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Youve got at that part and now its time to cut. >> no, i think that we really have to look at this to see whether or not this revenue is out there, in tax cuts out there. theres a trillion dollars in the tax code, if youre looking for a tax reform, then youll be raising revenue. by the same token, i think we have to look at everything thats on board and i think you believe that, too. >> sean: youre in new york, how much do these evil rich people that the president always lectures theyre not payi...

Youve got at that part and now its time to cut. >> no, i think that we really have to look at this to see whether or not this revenue is out there, in tax cuts out there. theres a trillion dollars in the tax code, if youre looking for a tax reform, then youll be raising revenue. by the same token, i think we have to look at everything thats on board and i think you believe that, too. >> sean: youre in new york, how much do these evil rich people that the president always lectures theyre not payi...

Unemployment figures and so on the focus of his speech and he didnt specifically address the state of the economy, but you know, if you listen to what he said, he seemed to be telegraphing something. i mentioned it earlier, the continuing references to how we didnt replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few, he says our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it saying we believe americas prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulder...

Without paying their dues? i mean, thats really what it comes down to. they get the benefit of doing whatever they want to do. >> this is class war thats been ignited by them. working people have always kind of admired people with money. they like them. because they would build factories. they create jobs. you know, and the american dream was to aspire to do better. but the rich have been on a rampage for the last 30-plus years to really destroy everything that my uncle, my dad, my grandparents ...

For being dumb and voting against their interests. i think and ive said this president obama because mitt romney was the w candidate at the wrong time. i think he would have won in 2008. he needed a time machine. a bad year to be the guy running against universal health care when you crafted a similar piece of legislation in massachusetts. running on a message of business and success and capitalism when thats demonized in the class war. it was just the wrong fit for this year. >> steve? >> yeah....

Political analyst and former dnc communications director karen finney and deputy washington bureau chief from "time" michael crowley. last night conservative pundits whipped themselves into a frenzy of expectation, previewing a video of president obama they predicted would change this election as we know it. the daily caller which eventually posted the tape tweeted, obama bombshell video coming soon. check back here at 9:00 p.m. for the full story. the drudge report ran the massive headline obam...

>> sean: look, youre too intelligent to say that. let me be honest with you. >> okay. >> sean: youre too smart to be saying some of these things, if youre serious, that you want to be taken seriously and want to run for the presidency. billionaires are not the problem. i never got a job in my whole life, and i started washing dishes at 12 from a poor person. i nerve looked at rich people and said, i have a right to your house, your car. it seems youre playing this game, throwing out these broad ...

>> sean: look, youre too intelligent to say that. let me be honest with you. >> okay. >> sean: youre too smart to be saying some of these things, if youre serious, that you want to be taken seriously and want to run for the presidency. billionaires are not the problem. i never got a job in my whole life, and i started washing dishes at 12 from a poor person. i nerve looked at rich people and said, i have a right to your house, your car. it seems youre playing this game, throwing out these broad ...

That we actually dont vote 99-1. right? as much as that might be a relevant kind of economic category, it doesnt capture what american politics is like. weve never been a country focused primary on class based politics. im inclined to think more traditional democrat republican southern, northern and race and lingistic groups will be more important than a 99-1. >> the politics of division, would that be a dangerous line to go towards? do you think it would fail? >> i dont think either democrats o...

Lost many if not all of those battles and its one last shot at, you know, turning back the clock to a world before 1965. part of me sometimes thinks well, okay, ill give you that, get rid of medicare but well give you 92% marginal tax rates as well. if you really liked the 50s so much. >> its that we won the culture war but lost the class war, in a sense. we lost the emphasis on economic issues. >> which is to my point, what won is a kind of selfishness. >> what goes around kind of comes around....