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Welcome back to "morning joe." live look at capitol hill before the sun comes up over washington. capitol hill was the target for anti-wall street demonstrations yesterday where six protesters from occupy d.c. were arrested in the senates heart office building. the demonstrators part of an extension of the occupy wall street movement were charged with unlawful conduct. and significant job losses could soon happen on wall street, thats according to a new report from the new york state comptroll...

Country when we have record numbers of people in poverty. but the folks on wall street are making record profits. record bonuses. this is way past -- if you look at poll after poll, the american people feel that corporations and wall street has way too much influence on politics. thats what these young folks are standing up for. megyn: from the narrative they are making too much money. income inequality. why is the answer to that to make the rich have less as opposed to help the poor or have mor...

Going to be more device i, shes probably not going to find the votes. why shouldnt she follow that advicesome. >> welcome to tea party america where close counts in if horseshoes, grenades and elections. just count the ballots. thats what we need to do. its not going to harm anyone to find out who really won this election. look, youve got to stop this insanity in 2000 with bush, they stopped counting the ballots with the supreme court, and now theyre trying to do it again. just count the ballots...

Her home is worth. under this plan, banks would setsd aside roughly $20 billion to modify those mortgages and reduce the loan principles. there is more to this than that. lets get jerry gerri willis to cents. already some rumblings about this thing. the banksters got us into this problem but the people have some responsibility here too. >> there are enough people to blame to go on all day. here is the program what the banks would do is write down some of that debt you have on your mortgage. forg...

Democratic lawmakers fleeing is state in a bid to stop the bill affecting teaches and employees. the agenda has ground to a halt. the lawmakers leaving wisconsin so the gop state senate does not have the necessary forum to vote. the bill would strip unions of their collective bargaining power and hinder the collection of dues. critics including president obama disagree. >> some of what ive heard coming out of wisconsin where youre just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargai...

You can always check out chuck and savannah on "the daily rundown" here on msnbc. we continue close monitoring of cairo and egypt this evening. we will take a moment tear break from the open chaos thats represented in the pictures before us to the ongoing systematic dysfunction of american banking and finance, its relationship with the american government and the resulting burden being placed on hundreds of millions of americans through job losses, tax burdens and home losses. how much longer ...

Been paid back. guess what is back. the money train and financial industry and gambling with other peoples money and yes, record bonuses. there plenty of ceos to pay themselves and operating a system funded by you and exploits you. i might remind you once again that tarp inspector predicts americans continue to provide the use of as much as $23.7 trillion in implicit and explicit report that if we do not, it will cause a great depression. no one wants to change that system. that strikes me funny...

Powerful wrong doers. explain on that, frank. >> wherever you are on the political spectrum, unless, perhaps, if you work on wall street, you have to feel that the tax payers stepped up to the plate in a bipartisan plan to rescue, essentially, the entities, the financial entities, that triggered this financial meltdown in 2008. now, two or three years have passed, those people are having record profits, record bonuses, not a single banker has gone to jail, no one has been punished, reform has be...

74% think the state workers could keep the collectish bargaining rights. you have 74% of the people on your side. if you dont fight now, when are you going to fight? it isnt just about wisconsin. they want to attack the middle class. a did you caught the deficits? you didnt. who caused it? you big banks. they crushed our economy. caughted 10% unemployment. 8 million people laid off. you know what also that did? it reduced the revenue base, whether the federal budget or state budget. not enough p...

How could america not be at a boiling point. record bonuses to be paid out not for lending or investing, but for high frequency trading and asset manipulation seems to be the primary profit setter. well talk about it with jason chafs. my guest after this. [ male announcer ] theres a big idea happening in health care