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Whats the connection? >> what you see and actually its a real interesting and powerful analysis on the streets now in response to garner. people talking about the ways in which the big banks robbed wealth of all of america -- >> and thats bad. >> right. >> why do you have to compare it to lucys? >> i think we have elizabeth warren who is standing up for the little guy and this huge class divide, and the banks are the leaders in this class divide. in 2008, they wrecked the economy and now theyre ...

>> did he come into office yesterday? >> this is what hes done ever since he came in. >> im the president of all america. when all hes done is class warfare and divide. he needs to remember one mlk quote. the means you use must be as pure as the ends you see. his end game is to unite this cun. playing the race card every time he has a chance doesnt do it. >> that doesnt even make sense. >> the president has tried to work with republicans. they have said that their number one thing is not to work...

>> mr. trump, when he sort of gets in there with the class divide, people arent feeling hot about him. you get in and say the top 1% will be responsible for more, will that ends up killing jobs, too? those are the companies and people that are providing employment for many here in the city. >> elisabeth, ive been watching this for many years and i must tell you, its always popular. class divide is always popular until it starts failing. and then you have a reversal. thats a little bit what happe...

Class divide is a challenge to americans economic competitiveness. >> and governor, my mother, born in detroit, grew up at a time when a middle-class job in detroit was possible, that you could really think about sustaining a family on. >> well, thats the whole point. is what is -- if we want congress to act on anything, it is on a strategy to keep and create middle-class jobs in america. youre right. but we are seeing the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and that large scope of poor, the...

Whether youre african-american, latino, white, asian, youre seeing collapsing social skrurkts. 70% african-american kids born out of wedlock. so what youre seeing is this collapse of order on the bottom. if youre born into a certain class, there are certain railroad tracks, you just go along the tracks. >> you know what, david? thats inconsistent with what the 20th century was about. because what the 20th century was about was the rise of the middle class. and the opening of doors of economic op...

Unwinding and inner history of the new america." and he writes this, in part. no one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held americans together in its secure and sometimes stifling grip first gave way. like any great change, the unwinding began countless times, countless ways and at some moment the country always the same country crossed a lane and became different. if you were born around 1960 or afterward, you would spend your adult life in the vertigo of that unwinding. you ...

Class divide is a challenge to americans economic competitiveness. >> and governor, my mother, born in detroit, grew up at a time when a middle-class job in detroit was possible, that you could really think about sustaining a family on. >> well, thats the whole point. is what is -- if we want congress to act on anything, it is on a strategy to keep and create middle-class jobs in america. youre right. but we are seeing the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and that large scope of poor, the...

Americas greatest 21st century challenge. it changes the world in which we live, with new competitors all across the globe. and within the changing demographics of america. and so we had substantial progress in the middle of the 20th century when it came to closing the class divide. weve departed from that. what im concerned with is we in many, many polite circles do not think that that class divide is a challenge to americans economic competitiveness. >> my mother was born in detroit, when a mi...

Landscape. you think about this concept of whether this is american decline or something much more temporary and narrow. >> neither. its not american decline. its class. weve had a lot of discussion about race on the show today. to me the class divide is greater than the education divide. youre not seeing decline, youve got intact family structures, rising incomes, youre fine. if youre in the lesser class, youre seeing collapsing social structures, 70% of african-american kids born out of wedloc...

And the rights that we have given to figure out whether or not thats affecting the general population more so than just the people who are suffering that, like trying to get them to take their medication. >> brian: lot of pressure on bruce willis. we saw that arnold schwarzeneggers movie bombed and stallones movie bombed. >> steve: it looks like its going to be good. opens on valentines day. straight ahead. >> brian: a nice heart warming date movie. >> steve: forget sharing the wealth. coming up...