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But it had nothing to do with politics. >> anything else we have to go through? i dont have a real opinion on this. what i did was i went out of the culture and married a russian who thinks all politics are stupid because all they want to do is achieve. they spent their whole lives under somebodys thumb. >> it shows how affluent we are if we can start nit-picking like this and say i only want this particular view. in my heyday you had to take them to shore. >> by the way, can you imagine the los...

Queens. >> bill: everybody would have been dead who stayed there. >> they would have absolutely been dead. and if it had not been for the heroic actions of the fire department as well, there may have been more deaths because it would have spread further. not everybody had evacuated. cause of the fire is still unknown. >> still unknown at the moment, bill. likelihood cause of the fire is some sort of electrical spark caused by the flooding. they are still investigating the cause at the moment, bi...

Invisible or a romnesia etch-a-sketch or binders full of women, or my personal fave, horses and bayonets, prompted by the presidents stinging one liner. halloween in an election year brings out the ghosts and ghouls of traditional sort. it can be a barometer for the health of our communities. i dont mean the sugar high and tooth decay that sets in around november 2nd. i mean a different measure of health. do you feel safe enough to let your child go door to door in your neighborhood? or do you h...

Making up stories in a wrestling ring but it is not okay to make them up when you run for the senate. my plan to create jobs is rooted in the work i have done in public service, focusing tax cuts on the middle class not by focusing on affluent and the rich. >> congressman more any, -- congressman murphy, you thought this would be a coronation but now you in a serious race with a serious woman and you have to resort to these policies? >>heather: the two are fighting for the seat held now by joe l...

School where people are not as affluent? how do you then have an evaluation? >> absolutely not. you need to hold all schools accountable to the same high standards. but thats the reason why i said that the standardized test score should be less than 1/3. because in connecticut were actually piloting a new statewide teacher evaluation system where standardized test scores are less than 1/3. the other component to that is excellent classroom observation. and principals and school leaders need to b...

>> its total crap, to use the technical term. mitt romney believes in redistribution. his health care plan in massachusetts was redistribution. social security, medicare, both programs that mitt romney says he supports involve redistribution. we redistribute all the time in america from the young workers to senior citizens, many of whom are more affluent than average families on these retire programs. rich states subsidize poor states. redistribution is as american as apple pie, and the idea the...

Young people and more affluent young suburban women voters. its much, much, much bigger question about what these two coalitions really have developed and stand for. a world view associated with it. diversity, tolerance, womens rights. its a little more secular. ed when when the world view is fighting about that, they have a bigger advantage. when youre talking about spending and budgets and deficits and very material things, then you get a 2010 election. now were looking at a different kind of ...

Unfortunately the criminal justice system shouldnt be the only way people have access to treatment. >> lets be clear when talking about this explosion in the prison population it is vastly predominantly non-violent crimes, mostly drug crimes. >> thats true. our so-called war on drugs has really resulted in a war on poor people because people, what the research shows is that the vast majority of the people who use drugs are more affluent and predominantly white. but what we find is incarcerated i...

One more thing we havent talked about in the economy is the stock market has come back. its at the highest level since 2008. if you have a job, raising your family, looking at your 401(k), that might make you feel a little more comfortable. not as important maybe as the jobs numbers but is the stock market important and 401(k)s important? >> for some. especially college educated, upscale, undecided voters. but i really think most of the people who are on the fence in this race are people who are...

Add combined income of over $538,000 over those two years. and effective rate of about 18%. so to me the interesting thing is heres someone whos in the upper part of the income distribution in america. hes affluent. hes payer more in taxes than mitt romney whos making magnitudes more money than he is. >> romney makes more in a week than ryan does in a year. >> what i love about the tax returns is it has to do not necessarily with what the individual details are but the way we keep getting this w...