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Government shutdown by missing the deadline for the stop-gap funding bill. you indicated no one had a stomach for drama. is that still the case on the hill? >> reporter: at this point, craig. whats going on this morning is senator joe manchin of west virginia has been calling his colleagues. hes trying to get the democratic senators to hang together and oppose the funding resolution because it only includes about four months of funding for pensions, for coal miners. thats important in the state ...

Better address the challenges they have every day. >> can you explain to somebody that works in manhattan in sort of the national media complex -- >> bubble. >> can you explain to them why someone would vote for barack obama in 2008 and 2012 and then vote for donald trump in 2016? >> wages. pensions. benefits. the economic anxiety. im one that thinks that going back to probably the 2006 election, maybe even before that, that all of these elections have been who can better help me economically ot...

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Understand that people like me who come from areas like mine really understand what is on the minds of working class people in the industrial midwest and south. its jobs, its wages, its pensions, its security. its not just the minimum wage which were all for an increase, its about middle-class wages that have been stagnant for 30 years and we dont talk about that. so my hope is leader pelosi needs to understand that that knees to be the heart and soul of the democratic message because it ties th...

Do you think he is alluding to identity politics? >> i think in part, we try to slice the electorate up. you are black, you are brown, you are gray, you are straight, you are a woman, you are a man. the reality is, theres no juice in that kind of campaign. theres no energy in that because its divided. the key to and the magic of good campaigns is when you pull people together. you unite them around a common theme. if you are black, white, gay, straight, brown, you want a good job. we focus too m...

You unite them around a common theme. if you are black, white, gay, straight, brown, you want a good job. we focus too much on the minimum wage and we should be talking about the living wages and the middle class wages and the pensions and the benefits and the things that people in the industrial midwest talk about all of the time. >> was this a mistake of message? is this hillary clinton? is this everybody just not talking about economic issues and the way that you want them talked about? >> mo...

Analyst, also "time" magazines assistant editor and author of "makers and takers: rise of finance and the fall of american business." thanks so much for joining me. wilbur ross, probably both a maker and taker. >> theres a debate over that. >> tell me about him. the king of bankruptcy. how did he make his fortune? >> distressed deals. buys up companies having trouble and rehabilitation them in some cases but does it by cutting jobs, pensions, benefits. big on cost cutting. some in the rust belt,...

Thats true with drug policy and swings all over the place and so the people who were in states where it is legal, needs to know the history and needs to know that these gains are not necessarily permanent and if they are not handled responsively, it can get rolled back and quickly when you see the pensions on swing back, get out of the way, it could be swing through. >> this is a hot topic. brian grim, thank you for talking with me. >> thank you for having me. >> next hour, nbc live, donald trum...

Video of the new black panther party and saying, why wont obama denounce them? why wont obama go after them? there was four of them and they spent more time on tv than you and me, carol. theyll get bigger after pensions than you and me combined. >> do you agree? >> i totally disagree. listen, carol, this is very disturbing. its disturbing to me not only as an african-american but point blank as an american. president obama and others have access to give donald trump a chance but when you have th...