Sen. Harkin: ‘People Shouldn’t Work Every Day and Make a Poverty Wage’

BRZEZINSKI: “Bill Gates told me it was very complicated and that I didn't understand why people should get paid more than $7.25 an hour.”

HARKIN: “No, that's not complicated. How complicated is this? Ask yourself how would you like to make $7.25 an hour and work every day, 2,000 hours a year, and make $15,000 a year?”

BRZEZINSKI: “And make nothing."

HARKIN: "There you go. And live in poverty. People shouldn't work every day, and we're talking about people who work a full time job, and make a poverty wage. Do you know that right now federal government; all of you, all of us, all your viewers right now are paying about $240 billion a year to subsidize these low wages? Food stamps and – “

BRZEZINSKI: “Well, I’ve been told by those tussling at my opinion on this, that these are just young people who are doing these jobs on the side so they don't need to, this isn't  -- people are not living on these jobs. They are not full time workers.”

HARKIN: “They can say all that but they have no data to back it up. The data backs it up that the vast majority of people are adults and guess what? Over half are women and they are the sole breadwinners of their family.”