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For workers or people here in washington, d.c., theyre connecting and saying we wont allow this power grab to go on. well stand with workers. so the edge is cleaner now. everybody knows youre either with workers or youre with corporate america and its pretty clear which party is with which right now. >> i feel like the democratic party doesnt have anything more potent in its political quiver than economic populist issues. when the democratic party, for example, really gets behind, raises the min...

Kill ought kinds of federal jobs, but yet he wants to protect the job for the new systems he has. right? >> right. >> when it comes to a defense contract in his neighborhood, hes all for those jobs, but nationwide, scree it. >> thats the problem. >> you like the way i asked the question -- >> no, i apologize. go ahead. >> no, no, go ahead. >> i was going to say, to just only say that is the problem. if they said, yeah -- i know the republicans dont think theyre productive jobs, that a lot of gov...

Kill ought kinds of federal jobs, but yet he wants to protect the job for the new systems he has. right? >> right. >> when it comes to a defense contract in his neighborhood, hes all for those jobs, but nationwide, scree it. >> thats the problem. >> you like the way i asked the question -- >> no, i apologize. go ahead. >> no, no, go ahead. >> i was going to say, to just only say that is the problem. if they said, yeah -- i know the republicans dont think theyre productive jobs, that a lot of gov...

Him. then you find out hes ready to kill ought kinds of federal jobs, but yet he wants to protect the job for the new systems he has. right? >> right. >> when it comes to a defense contract in his neighborhood, hes all for those jobs, but nationwide, scree it. >> thats the problem. >> you like the way i asked the question -- >> no, i apologize. go ahead. >> no, no, go ahead. >> i was going to say, to just only say that is the problem. if they said, yeah -- i know the republicans dont think theyr...

Its more than 1% of gdp going to several thousand people in a small area in manhattan. its ridiculous. it really reminds me of the last days of the french revolution. when the aristocrats were feeding their dogs better than the people. the social service system is snapping. and theres just not enough to go around. you know, this operation lift, this lift program is so important because it has a profound multiplier effect. the money given to these folks -- i spoke with the director just before co...

Chris, first of all, what about the economic numbers and where we stand on this economy? >> well, i think the political calculation here is this. the numbers are bad. we see the numbers and we look at these closely but when you are talking about the reality for the election, you talk about what voters understand. voters dont have to look at the numbers to know that the economy is bad. they cant sell their house. theyre afraid of losing their jop. the kids may not be able to find work and they ma...

The cbo said the stimulus saved 3.3 million jobs. those are teachers and cops that would have been laid off and were not. megyn: they came out with an admission when they say saved or created jobs they are speaking not only of actual jobs created a or saved, but of people whose lives were touched by the stimulus. >> the wording is weird. but -- megyn: make it to 300 million. the people whose lives were somehow touched by the stimulus. >> if that teacher got laid off she couldnt shop at a clothes...

Charles krauthammer. chris, first of all, what about the economic numbers and where we stand on this economy? >> well, i think the political calculation here is this. the numbers are bad. we see the numbers and we look at these closely but when you are talking about the reality for the election, you talk about what voters understand. voters dont have to look at the numbers to know that the economy is bad. they cant sell their house. theyre afraid of losing their jop. the kids may not be able to ...

Now thats not bad that we import. as long as that dollar come back to buy an export. the problem is with china, for every $3 that leave, only $1 come back. if we balance trade, then there would be more demand for what we make here and there would be more workers to pay for what we buy from china as opposed to us borrowing money from china. that would create a lot, a lot of manufacturing jobs. and in turn, a lot of support jobs. you know, mafg hnufacturing has highest multiplier effect in the eco...

The bloggers that piles on to the cable universe. and so theres this multiplier effect. i think we have to recognize we now live in a parallel universe where the chip reids and the "new york times," albeit with, you know -- shaved down and less impact, are trying to work still by some set of more or less traditional rules and the breitbarts and the becks and others who live by no rules that we would recognize as journalists. >> has the partisan pounding that we see on cable news every night, dav...