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Socialist party in this country, like you do in europe, or a lot of these advanced countries, social democratic party like you have in most of the advanced countries. what does it mean to you? bernie sounds to me like a liberal democrat in all of the positions he's taken. you could say on the labor left or whatever, but basically like a social democratic -- a member of the democratic party. why do you think he keeps saying he's a socialist and hasn't ran on the democratic line before? i mean, he's not the only one moving around politically. he seems to move to the senator. hillary says she's m...

Billion more. this isn't really fiscally conservative. it's not really what we were sent here to do. >> you know, michelle, it's the same old thing to me, in a new twist. to get republicans to back more spending, throw in a lot of defense spending. their hawkish impulses are aroused. and they say they don't like government spending, except on defense, on the pentagon. so, isn't this the same old smarmy deal. more spending for the right wing, more spending for the left wing, covered up by some gimmick that you say raises revenues through so-called reform gadgetry, and in the end, down the road,...

>> well, meanwhile, hillary clinton got an important endorsement today. senator sherrod brown of ohio, one of the most prominent progressives in the u.s. senate, he announced he was backing her. senator brown joins us now. thank you so much for joining us on this big news day. >> good to be with you, thank. >> what was in your thinking in making this decision between -- i don't know if you're in the middle of these two, but you're pretty close to probably senator sanders, but also, you're a pretty regular democrat, too. and he's not a democrat. he's a socialist. how did your thinking come to b...

Congress should concentrate on creating jobs. think that congress should concentrate on increasing wages, paying as the labor department is doing now in the obama administration, making sure supervisory people making 30,000, 40,000 a year should be eligible for overtime. all those issues are such a part of mainstream democratic politics, and frankly, mainstream america. and i don't see that much difference between the two of them. regardless of what bernie has called himself over the years, or what hillary has called herself. i think they both have -- speak to the great american tradition of d...

Elect there had and everybody trying to get islamists into the democratic process and go down the electoral road. when you get a government in for 12 months and thrown out like this and pretty much nobody doing anything about that, what message does that send to the extreme elements of muslim brotherhood? that didn't work out, did it? >> you have raised the most dangerous aspect of what's happened here. remember, the muslim brotherhood is the largest islamic political party in the arab world and there are lots of them. they exist in muslim brotherhood in many cases called as such in jordan and...