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In housing really led to the greatest bleed-off of black wealth in the history of this nation. and again, the question is will the obama administration respond as americans? african-american people, after all, are american citizens. so we understand the reluctance to target african-americans because of fear that the right wing will exploit any attention paid to african-american people as somehow some racial gerrymandering. but i think the reality is that 16.7% unemployment and this wealth gap suggests that there are targeted programs that can be done in the name of democratic procedures to hel...

Get a gut sense, if you will, a gut check on the african-american community's feelings toward this president's performance? >> well, i think that african-american people divide an assessment of the president's performance versus whether or not they are inclined to still support or vote for him. the slippage was in the strongly favorable category of the overall and general favorability is still there in 86% of african-american people say that they are somewhat favoritab fav toward the president. of course, that's linked to decline in jobs, the inability of the policies of the government to be a...

about this for years and under the president's plan anyone making more than $1 million a year would paper the same percentage of taxes at the middle class. boy, it does not sit well with republicans. >> when you pick one area of the economy and say we're going to tax those people, because most people are not those people, that's class warfare. >> warren buffett has been honest and others i know who have haven't fortunate in life and wealthy say, for goodness sake, raise my taxes if that's going to help this economy move forward. >> brianna keilar is on the phone in washington with mo...

phillips. two stories facing our political future. barack obama will unveil his plan to create jobs and his same own job may be on the line. mitt romney and rick perry faced off in a national debate. jim acosta has the story lines for that. also this hour, my interviews with two very different members of congress republican joe walsh who is boycotting the president's speech and democrat maxine waters who is invoicesing her own skepticism. we will hear from her in about 15 minutes. aeeight republicans on trad and two candidates trading the most punches. jim acosta has the highligh...

believe me, that is saying something. this has been the worst fire season in texas history, and this is the worst of more than 35 fires burning right now. it's southeast of austin in bass strup county. and 1,000 other homes are threaten threatened. firefighters are attacking on the ground and in the air. and chris welch is in the thick of it. are they making any headway at all? >> caller: not exactly. this is a very bad day for fighting a fire to put it lightly. officials here caution, you know, they asked everybody to evacuate yesterday in the hardest hit areas. this fire continues ...