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Privileges of economic dynasties. what progressives often forget that fdr offered those words only when his first term was almost over. in his acceptance speech of the 1936 democratic national convention. roosevelt did not become a full-throated economic populist until the election was upon him. and only after he was pressed by a left and a labor movement that demanded more of him. facing his own reelection and pushed by an occupy wall street movement that has made economic inequality a driving issue in our politics, barack obama discovered both of his inner roosevelts. >> is it too late, john...

Peter fen. good morning. good to see you. >> good morning. >> pat, i want to start with you. let's start with the jobs question. it's the important one. how much does the employment picture have to improve for it not to be a driving issue in the fall? >> unemployment, it cannot improve that much. you got ten million people underemployed or stopped looking for work. if the economy picks up, they start back into the labor market. and they're counted as unemployed. so we're at 9.5% now. i don't know how it gets below 9%. if it did somehow get below 9%, i think it would help the administration, th...

The keynote speech. is that a good thing for the image of the gop and conservatives in your estimation? >> first of all, i'm on msnbc because i want to give voice to conservative values on all the stations. i think you can look at fox or you can look at clear channel and you can say, they are voices for conservatives and many conservatives listen to them. but as a conservative congressman, i want to make sure that my voice is heard by people who may not have considered that we're a viable alternative in direction and agenda to the present one in washington. >> we wholeheartedly agree. that's w...

Child's brain development. >> everybody eats. everybody drinks. and everybody breathes. and that's what i wish folks would focus on more, these ethics problems are outrageous. i'm glad he's gone. but his successor, as you pointed out, a coal lobbyist, very controversial company coal energy. the policies may well get worse. if that's possible. for those of us who like to breathe that's going to be a problem. >> those issues that paul described, with scott pruitt the ethics violations as opposed to policies. do they have political backing? is that a driving issue for vote? are voters aware? does...

With myself, we're going to have to figure out ways to engage with voters in those communities. i think trade is an area where in this election that was a driving issue, but look, if we have a method to come together in common purpose on an issue like infrastructure, rebuilding roads and bridges, we have 502,000 bridges in our state structurally insufficient. we have people around our world and our country that don't have broadband. there are people who don't have conne connectivity to the internet. there are ways we can connect with folks but we have to do better. >> the leader of the democra...