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Food on the table. theyre taking food out of the mouths of hungry children. >> and you know whats alarming, the gop always claims they support military families. so why, explain to me if they support military families, why is it theyre cutting aid to these families who need it? military families redeem $100 million a year in food stamp benefits on military bases. and they would be cut. >> thats a really good point. and a lot of other people who get the s.n.a.p. program are working full-time. the...

Leverage that minority power that they have to block the presidents agenda, to block the democratic agenda, to block an agenda that would help people of all races, including white people, including a lot of white people who sadly vote for them. theyve gotten very good at playing dog whistle racial politics. and now theyre being left behind by a country that is transforming demographically, reverend al. you see this, but theyre not changing. i mean, reince priebus had to go there and say im a chr...

Be responsibility all over the place. >> everybody, yeah. >> and the last thing is, be honest with you, i think david will agree, weve been paying for years on these type of things, if you go to paternity court in most states, have you these women who are impregnated all sides by the way, diversity everywhere on this. no child support paid and we pay for it. >> what? you know, sean, im going to go to numbers taxpayers should be upset about this. whats wrong with this man, i dont care about his c...

And security. joining us is jim mcgovern who voted against the farm bill and those snap cuts. nice to have you, congressman. >> happy to be with you. >> i actually challenged any member of congress seeking to cut snap to first take what they call the food stamp challenge. this is something you and your wife actually took several years ago. what did you learn from that experience? >> we learned its awfully hard to be poor. you cant afford healthy food. you cant afford very much of food. i mean,...

Now these cuts come in and hurt the very people who its intended to help. >> i agree with you. first and foremost, its about inequality. the fortune 400 top wealthiest americans have a net worth of $1.7 billion, nearly double the national deficit in its whole. these cuts in the farm bill, theyre not reducing the deficit. if they were really reducing the deficit, i would maybe think about supporting some of them. theyre not. theyre enabling more corporate welfare. here in man hattehattamanhattane...

Jere jeremy, what do you see as the key solutions to our hunger crisis? >> first of all, the snap program its important to say has worked very well, but it could do the job alone. when were paying people $7 an hour and housing costs $20 an hour, if you can actually afford an apartment, and food prices are going up, the snap program cant do it alone. weve got to have good, decent paying jobs for people. weve got to be able to provide people with housing assistance. if we do those things, well hel...

Concerned about is the incredible explosion of the food stamp recipients in america over the last five years. you look at that expansion, you have to start asking yourself are these people that are legitimately on these programs? if you talk to the agriculture committee over in the house, frank lucas from oklahoma, he will tell you 75 to 80% of the farm bill they have now is nothing more than supplement nutrition assistance program, the snap program, food stamps. one of the things we have to loo...

So the problem starts with the exploittation on the part of government because ideologically, they want as many people dependent upon the government as they possibly can. >> greta: all right. so what do we do? certainly, some people have these, some people are hungry and need food stamps and youre saying for some it helps them get free stuff. what are you going to do about those who want it for the free stuff, dont need it and how do you define those people? >> you start by using the correct nar...

Provision of sufficient food resources. >> absolutely. i mean, you ite or you die. its that simple. and to believe that we cant feed one in four poor children who live in poverty, many who live in abject poverty by providing a basic safety net, a nutritional safety net means we are sacrificing not only their future but our future as a country and our ability to compete in a global marketplace. you know, i find it very interesting that food stamps became front and center during this political deb...

Because 2,000 dead people are receiving food stamps. >> 7236 people are receiving duplicate benefits. and 286 people are in state exclusion lists. i have no idea what a state exclusion list is but the point is 7200 people. getting two benefits at the same time or more than two benefits at the same time. and some of these people are dead. >> to defend the obama administration they have got so many people on food stamps. i mean,like, im sorry to joke about it. but 47 million people on food stamps ...