including talladega, mcclellan and a meeting of the rainy day patriots that sounds big in a state like alabama. campaign strategy be dammed. cain has an important message. for starters. it's 10% of all federal agencies. aside from the postal service, the federal government is the largest employer. what about all the workers? >> it's not that easy to fire federal workers. i'm going to give them the choice. early retirement or reassignment. where are you going to reassign me? i understand there is an empty building in alaska. >> shou that for a fright. happy halloween to you, mr. cain. if that didn't get the crowds fired up at breakfast, by lunchtime, talk of o bolishing all together with help from the declaration of independence. >> when any form of government becomes destructive of those ideals, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish. we have altering and abolishing to do. >> it begs the question, what exactly does herman cain want to be the president of? the got father of pizza does things a little differently. as evidenced in his campaign ads. if you thought his cigarette-puffing manager was bizarre, take a look at this. . >> get real. >> i stand with herman cain because herman cain stands with us. >> absolutely. that ad courtesy of weird and weirder. to help us sort out the mysteries of herman cain at the end of a busy week, goldie taylor is with us and from washington karen finney. karen, if i can start with you. before we come to mr. cain himself, his chief of staff who smokes also has an interesting personal history. for three years and fined 15,000 for voter suppression, we reported that earlier and were one of the first to do so. there was a tax warrant for an unpaid bill and arrested twice for drunk driving. a chain smoking drunk driving operative who doesn't pay his bills. >> he would make a great chief of staff. the drunk driving obviously not good, but the thing that i find most disconcerting is that this is someone who has a record of disenfranchising voters. actively trying to stop people from voting. for herman cain to think that that individual is appropriate to have on his ticket, granted this gentlemen has predominantly focussed on the democratic party and the base is african-american, latino and youth voters and easterns in their tactics, but i find that appalling and a collapse of judgment on the part of mr. cain. >> is herman cain serious about winning primaries? if he makes four stops in al bottoma that votes after the virgin islands and he has been in 18 states in the last month, but only three in total includes visits to iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. is he serious? >> for takes money and organization to win elections and caucuses in iowa, new hampshire, florida, and south carolina. >> absolutely. >> there is no organization and no staff there and no way to turn out voters for caucuses. those kinds of things that are missing and he shows up in tennessee and then alabama. he said something about herman cain. either he has an incompetent staff or he ain't running. i think it's the latter. >> you don't think he is run something. >> i think he is selling books. >> i think goldy is right. he is coming out with a new show because he's the donald trump in the race and it's hard to take him seriously. he is going to places where he can raise money. clearly in texas he was able to raise money and got fund-raisers in alabama and fund-raisers in tennessee. part of it is money. the second thing that occurred to me is going to alabama, the state party chair is excited to have him and they are trying to do a lot of events. i wonder if he wants to make the case that he can appeal to white republican voters in the south as a way to prop up his viability argument for his candidacy. >> karen, i keep reading that herman is the counter intuitive anti-candidate that wants to turn upside down the orthodox approaches to campaigning. so far his policies say that the jobless should blame themselves and illegal immigrants could get eaten by alligators and the right of women to choose should not be allowed even in cases of incest. is that his vision of cain country? >> apparently so. that is the vision of america. i hope they ask what is going on in the state of alabama and is the idea we are going to import a lunch of alligators? there is one thing to be non-traditional and let this person be their person. that's part of what a good staff is supposed to do and figure out how we put this individual in the settings where he or she can shine and people can really get a sense of who they are and what they stand for. that's not what the campaign seems to be about. it seems to be more about selling books as goldie was saying and getting publicity and attention rather than the serious business. does anybody think the ideas are serious? >> i have no idea. he is getting lots of money. you saw a possibility and you wrote about him as a warm up act for herman cain, blaming democrats are being racist and saying they are the party of the ku klux klan and academics remarks. he called him and he's a guest on this show, a gap-toothed liar. who is that kind of language appealing to? >> that kind of language is meant to appeal to the republican base, but at the end of the day, candidates like that are going to find themselves in ironic positions when they are using this kind of damage to get that base to vote for them and then they don't. at the end of the day, people see through that treater and language. you can make things sound pretty for so long and people start looking at the substance. where do you stand on iraq and iran? where do you stand on pell grants and immigration? >> just last night he said he wants to slash the grants for students. >> so latinos and he alienated every middle income family, who will be left? the smoker's lobby? >> probably. very quickly, karen. >> very seriously, this is a little harsh, but one of the things about herman cain is he makes that white republican base of the party feel okay like they are not racist. they can like this guy. he is giving that base a free pass and think they like him because they think he is a black man who knows his place. that's harsh, but that's what it seems like to me. >> thank you for spelling that out. rick perry hides from debates and said hi to big cash donors. >> these debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. what's better than gold ? 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>> he actually -- this is the second time. i was looking and he made noises to this effect in august. what happened is fox news and rush limbaugh and the entire ecosystem of the right wing media turn and converted empirical data about climate into a culture car issue. into an issue like abortion and gay rights. the hot button cheeks flushed issues that are signs of the tribal loyalty to the conservative crew. it is impossible in the eyes of republican primary voters, particularly the hard core conservative ones that will show up in the polls to believe in the scientific consensus on global warming. >> what are is bizarre is a number of evangelical scholars and i have written about the fact that they believe in climate change. this is no longer a religious issue? >> what's depress suggest it has gone backwards. there was a president where al gore was doing pat robertson about climate change. romney is not the first republican presidential candidate who had to stare down the skeleton in his closet of being reasonable and empirically minded. tim pawlenty had the same problem because he acknowledged the climate change and john huntsman who was forced to tweet call me crazy that did not endeer him to republican primaries. >> no infrastructure in the first four primary states. today in alabama that votes in march. >> it is a nice state, alabama. >> sorry he running for president or simply bidding for more opportunities to make motivational speeches and sell books? >> i cannot see what is in the heart of herman cain, but i think we should not discount the fact that broadcast air time on the fox news network is the single most important thing for a republican presidential candidate to do. there is no analog on the liberal side to the control that fox has over the information received by your average republican primary voter. ergo, if you are achieving maximum fox exposure that herman cain is, he lends the candidates. >> he has. >> maybe organization is an afterthought. he wants to go to bingo halls? >> i thought that's what campaigning was about. you kiss babies and have coffee in diners and you meet the voters. you say you appear on fox news? >> it is possible the conditions are such and the media environment amongst the primary voters and that is less important. you saw barack obama and how it was for him. >> absolutely. >> beat out these people on the ground. >> every time. >> it was a huge victory. i wonder, it's a fascinating task. when you look at how a primary voter gets the information, fox looms so large in that media ecosphere for them that if herman cain is dominating it, that may make up for the organizational deficiencies. >> what about rick perry running away from the debates. i didn't know much about rick perry until about a year ago. as i read the biography, i thought he was a gun toting cowboy and running away from i debate amongst friends? >> i think the floating of the running away will backfire. i think that you and i were talking about this in my office. there is a fascinating thing happening where the polls are going like this. he may think, you know what, i'm getting a lot of bad press and i was not ready for prime time. the donor class loves me. the thing to do is raise a lot of money and sit it out and let the candidates fall by the wayside and when everyone panics that he will be the nominee and they want the last second look, i will be there a huge war chester. >> he will spend six months rehearsing debate performances and improving and being educated? >> i wouldn't go that far. i think that his fund-raising prowess allows him to stick around even through poor performance. it doesn't matter what the polls say. he is raising a lot of machiny and republican donor who is like what they are seeing. >> you are making me wake up early and spoilg my weekends. i got an e-mail from you. >> 9:03. >> brilliant normally. what have you got for us? 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>> really, mr. ryan? this appearance and your speech to the american heritage foundation could not have been more poorly timed. we learned of the massive and growing disparity of wealth, a gap that saw the fortunes of 1% of americans grow by a staggering 275%, a week when we learned that even america's millionaires, 68% of them favor attac a tax increase. paul ryan, class warrior for the wealthy. and dana mill bank is with us in d.c. if i can begin with you and your article, paul ryan should be regarded as a first-rate demagogue and warrior for the wealthy. he wanted to destroy social security and medicare? >> it was funny sao see president obama accused of class warfare. if you look at his budget, what he did is takes money from the 99% and gives it to the 1%. he wants to privatize social security and privatize medicare and wants to institute the budget cuts, 2/3 of which come from those had to that benefit poor and low income americans. it's not about the deficit, it's about starving the beast of government and redistributing income upwards. >> and he accuses the president of class warfare? i'm a simple man, but how much longer can the republicans be the cutters of entitlement program before it begins to affect the electability. >> i think this could go on a long time. i think the transformation of paul ryan is a sign that this is not going to be him for a long time. he was one of the sensible voices in his party for many years. an intellectual who had ideas and was interested in reaching across the aisle. something happened when he became the budget chairman and they gained control in the house. he said he wanted to have a fight. it was within his capability to push forward the simpson bowles compromise. he said he wanted the fight and he began that the president has joined. there is class warfare for decades and it's not going to change. i think the republicans did feel that they are perfectly capable of continuing this. >> 68% of americans say that taxes should rise on the wealthiest people in society. 68% of millionaires themselves say raise taxes on us. paul ryan and john boehner said no. who is behind this stance? if this is not being provoked by the idea that the people want it, who is provoking kantor and boehner? >> this is a massive disconnect between the public and the parties in washington, particularly the republican party. the public wants policy makers to focus on creating jobs. in washington it's all about the deficit. there is an unholy alliance described with how the class rules in washington. the so-called cent rift deficit. they formed an unholy alliance with people like paul ryan who say they care about the deficit, about they want to cut taxes and spending and cut government. you have the situation now where we talk about the deficit and it's all about cutting spending and programs that help people, particularly low income americans as opposed to raising taxes on the wealthy and opposed to creating jobs. >> we were laughing earlier about herman cain's recommendation that the federal government be slashed by 10% and we calculated around 200,000 people losing their jobs. yet it doesn't sound that ludicrous when you compare it with what paul ryan's budget was recommending. >> the size of the federal government would shrink by more than that over the life of his plan. basically rather than increasing taxes or leaving them where they are, it cuts them further. as a result under his plan, the federal budget is not balanced until something like the year 2040. we see this is not an exercise about lowering the debt. and closing the deficit. this is about making the tax burden lower than it has historically been in the latter half of the 20th century. >> you agree with that? >> paul ryan wants to take us back to the 1920s when social security didn't exist and medicate didn't exist. we are in the era where the top 1% did control everything. we are headed back in that direction now because of a series of policy choices we made. the bush tax cuts and the like. what ryan is talking about is talking about cutting programs that americans need while cutting corporate taxes and cutting taxes for the richest americans. that would redistribute wealth upwards and worsen the problem of income and equality that we talked about earlier drastically. >> when you look at what paul ryan is saying in a week where we had so many polls and evidence of people opposed to this notion of hammering the poor and the middle class and protecting the wealthy, does that indicate that republicans have no regard whatsoever to what's happening with the occupied protests? are they ignoring that? >> they are aware of what's going on, but you have to consider who is electing paul ryan and electing most republicans in the house. this is a product of the polarization of our system. the only danger in most of his colleagues is from the right if they are not conservative enough. a similar thing happens in democratic parties we have a crazy polarization where no one is paying attention to the voters in the center and the ones who may decide the presidential thing. it will put the candidates in a difficult space. that's why you saw a lot of them being uneasy about the paul ryan budget. for house republicans, there is no downside in being as conservative as possible. >> wow. >> until they voted for the ryan budget. >> exactly. then there is trouble. thank you very much for joining us. the tea party turns on michele bachmann. but first, following thursday's big rally. let's see how stocks close out the week. brian sullivan has the market wrap. brian? 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