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It's a big question. to what degree is the real poverty problem? is it a perception problem and to what degree is a policy problem and the president is mistaking one for the other. >> if you are a champion of the liberal approaches to poverty, starting with the war on poverty which not only wasted trillions of declaration but actually undermined the very communities it was trying to help, if you are the advocate of that policy, you have to blame it on perception because you can't defend the policy. and it's the classic perception sort of the central axiom of american politics conservatives thi...

The system nobody can quite figure out. some bottling facilities are on tribal lands. they may be exempt from scrutiny or rules that may come down. bottom line thomas, how much water are we talking about? we don't know. the geological survey says in california 1% of all water goes for industrial uses. a small percentage of that goes into bottled water. a lot of what bottle water companies are saying like nestle and krystal says is we're trying to reduce the amount of water going in the bottles but not talking about the number of bottles being used. even if they stopped, water would remain in s...

Case because he would not rent to african-americans and latinos. >> that's the troubling aspect is there's a history here. a player sued him alleging racism. the question is what has the nba done? are they going to take action? how are they going to react? to the political point because it's important. from the southern strategy to today, when mitt romney lost he said it's because obama gave gifts to his base. meaning minority voters or paul ryan saying we have a poverty problem because there's a cull chushl problem of urban men not knowing how to work. >> absolutely. so the other thing i did ...

Called the freedom sisters. talking about the women of the movement is not something we focus on enough. tell bus that very quickly. >> so many times when we go to museums and exhibits, we mostly see the men. but i tell you, the power behind the thrown happened to be sisters. ford motor fund had an opportunity to curate an exhibit several year ago, toured around the country. weep are now stewards of that collection. it really does talk about the many brave women, the merle evers, all of those folks and the work that they did to hold up the banner for so many other people, to give voice to the ...

To bring down this terrible poverty problem that i think is absolutely related to the lack of overtime in some of these cases? >> i don't think the poverty issue is related to a lack of overtime. i think the poverty issue is related to stagnant wages and related -- that's just regular time. before you even get to overtime. it's related to the ability of employers to actually expand the market in which the formerly employed can get back to work. you still have over 5 million people who are let go in 2008 and 2009 still unemployed. so in addition to that employment market expanding because peopl...