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Clear motive here, i think more people could be paying attention. >> we should say his office is pushing back, for example, they say that dmv office was scheduled to be closed, that the mayor is trying to advance his own political agenda. having said that, there is a lot going on. john wisniewski is leading the special committee that is looking into all this. here's what he had to say. >> obviously, if he knew his statement the other day is false, but did he authorize it? was this done at his request? was this done because his campaign manager thought it was something that was important to do ...

Expensive band-aids. >> to help people alleviating the symptoms of poverty, the pain caused by poverty but don't help people emerge from pov tinchts the question, if the band-aid comes off, how do we heal the economy underlying wounds? john avalon, cnn political analyst and executive eder of the daily beast. bob herbert, senior fellow. john, listen to the president this week. >> these are not statistics. these are your neighbors, your friends, your family members. it could at some point be any of us. that's why we set up a system of unemployment insurance. >> that caught our attention. is he...

62:8%, the lowest number since 1978. nearly 350,000 people left the workforce in december. for many, it remains a dream. eric holds a masters degree in library science. i'm also joined by bob herbert, a distinguished senior fellow at the public policy organization. and erin courier joins us as well. the pew trust recently completed a series of studies saying that most americans never managed to climb the elusive ladder. quhi do some manage to make it while others do not? >> our research shows there are a lot of factorings at work here. one of the key drivers of mobility from the bottom is a po...

I think it's heartening they're at least entering the conversation. because it raises the question, if objectively we have an inequal tuty problem, what's the gop solution? >> and economists say the official poverty vat 159%. but there's misleading statistics around there. it doesn't include food stamps, earned income tax credit, medicaid. maybe the war on poverty has been more successful than numbers sut, bob, because we have a safety net toyed we didn't have before. >> you can argue about the numbers to any extent that you want, but try to imagine what the situation, what the landscape would...

0 out of work for a year. his wife, writing in to complain. there are new questions raised about the involvement of david samson, a christie appointee at the port authority who christie has defended and did not fire. we will talk more about that momentarily. it's also clear from the documents there was a full-on charade about a traffic study that basically had no conclusions other than to show that when you shut down two of the three lanes of traffic to ft. lee, well, really mucks things up. as we get our hands on more documents in the circle of those implicated in the scandal widens, it's get...