That we will not have enough money to handle crisis problems that come up later in the year. The way we define crisis is a family receives their benefits but then something happens where they lose jobs or someone becomes ill and they cannot afford to pay their energy bill anymore and we can provide some kind of supplemental payment for that. The real opportunity is that yes, we have funding to reach families but it is tight. Surplus not a lot of capacity in the program now. It has been cut to the bone. Host for more information, you can go to the National Energy assistance Directors Association da. Org. Nea thank you very much for being with us. That does it for todays washington journal. This is Martin Luther king day and thank you for watching and we will be back tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] 2014] a live picture of the Martin Luther king memorial. Washington, d. C. The memorial is sitting next to the Franklin DelanoRoosevelt Memorial and between the lincoln and jefferson memorials. Dr. King gave his i have a dream speech at the memorial. Section of the memorial on the granite wall facing the title basin features 17quotes from dr. King but none of those quotes are from the i have a dream speech. There are several events today. President obama and the first family are taking part in a Service Project in the d c area. We are recording a portion of that and will have that later for you today on cspan and the National Action network is hosting a breakfast this morning with speeches by Vice President and the reverend al sharpton. Coverage of that is coming up later on cspan. Congressional leaders are offering statements today about dr. King. House Speaker John Boehner said that for all the laurels he had done, Martin Luther king jr. Reminded his audience as he was simply also this from the Democratic National to medicare Debbie Wasserman schultz coming up in a few minutes, super pack founder and philanthropist Steve Phillips will discuss race and politics in america. This afternoon, Supreme CourtJustice Stephen breyer talks about the constitution and partisanship in washington, d. C. , evant over an hour sayet talks about president obama and the ideal of american exceptionalism. Here is a look. [video clip] barack obama was asked point blank do you believe in american exceptionalism . He gave a very clever and very polished answer in which he said yes, and made it very clear he meant no. Yes i believeas in american exceptionalism just as the greeks believe in greek exceptionalism and the brits believe in british exceptionalism. In other words, its not a believe based on anything other than the fact that he lives here. Our constitution he finds exceptional, its not our judeochristian heritage he finds exceptional, its not our protestant work ethic he finds exceptional he happens to live your. Live here. It is like living in chicago and being a cubs fan, you are stuck with it. If america is not exceptional, then how is somebody like barack obama to explain americas success . Given that we are the most successful nation in all of human history, barack obama and the modern liberal has no choice but to pick up this idl is he. Short of that, given that america is the most successful nation in all of human history, the modern liberal has no choice but to believe we are the greatest injustice in human history. When you go back to the journals and you wonder why they are so vicious and they lie about if there is because no difference between judaism and islam than how do you explain tel aviv and the gaza strip . Orchestrasexplain 70 and theied . If there is no difference, there is nothing a journalist is allowed to report so they both want peace thats what the liberal journalist testability. Otherwise, theres something wrong with islam and they are not allowed to believe that. If they both want these, they want to coexist, then why do the muslims murder jewish children and blow up buses in jerusalem . Another buses blown up in jerusalem, lets say. God forbid. Says thealist goes and palestinians must want peace or why would they do something so horrible . If they both want these, they want to coexist, thenthey say e provoked it. Now they need to look for what that from vacation is. Provoke it,did not they have to find something erotic. Something murano. Moronic. Youve got to be a. Moron. There is nothing out else they are allowed to believe. If it was a welltimed mass murder of our ambassador and other heroes in benghazi based on fascism, there is something wrong with islam. What couldve made them do this . It doesnt matter how stupid it is. I laugh except for the fact that it is so horrible but how moronic must the New York Times be to believe something so obviously stupid a portion of his comments and you can see this in entirety after 11 00 on cspan. Truthfullyi know that every single problem in if morewould be after people could read, write, and comprehend. I just know that. We would be able to compete with the rest of the world, we would not have these children who are committing crimes because their families dont have jobs. They dont have jobs because they cannot read. They cannot write. Understand. I think every thinking american is coming to that conclusion. We have got to educate our children. Weve got to educate their parents. Understand. Its not just a whim. Its a necessity if we are going to compete in this world. First Lady Barbara Bush tonight at 9 00 eastern live on alson and cspan three and on cspan radio and cspan. Org. Andve phillips is a lawyer philanthropist to help create the countrys first super Political Action committee, power pack, which supports Democratic Candidates and he recently spoke of cleveland about changing demographics, race and politics in america. This is under one hour. Good afternoon and welcome to the city club of cleveland my name is paul harrison. Im president of the city clubs board of directors im very pleased to introduce today speaker Steve Phillips president and one of the first 50 founders of power pac as stated at its website power pack as a nonprofit advocacy and Political Organization established in 2004 to champion democracy and social justice in states and communities across the country. Before i comment on pacs i want to say a few words about our esteemed speakers background. Good afternoon and welcome to the city club of cleveland my name is paul harrison. Im president of the city clubs board of directors im very pleased to introduce today speaker Steve Phillips president and one of the first 50 founders of power pac as stated at its website power pack as a nonprofit advocacy and Political Organization established in 2004 to champion democracy and social justice in states and communities across the country. Before i comment on pacs i want to say a few words about our esteemed speakers background. Mister phillips grew up in cleveland, Cleveland Heights so is back on this day and he has a lot of friends in the audience gathered up throughout this room. He attended Stanford University where he majored in english in African American studies and it was very active in student organizations. He later earned his law degree from Hastings College of law in San Francisco. He worked for four years with the Public Interest law firm Public Advocates and at the young age of 28 was elected to the San Francisco board of education thereby becoming the youngest elected official in San Francisco history. He later became president of the board of education and served on the board for eight years. Our accomplished speakers appearance today is timely as we enter an Election Year that is certain to be a very active one with pacs and super pacs playing a role in the political process now a prepaid and history on pacs packs exist at both the federal and the state level and the federal level. The first pack was actually formed in 1947 and in the 1970s, Congress Passed laws governing pacs including establishing contribution limits. More recently in their wake, Court Decisions including the United StatesSupreme Courts decision in Citizens United which was rendered in january of 2010. Socalled super pacs now are prohibited from making contributions directly to a campaign but theyre able to make unlimited political spending independently of campaigns. The impact of money final two packs a super pacs continues to be hotly debated. Our speaker will present his informed views on that subject as well of course on another hot topic from the 2012. The president ial election impacted demographic shifts in our country on the 2012 election and on future elections. So with that im very pleased to present on behalf of the city club of cleveland, Steve Phillips president and cofounder of power pac, thank you. [applause] im very grateful to be here im just a addendum in turn to the bio part so what are the things that weve created last year through power packs or they should be called pac plus doubt or pous they actually be material to pack plus dot org be referencing through the site and theres things on the table that we had had here as well. We were talking about how there are a lot of friends here and its very touching, moving to me to think that you know if you ever is probably that the close you can have actually seeing what it would be like and who would come to your funeral but theyre actually dying and hopefully this wont be a near death experience for me. [laughter] i want to give a special thank you to Sabah Chandra who introduced me, to dan who arranged this opportunity to speak here. Here possible so i make no lawyer here in town he might have been friends. On saturdays at stanford in the 1980s now is news about suppose a smart guy you had Great Potential but he really proved it when you decide to marry a woman from Cleveland Heights. In im very proud a leadership thats the boat email provider on issues of equality and justice. I was privileged to work with about a 2008 around a lot of voter turnout work on to bring out people of color to the polls in that in that election i want to thank all of you for coming out today. It is good to be home. It is great to see so many friends from my days at Hawken School and my days on dark moor road. I would like to dispel one rumor at the outset i am not here to interview for the browns headcoaching position. [laughter] although as a longtime browns fan, my brothers and i got tickets for merit dad when we were seven years old. I am a passionate and longtime fan and are easily following this process. As always, im looking forward to next season. [laughter] its an honor to be invited to speak at the city club. This is a prestigious platform for anyone to speak from. For a kid from Cleveland Heights, this is a special honor. But after the podium is not daunting enough, my father told me he has heard two people speak at the city club in his whole life argan luther king and bobby kennedy. [laughter] no pressure, dad. Cleveland is the Perfect Place to have a discussion about brown is the new white, the future of u. S. Politics in the context of the demographic revolution in america. Long before america elected a black president , cleveland blazed the trail by becoming the first major American City to elect a black mayor, carl stokes. For those of you under a certain age, that was 1967. I still remember my mom making a point to drive is by the mayors house when we were children on the way to see my grandparents on east 128th street. A lot has changed in america since 1967 many a National Politics have been slow to appreciate these changes. There is a new Majority Coalition in america. That coalition is built on the Solid Foundation of the countries rowing members of people of color. That is what we mean by brown is the new white. State the obvious, for the past 400 years or so, United States has been a majority white country. It is worth noting that many native americans and mexicans prior to the arrival of the. Uropeans for the purposes of understanding contemporary american politics, the majority of the countrys voters have been white. Addressing the needs and interests of whites has been the essential organizing principle of u. S. Politics for a long time. When people talk about winning over swing voters were not alienating moderates, the picture they have in their head is the suburban whites, often women, frequently in ohio. 1960s, it was nixons silent majority. In the 1980s, reagan democrats for it in the 1990s soccer moms and in the early 2000, exurban voters. Hes constituencies have been seen as pivotal and the focus of politicians and their consultants. Similarly, Public Holiday has been hypersensitive. The polling and impressions of what might alienate moderate white voters. Recently, we have seen a lot of articles about how americans feel about obamacare. Those americans who are Getting Health Care for the first time are feeling pretty good. The premise of the question is articulated as to how middle class whites will reactivate Affordable Care act. That premises now out dated and an anachronistic. One of the masters of american six was willie brown, former mayor of San Francisco. There was a failed coup against him in the late 1980s and i saw the speech after he had defeated the coup. I remap or him saying that the first law of politics is you have to learn to count. Those were most effective in 2014 and beyond will be those who know how to count. As bill clinton famously said in his 2000 12 Democratic Convention speech its about arithmetic. Lets do a little math today. As i mentioned, those who are following online or outside of the room, theres a document we have that downloads the statistics i will run through here. We ask that you have a paper of color. 29 26 55. That is the new equation for this new era. Allow me to explain that010 census confirmed there has been a profound demographic revolution in america over the past 30 years. Latinos, asianamericans, ever can americans, and mixedrace americans are now 36 of the entire u. S. Population. One response when i do these numbers that i hear from people is that not all people of color are progressive. Leave me, i know. I shake my head wondering what these folks are thinking. [laughter] the closest statistical measure we have in the country to a political ideology is the National President ial exit polls. That data shows the vast majority of people of color vote democratic. In the last election, 80 of communities of color voted for obama. Composed 36 of the population and 80 of them represented 29 of u. S. Population. You look at those numbers and think the percentages of whites are have struck but they are still the majority. Percent who seven are conservative. This brings us to another very important and historically neglected and overlooked Minority Group in america. Progressive whites purpose of whites are the Rodney Dangerfield of american politics. [laughter] they just dont get any respect. [laughter] they are frequently belittled or dismissed as irrelevant tree huggers or vegetarians were both. Or both. The caricature of progressive whites was captured during the 20 2004 president ial campaign when the conservative attack that took aim at howard dean supporters by saying howard dean should take his tax hiking, government expanding, latte drinking, sushi eating, volvo driving, New York Times reading, body piercing, hollywood loving, leftwing freak show back to vermont. [laughter] city ofn a very liberal separate cisco and i confess that some people do drink lattes and read the New York Times. They are still lovely people. Historically, we will see that the role of progressive whites in American Social change has been both heroic and vilified. From the abolitionist and john brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859 to those who gave their lives in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. People such as reverend james goodman,rew progressives have a long tradition of rejecting privilege in refusing to stand idly and courageously standing with disenfranchised people who are struggling for justice, equality, and margaret.