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And also it looks like the united states overall in terms of the economy is doing gang busters. actually, average-working people are not doing so well. job security is a thing of the past and 78% of american workers, ana, 78%, are living paycheck to paycheck. they don't have any savings. they certainly don't have even $500 for an emergency. this kind of thin ice that american workers are skating on is a big, big social problem. it's a political problem. most of all it's a moral problem. why should so many people in the richest economy in the world be so close to poverty? >> let me read a tweet...

One missed paycheck away at a time when so many people should be prospering. >> it tells us that prosperity is not broadly shared in this country, even though on paper it looks good. it looks like the united states over all in terms of the economy is doing gangbusters, actually average working people are not doing so well. a job security is a thing of the past, and 78% of american workers are living paycheck to paycheck. they don't have any savings, they certainly don't have even 500 dpz for an emergency. this kind of thin ice that american workers are skating on is a big big social problem, t...

Great quote from mark twain, nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. >> there are two sides. one interesting thing is nobody is standing up for the bad -- the people of bad morals, right? >> right. >> people who want to drink in as powerful as ways as the moralist, the dries. there are, of course, brewer soeshgs who are trying to make a case for their own industry. it's clearly self-interested case. >> that's the problem when you have moral authority on one side saying, let's improve society, let's get rid of the evil drink, the evil saloons and you're saying, i kind of like to ta...

The big picture view of this, this announcement is sort of the financial equivalent of damming with faint praise because here's the big picture. in total, liberal activists say they have raised about $915,000 for elizabeth warren in context against what scott brown has raised. there's elizabeth warren's known money on the left there, in the blue bar. and then -- actually, you know, the bar looks like it goes off the top of the screen. i think we have to pull back a little more here. can we pull back? yeah. i guess we have to pull back a little bit more. a little bit -- okay. still just runs of...

"prohibition" airs this sunday on pbs. it's so great to have you. >> it's my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> you know from our off-line relationship that i'm obsessed with kerry nation. and prohibition, the idea there could be a successful political movement around their supposed superioralty and everybody else having bad morality. how do you you win a majority fight when that's your basic message? >> you start off with a real social problem, which is drunkenness, alcoholism we call it today, and we were drinking five, six times more then than now. people would drink it for breakfast like j...