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Politically smart saying the top 1%. the problem with the top 1% is that there's only 1% of them. there's not many of them. >> neil: the top 1% when she was going after those that were going to pay for the higher social security benefits for lower income americans, it would be those making $250,000 or more. it's a moving target. that was the fear here. >> absolutely. >> neil: i'm wondering how this sorts out. >> especially when you consider the fact of the studies that bernie's plan of taxing the middle class could even fund it. studies show he's at least $15.3 trillion short. that's a conserv...

Security plans today. $200 increase across the board for everyone who gets social security and everybody who gets disability payments. it will literally lift millions of people out of poverty. and you know who is going to pay for it? the top 2%. this is about our country. we need to get some balance back in this. you know, let me just make one small pitch. we know from the data that the 99% last year paid about 7.2% of their total wealth in taxes. the top 1%, they paid about 3.2%. if we call on them to pay a little more and then take that money and invest it in the rest of america, we can make...

Running. >> mm-hmm. >> what is the uniqueness that you bring to this race and that you can bring to the white house that, one, shows your ability to defeat donald trump and, secondly, that shows a unique way we can move forward in this country in an inclusive way? >> well, i believe i have the probably the unique ability to be on that debate stage with donald trump and prosecute the case against him. >> he's afraid of prosecutors. >> mm-hmm. and, look, there's plenty of evidence. i call it a really long rap sheet. i mean you look at everything from he said he was going to help working families...

And do anything really hard or go to war. >> dagen: bernie sanders plan 2.2 trial would be used to help families and receipt refitting. you could confiscate every dime in adjusted gross income reported by the top 1% and still not have enough money to pay for it. that's how off the math is. i want to point one thing out. number one. this was in commentary magazine, co2 emissions are down to where they were in 1985 in this country. a third of a century ago when the gdp is half of what it was and the population was smaller by a quarter. no other industrialized has come close do reducing their emi...

There. we have to show up, we have to invest real money and real organizing. >> is there a candidate that are left that is doing that. >> i've asked this question. nope, i'm neutralized chair. i was in nebraska and the candidates that they wanted to talk about were senator warren, mayor pete, cory booker and kamala harris. so it is very interesting and they talked about all the different reasons of why and they clearly are frustrated with trump. >> there's a -- even the subsidies that trump gave out, base think the payout, the welfare checks he's handing out to farmers. most of those go to hug...