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Dedication, the memorial dedication. he talked about the need to have, you know, more civility, and then the very next day he's on the campaign trail which the taxpayers are paying for. >> you know what i think's happening? i think barack obama by doing this and embracing occupy wall street, whatever likability factor he once had is gone. >> he's lost middle america. >> yeah. >> middle america has walked away from him. i don't see local democrats in north carolina and virginia, i don't see them lining up to shake hands and have their pictures taken. >> in fact, they're running away and saying ...

Dedication, the memorial dedication. he talked about the need to have, you know, more civility, and then the very next day he's on the campaign trail which the taxpayers are paying for. >> you know what i think's happening? i think barack obama by doing this and embracing occupy wall street, whatever likability factor he once had is gone. >> he's lost middle america. >> yeah. >> middle america has walked away from him. i don't see local democrats in north carolina and virginia, i don't see them lining up to shake hands and have their pictures taken. >> in fact, they're running away and saying ...

Police arrested, this time about 70 people at the area that we call the crossroads of the world just a couple blocks from where we are right now. that is how we start a brand new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm martha maccallum. morning, everybody. bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning to you. and morning to you on this monday. a month after these protests started here in new york city. martha: yeah. bill: the white house extending support for the cause. here is president obama referring to it during the memorial dedication at the new martin luther king memorial. >> if he were alive today i be...

Luther king,jr. memorial dedication. >> those with power and privilege will often decry a call for change as divicive. they will say any challenge to the existing arrangements are unwise and destabilizing. dr. king understood that peace without justice was no peace at all. if he were alive today, he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of wall street without demonizing all who work there. >> as some criticize the movement for being scattered, have they found fresh focus with the staggering respects? let's get right to the scene. with the occupy wall str...

Luther king jr.'s family. dr. king's niece saying today's celebration is a somber reminder of their family's personal loss. >> the statue is very beautiful. but i'd like for people to know the sacrifice that has been made, mother is gone and sister, martin and dexter and bernice are here. it's a tremendous sacrifice and it's a lovely tribute and it's almost a poignant bittersweet sacrifice so because the statue is beautiful, but it can't take the place of dad and so i know in a way, just a little bit sacrifice they've made in losing their father and the rest of us have lost our uncle. but we'r...