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Food on the table. they're taking food out of the mouths of hungry children. >> and you know what's alarming, the gop always claims they support military families. so why, explain to me if they support military families, why is it they're cutting aid to these families who need it? military families redeem $100 million a year in food stamp benefits on military bases. and they would be cut. >> that's a really good point. and a lot of other people who get the s.n.a.p. program are working full-time. they're just working at such low wages. and so this idea that somehow these are slaggers or rapists...

Leverage that minority power that they have to block the president's agenda, to block the democratic agenda, to block an agenda that would help people of all races, including white people, including a lot of white people who sadly vote for them. they've gotten very good at playing dog whistle racial politics. and now they're being left behind by a country that is transforming demographically, reverend al. you see this, but they're not changing. i mean, reince priebus had to go there and say i'm a christian in front of this crowd, when we don't have any religious test for government or for part...

Be responsibility all over the place. >> everybody, yeah. >> and the last thing is, be honest with you, i think david will agree, we've been paying for years on these type of things, if you go to paternity court in most states, have you these women who are impregnated all sides by the way, diversity everywhere on this. no child support paid and we pay for it. >> what? you know, sean, i'm going to go to numbers taxpayers should be upset about this. what's wrong with this man, i don't care about his color. the women should have kept their legs closed. this is a guy who by the way has a criminal ...

And security. joining us is jim mcgovern who voted against the farm bill and those snap cuts. nice to have you, congressman. >> happy to be with you. >> i actually challenged any member of congress seeking to cut snap to first take what they call the food stamp challenge. this is something you and your wife actually took several years ago. what did you learn from that experience? >> we learned it's awfully hard to be poor. you can't afford healthy food. you can't afford very much of food. i mean, the average food stamp benefit today is about $4.50 a day. $1.50 per meal. it's not a lot. i wan...

Now these cuts come in and hurt the very people who its intended to help. >> i agree with you. first and foremost, it's about inequality. the fortune 400 top wealthiest americans have a net worth of $1.7 billion, nearly double the national deficit in its whole. these cuts in the farm bill, they're not reducing the deficit. if they were really reducing the deficit, i would maybe think about supporting some of them. they're not. they're enabling more corporate welfare. here in man hattehattamanhattane subsidies. >> democrats have their hands dirty in this, too. >> absolutely. the senate version ...