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there is, it's a tomorrow morning. all past episodes are available now. you can go to the qr code on your screen for a link. it's a podcast about loss and grief. we have had a series of conversations with stephen colbert and others. this week's episode -- about the sudden loss of her husband in 2012 and how she and her two young children at the time coped with the grief and still do. that is episode seven of the podcast, comes out tomorrow morning. you can find it on apple caught passed or whatever you get your podcast. the nude continues right now. cnn tonight with jake tapper start...

More amendment votes, and we were able to participate. members of congress today, at least in the house of representative, can't even offer amendments that will be taken up. the leadership says you need to send it to the rules committee and they will vet it and have a vote on it. there are very few amendments now on the house floor and that means you don't get to differentiate -- when i first got in you might have 100 vindmans on a piece of legislation, some i think that's too much, but what's nice about it is you get to know who your member of congress is and you also get to discover the outc...

By the time election stuff comes around for the ones who are singing, you just lost her spot, there will be other stuff on the table. you're just hoping that the same mistakes that they made with obamacare, that the republicans are going to do the exact same thing. but they didn't lose their seats because of that, they lost their seats because they shelved something down, they just wanted to get something passed. they didn't bother to think by the repercussions. an earmark here. you take this giant pie and kept cutting out pieces, left with crumbs, and you wonder why they don't vote for you. >...

Stating. first, under this president they made cut of $87 billion in ten years. this would be another one. if they don't adopt what we're talking about. another half trillion dollars. half trillion dollars would come out. coming out of the places where we can look at it from a military perspective and not just straight across the board. >> bret: it's how the sequester is implemented. not the number. >> right. that's right. >> roughly 2.3%. out of a giant pie. >> that is authorizing 2.3%. some of it is spent over many years. it's really about 1% of all federal spending this year. does anyone th...

Did. >> reporter: the cbo study says this income gap is partially the result of big-time sallies and bonuses rising since 1979, and taxes on the rich falling. the economic result, if you think of america's total income as one giant pie, the richest 1% have seen the size of their piece double over the last 30 years. and everyone else, have seen their piece get smaller. but the social result might be bigger. >> the first question that comes to my mind is are we all still in the same boat together? >> reporter: the middle class, for so long the great engine of our economy, seems to be gasping. ov...