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Many congressmen talking about everybody, the middle class, the rich, but not talking about the working poor. not talked about the improdisab. were losing from what i understand the news, which trump is saying fake news, i get my news from abc, but the point is this. im hearing were losing -- were getting cuts for kids with special needs. im hearing mental health is getting cut. where is the future in this? >> you can hear the passion at this town hall. you can hear the passion there at that tow...

Panel, it is a tax cut for the wealthy at the expense primarily of the working poor, the sick and the elderly. i dont think thats what folks were voting for when they voted this supposed man of the people into the presidency. >> obamacare is more popular right now than president trump and the reviews that he has gotten just past that 100-day mark. now this is a first legislative win for them. robert, what do you think the pitfalls and also the pros are? because you have to look at this as this d...

>> the short answer to your original question to monique is yes, she is trying to get a shot at the presidency and its not going to work. people around to her. but, she lost for two reasons. one, the racial identity politics the democrat party plays. a lot of people in the upper midwest dont like that. the other reason and the most important reason is they lost on the trust of the working class, the working poor. again, those especially in the rust belt. when you have hillary saying its because ...

Insurance sector and its obligation to see to the health insurance of individuals. it just does so in a more stingy fashion. when you peel everything back it takes 900 billion dollars out of welfare and subsidies for people and puts it into tax cuts mostly for people who earn more than $250,000 a year. the net effect here, the reason democrats were saying goodbye as republicans were casting the final votes on this. this will cost a substantial number of republican seats. the problem for republic...

And i think the thing that, you know, that i really want to push and the thing why im so excited to team up with robin hood on this is understanding the fact that, you know, we didnt get here in terms of poverty where we are in this country where to the point in new york alone, 1.8 million new yorkers live in poverty, and millions more are the working poor, the ones who are right on the cusp. we know we didnt get here overnight, and we know were not going to solve it overnight, but weve got to s...

Opportunity for the middle class, working families, for the poor to have a chance, to grow into something. we invested in education, invested in infrastructure and roads and bridges and power in rural areas. we invested in research and a pipeline of ideas. from 1935 to 1980 we made those investments and it worked. it worked. we built the strongest greatest middle class the earth had ever seen. the country kept getting richer, and the 90% of america, everybody not in the top 10%, 90%, upper middl...

Pipeline of ideas. from 1935 to 1980 we made those investments and it worked. it worked. we built the strongest greatest middle class the earth had ever seen. the country kept getting richer, and the 90% of america, everybody not in the top 10%, 90%, upper middle class, middle class, working class, the working poor, the poor poor, they got 70% of all the growth and income. african-americans locked solidly at the bottom. but starting in the 1960s, 1970s, the black-white wealth gap began to shrink...

Separated boring banking from high flying banking. at the same time, progressive taxation and taking that money and putting it into opportunity. opportunity for the middle class, working families, for the poor to have a chance, to grow into something. we invested in education, invested in infrastructure and roads and bridges and power in rural areas. we invested in research and a pipeline of ideas. from 1935 to 1980 we made those investments and it worked. it worked. we built the strongest great...

Democratic partys image is so defined by the idea theyre constant i will seeking civil rights for non-white people. they are the party of civil rights for black people and for gay people and that white christians are just not a part of the mix. i mean, is there any lie you could tell that will take away that image? because thats what the democratic party has been doing for the last 60 years. >> right. i mean, thats fine. i dont think that, you know, that that is -- or should necessarily be a pro...

When this occurs, the individuals responsible for this policy -- i think they have blood on their hands. i think they really do. we have enough problems in the united states, enough crime committed by american citizens -- even if it is down in some cities, that is good news. but in places like baltimore and chicago, l.a. the poorest americans, the working poor who have already been dealt a difficult hand in many circumstances -- now we go to them and say we know a lot of these jobs were shipped ...