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Or to have tele-town-halls and not be in the room. politically speaking, let's step aside from what is right to the american people, answering to your constituents, but politically speaking, what's the best answer for those people who are vulnerable in those swing districts? >> not smart. not smart to not listen or even pretend to listen to your constituents. it's not a theoretical question. if you go back to what happened in 2009 with tea party protesters which i believe was an organic movement, they were very real but democratic leaders literally called it astroturf just like sean spicer is ...

Then out the gate, such a radical agenda. i think people feel disenfranchised, they know he got almost three million fewer votes from the public and they're asking how. i think there's a wellspring that is frankly scaring democratic party leaders because you know as you've said, sheldon whitehouse had a confront a proud. chuck schumer outside his brooklyn home. he likes to think of himself as a liberal and the people's friend. so i think this is something nobody totally understands, but i really appreciated brendan saying that it's dangerous to call it astroturf, because it probably isn't. >> ...

Markets.com that, quote t workers centers goal is for 500 walmart employees to strike, join the protest. walmart employees 1.3 million workers in the united states so 500 workers constitutes less than one half of 1% of the walmart work force. this is far from a grass roots worker driven movement. call it astroturf. joining me now from washington, d.c. is michael saltsman, director for the employment policies institute. nice to see you. >> good to be back. >> what do you make of diana's argument that this is astroturf? >> i think she's right. you said at the top of the piece this was deja vu. i...

The "occupy wall street movement." listen to her. >> god bless them for being independent people, young, spontaneous, focused and it will be effect i. >>dave: wait! focused? allegation their message is muddled. >>dave: the unstatement of the year. >>clayton: protesting student loan issues, corporate greed but the focus? >>alisyn: some are again the death pennsylvania -- penalties. this is different from what pelosi said during the tea party protest. she blessed the occupy wall street protesters and cursed the tea party. listen back this 2009. >> this initiative is funded by the high-end, we ca...

Record corporate profits. with us tonight documentary film maker robert greenwall whose latest project is called "koch brothers exposed" a series of web videos launching wednesday at koch brothers exposed.com. good evening, robert. i would assume you have quite a bit of material to work with. what do you have for us? >> we have so much, ed. we've been on this for about four months now. our researchers have been uncovering fact after fact, campaign after campaign, much of it astroturf. much of it where they're hiding, what they're doing. but the numbers, ed, are really extraordinary. it's truly...