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First of all, good evening, chris. what he was trying to do was play to the crowd. he's trying to appear to the social moderates and say i'm your candidate. support me. i think he was playing to the audience. as far as the welfare comment, unfortunately it's true. but the way the speaker said it was clumsy. we have a high african-american unemployment rate, 15.8%. the overall black male unemployment rate is 19.9%. we have a lot more folks who are of color who are unemployed than before this administration started. but his approach is clumsy. you shouldn't just say black folks need a job rather...

Or was it going on? >> well, with speaker gingrich, first of all, good evening, chris. what he was trying to do was play to the crowd. he's trying to appear to the social moderates and say i'm your candidate. support me. i think he was playing to the audience. as far as the welfare comment, unfortunately it's true. but the way the speaker said it was clumsy. we have a high african-american unemployment rate, 15.8%. the overall black male unemployment rate is 19.9%. we have a lot more folks who are of color who are unemployed than before this administration started. but his approach is clumsy. ...

Last night with the issue of food stamps? what was really going on in the conversation? >> well, with speaker gingrich, what he was trying to do was play to the crowd. he's trying to appear to the social moderates and say i'm your candidate. support me. i think he was playing to the audience. as far as the welfare comment, unfortunately it's true. but the way the speaker said it was clumsy. we have a high african-american unemployment rate. the overall black male unemployment rate is 19.9%. we have a lot more folks who are of color who are unemployed than before this administration started. bu...