The middle class has been a major issue, the condition of the middle class in this country. The people at the Pew Research Center that said the american middle class is losing ground. We want to get your thoughts this morning on what policy is needed to help the american middle class. Byare going to break this up income. Here is the headline to the poll. They didnt couple of months back. Its very relative to this campaign. People say the government doesnt do enough to help the middle class. There are mixed views on which class the democratic hearty favors. This is a chart. They asked 1500 people which social classes do the republicans and democrats favor. Said republicans favor the rich. When those same people were asked about democrats, 31 said they bring the poor. 32 say they favor the middle class and 26 say the rich. There are some overview points. There are now roughly as many adults in middle Income Housing as in lower or upper income households. This is a shift from four decades
In your view, does the Russian Administration from putin down genuinely believe in an analytical way they can somehow manage the situation whereby assad hate ad across syria can somehow win this war . Or do you think that actually they share the analysis the british government, american government, french government until assad is gone, well never defeat isis and the rest is just theater. Its about saving face. Its about not setting precedent that people can be removed by external factors. Deep down, is there an actual acceptance he really does have to go for this war to be over and beat isil or do they truly believe they can engineer a South Vietnam style victory in syria . Who wants to address this first . I can take a stab at it first. Yeah. Its hard to tell. I think that the conversation thats ive had with those around russian circles indicates to me that the putin government now sees assad as the basis for a whole country solution. Now, that is the rhetorical position. Primarily i
Responsible. At least three arrests made as cars connected to the attack are tracked across europe. The fbi now heading to the scene to investigate. Plus, the fight against isis taking center stage at the democratic debate overnight, and security ramped up at Football Games and gathengs all over america on is sunday morning as the world shows solidarity with the people of france. Good morning, and welcome to this special edition of gma. So many new developments and new images streaming out of paris right now. Look at this new video in which you see the beginning of the attack on that concert hall. You could hear it right there. Shots ringing out toward the end of a sold out show. You can understand why so many confused that for the actual concert. Also overnight were learning more about the victims. Among the dead, an American College student, nohemi gonzalez, a design major at California State University long beach living out her dream of studying abroad in paris. Well learn much more
Breaking news right out of the gate, look at this, a Freight Train derails in pennsylvania, its outside pittsburgh. Ten cars have derailed, thats according to local reports. This is an Valley Railroad train, no word on what it was carrying, but there are no reports of injuries or of a hazmat situation. Lets get right to it. Nice rally on wall street, the dow industrial is up 154 points stay at this level and youre close to a new record closing high. Now look at shift shack. Higher prices help post a surprised profit, good provide the too. Sales were strong, and remember it sold off last week because some thought it was low priced. Up 6 today. Now look at kohls. Dont do that. Down 11 . 8 at 6. The price of oil still in a very narrow range just below 60 a barrel, and the price of gasoline keeps going up, 2. 67 is your average now. Now, the big economy headline this morning comes from the economist at a very big bank. Where on the titanic he says and were going down, no policy fixes readi
It is almost like the ginsu knife. That is a joke. [laughter] they did more. We understand our job is to defend this country. It is a noble mission. I look at the folks that do this every day and say, these are great americans. What they have done is they can see what the terrorists are trying to do coming into the country and what we were blamed for as an Intelligence Community was not connecting the dots. The fbi had one set of data, the cia, nsa, and other intelligence agencies, another. And we were blamed for not connecting the dots. So we said, we need the ability to connect the dots. We came up with a couple of programs. Business record fisa is the key to connect the dots. That is the one we need to focus on here today. What is that all about . How do we connect the dots with this . What is it . It has been sensationalized, that we are listening to americans phone calls and reading emails. That is flat wrong. Under fisa, we would have to have an individualized warrant to do that.