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Problems with obama care and all the talk about iran, the primary concern of almost every voter is the economy and job creation and what's remarkable is how little bit -- how little of the d.c. conversation is actually spent on the predominant american concern. we don't talk about legislation to spur job growth. what we end up talking about is partisan squabbles of legislation that passed. if you're part of the d.c. culture people will look at you skeptical. you're a governor that makes more sense for a voter. they want someone who has a proactive job creation group. >> you know, what sam was ...

Then washington, d.c. loses power. if they don't have redundant jobs programs, the national parks service doing a video about islamic treatment of women what is the parks service doing? >> wouldn't you think there would be members of congress who would love to have the -- >> but then they get called extremists, anarchists, extorting people because they want to bring fiscal discipline to washington, d.c. and then washington, d.c. loses power. there is a cabal of people in this town, republicans and democrats, that want to keep the power in washington, d.c. they want to keep government spending ...

If they don't have redundant jobs programs, the national parks service doing a video about islamic treatment of women what is the parks service doing? >> wouldn't you think there would be members of congress who would love to have the -- >> but then they get called extremists, anarchists, extorting people because they want to bring fiscal discipline to washington, d.c. and then washington, d.c. loses power. there is a cabal of people in this town, republicans and democrats, that want to keep the power in washington, d.c. they want to keep government spending going. >> nobody saw it in the 1980...

Which is why they marched 50 years ago and why they marched yesterday, and i think if the fact his voting records both in the house and senate don't speak to jobs or justice is the reason why he didn't get an invite. martha: rich, what do you think about that? [laughter] >> i think that's absurd. if you're going from the premise that this commemorationing should have been a liberal democratic event based on liberal democratic premises like we just heard, that tim scott is somehow opposed to justice or jobs, well, then, yeah, you exclude him. but this was supposed to be a national commemoration...

One that's driving decisions at the state level and at the redistricting level for control of the house and for control of the state houses and a different set of interests for the presidential level. >> yeah. and josh, on the economic piece which we also want to get to, when you look at, say, 1963 and unemployment rates, different macro economic trends, black unemployment was around 1 %. white unemployment around 5%. now, 2013, black unemployment higher at a rate of around 13%. in some sense, the racial inequity has narrowed slightly. and yet when you talk to civil right organizers and africa...