eboni: i hear where you are coming from, but you are putting a very sophisticated political lens on it. certainly, we can appreciate that. but if we give him the benefit of the doubt, i m not saying i am, but we say that donald trump, jr., doesn t understand the level of sophistication, he just says, opposition research, classic politics, we might have a contested primary here, i am kind of desperate, i will go to whatever lengths to get rid of. kat: where is paul manafort saying i don t think you need to be a genius to think twice about that email. i don t think you need to be for my political family. i think you just need to be a human who pays a little bit of attention to things. eric: more reaction to donald trump, jr., s interview with sean hannity, which is aired on this very special edition of the fox news specialists after dark coming out. i take pictures of sunrises,
we have to overturn citizens united. in my view, we have to move to public funding of elections. that s my view. everything you stand for is what i have believed for in the 60s it s familiar. i know i m older. i m not getting cynical. everything you said would be called classic politics. you can t engage in class politics. a bunch of kids, people our age. gung ho, loving what he said about billionaires. what has changed in the last couple cycles that now it s fair game? people think there is something wrong with the billionaires calling the shots? what has changed? there are more billionaires. the reality of american life. we are seeing the proliferation of millionaires and billionaires. they are all over the place. meanwhile, the average worker is working longer hours for lower wages. we have more kids, higher percentage of childhood poverty than any other country.
everything leads to everything else. the point is that right now the system is corrupt. we have to overturn citizens united. in my view, we have to move to public funding of elections. that s my view. everything you stand for is what i have believed for in the 60s it s familiar. i know i m older. i m not getting cynical. everything you said would be called classic politics. you can t engage in class politics. a bunch of kids him a people our age. gung ho, loving what he said about billionaires. what has changed in the last couple cycles that now it s fair game? people think there is something wrong with the billionaires calling the shots? what has changed? there are more billionaires. the reality of american life. we are seeing the proliferation of millionaires and billionai s billionaires. they are all over the place. meanwhile, the average worker is working longer hours for lower wages. we have more kids him a higher
are not paying their mortgages. it gets even ug leer than that. only $20,000, i m not saying that is a small amount goes to paying down the mortgages. 3billion of that goes for helping them to refinance. and remember this. i believe the number is 5.25% is what they will refinance at. if somebody went out into the private market today. megyn: you already lost me, you already lost me. step back. there s 25 billion, the banks are going to issue this check. they are going to give it to folks who they foreclosed upon inappropriately, right, that s part of it. allegedly inappropriately, yes. megyn: there is another check that will be cut for around 17 billion that is going to help people who are underwater on their mortgages. 25 is the total. 17billion will go down to help them reduce the amount they owe on the houses. the average check will be about $20,000. people are underwater on their houses probably a little bit more than that. megyn: how are they going to decide who is going to
the best part of the job is coming to places like this, right here in iowa where you can talk to everybody and everyday americans. there s plenty of fear and anger right here in america s heartland and indeed across the country right now. i sat down with the president just a little while ago for an in depth interview about job, the economy, the 2012 campaign. the war on terror and a lot more. specific about the short-term plans for boosting the economy and how it could make or break his reelection campaign. you said if you don t turn around the economy in three years it s going to be a one-term proposition. do you remember that? when i came into office, i knew i was going to have a big mess to clean up. and frankly, the mess has been bigger than i think a lot of people anticipated at the time. we have made steady progress on these fronts, but we re not making progress fast enough. and what i continue to believe is that ultimately the buck stops with me. a lot of these p