washington while bankruptcy burns across the nation. san bernardino, california, is the latest american town unable to pay its bills. the math $46 million in debt. they've made drastic cuts in employees and services. and the city according to the los angeles times has only $150,000 in the bank. that's it. residents are coming unhinged saying, why wasn't this calamity headed off at the pass? >> what about two years ago when they took $10 million from the employees? what were they doing then? now the city is forced basically to file bankruptcy because they have this tremendous amount of debt over their head. >> in the last 14 days, two other towns near los angeles have gone into bankruptcy. other places across the country have done the same or tried to in idaho, alabama, pennsylvania, rhode island, dozens of other local and state governments have made dramatic cuts just to try to stay solvent while they wait for the economic recovery to help with terrible budget shortfalls. and yet while this is happening congress spent today arguing once again about health care reform, holding a symbolic vote to repeal obama care which no one, no one thought would pass, even the republicans who pushed to it the floor. and by that, i mean pass in terms of making any real difference. just to put in it perspective, this was the 33rd time congress has voted to repeal or defund the health care law. >> instead of focusing on jobs, which they claimed in the last election was their focus, republicans are creating a sense of deja vu all over again on the floor by staging a repeat of the health care reform. >> we, on this side of the aisle, care about the health care of the american people. that's why we're here. that's why i brought this bill forward, along with and on behalf of my colleagues. >> welcome to groundhog day in the house of representatives. >> as a physician, one of the tenets of medicine is first, do no harm. sadly, the president's law does real harm. >> we are joined now by one of the republicans who backed that vote today, congressman charles kustanik. thank you for being here. i have all the respect in the world for your party having the right to oppose this law, overturn this law or take whatever steps you want to on that front. but everyone today knew this was a show vote. why do you take part in such a thing? >> in the aftermath of the supreme court ruling where it's very clear this is a massive tax hike that's going to hit every part of the american economy, 21 new taxes little every one of our economy in light of the fact that we have 41 straight months of high unemployment at 8% or higher and very sluggish economic growth, businesses are telling us that they're having a hard time hiring because of the specter of this tax hike. >> i get that, a legitimate argument. but why not hold a press conference on the steps of the congress and say all of that, instead of taking time in congress doing something which your party has been equally critical of democrats for doing when they have held show votes? why don't you stand up and say, we're done with the showboating, things in this country are too dire for a bunch of dog and pony shows? >> clearly, we need to do a lot of things to help this economy to help tackle the debt. in the house, we've passed a number of votes to promote energy production, promote job growth. yet these votes are not taken up by the senate. we have a senate that's doing nothing right now. that's the key point. we're going to keep doing what we have to do in the house to try to move this economy forward, to give some certainty to the american people who are struggling right now with high unemployment, a very sluggish economic growth situation. they want to see action. we're trying in the house and we're going to keep putting pressure on the senate. >> congressman, i mean all respect here, but this is an action. what this was today was a vote that was meant to be a pr stunt just like the democrats have done votes that are pr stunts. and i talk to voters all over this country, democrat, republican and independent, and every time either party does this, their view of congress drops lower and lower and lower. don't you want to fix that? >> well, i do. and i'm intent on providing good solutions to the many problems that families are facing. i can tell you on the health care law in particular, i'm deeply concerned as a physician with over 30 years clinical experience as to what's going to happen with this in terms of cost to family, dealing with ever-rising premiums. we're dealing with higher cost to the taxpayer. the congressional budget office has come up with revised figures showing a much higher cost to the taxpayer on this bill. we've got many, many problems with this, including significant interference with the doctor/patient relationship. so i'm very happy to point out as often as i possibly can in every possible venue the flaws in this health care law. >> let me ask you about one other thing. you introduced some legislation today to try to penalize financially congress member who don't show up for votes. do you think that's going to pass? >> well, i'm going to push to bring to it the forefront and ask the leadership to consider it. the bottom line here is that we have an obligation to our constituents. and when congress is in session and votes are being held, roll call votes, meaning we're being recorded as having voted yes or no, i think it's important to be there to vote. and unless you have some extenuating circumstances, such as an illness or a family illness where it's a legitimate excuse, if you're not showing up to vote and you're going off to political functions and fund-raising, i don't think that's serving our constituents well. and i think there are members of congress who are doing that and i want to put a stop to it. >> i think there are plenty of voters who might agree with you on that. congressman boustany, thanks so much for being here. we appreciate it. joining me now is john avalon. you've been taking congress to task on this over and over again. i appreciate the congressman coming on and talking. but in the end, these are, as i said, dog and pony shows. both sides do it all the time. what ought congress to be doing right now? what could they be doing to help the people in california and idaho and alabama and pennsylvania? >> let's lay out three things that congress could be doing instead of this dog and pony kabuki. 33 votes in a row. one, there is a small jobs tax bill. one study estimates it could lead to as much as 1 million new jobs. >> and both parties are saying, we want to help small business. >> both parties will pray at that altar because it makes good sense. small business has been squeezed. but in this case, this bill should be a no-brainer, it's getting caught up in the bush tax cut debate. it seems to be held hostage, again, to partisan politics where congress could take action and pass something that could help people get jobs this year. >> give me two more. >> second, u.s. post office, people know it's losing billions of dollars a year. this is something people feel and touch every day. the senate pasd a bill to reform and restructure the post office. it's sitting in the house. they're doing the 33rd health care vote instead of trying to save the post office. that would make a real difference in people's lives. final thing, let's look at cyber security. 2,000% increase in attempted cyberattacks against our critical infrastructure. $80 million from global banks. there's a bipartisan bill ready to go in the senate. let's move it forward. this is an economic and a national security issue. these things are a couple of examples, some common sense reforms that could go through congress if they put progress over politics, which is why people are sick to death of congress right now. >> i know people don't -- they talk about false equivalence. the republicans want to say it is more the democrats fault, the democrats want to say it is more the republicans fault. this kind of gridlock we're talking about now, no matter who may be more at fault, can't be happening without both parties taking part in it. >> that's right. we've had divided government in the medication past. this is dysfunctional government. get it together, folks. keep your eye on the ball. work for the american people. >> and the economy just keeps burning the whole time. john avalon, thanks so much. "outfront" next, one of our guests thinks mitt romney knew he was going to be booed at the naacp conference and he thinks it was part of a plan. why would a statesman want to build nursing homes for our veterans only to have them sit unused? that certainly does not add up. and the world's longest funeral may be finally coming to a close. stay with us. i don't have to use gas. i am probably going to the gas station about once a month. drive around town all the time doing errands and never ever have to fill up gas in the city. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. last time i was at a gas station was about...i would say... two months ago. the last time i went to the gas station must have been about three months ago. i go to the gas station such a small amount that i forget how to put gas in my car. ♪ ♪ i want to go ♪ i want to win [ breathes deeply ] ♪ this is where the dream begins ♪ ♪ i want to grow ♪ i want to try ♪ i can almost touch the sky [ male announcer ] even the planet has an olympic dream. dow is proud to support that dream by helping provide greener, more sustainable solutions from the olympic village to the stadium. solutionism. the new optimism.™ ♪ this dream i'm going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program i can find. that includes obama care and i'm going to work to reform and save -- [ audience booing ] >> there you hear it. our second story "outfront," boos for mitt romney wn he tells the naacp he wants to repeal obama care. but if you think that puts him on the defense, think again. [ speaking foreign language ] >> romney is rolling out a new ad with his son, craig, who speaks spanish asking hispanics to give his dad a chance. american crossroads is slamming president obama for unemployment among women. and the republican national committee continues its serious assault for jobs that have gone overseas. this is clearly a broad attack on president obama's base trying to make him defend his advantage among those voters. "outfront" tonight, mark hill, david fromm and reuben navarrete. let me start with you, mark. the chances of mitt romney winning any of these groups would be slim? >> slim to none. >> slim to none. but he doesn't have to win. >> he doesn't. >> all he has to do is make some of these people in these various groups start thinking twice about whether or not barack obama has really helped them and made them feel like not going to vote this fall. >> right. he wants to help deenergize the base. he also needs to show independent voters he's not a radical wingnut who wants to alienate black voters. >> do you think he made any headway? >> gettingooed is not a good sign. >> that was part of it. he got applauded in other parts of it. for example, when he talked about charter schools, when he said this is a way of helping people, talking about taking on unions when they stand in the way of schools getting better -- >> the charter school thing are things that president obama has been ambivalent on. most democrats and republicans don't wildly disagree on education issues, largely because they don't know much about them. i don't think that will be a deciding factor. the stuff he did draw boos from were health care and the personal attacks on the president. made him look unstatesmanly and alienated black voters. >> let's go to david fromm. david, you said, you tweeted, if i were a political cynic, and you are, by the way, i'd wonder whether the romney campaign wanted to be booed at the naacp. explain yourself. >> mitt romney was on fox business channel this afternoon and said he expected to be booed. so they put things in there they knew were likely to draw a negative response and said a lot of things that could have elicited a positive response. black america has been hit hard by the grinding recession. though there is going to be a lot of emotional commitment to the president, to really go into what this recession has meant for black america, not only in terms of the catastrophe in the private economy, but the black middle class and professional class, heavily represented at the naacp, that visual you showed of mitt romney being booed is not a very nice visual. but there are also a lot of people in the republican base, people who are the people who like mitt romney least, who may be energized in their turn by that -- >> all right, all right. maybe. let's look at the unemployment. you get the cynical award tonight. let's look at the unemployment for june. i want to look at this graphic here. white unemployment, 7.4%. black unemployment, 14.4%. hispanic unemployment, 11%. reuben, jump in here. same question i was asking to mark here. do you think in any way that the message from mitt romney if he attacks all these groups and says, what has this president done for you, he can dampen their enthusiasm? >> absolutely. he can dampen their enthusiasm. he's not going to be able to turn them against barack obama but he can prevent them from turning out. that's a great sense of ambivalence in many communities and a touch of it in the african-american community. while they personally like this president and support him, they wish he had been more in their corner on a variety of issues. and you mentioned one of them. not just black unemployment but specifically black unemployment among teenagers, among young african-americans and how bad that's been, north of 30%. i think a lot of people are supportive of the individual, but they don't much like his policies and when you get down to it, a lot of those liberals on the left and the coalition you mentioned earlier think he's been far too conservative, too inclined to cave into republicans in congress. they wish he had handled things differently. >> we're running a little short here. mark, what do you think? >> i disagree. i'm not convinced that black people are disappointed in president obama's policies. i don't think that's true. there's no study to suggest that. are some people disappointed that he wasn't radical enough? absolutely. but they're going to vote for the lesser of two evils. i happen to think president obama was too far to the middle, but i'm still going to vote for him, because he's the best option i have. >> david frum, what does president obama need to say right now if he wants to somehow block this message from mitt romney who's trying to upset his base? >> it's past the point of saying anything. there's been an economic debacle and a terrible economic pain. words are not going to convince anybody, especially after this summer's repeated bad news. we seem to get bad news every summer. and this summer, we've had more bad news. the people who the president needs, they know what's going on without a word spoken by any politician. >> we all have to sacrifice in this time of need. we're out of time. you lost your last comment. that's one i owe you next time. thank you for being here. up next, california spends more than $100 million on a new facility for our veterans. so why is no one moving in? and new information about the much-anticipated report on penn state's handling of jerry sandusky's child abuse scandal. that's coming up. tal object hite ground) things have been a little strange. 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because for 200 years, we've been helping ideas move from ambition to achievement. and the next great idea could be yours. ♪ our third story "outfront," we started this evening with the latest town going bankrupt out in california. but another victim of the economy directly affects our nation's veterans. california has a budget shortfall of $15.7 billion yet spent a quarter billion in state and federal funds to build two new state-of-the-art nursing homes for veterans. good plan. problem is, the state can't come up with enough money to run the places. so now no one can move in and the state is spending a fortune maintaining empty buildings. casey wian went for a look in westwood, california. >> we were hit by an aircraft in this left number one engine and we were shot down. >> reporter: 89-year-old world war ii veteran rudy was shot down over germany. he spent 11 brutal months as a prisoner of war. >> i lived through it. >> reporter: now he wants a safe place to spend his remaining days near family in fresno, california, where a brand-new 300 bedroom veterans home was completed in april. but it sits empty because of california's budget crisis, it will stay that way until at least october 2013. in the meantime, hundreds of veterans wait to get in. >> there are veterans out there that are in a lot worse shape than i'm in that should be going into that home right now. >> reporter: the home cost $159 million to build, split roughly 60/40 between the federal government and california. $159 million will buy you a very nice facility. here, there's a general store but there's nothing on the shelves. next door is a barbershop where no one's cutting hair. and just like with the state of california, there's no money in the bank and no residents. this year, the state only budgeted enough money for a skeleton maintenance crew and a handful of staff at fresno. >> understand that what the legislature and the governor were dealing with was a $16 billion deficit. >> reporter: state officials say regulatory hurdles are part of the problem. this veterans home in west l.a. was completed two years ago. 84 veterans including steve and millie have moved in, but 300 rooms remain empty. >> i think it's too bad because there's got to be -- there's a lot of waste in the government. >> these are not like hotels. you don't open the door and fill them with the residents. these are long-term care health care facilities that require specific equipment, specifically trained and specially trained professionals. >> you have to hire people, you have to train people. that story gets old after a while. >> reporter: this korean war veteran and activist charlie waters has been pushing for a home for 12 years. >> they don't give a damn. if they did, they'd take care of their people. >> these facilities will open. they are opening. the commitment is being kept. >> reporter: the plan is to move eight veterans a month into the fresno home starting next october. the question is, will that be too late for vets like rudy? >> casey, this just seems outrageous. i've heard part of the explanation there. but ultimately, how do state officials defend having fallen into this trap, building such a place and not being able to pay for it? >> reporter: tom, what they're saying is this is actually a victory for the veterans because as we mentioned, california has a serious budget deficit. they had to cut $8 billion in discretionary spending out of the budget this year. according to the california departnt of veterans affairs, money to maintain facilities like this and to prepare them to begin to accept residents is one of the only areas of the state budget that was actually spared from cuts. the veterans say they're tired of waiting, though. >> casey wian, such a story. thanks so much for joining us from california tonight. a new pentagon report says iran's missiles are getting more powerful and deadly. is that a real threat or is it just saber-rattling? we'll sort it out. an investigation will release a report tomorrow on the jerry sandusky sandal at penn state. tonight, our susan candiotti has a few details as to what might be in it and there are indications that officials knew more than they admitted. my cut hurt! mine hurt more! mine stopped hurting faster... 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today, we got the minutes from the latest fed meeting that show more steps might be needed by the federal government to help out the economy. a report declassified just today from the pentagon warns that iran is improving the killing power of its ballistic missiles. the pentagon also says, the country could be ready to test an intercontinental missile by 2015. the report comes as iran is increasingly flexing its power in the face of u.s. and eu sanctions. most stringt strict to date. iran's threatened to close down the vital strait of hormuz shipping lane. chris lawrence joins us. chris, let me ask you about this, chris, let me ask you something to begin with, how seriously do we take this? is this a genuine threat to the united states or to our allies or to whom? >> it's potentially really scary, tom, no doubt about it. but that 2015 date has to be caveated by the fact that first iran would have to get some technical assistance from other countries, which they have in the past and then that 2015 would be test-firing the missile. that's not necessarily successfully test-firing the missile or being able to attach a payload to it, in other words, a warhead or something like that. but it does show significant progress on the part of the iranians. >> i want to bring up a graphic here. they've had a mixed bag like with the shabob 3 missile and had a 900 mile range and this new ashurah missile which they're trying to use. you see roughly how far they could reach with some of these missiles. spider, come in here on this. this business of launching a missile over a great distance with a nuclear warhead on time, miniaturizing the warhead, getting the missile to behave properly, it is a real threat, but it is also a real challenge. >> it's absolutely a real technical challenge but you're correct. what you see with iran right now is two parallel path that is they're going down. one is the weaponization of a nuclear capability, the enrichment program they have ongoing, whether they can continue to enrich and reach the level of enrichment that would allow it to be weaponized. then you have to miniaturize it and weaponize it and stick it on top of a rocket. and it has to be able to go a sufficient distance. and it needs to get where you intend it to go. the shabob is liquid fueled. the assurea is the first solid fuel. they have to get all this correct in order to even work this thing into a test. what we're talking about is a ballistic missile test. they have not married up the nuclear weaponized nuclear capability nor do we know that they have that. however, the indicators are very strong that they're moving down an inexorable path to that capability. >> chris, you mentioned their relationships with china and russia and north korea, people like that, particularly north korea who's very happy to ship things out although their missiles haven't been doing so well lately. that's the key, isn't it? watching those connections and seeing how much help they're getting? iran alone doesn't seem capable of delivering this. >> reporter: yeah, basically iran, pakistan and north korea have been sort of on the same track, sharing a lot of the similar technology. one of the things that really jumped out to me on this report is, a, the development of that medium-range missile. it could go maybe 1,300 miles or so. that could hit significant targets in europe, giving iran possibly more political leverage in a crisis. also they've got -- they're developing a weapon system that can detect ships at sea and maneuver in the air to better hit those ships. the u.s. has two carrier groups in the region right now. they just added more mine sweepers to that area. that's another big capability that the iranians seem to be progressing with. >> general, if you'll come back in for a second. the simple truth is, this is sort of an inexorable march by folks like iran. and my guess is that one day, someday, somehow, yes, our ships at sea are going to have to be ready for this and our allies will have to be ready. you can't hit your foe, you hit his friends. >> absolutely. and the deal is right now with the fifth fleet which has been in bahrain for years, its mission has been to provide a diplomatic presence as well as certainly a very strong military presence there in the gulf and elsewhere in the indian ocean. so the ability of iran right now is they can reach out and touch u.s. capabilities throughout the region. we know that. they know that. and i would tell you that our u.s. capabilities right now to detect -- to identify, detect and target the development of these capabilities is pronounced as anything you would ever see. we'll be able to stay ahead of the indicators that they are progressing down the path and our u.s. military is prepared day and night right now to counterman these capabilities. >> general, thank you as always. chris lawrence, i think we could talk about a lot more and i have a feeling we will in the future. thanks for being here. new information tonight about a much-anticipated report on penn state's handling of the jerry sandusky child abuse scandal. that report is to be released by a former fbi chief tomorrow morning. it will be about 200 pages long. leaked e-mails that were read to cnn indicate high-ranking officials at the school knew about a 2001 shower incident involving a boy and sandusky, but never reported it to outside authorities. also an op ed written by joe paterno a month before he died was released today. paterno wrote, this is not a football scandal and should not be treated as one, it is not an academic scandal and does not in any way tarnish the hard-earned and well-deserved academic reputation of penn state. susan candiotti in philadelphia, pennsylvania, what are you hearing, susan? >> reporter: hi, tom. this is going to be an interesting report. let's remind people how it came about. it was last november when penn state's board of trustees hired former fbi director louis freeh to conduct this internal investigation. and it should be no-holds-barred. two key things they're looking at is what could be done in the future to prevent other children from being sexually abused on that campus? two key things we're going to be looking at, an incident that happened back in 1998 involving jerry sandusky and a little boy that was investigated by local police but the local district attorney did not prosecute. and then abruptly the next year, jerry sandusky retires and a couple of years after that, lo and behold, he is apparently involved in another 2001 famous -- by now famous shower incident involving sandusky and a little boy. a lot to be learned from this report. >> a lot of this still swirling around the question of what joe paterno knew or didn't know. the paterno family said in a statement, joe paterno did not cover up for jerry sandusky. joe paterno did not know that jerry sandusky was a pedophile. joe paterno did not act in any way to prevent a proper investigation of jerry sandusky to claim otherwise is a distortion of the truth. is there any hint that this report is going to say that that statement is false? >> reporter: we don't know. it's unclear. what we do know is this, in one of those purported e-mails that was leaked to us, read to cnn, that we broke that story exclusively, we know that joe paterno is referred to in one of those purported e-mails, written by one of the officials who had talked about having a plan to contact child welfare authorities and then after he said he spoke with joe, that plan changed. what joe paterno may have said, we don't know. we don't know whether that will be addressed in this report. but as you said, the family continues to insist that joe paterno did not interfere with this investigation. let's see whether louis freeh goes there. >> susan candiotti, we know you'll stay on the case. thanks so much. still "outfront," are you mad at the government, are you mad about your paycheck? james carville is probably talking about you. >> these are people that had pneumonia and got run over by a pick-up truck. >> yeah, the middle class. and a man is cleaning out his grandparents' house when he makes a priceless discovery. well, actually, there is a price. and it is astronomical. stay with us. and a choice.ck pain take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. you see us, at the start of the day. on the company phone list that's a few names longer. you see us bank on busier highways. on once empty fields. everyday you see all the ways all of us at us bank are helping grow our economy. lending more so companies and communities can expand, grow stronger and get back to work. everyday you see all of us serving you, around the country, around the corner. us bank. focus lolo, focust sanya let's do this i am from baltimore south carolina... bloomington, california... austin, texas... we are all here to represent the country we love this is for everyone back home it's go time. across america, we're all committed to team usa. why not talk to someone who owns an adjustable version of the most highly recommended bed in america? 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[ male announcer ] tempur-pedic. the most highly recommended be in america. to learn more or to find an authorized retailer near you, visit tempurpedic.com. we have breaking news on a congressman. representative jesse jackson, jr., lots of speculation over jackson's health since he unexpectedly announced a leave of absence from congress last month. let's go to our own, kate bolduan right now live in washington who has an explanation. what's going on here, kate? >> reporter: we're finally getting some more detail on this mystery that's been surrounding the congressman's absence from congress. we've not -- we're hearing now for the first time that the congressman is being treated for a mood disorder. a congressman's office issuing the statement moments ago from the congressman's doctor's office. i'll read you the brief statement coming from his doctors. the congressman is receiving intensive medical treatment at a residential treatment facility for a mood disorder where he's responding positively to treatment and is expected to make a full recovery. the congressman's chief of staff, rick bryant, goes on to actually say in the statement that we received that the rumors that really have been flying, tom, surrounding what's really going on with the congressman here, they really wanted to put them to rest saying any rumors about the congressman being treated for alcohol or substance abuse, those rumors are not true. so really finally getting some clarity, some disclosure here on what's been going on with the congressman. a lot of concern on capitol hill. but also there's been really mounting pressure for the congressman and his family to come forward and give more detail of what he's facing and suffering with because he has been out on leave of absence since june 10th when it was announced. i've been talking to people on the hill. and he hasn't been seen on the hill in committees, especially, since late may. >> something else. thanks so much, kate bolduan, down in washington. tonight's all-star baseball game ended in an 8-0 win for the national league team. that guarantees them the home field advantage in the world series. but that's not the only baseball story of the day. it's been confirmed a man in ohio hit a grand slam in the game of baseball card collecting. while going through the things left in a house that once belonged to his grandparents, carl stumbled on to a box of baseball cards that had been there for almost 100 years. estimates now from appraisers put the value of this collection at $3 million. these cards came from an extremely rare series issued by an unknown candy company around 1910. card collectors grade cards on a 1 to 10 scale based on their condition. up until now, the best grade ever given to a ty cobb, for example, was a 7 from that series. 16 cobb cards were found by carl in that stash graded at 9. the family plans to sell most of the cards over the next two or three years through auctions and private sales so as to not flood the market which brings us to tonight's number. and there you have it. $200 million. according to the major league baseball players association, that is the current value of the baseball card industry. that's way down from the $1 billion it was valued at in 1991. one big reason, it's no longer child's play. as more adults turned card collecting into a business, card companies created a glut of cards to sell to them and collectors started hoarding the most valuable ones, slowing down sales and it probably won't change soon because these days, 70% of baseball card collectors are adults. we're back with tonight's outer circle where we reach out to our sources all around the world. to great britain, the son of one of the world's richest men is under arrest there after his wife was found dead in their home. hans rausing was initially picked up by police on drug charges. atika shubert is in london. i asked her what we know about eva rausing's death. >> reporter: hans and eva rausing were devoted philanthropists and also known as hard-core drug users. hans rausing's grandfather invented the tetra pak. you've ever opened up a carton of orange juice, then you've probably used one of his products. this is what made the rausing family billionaires. hans and eva had nothing to do with the business but they certainly did spend the money. they have a history of drug abuse. they met in rehab. as to what happened yesterday, hans was arrested for driving erratically, arrested for suspicion of drug possession. and when police went into his home to search it, they found the body of eva rausing. police say they do not know what killed her and they do not know how long the body was there. tom? our fifth story "outfront," the fading american dream. a startling survey from the pew hispanic center of all americans, look at this, only 58% of the people in this country think that hard work will lead to success. 58%. it's just one indicator that the middle class is struggling to survive. james carville and stan greenberg highlight it in their new book. "it's the middle class, stupid." and they are "outfront" tonight. guys, let me ask you first of all, you look at that number there, stan, what do you think when you see a number like that? >> it rings true. i hear it from people. we spend a lot of time listening to people. they are in pain. they're watching themselves slipping. they're watching their parents slipping. and they know this is an enormous struggle. we also know that this number has dropped about 20 points in ten years. >> why do you think, james. why do people fundamentally think hard work won't save them anymore? >> they're working hard themselves and see themselves falling behind. they see people around them working hard that are slipping behind. this trend has been going on for 30 years. and, of course it was exasperated by the financial crisis. as we say in the book, these were people that had pneumonia and got run over by a pickup truck. they wer't doing that well before. >> you say it is the middle class, stupid. who is the middle class? >> it is hard work and responsibility. people who try to educate their kids, try to have the next generation do better. and we also -- >> that's your definition of the middle class? >> sure. we go with the people. and how they define themselves. 60% in our polls self-define as middle class. another 25% working class. >> you're not going off a numerical equation, james. >> imagine you own your own condominium in tampa, you're a lot better off than somebody living in the metropolitan area with three kids. >> by shared dollars you be with bordering on underclass. >> so what stan decided to do, because this is his area of expertise, is go by description and take people who describe themselves as middle class and working class and lump them together. if you want to get in the club, we'll let you in. just raise your right hand. >> 125,000 for a median family of four, about that line. >> there are different estimates of that. a congressional research service defines middle class as $40,000 to $250,000. that's a big, big gap there to define the middle class. but let's talk about what happens next in this equation. forget about the candidates, forget about left and right, forget about democrat and republican what does washington need to do to give the middle class some sense that they matter still. it is their country, not somebody else's. >> it has to put the middle class at the center of politics. at the center of the discussion. what is -- what are we trying to do here? what matters? >> aren't they doing that right now? mitt romney is talking about the middle class, president obama is talking about the middle class. >> up until now, you you were hard pressed to say the main problem is a problem of the middle class. take the deficit as a focus. when the commissions were formed and the folk us was the deficit, then it was legitimate to move health care costs away from government to seniors. but if the problem is the middle class, what you need to do is focus on health care costs and get health care costs down for the middle class and for the country and that will begin to address the deficit. it changes everything. >> what are the three most important thing that washington ought to do now to restore the faith in the american people? >> reform the way things are done. lobbying campan finance, it is difficult, we talk about it in the book, it is not easy to do, but reform has to be step one. the high health care costs and high cost of education. they need access to education more than anybody else and they are constantly crushed by high health care costs. those things -- you ask them for the three, that's the three. >> we don't have time to go into any more of them. i wish we could. the book is called "it's the middle class, stupid." you ought to check it out. the discussion about the middle class is going to dominate our politics and our economy for quite some time. thanks, guys. >> thank you. up next, imagine, imagine if you could see teddy roosevelt in person. he died nearly a century ago, it would be an odd sight. for russians, a similar sight might finally be put to rest. stay with us. powerful and secure cloud. that cloud is in the network, so it can deliver all the power of the network itself. bringing people together to develop the best ideas -- and providing the apps and computing power to make new ideas real. it's the cloud from at&t. with new ways to work together, business works better. ♪ with new ways to work together, business works better. this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. lastly tonight, the world's longest funeral may finally be coming to a close. amid all that recent turmoil in russia, the flooding, the military action in syria, the economic issues comes news that vladimir lenin may at last be laid to rest. well, more specifically, he may be buried. he's been resting for quite some time. ever since he died in 1924, the once intrepid founder of the ussr has been residing in a glass coffin in red square, sort of like a strange soviet snow white. every year, countless russians pass through to see him. i joined them about 15 years ago during a summer of reporting in moscow. seeing lenin was somber, very dignified and also really strange. think about this. this would pretty much be like if we embalmed teddy roosevelt and had him on display ever since he passed. in any event, the russian culture minister says enough already, can't we put lenin into the ground and call it done? but consider this, every couple of years this idea has come up and it has never yet come to pass. maybe because each and every time it excites renewed interest in lenin, his legacy and all the