the country, i think, the decision today just as the initial decision not to charge george zimmerman inflamed a lot of people, got a lot of people anury, i think this decision of second-degree murder is going to inflame a lot of people on the other side. we have the national rifle association, which gave us stand your ground, having its national convention in st. louis this week. mitt romney is scheduled to speak on friday. i think the combination here is only going to escalate and make this a much bigger political issue than any of us expected a couple of weeks ago. i think you re right. you think we ve been transfixed by it thus far, i think that is set to increase now. michael isikoff, nbc news national investigative correspondent. michael, thank you very much for your time tonight. thank you. all right, supposedly, supposedly there are about 2,000 members of the communist party usa. turns out that a huge proportion of that membership is made up of members of congress.
just for people who work in áwhen you ask americans about that, 65% say they support the idea of the buffett rule. a huge majority supports the buffett rule. and that s the progressive caucus budget. all of these ideas that enjoy really incredible, almost unfathomably high support among the american people when you ask them about these ideas. and so, therefore, right on cue i believe there s about 78 to 81 members of the democrat party that are members of the communist party. they actually don t hide. it s called the congressional progressi progressive caucus. commies, you appear to winning this argument. communists! for their part, the actual communists, the actual communist party usa came out today and responded to congressman allen
that, 65% say they support the idea of the buffett rule. a huge majority supports the buffett rule. and that s the progressive caucus budget. all of these ideas that enjoy really incredible, almost unfathomably high support among the american people when you ask them about these ideas. and so, therefore, right on cue i believe there s about 78 to 81 members of the democrat party that are members of the communist party. they actually don t hide. it s called the congressional progressive caucus. commies, you appear to winning this argument. communists! for their part, the actual communists, the actual communist party usa came out today and responded to congressman allen west.
back, but rather to tell everybody exactly who congressman west was talking about. the congressman was referring to the 76 members of the congressional progressive caucus. the communist party has publicly referred to the progressive caucus as its allies. so allen west doesn t have a secret scrawled out list of 76 democrats in congress who are comm commies, it is specifically the congressional progressive caucus. this right here is the congressional progressive caucus website. what kind of things do these guys do? these accused communists? well, the thing that the congressional progressive caucus is in the news for these days is the thing you see front and center right there on their website right now, cpc, congressional progressive caucus, announces budget. right around the time that the house republican paul ryan budget came out, the congressional progressive caucus came out with its own budget. and while the paul ryan budget, the house republican budget, which essentially mirrors t
i believe there s about 78 to 81 members of the democrat party that are members of the communist party. ahhh! gasps from the crowd. i want a special shout-out to our subtitler for the restraint in not actually writing down, gasps. that was allen west of florida being very, very specific about exactly how many communists there are in the united states congress. as you heard him say there, i believe there s about 78 to 81 members of the democrat party that are members of the communist party. that s how he put it. congressman west wasn t just talking about any old 78 to 81 members of the democrat party, he was talking about a very specific group of them. his spokesperson put out a statement after that, not to apologize for it or to walk it back, but rather to tell everybody exactly who