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They understand it and see it? >> i know this is fox news. >> that is my question -- >> the oil and the gas companies and the coke brothers. >> its so evident with the ice melting and the poor polar bears. >> the graph showed the climate of the world over the course of the whole existence of the world. i dont know how many years its been, but its a long time. >> why dont they go up to the north pole and look and see the water. its all just water and no more ice. >> it was little changes like thi...

Functionally an oligarchy at this moment, if its functionally controlled by a wealthy few. and two little data points, total lobbying spending, in 2009, theres a bunch of regulations passed that sends a lot of it underground, so its still probably going up, its just in the weird shadow lobbying economy. outside spending by cycle, not including party committees, that is 2012, $80 million. thats like hockey stick climate, like carbon in the atmosphere quite a few graph. this is the per capita elec...

Back here with tara dowdel, talking about if america is functionally an oligarchy at this moment, if its functionally controlled by a wealthy few. and two little data points, total lobbying spending, in 2009, theres a bunch of regulations passed that sends a lot of it underground, so its still probably going up, its just in the weird shadow lobbying economy. outside spending by cycle, not including party committees, that is 2012, $80 million. thats like hockey stick climate, like carbon in the a...

Back here with tara dowdel, talking about if america is functionally an oligarchy at this moment, if its functionally controlled by a wealthy few. and two little data points, total lobbying spending, in 2009, theres a bunch of regulations passed that sends a lot of it underground, so its still probably going up, its just in the weird shadow lobbying economy. outside spending by cycle, not including party committees, that is 2012, $80 million. thats like hockey stick climate, like carbon in the a...

Vox media first had it. and then talking points put it up. the graph is up there. how do we course correct on this? >> you know, let me push on this just a little bit. its definitely true what youre saying, that theres been a sharp drop in a number of kinds of taxes on the rich in the last 20, 30 years. its appalling we tax unemployment benefits. i think theres also a dimension in what has really suffered is we are -- and nobody likes to hear anybody say this, but we are bringing in a level of t...

At a higher rate than we tax the income you essentially inherit or interest that you earn on the american that you already have. >> capital gains taxes. >> right. in that sense, we certainly do privilege the wealthy. thats without a doubt. i think that, you know, different people will i guess disagree about whether or not that is appropriate. without a doubt, it certainly puts people in the middle and certainly towards the bottom in a position where you can work and actually make a lot less mone...

Holocaust museum in washington, the attempted bombing of a martin luther king day parade, 1,000 victims there could have been there. spokane, washington. and the list goes on. another well known knee you nazi who we had tracked for many years who invaded a temple a couple of years ago near milwaukee. theres a whole scary world out there inhabited by people like frazier glenn miller. >> absolutely. we should note that assaults are up even though things like vandalism were down. i want to talk abo...

Along those trends. what has not converged, this is wealth. this, to me, is a stunning thing to see. that is not a converging graph. >> absolutely. >> that is the grap in average wealth. that number at the top is average family wealth for white, non-hispanic folks is at $600,000. what you see there at the bottom for hispanic and black families is something in the neighborhood of about $50,000. no statistic more shows the accumulated weight of history than wealth. wealth is the thing that is buil...

>> no. that doesnt make me uncomfortable. it makes me uncomfortable saying were moving backwards the. i think in the obama era were moving forwards and not the election of president obama but the policy achievements are helping the country move forward. now you showed some statistics at the outset which suggest regress, but i think there are a the lot of statistics that show progress, the black/white student achievement gap is shrinking. the rate at which african-americans suffer violent assault...

We have this lackluster recovery. >> let me show you this graph courtesy of the "wall street journal." this is the employment participation rate. look at that. its down at an abysmal rate of 63.2%. hasnt been that bad since 1977. the employment numbers more revealing, 58.9%. while unemployment has gone down, the labor rate has not recovered. >> this is serious. this is important and serious. >> can you blame the obama administration, their policies are just not working? >> certainly, there are a...