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In our country not unlike greece. the reason that is because we have millions of people who havent paid their mortgage for 500 or 700 days. you dont pay your mortgage you have extra income. we have a lot of people working off the books in the country for the first time. this is a new economy that people dont realize. i got to tell you thats why spend is strong even though credit card debt has not gone up. >> what does that mean? >> people are taking any job they can. >> paying under the table. >...

providing enough documentation and accuses the republicans. this is one of increasing testy showdowns who say the republicans are conducting tough oversight investigations and the white house seeing witch hunts, not legitimate inquiries. jess, any sign the white house will give? you were here when they first got the request and they said no, weve given you enough. any threat a subpoena will say, here, more dock plns? >> reporter: no signs it will. the white house has maintains they thr...

I have lived the last 20 years of my life in fear. now i have no fear because im no longer in control of my life. he has not spoke on his wife ruth since their son mark committed suicide. before that ruth would visit him in prison every week. afterwards she asked him to let her go. bernie madoff says, quote, ruth doesnt hate me. she has no one. iting not fair to her. she lost her first son. she is a devoted wife and didnt care about the money. ruth in a separate interview says on "60 minutes" in...

To be passed. mr. kantor is dead wrong. in pennsylvania, the original stimulus bill, we got over a billion for roads and bridges, we repaired over 700 bridges with that money. 700 bridges. now, mr. kantor, thats not chopped liver. >> no, its not. rick, let me ask you, when you look at the fact that according to a recent poll, 08%, 80% people want to see money spent on infrastructure. then something happened sunday that was really rare. we saw big labor and big business agree. let me show you som...

Presidency is clearly weighing on him. as is the weight of this horrible economy. he now knows that hes facing an uphill re-election battle. that ought to weigh on him. >> and reid, how much of this is just waking up every day and bad -- and we all know you wake up in a bad mood, youve got bad news on your doorstep. what the president sold in a lot of ways was hope and optimism. can he win on a "times are tough" message? its dramatically opposed to what the messaging, at least, was in 08? >> tha...

All right. lets talk about -- >> you really are going to look at me in the face and say this president has not tried -- >> hes owned by wall street. >> gentleman from goldman sachs. >> hes owned by wall street, making more money than anybody else in u.s. political history. even this cycle. he talked really tough about wall street in 07, then took all their money in 08. and again, you bring up elizabeth warren, thats so insightful, she wanted that job. she didnt get it because barack obamas power...

>> were against greed and were against the fact that the 1% could get nine slices of the pie and the other 99% are supposed to fight over the last slice. that is un-american, that is not democracy. >> the self-proclaimed champion of the 99%. hes made a career and a fortune fighting for the little guy. now michael moore is here with me to take your questions about the economy -- >> ive always considered myself a member of the middle class. now i consider myself a member of the lower cla...

thats taking care of the poor. people in the middle are being totally forgotten here. >> and yes, those protesters. >> a happy day for me is when ill be unemployed, when i dont have to make another one of these god damn movies or write another one of these books, when the real people of this country are in charge. thats my nirvana. >> a town hall event. who is to blame and who is going to fix whats broken in america? this is a special edition of "piers morgan tonight." [ applause ] >> ...

Say how popular barack obama is. she is not running in a competitive district. you will see a lot of house democrats willing to be seen with him. but flynn in a competitive race in a swing state is keeping their distance. megyn: arent the swing states the ones the president cares about? thats kinds of a no-brainer. >> you know, you take north carolina, that state is sow critical to his political fortunes. there are more democrats than 08. if you look at the poll numbers the presidents fortunes a...

Think maybe having distance at this point is to their advantage. megyn: its just such a change. but its just such a change from the hope and change and the winds of change that we saw behind number 08, rich. >> its not just being an incumbents. if he was an incumbent at 55% approval rating and unemployment was 7% and going down. every one of these democrats would be dlietsd to be on the stage with him. its a factor of his declining political fortune and it comes back to the economy. it doesnt ma...