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Couldnt make it work. you know, it is illegal that the transgression of entering the country is against the part of the law in the united states code how you enter the country and people have broken a law. this is a straight forward description. undocumented, that carries its own. its doing its own work. undocumented is neutral as well. undocumented communicates, it has its own affect, which is to communicate this as bureaucratic. this is an oversight, if you are undocumented. >> so, the issue r...

Affordable care act and a little bit about dodd frank. those are the issue that is are central to the beltway of reporting about the economy. very little about jobs and jobs creation except how regulation kills it and small business references. there was a panel plea of domestic policy issue that is are incredibly important that were not talked about. theres only one more debate that includes domestic policy. we have thursday nights vice president debate. we are talking about what was not in the...

>> you are right about climate change. its a huge issue and its about the energy policy and the question of whether we are going to be in denial about it is threatening to the planet. it takes a certain amount of confidence we have to project to say this is a problem and in taking it on, through efficiency, through clean technology, we can create jobs, wealth and make a better planet. theres an economic opportunity here. vermont has been, we believe in it. we believe in efficiency and alternativ...

Very fluid conversation. you stop people and say not all undocumented people are mexican. its been fascinating for me, once people actually face somebody who they think -- >> right. >> oh, youre illegal -- no. you dont have papers? we have so largely dehumanized this. our job is being more descriptive, you know, in the way we use this term. maria, who has been fighting this fight, you know, as a journalist for many years who happens to be latina. i dont think this is simply a latina or latino is...

What we are trying to do can be in partnership with creating jobs and helping businesses. to the extent the government is the enemy. so, when we talk about small business trying to provide reassurance. its what president obama is trying to do. we want to be your partner. when they talk small business, they are pegging us as the one who is the enemy. >> j.j., do you agree with what he said? you spend all your time talking to small business owners. the category is so murky. i watch your show and i...

Its not a social issue, its the fabric of the nation. >> its one of those issues that when we talk about these independent voters, you know, legalization of marijuana is something that libertarians talk about, that tiny little middle when we all say how could there be people undecided? that issue is one that resinates. >> its showing up. im amazed by the polling in colorado on this. i think this is a place where we have paid a lot of attention on this show to the amazing evolution of public opin...

Social value to small businesses as small, independent book sellers you could do that. another area of policy is patent law. it seems those are two big parts of american policy that dont get discussed. >> well, my brother and i started a business in the mid-90s in chicago. we eventually filed for two patents. we got them after our business was shut down. >> sad horns. >> we owned so much in legal fees. if anyone came up against us, we couldnt afford to go after them. >> thats the issue not talke...

Ability to participate fully until the economy, you are talking womens rights, reproductive rights, drug laws. you are talking issues like prisons that we didnt talk about. gun laws. >> there ends up being a mars/venus distinction. >> right. in fact, what we never get to is the important thing we need to acknowledge and address, they are economic issues, the heart of economic issues across the country. >> drug laws create an entire generation of people because of things they have done and regret...

Nobody responded. >> we are going to fact check that one. that was the most agregregious . its totally, completely absolutely 100% -- well do a fact check on the numbers in a second. >> i was going to say that, in this format, there was time to actually get to some meat of an issue, you bring it up in this debate. as we go down the line, you have three minutes and it becomes boom, you are out. it becomes that. >> what struck me, it was very beltway centric in the fact that the long term fiscal h...

We have this really evolving and growing immigrant rights movement, right? in the past three years or so, more and more people like me are coming out as undocumented, right? its an interesting phrase. i have come out twice in my life. im totally done. im not coming out about anything more. have you seen an undocumented person that has a poster saying im illegal? no. the memo that frank watts wrote in 2005 saying you should refer to people as illegal immigrants to criminalize them. if journalists...