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Housing programs. and we've got to get rid of these ghettos. and we've got to get these children out from where the rats eat on them at night. we've got to get them some jobs. we've got two million unemployed. >> just a remarkable piece of history there, lbj talking to martin luther king. contrast for us what he was talking about there and the outside/inside strategy they had unemployment to what we're seeing today? >> two ways to look at. this the first is lbj and the way he articulated his goals was much more unabashedly liberal than president obama. the phrase "full employment" not one pres...

It's the house republicans that are -- >> right. >> -- holding this up. >> who got 3 million less votes in the last election. >> and remember, as you pointed out, over a majority of republicans actually support an increase in the minimum wage. so there is overwhelming consensus among the american p ub on this issue. >> there's dual tracks here. there's a kind of inside strategy with the progressive caucus pushing for this and even kind of main street democrats. then you've got this fight for 15. these are the fast food worker strikes. there was the biggest yet yesterday. they've been spreading...

Political shutdown is tea party. in the latest poll released this week from the pew research center, the tea party is less popular now than they've ever been before with nearly half the public give them the thumbs down. what if looking like losers is all a part of the tea party strategy to win? the idea of the tea party as a persecuted, embattled minority standing up against the big government goliath was certainly a winning line with the audience at last week's ultraconservative values voters summit. congresswoman michele bachmann milked it for all it was worth. >> this is the time to fight! ...

Thing i find more racially disstressing is the idea that we would not expect white republican or white democrats to be strong advocates for concerns of people of color. >> i completely agree with you. but i think especially in the era of president obama that a lot of people just assume that he could do it on his own. >> the magical presence of president obama made magical by his blackness, perhaps? >> right, and that's really faulty. i think when people were disappointed, because they had unrealistic expectations what he could do, and they forgot he's a politician like anybody else and he resp...

Are seeing right now with the tea party push. so here you have an ideological group in a political party that desilds to challenge its leaders, challenge its leadership, and to me that doesn't look like precisely the model that we would want to be following. in fact, there may be an inside strategy. i wonder if this new group of african-american politicians coming through with a very different set of practices, having been educated in primarily white institutions, not necessarily coming from a civil rights protest struggle, might teach us something new nu about how to do politics. >> i agree, ...