tried to do this. we saw this with rick perry. it s a divicive issue within the republican party. no candidate has yet to speak the language except for jeb bush. i would say it s not divicive in the republican party, but in a general election. i think is in a com foerltabfor place. that makes sense. thank you very much for your time. a pleasure having both of you on. developing right now, occupied boston is ralliying outside where fed chairman ben bernanke is speaking across from the federal reserve. he is talking about the effect of the great recession. we are getting in new reaction from the president on the occupy wall street movement saying protests are not that different from the tea party. in an interview that airs on night line, the president said people on both the left and [inaudible]
luther king,jr. memorial dedication. those with power and privilege will often decry a call for change as divicive. they will say any challenge to the existing arrangements are unwise and destabilizing. dr. king understood that peace without justice was no peace at all. if he were alive today, he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of wall street without demonizing all who work there. as some criticize the movement for being scattered, have they found fresh focus with the staggering respects? let s get right to the scene. with the occupy wall street protest in new york. good afternoon to both of you. if i might start with you, occupy wall street began about a month ago with 150 people there where you are.
couple of years with the levels of trillions of dollars being spent to simulate the economy. now we are at a point after six alliterations of the job plan or job summit or meeting to have these protests that val vannize around this yes, sir of not just putting people back to work, but fixing the economy in the way that we don t go down the road again. both leaderships and democrat and republican have a responsibility here to step up before this goes any further. the current cover of the new yorker is timely. fat cat bankers saying leave well enough alone and the president said the privileged will decry change as divicive. i recall that chris christie when he endorsed mitt romney said he thought the president was being divicive. is that the republican position now? i think so.
new listerine® total care zero. politicians and religious leaders. reporters and comedians. here are the top lines and a weekend recap edition for you. look at this. i didn t realize there was a meatball convention in town. when they asked me who is the president, i will say i don t know. do you know? it appears that your campaign is imploding. i think this is divicive. showing class envy and social unrest is not what we do. he is preying on the emotions of fear and anger. there many hundreds, into the low thousands here in the park. it s a democratic system. we don t all agree. we would have a king if we were
you have durbin saying that s exactly what he said. i think we have to try to get to the bottom of this more and more, but i know from my reporting and kaitlyn collins at the white house that the president has been calling his friends and thinking he did a great thing for his base although he is told that s not the truth. that s very disturbing if he thinks this is good. the words that were uttered in that meeting were good to resonate with that base. it s saying that resonates with the base is making racist comments and comparing africans to norwegians unfavorably and saying that the american immigration system should be race-based. not only that, but mia love s comments were spot on. she talked about the comments being divicive and elitist. that s what they are. they are elitist and classist