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>> top of the morning to you on a thursday. you know what? its already april 1st. happy april fools day. let me tell you whats happening. how will health care play out in the midterm elections? brand new polls have the latest projections. live report for you from washington. >> all right. think food stamps are just for the working poor and single families? nope, now theyre a taxpayer benefit. wait until you hear who is being encouraged to cash in. >> hes done it all. from walking and moon walkin...

Let me finish tonight with a scary thought, especially for those who believe in what we call free enterprise, you know the sunny name for capitalism. what happens when we have huge numbers of people out of work, and even more, only in part-time jobs or have given up looking for work? like now. what happens if we have more millions who work full time, get up early, catch the bus, work all day, come home tired and still cant pay the bills? like now. the working poor. what happens if we have even m...

Scary thought, especially those who believe in free enterprise, you know the sunny name for free capitalism. what happens to people who are out of work of even part-time jobs and even given up looking for work and what happens to those who get up and go to work and arrive home and still cant pay the bills. like now the working poor. what happens to those who live paycheck to paycheck and never seem to climb up higher, never seems to billed up much worth, like now. what happens if these millions ...

What youve been through and to the extent you want to talk about it. its personal but its also now your public figure. >> i tried to use my own personal experience with breast cancer through this health care reform debate as a way to show that there are many different faces to the need to reform our health care system. many faces of who is the uninsurable. i after being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago at 41, hit with an illness out of the clear blue sky, never thought i would become s...

Congress, would work with the president and make it as good as it can. its obviously the right direction, but is it perfect? not at all. >> is this good for all the people? i remember your dad, bill schneider studying your dads program. it was a good liberalism. is this to identify with the working poor? is there enough to go around where everybody benefits? >> well, certainly theyre trying -- the president is against terrible odds and complete obstructionism in the congress, has tried to do a g...

Grown man." >> garbage piled up. when talks broke down, police maced black workers in the street. by now, dr. king had come to believe that bigotry imposed black poverty and poverty perpetuated inequality. he was planning another march on washington, a poor peoples campaign. reverend billy kiles asked king to come to memphis first. kings staff opposed it. >> martin got word of it and said wait a minute, no, no, no, no. the garbagemen, these are the folk were talking about, the working poor. weve...

Me since ive been a grown man. >> garbage piled up. when talks broke down, police placed black workers in the street. by now, dr. king had become to believe that big gat tree caused and planning another march on washington, a poor peoples campaign. reverend billy kyles asked king to come to memphis first. kings staff opposed it. >> so got word, wait a minute, no. no. no. this is what were talking about. the working poor. weve got to go to memphis. >> king cane made a speech and proposed to lead ...

Ronald reagans tax bill. he came in -- what was the bill? he wanted 30% across the board for all taxpayers, the same cut in rates, and a number of folks who were working poor were dropped from the rolls. you cannot call that a just for the rich tax cut. sure, he cut taxes from 70% to 20% and the economy boomed for 20 years. through reagan and clinton, we created 40 million jobs. >> reagan gets the credit for the clinton boom? all right. >> he gets credit for cutting the budget and keeping it dow...

With democrats. >> yours is a caricature of ronald reagans tax bill. he wanted 30% across the board for all taxpayers, the same cut in rates, and a number of folks who were working poor were dropped from the rolls. you cannot call that a just for the rich tax cut. sure, he cut taxes from 70% to 20% and the economy boomed for 20 years. through reagan and clinton, we created 40 million jobs. >> reagan gets the credit for the clinton boom? all right. >> frankly, running a small conservative economi...

Reached out to the other side. you know, poor charlie crist is being hammered for hugging, for hugging barack obama. i just found a great picture of reagan with your boss, tip oneill, theyre sharing a belly laugh. they clearly liked each other and got along. those days are gone. the tea party factor and hard right factor is making sure there will be no accommodation with democrats. >> theres a caricature of ronald reagans tax bill. he wanted 30% across the board for all taxpayers, the same cut i...