invasion plan known as operation over lord would land thousands of allied troops on the beaches of normandy. utah and omaha were the american beaches. >> it was delayed until june 5th and then bad weather caused it to be delayed yet again one day. >> southern england and eastern england would have resembled almost a vast stockyard, an industrial parking lot filled with every imaginable weapon. >> all along the coast there were a couple of dozen encampments where the americans were staging. >> this was the landing craft that carried our soldiers to the beaches of normandy. >> the average american g.i. was 5'9", he weighed 144 pounds. we have just over a million still alive. >> that is the cemetery. on the morning of june 6th, 1944, here are your orders. you will take to the bridge before daylight. >> on the early morning of june 6th, the first in the fight were paratroopers like tom blakey. >> it took four days. 500 casualties. >> we got in the landing craft. i think it was about 4:00, 4:30 in the morning. 200 yards from the beach, we started taking enemy fire and they were bouncing all arou

. >> they noticed operation over lord would land thousands of troops on the beaches of normandy. the code napes from british and sword utah and ohm maha were th american beaches. >> it was supposed to be in may of 1944 but it was delayed until june 5th and bad weather caused it to be delayed again. >> southern england and eastern england would have resembled almost a vast stock yard and industrial parking lot filled with every imaginable weapon. >> all along the coast there were a couple dozen encampments where the americans were staging. >> on display at the world war ii museum in new orleans is the higgins boat in the city where the boats were built this was the landing skracraft that carr our beaches through normandy. >> it was made of hard wood and the principle metal piece on the whole boat. >> the average american gi was 5 foot 9 weighed 144 pounds. the depression was hard on the health of the american people. we have just over a million still alive. >> landed in this cemetery on the morning of june 6th, 1944. here are your orders. you will take the bridge before daylight.

many will travel to normandy, france, will be there to mark the celebration. trio from denver will be there for the celebrations ♪ amy ♪ christie ♪ marly [♪ singing ] >> could you say these women were born in the wrong generation. ♪ over there ♪ over there ♪ send the word ♪ send the word ♪ over there their journe music is a journey back in time when men were at war, women were in factories, and the andrew sisters cheered on soldiers in uniform. >> back then the andrews sisters swing sounds dominated the dance halls. they entertained battle we're troops in europe and here at home. revelry three will be revived in another mandy. >> we have not had a musical genre that has tied the country together as it did during this time. >> before each of their shows the women painstakingly primp making sure they have every detail of the andrew sisters down pat. >> it used to take me an hour, now i have it down to 44 minutes. >> do you ever worry that what you do up on stage may be considered just a little geeky? >> well, yeah, i mean, i go out in my pin curls, and you would

now, next week marks the 70th anniversary of the invasion of normandy. at no other time in history has an amphibious assault occurred on that scale. on june 6, 1944, 156,000 allied troops landed on the beaches of normandy knowing they may not survive and many didn't. they were bombarded by bullets and shells and bombs, but without hesitation they marched on. and in that one day, the united tates lost 6,603 brave soldiers. nevada senator howard cannon was one of the american heroes who risked his life on that faithful day. he piloted the troop carrier airplane leading 44 others across the english channel to france. in the middle of a hot june night at 11:50 p.m. on june 5, he took off, the plane departed, carrying paratroopers who jumped into france just a little while later. a few days after that, on june 17, senator cannon was shot down over the netherlands and survived 42 days behind enemy lines. he's one of the heroes whose story is told in the book and movie "a bridge too far." i'm fortunate that i was able to serve as senator cannon's faculty intern

and on that day in normandy, which we'll celebrate, it will be our 70th anniversary of that day heret a month, on that very day we all are so familiar with from the history books and also from personal testimony of those who were there, we lost 25,000 soldiers that day, jon and how extraordinary is that? our sacrifice over these last 13 years has been very, very significant as well. we've lost 6800 soldiers in afghanistan and iraq but fortunately the casualties by comparison are considerably less. no less for those who have suffered the loss and pain of that suffering for the rest of their life to be sure. jon: and they keep the beacon of freedom shining. general jack keane, our fox news military analyst, thank you. >> good talking to you, jon. julie: and as we remember our war dead today, we must not forget those veterans who survived, fighting for this country and those that have suffered the injustice, those injured soldiers in need of health care have endured. as the growing scandal at va intensifies more mounting pressure for va secretary eric shinseki's resignation. how preside

he did not go over to normandy. watergate, june of he was trying to focus on the middle east to salvage his reputation of peace. he did not go. it was really ronald reagan who did justice to d-day in 1954 when he famously gave his voice to this beach talking about u.s. army's and second rangers and tryinge cliffs to decommission a 155 millimeter of the cliffs there with great heroism that occurred .here, but also utah reagan would even use -- first reelection campaign commercials that were so popular. reagan for gold -- triggered a national celebration of d-day. up until that time, the date was pearl harbor. made d-dayreally not the day to reflect on world war ii and not pearl harbor day. we did not win the battle and pearl harbor but decisively one d-day. squarely after reagan, bill clinton went to normandy and also george w. bush. it is fitting that barack obama is going. i like the president is going to poland coming up, talking about the liberation from soviet domination after world war ii. winter coming this ea

first, even though this family comes from columbia, normandy is named after one of the most important in history. >> 1941 was the beginning of the liberation of europe and my grandfather saw that as such a powerful moment in history that he wanted to have his family carry a name that referred to a new dawn and, so, the firstborn in the family received the name normandy. >> sreenivasan: and again, to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are two more. that's the newshour for tonight. i'm hari sreenivasan, have a nice memorial day weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> when i was pregnant, i got more advice than i knew what to do with. what i needed was information i could trust, on how to take care of me and my baby. united healthcare has a simple program that helps moms stay on track with their doctors and get care and guidance they can use before and after the baby is born. simple is wha

think as opposed to going to normandy.l be surprised if he goes because he's never been gone before. we are giving money and aid to people who hate us. i'm sure they would hate us without all that money and aid. i would like him to see -- take more interest in the american way. i don't see that. we have military men all over this contry, my husband is a disabled vet. the care for them is minimal at best no matter where you live. that was one of the things he was going to change but it hasn't changed yet. he's got a hard job, but i don't think he lived up to the game. host: welcome your comments on facebook as well. facebook.com/c-span. bill posting, alienating u.s. allies and emboldening arab muslim states is not my deof a sound u.s. foreignpolicy. alex responds saying, i suppose drone striking over 3,000 men, women, and children in pakistan is your idea of emboldening muslim states. l.o.l. that's on facebook. e are on twitter, #c-spanchat. here's claudia from cincinnati. democrats line. caller: yes, i think that president

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>> three women head to normandy to mark an anniversary with song. we begin with the sudden decision by the head of the veterans affairs department to resign. the pressure was intense from both parties and just a couple of days after the disturbing new revelations about the va, eric shinseki, retired general, quit. so now, how does the government make sure veterans get the health care they need? our white house correspond, mike viqueria, that is story. mike. >> picking up steam over the last are 48 hours. the problems at the veterans affairs department are decades old, they are systemic but today they cost president obama his one and only veterans affairs secretary, eric shinseki, his ten you a has come to an end. with growing evidence of malfeasance and deception at veterans affairs, president obama had accepted what now became inevitable. >> minutes ago deputy shinseki offered me his resignation. with considerable ro regre regri accepted. >> among the findings, in 64% of those facilities, records were falsified to make it look like veterans were re

next week marks the 70th anniversary of the d-day landings at normandy.ii. a day with more than 10,000 allied casualties. such a staggering toll is difficult to comprehend the. fallen, iemorate the think of the wisdom and the humility of our allied commander, dwight david eisenhower. that any battlefield to -- commanderder would face that his honors cannot last in his memory. they cannot soothe the anguish whose sonow or orphan or daughter will not return. approaching a. of great transition. the three had been achieved in europe. the war would end in the coming months. soldiers were beginning to come home and get on with their lives. itself,try began to ask where should we go from here? conclude 13 years of war, we are approaching another. of transition. these times of change and uncertainty require exceptional leadership. they demand leaders who are strong in the face of challenges. who are wise in the face of complexity. who are prudent in the face of uncertainty. as the is humble courageous individuals they lead. our commander-in-chief is one of those

normandi is named after one of the most important moments in american history. >> my grandfather saw that as such a powerful moment in history. that he wanted to have his family carry a name that referred to a new dawn and so the first born in the family received that name. >> that first born was this man. narmandi senior. senior would also hear something american that would inspire him. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> to make your society better than it is and leave it better than it was after you're gone. >> he never forgot that. >> it stuck in his head. stuck with him forever. >> as we flew towards texas, he told me how his parents had been comfortably middle class in columbia when the drug cartels began destroys what they valued most. respect for public service and education. jfk's speech struck a nerve with his father. his oldest sister was a little girl when they arrived in new jersey. >> we had living rooms and spare rooms depending on the family's circumstances. >> because the credentials didn't transfer his mother would s

ceremonies looking back at world war ii memorial begin in normandy. the d-day operation marking the beginning of allied forces invasion in europe, 5,000 soldiers were buried at the site where the ceremony will take place. >> meteorologist: i'm meteorologist dave warren with your forecast. we're looking at the gull coast. this is a big storm but slow moving. there is this rain in one area. this is the radar that picks up the rain and it continues to add to the totals. the red areas have six inches of rain that have come down, and it's not done yet. this spin coming out of oklahoma bringing up a this rain from you had gulf and slowly moved in the last three days from texas to oklahoma and now across the southeast. the flooding is the big problem here. but with this powerful storm we're seeing spinning here with these storms. the tornado watch still in affect. certainly the potential is there for severe weather. flash flood watch over the area. looking at inches of rain in a short period of time flooding happens quickly. here's the weather pattern that u

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the new ukrainian president to up the ante militarily, but there will be a sermon he next week in normandie. the question is is there something we can start something on the diplomatic track. takee new president is not office until june. he says he wants to quash this rebellion in a matter of hours. >> i'm skeptical there is a military solution. problem is if it will get out of hand, with others who have jumped on the cause of ukraine, can they be brought back into some sort of normalcy. it is not clear any side has the capability to do that. >> any negotiations? >> we have seen the osce with initiatives. those are the kinds of maneuvers you would want to see, but we do not see enough in the diplomatic push so far. >> thank you very much. police have arrested two men and file charges against a number of others in connection with the rape and killing of two girls. the girls were found hanging from a tree on wednesday morning. there was a protest by the bodies. were initially refusing to investigate. young people in a central were in --ublican republic were in protest. on wednesday more than

next week imgo to normandy to honor the men that stormed the beaches there. it is hard to comprehend those that boarded the small ships, it is familiar to you. at west pointe you define what it means to be a patriot. three years ago gaven white graduated from this academy and served in afghanistan. like the soldiers who came before him he was in a foreign land and helping people he never met. putting himself in harm's way for the sake of his community and his family and the folks back home. gaven lost one of his legs in an attack. i met him last year at walter reed. he was wounded but just as determined as the day that he arrived here at west pointe and developed a simple goal, today his sister morgan will graduate and true to his promise gaven will be there and exchange salutes to her. [applause] we have been through a long season of war. we have faced trials that were not foreseen and we have seen divisions about how to move forward. but there's something in gaven's character, something in the american character that will always triumph. leaving here you ca

veterans in normandy on the anniversary of the d-day landings. we have a distinguished group of washington observers. michele flournoy is c.e.o. of the center for new american security. former undersecretary of defense for policy. e.j. dionne is a senior fellow for the brookings institution. jeff goldberg is a columnist for "bloomberg view." and david rennie is bureau chief of the "the economist" magazine. i am pleased to have all of them on the program this evening. i begin with this simple question-- why did the president feel necessary to make this speech now and the follow-up speechedz as well? and what does he believe is necessary for him to accomplish? jeff? >> well, i think the white house felt that it was lose, a grip on a narrative, and i think that the narrative that they don't want to hear is that foreign policy-- obama's foreign policy is aimless and weak and that our allies constantly need reassurance that we're not abandoning them. so i think he wanted to set out-- this was really like a state of the union address on foreign policy.

. >> just 20 at the time, gorman was among the 150,000 allied troops who took part in the normandy invasion>> the rockets went off and the bombs started. the ships opened fire. >> scared? >> oh, yeah, oh, yeah. but at the same time, you know, so much going on, you don't have time, you know. you wouldn't know. god blessed you, you know. you don't have time to be scared. >> after coming under heavy fire and hitting a mine just a mile offshore, gorman's unit finally made it to omaha beach. what did you see when you got ashore? i've seen it, too. >> yes, you know what it's like. you see it, and at the same time, you don't see it, if you know what i mean. because you are concentrating on your job and what has to be done. and as we were laying wire late dusk and into the dark, you know, we were tripping as we were going. and you look down and you saw what you were tripping over. whew. >> you weren't prepared for that, were you? >> no, no. that's when, you know, it was true life. >> the bloodiest fighting occurred at omaha beach, resulting in more than 2,000 american casualties. >> when they talk

>> we do not anticipate any bilateral meetings at normandie.leaders are assembling at normandie, -- to commemorate the heroic battles that took place there as part of d-state that eventually led to the end of the european war, world war two. i do not anticipate a bilateral meeting, and certainly none is scheduled. >> i want to ask you about the unemployment extension. over two and a half million people have been cut off from benefits. it appears to be a dead issue in the house. going nowhere? do you have any reactions? >> well, we continue to want to provide emergency benefits to americans are looking for work, much as they did repeatedly at earlier stages of the recovery and during the previous of ministration. you know, it is a shame because these are folks who are out there looking for work and need assistance to pay their rent and feed their families. i think any economist can verify that that assistance has a direct and positive benefit to the economy, an immediate benefit to the economy because that unemployment assistance, unemployment i

. ♪ [ male announcer ] tora bora fallujah argonne khe sanh midway dak to normandy medina ridge the chosineservoir these are places history will never forget but more important are the faces we will always remember. ♪ >>> my husband died at 45 years old. every time, every time my husband reached out to the va, they just kept telling him, be patient, sir. i'm here to tell you that my dead veteran husband cannot be much more patient than he is today, but me, i'm pissed. >> an emotional outpouring as frustration grows over the scandal of the veterans administrati administration. a top va official stepped down and calls for the resignation of eric shinseki were heard lou and clear. our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszews miklaszewski. >> reporter: only a week before he went to battle on capitol hill over the growingv a scandal, secretary eric shinseki in an nbc interview sounded oblivious to the growing storm. >> reporter: do you completely understand why there's that level of outrage? >> i think i do. i'm a veteran myself. >> reporter: whistle-blowers claim over 40 veterans died while await

next week marks the 70th anniversary of the d-day landings at normandy.was the bloodiest day in all of world war ii. a day with more than 10,000 allied casualties. such a staggering toll is difficult to comprehend. as we commemorate the fallen, i think of the wisdom and the humility of our allied commander, general dwight david eisenhower. not long after, he said that any battlefield commander would face that his honors cannot hide in his memories. they cannot soothe the anguish of the widow or orphan whose son or daughter will not return. when he spoke, our nation was approaching a period of great transition. victory had been achieved in europe. the war would end in the coming months. soldiers were beginning to come home and get on with their lives. our country began to ask itself, where should we go from here? today as we conclude 13 years of war, we are approaching another period of transition. these times of change and uncertainty require exceptional leadership. they demand leaders who are strong in the face of challenges, who are wise in the face of

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corporate funding for washington week is provided by ora bora, fallujah, argon, normandy, medina ridge, these are places history will never forget, but more important are the faces we will always remember. additional corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by prudential, brigham & women's hospital. additional funding is also provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. it's a perfect storm. allegations of government malfeasance, coverup, the possibility of lives lost and betrayal of our nation's heroes all culminating in multiple demands that heads roll. the growing scandal engulfing the department of veterans' affairs health programs is now the subject of several investigations. >> our veterans deserve to know the facts, their families deserve to know the facts. once we know the facts, i assure you, if there is misconduct it will be punished. gwen: at the center of it all, mild mannered v.a. secre

. >> just 20 at the time, goreman was among the 150,000 allied troops who took part in the normandy invasions opened fire. >> scared? >> oh, yeah, oh, yeah. at the same time, so much going on, you don't have time. everyone knows, god bless you, you know, you don't have time to be scared. >> after coming under heavy fire and hitting a mine just a mile offshore, goreman's unit finally made it to omaha beach. >> what did you see when you got ashore? >> oh, whew. whew. >> yes, you know what it's like. and you see it, and at the same time, you don't see it, if you know what i mean. you are concentrating on your job and what has to be done. and we were laying wire into the dark. you know, we were tripping them. as we were going and you looked down and you saw what you're tripping over. whew. >> you weren't prepared for that, were you? >> no. no. that's when, you know, it was true life. >> the bloodiest fighting occurred at omaha beach, resulting in more than 2,000 american casualties. >> when they talk about a pool of red, and then you see a whole -- whew. hundred yards of shoreline. >> okay, you'

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>> we do not anticipate any bilateral mediums at normandy. the leaders are at normandy to commemorate the heroic battles that took place as a part of d-day that eventually led to the end of the world war ii. i do not anticipate a bilateral meeting and certainly not one scheduled. steve? >> i want to ask about the convention that has been essentially five months since -- 2.7 million people cut off from their benefit. [inaudible] and going nowhere. do you have any reaction to it? >> we continue to call on the congress to provide emergency benefits to americans who are looking for work. as much as they did repeatedly at the earlier stages of the recovery and during the previous administration. it's a shame because these are folks out there looking for work and need assistance to pay their rent and feed their families and i think that any economist can there find that assistance has a direct and positive benefit to the economy and an immediate method to the economy because the unemployment insistence -- on unemployment insurance is assistance tha

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next week week president putin takes his first trip to europe, the celebrations in normandy. meet with president obama and european leaders. i think this is an important backdrop. i think russia would like to go into those meetings not being accused of anymore support. chris, how much rope are they prepared to give poroshenko in terms of dealing with what looks like a situation that to everybody is out of control in the east of the country? they are prepared to cut him a little bit of slack, maybe allow more military action. is that the kind of story you are telling me here? >> yes, that is exactly the story. for sure, we are hearing criticism from the russian foreign ministry and calling for an end to the violence as you expect. russia pulled troops back from the border which has now been shown. the indications are that the kremlin is definitely getting the new president him time with a view to hopefully -- and the next couple of weeks there can be some discussions between both sides. president poroshenko has already said that one of his first visits will be to moscow. he wa

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the most dramatic will be this anniversary of normandy where he will be on the podium the president obamand all the other world leaders from europe. certainly taking opposition to what he is doing. >> he will always put a pole ahead of democracy as the saying goes. he did make some unexpected concessions and he said he was urging the pro-russian militants to postpone this referendum due this coming weekend. and i would suggest that he's starting to be a little bit more concessionary because he's pretty much got what he wants. would you agree? >> yes and no. i think his standing back from the independence referendum this weekend, the leaders told him that given the level of violence we may not be able to turn out what we think we can. and he only wants to do that is a guaranteed outcome and i think that the suspicion of that has provided some caution. supporting the national elections on may 25 is quite a surprise. he is probably covertly part of this and it could be a.org the fact that he's willing to make some sort local accommodation. what he actually wants is a new revolutionary govern

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before heading to europe next week, especially in the case of shinseki, when the president goes to normandy. >>> let's go in depth right now on jay carney's departure. howard kurtz is hear to tell us why now carney? >> it's fitting that carney is stepping down after being battered for days over the v.a. scandal and the benghazi emails before that, and the obamacare debacle before that, because his usefulness was coming to an end. he was so constantly been on the defensive that his ability to put a positive message out for the administration had faded. >> many reporters became to resent jay carney for the way that he accused them of part iship for asking tough questions. jay carney had to defend the indefensible. he had to explain or try to explain the less and less transparency at the white house, barring photographers from important events, and most especially of all, the government surveillance of ap journalists and our own james rosen and leaked investigations that seemed to criminalize reporting. >> well the change in podium will help? >> josh has a softer touch. even the great press se

one of the stops will be at normandy for the 70th anniversary of d-day. the bottom line is the president wanted to get shinseki out before having to go there. >> at least he didn't say he read about the resignations in the newspaper. >> that's right. >> dana perino will be here later with reaction. sally barnes breen and deborah allen, thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> sally, i have read your story. both of your stories have brought me to tears. how do you feel about today's news? is it enough that he's stepping down? >> not at all. this is not intriguing me in the least, no. >> deborah, what do you think it's going to take? i know there is nothing they can do to make this up. the massive mismanagement and failure. what would you like to see co coming from the white house? >> that people would be held accountable, no matter how big the person is. this was a criminal thing that was done to our family. my husband, her pop. they need to spend some time in jail. they need to return their bonuses. they need to give it to struggling families now w

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to continue their detailed planning for a very complex invasion, which would've been bigger than normandy. to continue the planning, but do not do it too quickly. because he had been told a day prior, two days prior to the dropping o of the atomic bomb on hiroshima, he had been briefed by person that came to washington that nuclear device and atom bomb would be dropped on hiroshima. and that was the reason for him telling his chief of staff, go ahead with your planning, a japan is going to surrender. he thought that the atom bomb was the reason they surrendered. i think later historians have quite rightly pointed out that what really scared japan was that their homeland, that it would be better to surrender to the americans than to the russians. they didn't want the red army occupying their homeland, and that they better seek peace as quickly as possible before the russians got engaged. and i think that history, history's judgment is accurate. spent a still a little vague on when -- >> he learned about it the day before. >> a commander did not know thae thumb of the project and -- >> no.

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veterans in normandy on the 70th anniversary of the d-day landings. the ceo of the center for american securities, a senior fellow at the brookings institution. an op-ed columnist. david is a washington bureau chief for the economist magazine. i am pleased to have all of them on this program. why did the president feel it necessary to make this speech now and the follow-up speeches as well? what does he believe is necessary for him to accomplish? >> i think the white house felt it was losing grip on a narrative and i think the narrative that they don't want to hear is that obama's foreign policy is aimless or week and that our allies constantly need reassurance that we are not abandoning them. it was really like a state of the union address on foreign policy. it was literally and figuratively all over the map but i think he was trying to signal two different ways at once. a level of deep engagement on issues that he considers primary importance and a little bit of development of a kind of obama doctrine. the amazing thing about the commentary that has

think one of general bradley were here now, last five-star general we had, kind of ironic next week normandy invasion, the sixth of jim. i just don't feel that there is a chain of command or a sense of urgency. i am not going go over all the things that have been covered, but my feeling is, who is going to go down and and correct these things? and i know you had a busy weekend, but people are dying. work through the weekend. it's a 24 hour day, you know, there has to be a sense of urgency. and coming away from this with the feeling that the lawyers run everything. there has to be certain decisions made right away to change some of these policies, whether certain people have to be fired, whether they don't get bonuses. there are a lot of great people out there, but most of them are military, and they're probably frustrated. what a and giving up to is i think right now -- we are going to talk about this. this committee will make a report, but the was going dennis q., a chain of command to lose coolant to do this. i've just come away from this hearing tonight. i get the feeling that no one is i

and get off the both, were going to storm normandy. they didn't do that for us. are we doing that for them now? and. so all right, on to another controversy keep pushing it, you asked for it. asked for it. you are already getting hi, are we still on for tomorrow? tomorrow. quick look at the weather. nice day, beautiful tomorrow. tomorrow is full of promise. we can come back tomorrrow. and we promise to keep it that way. driven to preserve the environment, csx moves a ton of freight nearly 450 miles >> can't wait til tomorrow. neil: be careful what you wish for you may get at. now the idea of a the $10.10 minimum wage looks cheap compared to what they kicked out in chicago with a $50 minimum wage. but the problem pushing it higher you push the people into automating looked at amazon and google already that they are replacing workers. it is like the watson computer burton is. >> but regardless of minimum-wage it is just speeds the process but i cannot do that automatic thing at the food store. i cannot do that. keep the people let the garage restore. >> i did that