Sanders Speaks to Wal-Mart Leaders
HARLOW: All right, a really interesting development. This morning, 2020 Democratic Candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is taking his wage fight directly -- directly to the top leaders at Walmart. He, right now, is at the annual shareholder meeting. It's just a few minutes from their headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. He's pushing the company to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour.</s>SCIUTTO: And, listen to this, he's also proposing to put hourly workers on the company's board of directors. That would be a potential first in the company's history. Walmart, of course, one of the country's biggest employers. CNN correspondent Ryan Nobles, he's outside that meeting in Rodgers, Arkansas. This is going to be quite a moment here.</s>RYAN NOBLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, no doubt about that, Jim and Poppy. You know, we've regularly heard Bernie Sanders go after the Walton family, of course Jeff Bezos from Amazon, from the campaign trail. But what is different today is that he's actually going to physically be inside this shareholder meeting, be able to look Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, face-to-face and tell him about his grievances with the Walmart Corporation. The way it's going to work is that a former associate is going to offer up a proposal to put (ph) an employee on their board of directors.</s>SCIUTTO: Interesting.</s>HARLOW: It's going to be tough for them now because Amazon just raised their wages to $15 an hour, right?</s>SCIUTTO: Yes.</s>HARLOW: So there's going to -- there's that increasing pressure in the marketplace, too.</s>SCIUTTO: There's a public relations aspect to it, too.</s>HARLOW: Totally.</s>SCIUTTO: No question. Ryan Nobles, great to have you there.</s>HARLOW: This just into CNN. A group of bipartisan senators has announced 22 joint resolutions to block arm sales to Saudi Arabia without congressional approval. This is a big deal.</s>SCIUTTO: Yes.</s>HARLOW: It comes after last month when President Trump, the Trump administration, declared an emergency to go around Congress and expedite billions of dollars in arms sales to various countries. Of course, one of them being Saudi Arabia. Another, the UAE. It matters. We'll talk about it next hour</s>SCIUTTO: It does. Initially, Senator Lindsey Graham, who's been in lockstep with this president on so many things --</s>HARLOW: That's true.</s>SCIUTTO: On this, he's supporting these resolutions.</s>HARLOW: Yes.</s>SCIUTTO: And we should note, it's been eight months since Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. This administration has missed a deadline required by law to determine responsibility for his murder.</s>HARLOW: That's right. That's right. So now Republicans and Democrats in the Senate trying to hold them to account. OK, how responsible for keeping students safe is the police officer, resource officer essentially, who was outside of the school in Parkland? That is the question now in a criminal case against