Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140108:23:49:00
>> that is so true, reverend. ah, because of the president, president johnson envisioned, ah, what he called unconditional war on poverty. that rhetoric showed his high allies but unconditional didn't mean there were some people who would be poor. what it has meant those ah, if you look at the census bureau poverty methodology which is considered the most reliable it has taken 50% -- it has reduced poverty by 50% and i think that's pretty good when you consider that the rest was supposed to be done by the economy. if anything, the poverty programs have been -- are now doing duty that president...