it s just indicative of what kind of world we re living in. [crowd] the people united [woman] we are going to be a force to be reckoned with. and i m here to protest it. [cecile] one of us can be dismissed, two of us can be ignored. but together, we are a movement, and we are unstoppable. welcome to the revolution. [music] [scott] a ferocious recession is now tightening its grip on the nation. because of, i think, some bad decisions that were made, we have the worst economy since the great depression. [will] well, at the start of the 2010s, there was just a lot of economic displacement. and people were feelin it from all sides. it s a war out there. i mean, these people are losing homes every single day. the debate over using billions in taxpayer dollars to help homeowners in trouble spilled out onto live television today. in february of 2009, rick santelli is on cnbc. he s a commentator there, and gets really, really angry about the financial crisis and about bailouts. [tr
this was a social movement on the right of a kind we ve never really seen before among kind of an older, predominantly white, predominantly working class group in this country. [jeremy] but for all that the tea party was supposed to be about fiscal conservatism and small government, a lot of republican voters didn t actually care about any of that. [dean] for all their anger at what they see as ever-expanding government, 62% of them think medicare and social security are worthwhile programs. [jeremy] as long as government subsidies and programs went to help republican voters, they were fine with it. they didn t like that they thought it was going to people who didn t deserve it. you re takin money off us to give everybody health insurance, when that s not a right that s given by the federal government. as john ruskin said, there ain t no free lunch. [dr. west] economically, they are catching hell. but their angle of vision was not to confront the most powerful, but the scapegoat, the
wednesday october 12th. american officials are outraged and say iran will pay. this texas used car salesman is the unlikely suspect in an alleged assassination plot backed by iran. the u.s. claims that mons orr arbab arbabsiar was going to kill the ambassador of the united states. saying ar baubs yea wanted to blow up a restaurant killing the diplomat and potentially many americans right along with him. officials gathered in washington and gathered the diplomatic corps at the state department to ensure them they are safe. the obama administration is also deciding how to respond to iran. it s an outrage that violated one of the fundamental premises of which nations deal and that is the sanctity and safety of their diplomats. this is really over the top. they have to be held accountable. the u.s. linking the alleged plot to the elite quds force that is part of iran s revolutionary gad, but it is far from clear if quds was acting on its own or from top iranian leaders. iran