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Interview. i would say three to five days. we've all heard, i'll call you. if they say, we're going to reach out and don't, it's appropriate to reach back out to them and follow up with them. that's very important. you've got to be engaged in the job process. more so than dating. you got to be more aggressive in the job search. >> finally, the rejection. >> there is a couple things. it is a rejection if you don't get asked on a second date. same thing happens if you don't get called back for a second or third interview. it's emotionally difficult. that's something that nobody really likes to t...

>> she had this story of the tale that she was a single mom. >> in a trailer and did it all on her own. >> pulled herself up from her boot straps. and turns out this woman had her husband pay for her educational career, and as soon as he made the last payment, she said i'm out of here. and also said i'm out of here to her 14-year-old daughter, and gave him custody. so she deserts her kids, whether they're born or unborn. >> and that is nothing like the reality. >> the potomac river is a mile wide. as children, certainly in my generation, we were taught that george washington threw a silver coi...

Through 9th grade, not 6th. she defending her narrative as a mother defying the odds. kasie, what else can you tell us about this story? was she divorced when she went on to college? there seem to be two different stories out there. >> reporter: well, some of the details are not quite right. >> like what? >> like we just walked through the fact she was actually 21 when she got divorced, her mother's education went further than she herself insinuated. she sort of displayed herself as somebody who pulled themselves up by their boot straps. she had a child. she was a single mother at 19 was whe...

Are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to fall and they are the very people telling the black man he ought to lift himself by his own boot straps. this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. now when we come to washington in this campaign, we're going to get out check. >> the campaign king was speaking of there's the poor people's campaign, which was the focus of the final months of his life. he said, quote, the curse of poverty has no justification in our age. it is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization when men ...

Frontier and great society, democrats were making this argument. i think it is a shame that for too long too few democrats and too few democratic leaders talked about the problem of poverty in this country. even as they were doing something about it. under bill clinton, as i said earlier, the number of poor people went down. it went back up under george bush. but republicans do not have an idea here. they have a history. a history that goes back to the 19th century. it basically says, if you let people on their own, if you deny them unemployment benefits, if somehow or other they've got to scr...