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Interest in the floor than the inequality. its not a big deal its what is the floor. >> this is true of all free market types, libertarians conservatives and other words. its more about can you escape poverty. what is the way that you can do that faster rather than having some kind of outcome in which theres a perfect measure of equality there. the things to produce that equality would put a ceiling on the floor in that position. also, i mean part of this is the tea party. this might sound stran...

Lying on the ground a young person dead treat that as a serious matter. i think there could have been a different outcome. >> thats such an important point. i had forgotten that the initial issue, the initial thrust for activism was around the fact he had not been arrested. and therefore there was this long delay. so i want to come to you because i feel like trayvon martin became and remains this kind of symbol of the question of justice. the family of trayvon martin said in response to finding ...

Walmart. a multibillion dollar corporation finally seeing the light. what about the families who have been suffering under the pressure of the working poor are among us in this country and we need to do something about it. we have the power and the capacity, both parties have been complicit in this. >> the obama recovery has been very weak compared to other recoveries, particularly the reagan recovery. they came into office and pretty similar circumstances. so republicans are making the point we...

So its severe burns that occur. we couldnt find any police indicted for tossing one of these grenades. >> can you tell us the story? >> sharon cay harris is a 56 yeeshld grandmother in little rock who i found. she had had a little business selling food out of a food truck, which is a trailer that she drove around. on sunday she would sell it from home along with beer which is a misdemeanor. so the police sent in an informant to buy food and beer from her and sent a second time. for this $100 fin...

Its always politicized and policed. . theres never an opportunity for us to just wear our hair how we want to. >> it is our hair. think about this deeply. the notion that the hair you were born with is somehow sub standard. the way that the creator created you is sub standard. this culture has been pushing that in the minds of african-american women in particular for generations. go back to the days of slavery. there is something fundamentally wrong with saying to somebody the way you were born ...

Back for the longest time. walmart was the devil when it came to organizing against a single corporation in this country. >> its good a big footprint. >> theres a reason why they were chosen as such. they start odd to play nice. they started giving money to liberal groups in washington, d.c. we know this pretty well. they started figuring out how to be more environmentally friendly. they used words like sustainable. i think this is part of that. i hope its purely economic thing and that its a si...

Six bullets, none of them from behind. a second autopsy economiesed by an attorney for his family differed in a key detail. these findings determined that he was shot as many as seven times, including twice from behind. ms. turner have we come to what will be the west coast version of a ferguson at this point? >> we have and this is really sad. we still have to continue to have an open mind and allow the facts to play out, the bottom line is was it necessary to shoot to kill? that happened to hi...

So i mean i feel you, but the nature of democracy is the people went out and they were like, yep, that again. >> i can hardly stand it. governor walker compared the citizens of his state to terrorists for standing up -- >> he said hes strong. >> the governor said that he can handle isis because he could handle the constituents in. his state who were standing up for their wages and how they pay their mortgage and how they put food on their table. theres something outrageous about this. but youre ...

The haves and have notes. let us not forget that the republican candidates, most of them have held high office. either as executives or members of the congress. so im going to listen to 10% of what they say, but 90% of what they do. so its one thing to winter those sweet nothings but its another thing to act upon them. were not just talking about average citizens. were talking about antipoverty is the talking point. but what are you going to do and what have you done? >> to that point, we have s...