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Arms race and invest in our people. use their resources to put their needs, their interests first. >> you remember congress? >> yes. >> where do you stand on impeachment inquiries? >> i dont think thats the right route to take the american people have been so divided and so torn apart, i think pursuing that route of impeachment would only further divide the country. i think its important we defeat donald trump and the american people and voters rise up and say, we want to get this guy out of off...

Black voting base that is critical to beating trump in 2020. >> one of the >> one of the things that has troubled me even with so-called progressives is that we hear talk about the class gap which is real but not the race gap because even in the -- in the class gap, theres a race gap. theres a gap between what women make and men, but theres even a gap between what black women make and white women and criminal justice and on and on. and this is the first report that really brings out this is not ...

They are not the same in terms of race because the class gap, but theres also the race class gap because you see in the black community, even under a sound economy, were still doubly unemployed than whites. youre in the going to solve the problem without addressing the racial aspect. >> absolutely, reverend al. i think that this is exactly what were talking about when we talk about communities of color and the issue of economic anxiety. theres definitely a race angle to that that candidates are ...

Mass incarceration and how he overcome that by not having as many convictions for drug offenses and i think he is got a policy of restorative justice. >> one of the things that i think is important about what he is doing this time around as well as senator elizabeth warren for that matter is its been a long complaint of people like me that a lot of those that call themselves progressive have not been as progressive on the issue of race. they are very clear on the class gap and the wealth gap but...

Certainly horrified by whats happening here but he recognizes this as an opportunity to excite the people who have been asleep and have not been excited about the election. thats exactly what he was doing last night. i dont think hes particularly concerned or should be particularly concerned about some of these republican senators. they followed verylar pattern of expressing outrage and being outraged about what trump says and then they vote with him and they are covering their own tails and all...

The black middle class doubled since 1970, black upper middle class tripled. why? because of something called affirmative action. we have the biggest black middle class in history, we have a black president, we have more black elected officials, over 40 black people in the black caucus. what is the black caucus? we have so many congress people, they have an organization. you say, wow, what happened? was there a revolution? you say, well, in a sense there was. he would say, that means poverty was...

Americans, and african-americans, we within our own people, within the race, have the largest class gap. called the gene co-efficient. the door opened for some of us and slammed shut. it celeste peopleft people in a self-perpetuating cycle. martin luther king couldnt believe that, over 800,000 black men in the prison system, huge percentage of the prison population, 6.5% of the population, and 33% of the incarcerated. >> president obama was just beginning to make some inroads in. >> absolutely. ...

Against ronald reagan. only a third of them voted for them. and thats probably why michigan and pennsylvania and wisconsin toppled. she expect to do poorly among uncollege educated men. but the waitress moms who voted for her husband, i think if any single result is going to get most discussion after tonight is going to be that. >> i agree, because there was a gender gap in the gender of women. >> a class gap. >> it wasnt about gender, it was about class. you know, you talk about a woman getting...

Was subsumed. i think she thought that donald trump -- she and a lot of us, quite frankly, thought that donald trump was going to create her gender gap for her by his own behavior. >> right. >> and that -- so it would be about the gender gap, would be about his behavior and not about women having to feel like they were voting for a woman just because she was a woman. in the end, it turned out to be about class, not gender. >> the gap between college and non-college white women was bigger than th...

Polling was off. why the predictiveness was off. how a candidate who had fundamentally divisive appeals was able to match among the latino vote and not do worse. the rule of class were all things. >> and that he could overcome such division in the electorate. the things that he said about women. and his own past with women, that "access hollywood" tape and yet, he did very well among noncollege educated white women. the gender gap was not as big as the class gap that he exploited. he understood ...