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On issues that hit the kitchen table of the american bill of class. middle class families care about jobs. they care about making end meet. so i have some good news tonight. acourting to the labor department, here we go. the economy added 162,000 jobs to the month of july. that's good. unemployment rate went down from 7.6% in june to 7.4% in july. and i know i'm going to get a lot of communication from people saying wait a minute, ed, the real rate is this. i get all that. but these are the numbers that the labor department has put out. for 41 consecutive months, we have seen in this country, ...

They are out there spinning numbers, saying they are sluggish, misleading. will they ever be satisfied with any progress whatsoever? >> no. >> seems to say the goal is still the same to detroy the president, destroy the legacy, do nothing on jobs. dot american people get it? >> i think they are starting it get it, ed. you and i both know that this that set of talking points, that the same set they pull out every month. it doesn't matter what the numbers are because they don't care what facts are. it is not just that they have been blocking the ideas that the president put forward. and again, h...

Crisis. our central issue right now is the challenge faced by working class, middle class, poor folks in this city just getting by. the long-term problems, yeah, there's things to learn from detroit, but thank god we have time to deal with that. >> you've got harry belafonte's endorsement because of your stance on stop and frisk. from what i've seen of this, you really have been the first candidate that came out and was very defined on stop and frisk, not that the others weren't, but it just seems that you have been much more determined on this issue. how would stop and frisk unfold under your...

>> michael eric dyson, there is a conversation on the democratic side to increase the benefits of social security to increase the minimum wage, to reinvest and go home actually, during all. and talk about public education. the democrats pole stores have been instructed to do this, this is going up on the priority list with the american people. how can the democrats with those issues on their side, not come into the majority, in the mid terms? how could this not be a good year for the democrats? >> well, it should be. but the reality is, so many americans have been hood winked and bam booze ell...

Including the fact that a preferred risk policy starts as low as $129 a year. for an agent, call the number that appears on your screen. welcome back. we love hearing from our viewers. tonight in "ask ed," why is reforming the filibuster so -- why do so many people vote against their own interests? sorry. reading the wrong question. i think a lot of people, jim, don't really vote based on issues. a lot of people are busy. they have lives. they don't have time to read up and study up on the issues.