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And the republicans on the hill. >> where is the spending cut? where is the balance. >> hang on, gentlemen. and when you talk about spending cuts, the president is saying we have to cut gradually in order to protect our economy, which is slow and fragilely recovering from the devastation of the past. you cant ignore it and you cant hurt the poor and needy and saying the rich can go off tra la-ling. >> thats what they are doing, tra la-ling? >> you cant get water out of a stone. >> thats a terrib...

Her wife, danielle, was recently honored as part of the root 100 for her work on environmental justice. thank you all for being here. i greatly appreciate it. >> marcia, what do you mean when you say the american family is at a crossroads? >> many things. the american family is at a crossroads in many respects, one of which you identified. we have an increasing rainbow of families, no longer does the typical family look like ozzie and harriet 50s family that you described. what we also see today...

At "the atlantic, i serve as a senior editor. efound because housing is so cheap and because warehouses are so cheap, young creative people and even some of them from brooklyn or the bay area are moving there. its more of a bottom upregeneration. its not the convention is it centers and ca sin knows. as people go there and build new businesses. >> richard, clearly the creative class and you talk about the service class, working class have to live together, work together, things that they create ...

Might have a cultural 1% in the making because of this separation that wealth and affluence and good education automatically brings, we might be looking at a generation that has no concept of what the grocery store clerk or gas station -- what their lives are like because of this? >> we moved very inch that direction already. its not probably 1%. its 10% or some larger number. but, as donald murray and others have talked about, there is this considerable class divide in a cultural sense. >> walt...

Destruction and everything else that has happened here. but god bless them. thats what nancy pelosi said. >> in the clips that you played, sean, both nancy pelosi and president obama were talking about people who were pointing out the unfairness that has become apparent that we have a larger and larger class divide. >> sean: give me an example -- andrew breitbart offered $100,000 for evidence that the congressman that you were talking about to show any video evidence when there were a million ca...

Any question everybody worries about people who want to live off society like parasites, bill. but the fact is the critical issue in terms of money in this country increasing class divide. weve seen after-tax income for the very rich grow rapidly. it is not as if the poor are all sliding by. we see more people in poverty in the country today and some of these social safety net programs are either keeping people out of poverty or reducing the impact of poverty, particularly for americas seniors. ...

of whitney houston. today. [ applause ] . >> opening the service, joe carter pastor of the new hope baptist church in newark, new jersey, the church that houston grew up. the four horse that fold were mournful, reverent and ultimately joyous. >> there was a grace that carried. a grace that carried her from heaven down through mr. houston, a grace that brought her up from speaking. from what i understand she wasnt supposed to speak let alone sing. there was a grace that carried her thro...

This happened after al gore endorsed dean and all of a sudden people started to think, this guy might actually get the nomination. there was a concerted effort for people to come forward and say, do not do this, hes not electable. whats happening with newt is unlike anything ive ever seen because theres so much personal -- its signaling from the establishment to the base voters saying, do not do this. >> in florida, newt gingrich is clearly taking on the establishment. hes not trying to duck and...

But there was a moment in which much of the establishment -- this happened after al gore endorsed dean and all of a sudden people started to think, this guy might actually get the nomination. there was a concerted effort for people to come forward and say, do not do this, hes not electable. whats happening with newt is unlike anything ive ever seen because theres so much personal -- its signaling from the establishment to the base voters saying, do not do this. >> in florida, newt gingrich is cl...

Language. the problem is his record really isnt that good, its frankly disastrous, and so now hes stuck with using this kind of exaggerated language that frank lie is going to backfire on him because it looks so absurd. megyn: he went onto say, he did the empire and its us against them kind of thing. he compared their efforts to those of the 50s and 60s saying youre like the young people who beat back the billy clubs and the dogs and the fire hose toes make sure that race was no longer a barrier...