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Million. if you think about the 2000s, it was about 5 million or so. and that's -- predates the great recession, of course, where we lost millionsç of jobs. at the same time, with such weak job markets, many middle class families actually fell behind. the poverty rate was higher at the end. higher at the end of that expansion. middle class families were lower. so the fact that you see people very unsettled about the developments over the great recession is because they were facing a tough economy before it even hit. >> and you also cite along with what you've just described here other reason...

Know we could draw us into multiple wars and make us focus there instead of here. >> well, you know, let's allude to those references that you have in your blog entry. a staggering number i'm reading is $6 trillion. i was adding the numbers up in the article in terms of costs related to wars and homeland security. is that the amount that we're really looking at here? >> no, we're looking at a lot more than that. so if you take joe's numbers for the iraq war, nobel prize economist, $3 trillion for the iraq war, care for the soldiers injured, replacing the military equipment, the afghanistan war...

Viewers, interviewing people who are biased against this private prison company. what is your response? >> i read that blog. my first reaction was if mr. coughlin knew me better, he would probably have worse things to say about me. the fact of the matter is we've been pretty consistent throughout in asking him and letting him know exactly what we want to know. and that blog entry that he released today is pretty consistent with the type of e-mails i've received from him over the last three weeks. >> mr. could have lynn, chuck coughlin doubles as the head of a company that lobbies for cca and h...

Company that run the brewer campaign hasn't just arranged for those advertising dollars to be taken away from your employer. they've written this really vitriolic blog entry attacking you personally, attacking your reporting. they argue that you are intentionally misleading viewers, interviewing people who are biased against this private prison company. what is your response? >> i read that blog. my first reaction was if mr. coughlin knew me better, he would probably have worse things to say about me. the fact of the matter is we've been pretty consistent throughout in asking him and letting h...

Cnn to find new ways of telling you what's going on down in the gulf of mexico, really bringing this story home to you. it's been 80 or so days since this all started. we've been seeing the same pictures. they're disturbing, but we found a new way. we're going beneath the murky water, the gulf of mexico with a diver, philippe cousteau, and one of our crews. we are going to see firsthand what's under the water live here on cnn. stay tuned. our crews are getting into place right now. of course, we want you to be a part of this dive, too, a part of this show. this catastrophe affects all of us,...