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What's the connection? >> what you see and actually it's a real interesting and powerful analysis on the streets now in response to garner. people talking about the ways in which the big banks robbed wealth of all of america -- >> and that's bad. >> right. >> why do you have to compare it to lucys? >> i think we have elizabeth warren who is standing up for the little guy and this huge class divide, and the banks are the leaders in this class divide. in 2008, they wrecked the economy and now they're more concentrated than ever. this is not a left-right issue. this is deeply american populist an...

>> did he come into office yesterday? >> this is what he's done ever since he came in. >> i'm the president of all america. when all he's done is class warfare and divide. he needs to remember one mlk quote. the means you use must be as pure as the ends you see. his end game is to unite this cun. playing the race card every time he has a chance doesn't do it. >> that doesn't even make sense. >> the president has tried to work with republicans. they have said that their number one thing is not to work with him, not for him too get re-elected. the president didn't come into office talking about ...

>> mr. trump, when he sort of gets in there with the class divide, people aren't feeling hot about him. you get in and say the top 1% will be responsible for more, will that ends up killing jobs, too? those are the companies and people that are providing employment for many here in the city. >> elisabeth, i've been watching this for many years and i must tell you, it's always popular. class divide is always popular until it starts failing. and then you have a reversal. that's a little bit what happened with rudy. rudy guiliani becomes mayor. we had a succession of problems and i won't mention ...

Class divide is a challenge to americans' economic competitiveness. >> and governor, my mother, born in detroit, grew up at a time when a middle-class job in detroit was possible, that you could really think about sustaining a family on. >> well, that's the whole point. is what is -- if we want congress to act on anything, it is on a strategy to keep and create middle-class jobs in america. you're right. but we are seeing the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and that large scope of poor, the group is getting larger. so how do we create, in a global economy, middle-class jobs in america?...

Whether you're african-american, latino, white, asian, you're seeing collapsing social skrurkts. 70% african-american kids born out of wedlock. so what you're seeing is this collapse of order on the bottom. if you're born into a certain class, there are certain railroad tracks, you just go along the tracks. >> you know what, david? that's inconsistent with what the 20th century was about. because what the 20th century was about was the rise of the middle class. and the opening of doors of economic opportunity. and i think that the class divide combined with the race divide is america's greates...