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Romney to get out of his obligation to answer how hes going to pay for this tax cut. he simply lied outright about the size of his tax cut. >> over and over and over again. it is not complicated math here. this isnt one of those fact check things that you have to look things up and get a graph. mitt romney is proposing a 20% across the board cut in tax rates. that costs $5 trillion. and hes saying it doesnt cost that. like thats the only thing you need to know about what mitt romney is proposing...

To anticipate. weve been asking for months, how is mitt romney going to explain the deduction side of his $5 trillion tax cut. hes going to do a $5 trillion tax cut. he says hes going to pay for it by closing deductions. who among us anticipated that mitt romneys answer would be, i will not do a $5 trillion tax cut? that is not -- i could not anticipate it. i dont know if anyone on the obama team anticipated it, but that was a stunning way for mitt romney to get out of his obligation to answer h...

When candidates the debate, they are playing both offense and defense. they have attacks they cannot wait to launch and they have questions they would rather not answer. ezra klein has been working on the latter part of that today. on the worst-case scenarios for both candidates. toughest questions they know they will face that they are not looking forward to tonight. ezra, thank you for joining us. >> happy debate tonight, rachel. >> thank you. its my favorite night in politics. lets start with...

Fewer and fewer people being laid off all the time. i think that has to create a positive feeling for a lot of voters, that things are not only -- that things are consistently getting less bad. we have a few charts here. this is the jobless claims year over year. you see them falling off since 2009, right? >> right. so, yeah, basically that number has been about negative 10%. so every year -- every week jobless claims have been about 10% lower than they were a year lower. thats incredibly stea...

>> thats right. thats the other thing i was going to point out. >> right. >> the law does make that illegal and, therefore, the workers in each case have to make the determination, are they prepared to break the law. >> but just going back to that graph you showed. a huge reason why lockouts are a higher percentage of strikes, there are almost no strikes anymore. >> exactly. >> there was 19 strikes in 2011 and, you know, 12 and 10 before then. we havent had more than 20 strikes in companies, mor...

And joy reid and ro khanna. were talking about the recovery and the complexity of the recovery. that to me is what is surfacing in this campaign. the recovery isnt one thing. its not great. its not terrible. for different segments of the population theres been different benefits. my own pet theory about the recovery is that the biggest critique of the recovery isnt the aggregate. we showed a graph of how compared to other financial -- the aftermath of other financial crises, employment has come ...

Complacent, president obama re-elected. you will see a lot of that money move down ballot. you are already seeing it in ohio which is another state with voter issues -- voter suppression issues. where the chamber of commerce every -- literally has bought up every piece of time on the airwaves. we have an intern at the nations from toledo and went back least week and said you cannot see anything except negative attack ads. most of them against brown. >> we have a graph, you can see here where the...

Millionaires focus on the poor. most of the reason the poor are not paying taxes because they get tax credits like earned income tax credit and child tax credit which are, ezra, republican inventions. >> yeah. and let me go back on this for one second. there are three groups as well, but i want to say its the poor as in the third group, the middle class a lot of them. you dont pay income taxes up to around $46,000 in this country. a lot of people dont know that because your income tax liability,...

>> the next day, we learned more about the incident from another inmate, who had insights to share. dan huff, serving nine years for aggravated murder. is considered a leader among the prisons white inmates, including hall and graph. >> were now told we cant go into ad seg because it looks like were creating the problem. tell me what you think that and whats happened. >> no, i dont think you guys have created it. i think those guys are young, and they wont listen to anybody unless youre white, u...

Take a step back. >> get on your knees! >> in this case, graph will be moved to a stripped down cell until his can be cleaned and his behavior improves. >> this [ bleep ] sucks. >> but first, hes given the opportunity to shower off the stinging o.c. gas. afterwards, he still blamed us for his actions. >> thats the reasoning all of this is happening right there. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> in every prison, filming in ad seg is a vital component to telling these stories. because of all this commotion...