are unemployed and the middle class keeps getting squeezed. this weekend, i began to wonder 40 years after the sunday morning drives, whether the parents across the country still embraced the american dream with the evangelical fervor that made a 7-year-old boy sitting in the back of a buick believe that in america, anything is possible. >> mike, are parents telling their kids that? >> i don't think so, joe. that's one of the pivot points of next year's election campaign. for both candidates. the republican candidate and the president of the united states. it is this. we have a country now where many, many parents look at their children across the breakfast table, the dinner table, and they know instinctively that those children more likely than not are not going to have the same quality of life as the parents have enjoyed. unless something drastic happens. >> i was talking, mike, to an immigrant a couple of weeks ago who worked around the clock to send his daughter to cornell. the american dream.