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Jenna? jenna: jim angle live in washington. jim, thank you. >> reporter: you bet. jon: for more we're joined by nina easton, columnist at "fortune" magazine and fox news contributor and jamie weinstein, senior editor of "the daily caller." no one says it better than joe biden, nina. we didn't want this to start off as shaky as it did but it is complicated. winning world war ii was complicated and took less time for the nights to win world war ii then for them to build a working website. >> jon, it is complicated, that is such an understatement reengineering 1/6 of the economy. it is complicate...

Chain cpi, they probably won't do any other entitlement reform. >> reporter: proposed nothing that would do anything about the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities. >> jim, thank you. what do you make of the health care numbers? let me know at facebook.com/bretbaier or on twitter. a town hall meeting in minnesota and how tough it is for democrats at home to defend obamacare. listen to this question and the responses from senator amy klobuchar and congressman peters and tim walsh. >> i thought part of the health care act was to save $2,500 per family. what happened? >> i voted no. so i...

Also hires contractors, what some call bounty hunters to challenge medicare claims as far as back as three years giving them nine to 12.5% of any claim denied creating a financial incentive for second-guessing. >> claims are held up in the appeals process for about 2 1/2 years. there is over $1.5 billion tied up right now while hospitals are appealing these denials. >> reporter: now, hospitals win 70% of their appeals. that doesn't help families stuck with big bills. congressman courtney has 136 cosponsors for a bill to credit any three-day stay as qualifying for medicare coverage of skilled n...

Climb up. >> the thing that has traditionally pulled people out of poverty is economic growth. >> reporter: and right now there are nearly three unemployed workers for every job opening. also a huge number of households in the bottom fifth have no one in the household working. one analysis says that even living in a bad neighborhood can increase downward mobility by 52%. so how copeople view -- do people view ip equality of income? it depends, says one analyst, on one key assessment. listen. >> the answer is, it depends. it depends on whether or not they feel they have opportunities. >> report...

Depends on your political persuasion. jon: she got the support of priorities usa, and that is a pretty big locomotive. david, thank you. >> my pleasure. uma: well, income inequality is taking political center stage right now, and you can expect president obama to devote a good portion of next week's state of the union address to it as well as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle heading into this year's midterm elections. and a new study is shedding some light on this hot button issue. chief washington correspondent jim angle is joining us now with more on this. >> reporter: hello, uma. well, ...