>> reporter: unfortunately not. >> reporter: no one was even close. it's actually nine pieces of pie. 90% of the wealth is right here in the top. >> that's terrible. >> reporter: now the upper middle class and the middle class, they share one piece. so these guys, they've got about 80% of a piece. they get 20% of a piece. and then the lower middle class, they've got .3%. they have some crumb there's. there you go. that's what they get. and the poorest, they have no pie. in fact, that i have less than no pie. they have -- they actually have a bill for pie. they're in pie debt. they owe pie. >> reporter: people in the poorest 20% are on average more than $6,000 in debt. >> that's very sad. >> reporter: yeah. >> it's very sad. very depressing. i grew up here. that was me. >> reporter: so even if you just look at the wealthiest and you go to the top 1%, so the wealthiest 1% of everybody, these people alone have not one,

not two, not three, but four slices of pie. what do you think? >> i want to know who these people are. >> reporter: is that what you expected? >> not at all. it's disturbing. >> reporter: this election cycle -- >> it's time for a wealth tax. >> reporter: elizabeth warren and bernie sanders have promised to redistribute the pie with a special tax on fortunes $50 million and up. >> the wealthiest people in this country will start paying their fair share of taxes. >> reporter: and polls show most americans support the idea. >> they should be giving a lot of that over here. >> reporter: do you think there should be an extra tax on the super wealthy? >> why not? they could afford it. >> yes, they should. will it happen? probably not. >> reporter: not everyone is on board as we found people at the

biggest yachts. >> it's sort of the american way. >> reporter: john and mark run an investment firm in connecticut. they oppose the idea of a wealth tax. >> it would be a total disaster. i'd actually like for them to promote it because they won't get elected that way. >> reporter: wealth redistribution is always popular amongst the masses that don't have the wealth and popular among the ones that do. >> reporter: you're acknowledging that there some unfairness here. >> sure. >> reporter: there is a lot of people with not much and a small fraction of people with a lot. >> right. i guess the alternative is do we need a socialist economy where everyone has the same? that doesn't make the same either. a lot of people who have a lot have earned it and made it. they started their own companies, they started businesses, they maybe had more opportunity but there are people who haven't doesn't that. >> a vote for a democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of the american dream. >> reporter: the political fight will continue. >> i have nothing else to offer

but pie. >> i'll take it. >> reporter: but at our little table, redistribution was a hit. >> if i'm going to take a piece, it will be from the excess. >> reporter: okay. >> take that pie over there. >> reporter: you want the rich

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hitler youth is up for six oscars in the upcoming academy awards, including best picture. tracy smith took a walk with the writer and director of "jojo rabbit." >> this is neighborhood where you lived before you hit the big time? >> yeah, yeah, before i hit the big time, yeah. >> and just like sleeping on friends' couches? >> i was couch surfing, yeah. and that all changed when i got "author." >> reporter: in 2017, tyga directed author. his next move could be whatever he wanted. >> and action. >> and he wanted something different. why did you decide to take the story of a young woman hiding from the nazis and put slapstick comedy into it? >> well, i thought i had to do a drama. >> reporter: so he wrote and directed "jojo rabbit," the story of jojo, a 10-year-old boy in the hitler youth, and elsa, a

young jewish girl hiding in his attic. and yes, it's a comedy. >> you know what i am? say it. >> a jew. >> gesundheit! >> there is a little chaplin there. >> another writer director who poked fun at the very unfunny subject of nazi germany. like chaplin -- >> poor jojo. what's wrong, little man? >> hi, adolf. >> reporter: that is him under all that makeup plays the great dictator himself. >> people used to say a lot of nasty things about me. oh, this guy's a lunatic. oh, look at that psycho. he's going to get us all killed. >> you wove this comedy into a serious story for a reason. >> comedy for me is a really important tool. it gets overlooked so often as a

meaningful form because throughout history comedy has been i think the strongest weapon in commenting on society and issues and dictators, kings and royalty. they hate being made fun of. and when people make jokes about them, it drives them bananas. >> reporter: adolf is young jojo's imaginary friend. >> who are you talking to? >> nobody. >> and he is a 10-year-old's vision of the furor, an awkward, socially inept hitler. >> cigarette? >> oh, no, thanks, i don't smoke. >> if you're wondering about his accent, he is from new zealand, a self-described polynesian jew. first off, you're not an obvious choice to play adolf hitler. >> no, i think there is definitely whiter people would could have done it. >> i think the first time i saw him in his hitler costume, it was jarring. >> scarlett johansson plays rosy, jojo's mother.

>> fantasy is the strongest thing in the world. >> i think you'll find metal is the strongest thing in the world followed closely by dynamite. >> how did the two of you end up working on this project together? >> how did we end up working together. >> chris told you be it, didn't he? >> chris would be chris hemsworth, thor himself, and scarlet's co-star in the avenger movies. >> chris asked me if i had read his script for "jojo rabbit" and he was saying it was one of the best scripts he's ever read. >> i'm right here, awkwardly. awkwardly, as if i'm not listening. it's a nice light over there, isn't it? >> the script was big on laughs, but also had heart. >> i just fell in love with the character of rosy so much. it's very rare to feel that way when you're reading something that you fall in love with the character like that just off the page. >> prepare to leave the house. >> is it dangerous? >> extremely. >> you have ancestors who died

in the holocaust. did you have any reservations about doing a comedy about nazis? >> i never thought about that, the film as such. i think it's really a very triumphant story and such a valentine for single moms and independent women. >> johansson received a best supporting actress oscar nomination for her performance. best adapted screenplay, and "jojo rabbit" received four more nominations, including best picture. still, not everyone is comfortable with the film. what do you say to people who just flat-out say what's so funny about nazi germany? >> say have you looked a the uniforms? have you observed how ridiculous they were? sure, they had a lot of power and they were brutal and calculating and responsible for millions of deaths, but one way of taking power away from those people is to laugh at them and to make a mockery of them.

>> this is what satire is? >> yeah. i'd be worried if no one criticized my work. >> if everyone liked it. >> then i'd know i made a terrible, safe mediocre film. >> you okay? >> there are some surprises in "jojo rabbit." we won't spoil for you. >> nothing makes sense anymore. >> yeah, i know. it's definitely not a good time to be a nazi. >> and poignant moments you won't see coming. >> what's the first hing you'll do when you're free? >> dance. >> there was also a big surprise tika got from one of his comedy heroes. >> mel brooks. >> mel brooks? >> loved the film, said it was important and everyone needs to see it. >> that would be mel brooks who directed his own hitler comedy, "the producers." >> if this whole awards season season thing goes down the drain. it's a big thing to be recognized by one of the greats

and recognized for what we were trying to do. >> and the film received some more recognition from another unexpected source. the showa foundation in conjunction with usc is teaching the film. >> yeah, yeah. they're using it as part of its education tools. now it's amazing. it feels like the story and the film is bigger than us now. >> before jojo and thor, he had smaller success with films like "hunt for the wilder people" and the vampire mocu-mentary "what we do in the shadows." surprisingly, he only began to make films in the '30s. >> i did a short film called "two cars, one night." >> the first film you did got nominated for an oscar? >> yeah. >> and now he is up for more. it's an honor for sure, but of course he will play it for laughs. >> i'm not going to wear anything. stupid awards. >> you don't think you're going to win anything? >> no one is even watching the

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the san francisco bay, forget it. some visitors beat you to it a long time ago. and as john blackstone reports, the city hopes they never leave. >> it was 30 years ago this month that hundreds of smelly sea lions invaded. they've been calling this home ever since. >> big guys and little guys and surgically teenagers. >> and they can throw their weight around. >> oh, yes. and they do. >> sheila chandor had just started as harbor master. >> it was just a seething mass of sea lion noise.

>> reporter: and smell? >> and smell. oh, yeah. it was herring season. >> reporter: but the blubbery marine mammals quickly became an unlikely tourist attraction. have you done any estimate of how many tourists over 30 years now have come to see the sea lions? >> it's got to be in the millions. >> reporter: in appreciation for bringing in all the tourists, san francisco is celebrating the sea lions with 30 colorful sculptures going up around town rouss what's the reaction been to these so far? >> pretty great. >> these sea lions have been painted to deliver message thinking one has messages from all the pollutants and the chemicals that are in the ocean. >> they're beautiful and they're not noisy and they don't smell. >> correct. >> reporter: and they provide a photo opportunity for sea lion fans who can't get close enough to the real thing. there has also been a cake and a proclamation by the mayor. >> it will always be remembered as sea lion day in the city and county of san francisco. >> reporter: it's a lot of

excitement over an animal that spends much of its time just >> reporter: they've gone from n annoyance to an attraction. you could see the sea lions have sealed the deal. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> all fun until you got to dock that boat, right? that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news, and as always, you don't want to miss "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm mola lenghi. .

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