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>> we saw them broach the issue last night via mike huckabee about how much he gives to charity. >> i think that this is a real piece of thin ice for the democrats in the big picture. i think the last thing they want to do is get caught vilifying success. mitt romney knows that he is in the umpteenth percentile in a class of his own. and from the working folk. he's got to make that connection if he's going to get elected president so he can realize their world somewhat. that's his big challenge. but on the other hand, the democrats i think have to champion success. we live in a capitalistic sy...

Just about you know, trying to climb to the very top and keep everyone else down, when our assembly lines grind to a halt, we work together and get them going again. when somebody else falters we try to give them a hand up, because we know we are all in it together. i got my start standing with working folk who is had lost their jobs. folks who had lost their hope because the steel plants are closed down. i didn't like the idea that they did not have anybody fighting for them. same reason i got into this business is the same reason i'm here today. i'm driven by that same belief. that everybody...

Guy can't connect with working folk. >> no he can't. he said as much. he said the other day on tv when questioned about the two cadillacs and so forth, he said look, i am what i am. this is what i am. the problem is whenever he tries to be something else, which is every day, he gets it wrong and it just feeds in to the ongoing narrative of a guy who not only can't connect to working people but who somehow seems ungenuine, phony, and that is a theme that he will have to deal with if he's lucky or unlucky enough to get the rom i nati-- nomination. >> he tried to defend the gaffe. >> i can't be p...

>> joining me are john nichol, washington correspondent of the nation magazine and author of uprising, and howard fineman, nbc news and editorial director of the huffington post, great to have you, i have to ask you, does rick santorum have some sort of an operation chaos of his own going on in michigan? >> well, ed, i talked to a prominent democratic labor union official just a little while ago before coming on the show and i said what about santorum's appeal to democrats in michigan? and he said well you know if rick santorum wanted to appeal to democrats in michigan, it probably wasn't a gr...

Have seen their income go up over the last 30 years, 340%. don't do that. of course mitt likes quiet rooms and closed doors. held, hell, he doesn't want to show the tax returns. 66% of the country say there is a conflict between the rich and poor. mitt romney doesn't want to talk about it. he said they are filled with envy. what is a fair question for the people down here in the middle chase that haven't seen their wages go up much over the last 30 years, there is any fair discussion for the working folk of america? mitt romney also says people should only talk about income disparity in quiet ...