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What is it like to be the last black president? >> seriously? whats it like for this to be the last time you ever talk to a president? have you heard of healthcare.gov? >> here we go. >> okay. lets all agree that president obamas appearance on the pretend talk show between "two ferns" was hilarious and strategic but it is kind of a mess that the president has to go on funny or die to explain a health care law thats been in place since march 23rd, 2010. four years later lots of americans still ar...

Happy birthday, john. >> thank you. >> you woke up and said the one thing i want to spend my birthday is "fox & friends." >> absolutely. >> you cut the budget on your birthday, by the way. >> thank you. thats a gift. >> speaking of what do you think of the new proposal here, the road? >> for you old people out there to explain the fallon joke, they dont know what a road map is and dont know what jobs are. but look, were going broke. and theyre going to argue about should we spend 6% more or 7% m...

Any other word thats associated with it in the modern mind. tammany hall was corruption. it was thuggery. it was all sorts of stuff. what else was it that people should know about it that they forget? >> it was about social reform. tammany was about minimum wage, making live easier for immigrants. tammany hall was a voice for the voiceless. it was a friend for the friendless. and that part of tammanys history which was so important in understanding how immigrants became americans, how the workin...

Result of being a fire chief and a gang leader. >> and the scorsese movie "the gangs of new york" had only of these characters in there. when you say tammany hall now, i think, the word association is corruption and maybe theres not any other word thats associated with it in the modern mind. tammany hall was corruption. it was thuggery. it was all sorts of stuff. what else was it that people should know about it that they forget? >> it was about social reform. tammany was about minimum wage, mak...

Single women, so far why have they tried to kill the affordable care acts and expansion of medicaid? according to a recent "new york times" analysis in october that 26 states that have rejected the medicaid expansion are home to about half the countrys population, but about 68% of poor uninsured blacks and single mothers. i go back to you, david. the best thing in the world for people is health care, especially when its provided by the government. and here in the case people just above the pover...

While republicans look for more ways to slash the safety net, president obama released his new budget plan today, pushing to reduce inequality in our country. >> in my state of the union address, i laid out an agenda to restore opportunity for all people. to uphold the principle that no matter who you are, no matter where you started, you can make it if you try here in america. the budget i sent congress this morning lays out how well implement this agenda in a balanced and responsible way. >> t...

Children, theyre still poor. we need to help them get better jobs. and republicans dont have any ideas for that. >> well, the budget committees report also reaches out to minorities and women. it connotes the breakdown of the family as a key with poverty in the black community. it also says single women lead less than 20% of all households but head 34% of all poor households. if republicans really want to help african americans and single women, so far why have they tried to kill the affordable ...

Because i cannot explain that logic because its illogical. but there is a whole way of building up a infrastructure around people who are in poverty to make it easier for them to get work and for them to stay in jobs. thats providing health care, providing day care,el r early child education, nutritional programs for kids, and for their parents if they need it. family medical leave, you know, days off, paid vacation, all these sort of things that the poor dont have. transportation vouchers. beca...

While also growing the economy and creating jobs. he outlined his plan in a speech just a little while ago. he said he wants to expand tax credits for lower income americans and says hell do it by closing loopholes that ben fit wealthier individuals. >> right now our tax system provides benefits to wealthy individuals who save, even after they have amassed multimillion dollar retirement accounts. by closing that loophole, we can help create jobs and grow the economy and expand opportunity withou...

New york. >> reporter: welcome to america, where one in five kids go to bed hungry. >> so, on november 1st, there was a large cut in the food stamps budget, over $1 billion, and the largest population thats getting hurt is the working poor. >> i worked my whole life, but im not going to be ashamed to come to the food bank because weve got to get the food for the family. >> were definitely seeing an increase of families coming in. what we see on the rise is a lot of children. children are going t...