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Martin luther king jr. said it was piecemeal. he said the great society has been broken and eviscerated and turned into an idle play thing by a society gone mad on war. i think we continue to see these problems today. we are treating the symptoms, but we continue to sharpen the knife. i see the knife the same as dr. martin luther king did. i also see wall street as one of those knives. it made 10 million people displaced in the wake of the foreclosure crisis. >> tim, can you document that aspect of it? can we measure how much that dynamic from the left helped? >> look, first of all, the war on...

But it was never an easy battle. the vietnam war derailed key parts of the campaign to reduce poverty and republicans attacked the rest of it every chance they got. by the late '60s dr. martin luther king, jr. was culling out politicians for supporting the war in vietnam but not the war on poverty here at home. >> it seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor, both black and white, through the poverty program. then came the buildup in vietnam and i watched the program broken as if it was some idle political play thing of a society gone mad on war. >> dr. king called for a poor ...

For being with me, i'm carol costello. with just a week until congress returns to washington, the obama administration is ramping up its efforts to get support on a possible syria strike. the president meeting today with two top senate republicans after saying he will seek congressional approval on initiating any military action. president noting that many in congress, "want their voices to be heard." now that people who elected them are speaking out and hopes their opinions will also influence the debate. >> hands on syr-- >> i want the president to know we want peace. we don't want war. >> i...

Safely in their beds at home, we saw rows of children lying side by side, sprawled on a hospital floor, all of them dead from assad's gas. >> reporter: what kerry and the rest of the team didn't know is that mr. obama had been privately kicking around the idea seeking approval from congress for days. as kerry turned up the heat, the president seemed to be turning it down. >> i am very clear that the world generally is war-weary, certainly the united states. it has gone through over a decade of war. the american people understandably want us focused on the business of rebuilding our economy her...

Self-defense. or if it has the approval of the u.n. security council, it's a very, very difficult decision for the president. clearly, he's been working with lawyers in the last few days. they have come up with a way to essentially excuse this idea that the u.s. must act on humanitarian grounds and on national security grounds. the idea being that the u.s. and allies are under threat from the syrian regime. as you know, this is sort of a different way to go about it, carol. >> different, indeed. lawmakers are complaining the white house proposal for military authorization is too broad. could i...