers now less than $20 an hour in direct here in long-term care and care for the disabled and retail are concerned that their workers will now move to fast food workers, which will pay more. how much of that, we'll have to see. and the converse is how much is increasing in fast food wages will increase wages and other low wage jobs. so they could ha

. >> erin burnett outfront starts right now >> i'd front next opening day of trump's trial in between trump and what will be a star witness? michael cohen this is the first witness is starting to testify. the david helped trump's case, plus russia's new it girl, stink television. now fawning over marjorie taylor greene even though she tried but failed to sink american aid to ukraine. here what they are saying tonight about quote-unquote moscow, marjorie, and melania trump now selling more jewelry. is it to help her husband pay his legal fees? >> let's go out front and good evening. >> i'm erin burnett outfront tonight. we begin with trump's trials spilling out of the courtroom on a day when the prosecution and defense laid out their cases for the first time to 12 jurors and the six alternates in the room. and it's on this momentous day, the former president trump and his former fixer, michael cohen, are now in a free for all know, it did actually start in the courtroom. >> it was during opening statements, trump was watching as his lawyers were tearing into the key wetness. >> they said, quote, his entire financial livelihood depe