to the polls next november. thank you chris matthews for this privilege. happy thanksgiving everyone. politicsnation with al sharpton starts right now. let's talk turkey when it comes to republicans and jobs. president obama wants to put more money in your pocket. tonight, how the gop are playing the role of scrooge this holiday season. new outrage over willard's false political attack ad. the romney people are actually defending putting a blatant untruth on the public airways. also, if you like illegal spying, racial profiling and war, then you loved last night's gop debate. it's quite a party over in the grand old party. >> they use every tool that you can possibly use to gather the intelligence -- >> obviously muslims would be

someone you would look at. >> covert action within syria to get regime change. >> we better get serious about syria and iran. >> don't complain if we kill people. welcome to "politicsnation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, the fight for the middle class. with the holidays here, president obama wants to make sure middle class americans have jobs and more money in their pockets. it's been what he's been fighting for almost every day for the last three months. >> i achl sending this congress a plan that you should pass right away. it's called the american jobs act. >> maybe they couldn't understand the whole thing all at once. so we're going to break it up into bite-sized pieces. >> keeping first responders on the job, that's a jobs plan. putting more teachers in the classroom, that's a jobs plan. >> rebuilding our infrastructure is common sense. that's a quote. and, quote, an investment in tomorrow that we must make

today. that president was ronald reagan. since when do we have republicans voting against ronald reagan's ideas? >> we can't simply wait for congress to do its job. if continue won't act, i will. >> tell them, don't be a grinch. don't vote to raise taxes on working americans during the holidays. congress has a very simple choice next week. do you want to cut taxes for the middle class and those who are trying to get into the middle class or do you want to protect massive tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, many of whom want to actually help. but republicans are more interested in helping the rich. three times in the last three months they've been faced with a choice between creating jobs and protecting millionaires from paying their fair share. every single time they voted with the wealthy. but the president is keeping the

pressure on. next week congress is expected to vote on the president's plan to extend the payroll tax cut that would save the average household $1,500, $1,500 to help folks pay the bills and get through the winter. republicans have blocked the president every step of the way. will they do it again? joining me now is congressman chalk ka fattal, democrat from pennsylvania and a proud member of the progressive caucus and bob shrum, democratic publicist who served as senior adviser to the kerry and gore campaigns. let me start with you, congressman. will republicans really vote to raise taxes on virtually every american right during the holidays? >> well, they very may do such a thing, reverend. first of all, we're showcasing part of the lie now. poor families or working class families don't pay income taxes.

no, they pay payroll taxes. what the president has done is put in place a payroll tax deduction that's in place now. if we don't extend it, then this is going to be for the average family about a $1,000 to $1,500 tax increase. they say they're against tax increases. and the president is really going to put them in a position now because he's saying let's extend this over the next period of time here. a lot of them are saying, well, they may not be able to vote for this, even though it would forestall this tax increase. so we're going to put them on the spot. you never can count republicans out. they can do things that don't make a lot of sense, especially when they're trying to fight a president that they are determined, it's their number one priority to defeat this president. in the meantime, they don't have the solomon-like wisdom to not put the country in a bad situation just because of their politics. >> bob, not only is it

contradictory at its worst for them to allow a tax increase since they're against any tax increases at all. the fact is some of them voted to extend the tax -- the payroll tax cuts. many voted in 2010. mitch mcconnell, john boehner, eric cantor. but now they have await-and-see attitude now. that is plate tant partisan politics at the expense of the american people. >> look, they don't want to do it. they don't want to approve it. they don't want to approve it for a simple reason. even though in the beginning, by the way, a lot of republicans pushed this idea hard. they don't want to approve this now because it might help improve the economy. i think the republican -- >> even though they voted for it last year? >> that's right. consistency doesn't matter to them anymore than it matters to mitt romney. they don't care if they were for it before they were against it. what they're interested in is having this economy in as bad a

shape as possible come next november. they then want to blame it on the president even though they have taken action after action after action that's putting the economy in a tough place. they don't want to extend unemployment compensation. they don't want to extend this payroll tax cut. i think the country is beginning to see through this. the president is out there fighting on it. he's fighting hard on it. he's standing up for the middle class, standing up for people in tough times and in trouble. if you look at the polling, on every single one of these issues the country is with the president. >> no doubt about it, and so were they when it was a year ago. i want to keep pointing out these people themselves voted for this exact same thing in 2010. congressman fatah bob mentioned willard, mitt romney. let me show you what willard said about extending the payroll taxes. >> if the payroll tax cut is not extended, that would mean a tax increase for all americans. what would be the consequences

of that? >> what it takes to create jobs is more than just a temporary shift in a tax stimulus. >> so you would be okay with seeing the payroll tax cut -- >> i don't like temporary little band-aids. >> i don't like temporary band-aids congressman fattah. that's what he said about extending the payroll tax cut. >> this has been an invited job from the beginning. the republicans put forth a major, trillion-plus-dollar tax cut, didn't create any federal programs, ran up a debt. so when the president was sworn into office, we were in debt $11 trillion, in the hole when he was sworn in on january 20th just a few years ago. now what they're doing is saying, well, you can't cut taxes. you can't increase taxes. you can't do anything that could move our economy in a positive direction because they know the reagan story. reagan was at 8.5 unemployment at this point, four million jobs created during the election year. he won 49 states.

they want to see the economy be in a shape? which it is as dire as possible, and they don't want to see this recovery take hold going into the new year. >> bob, even republicans that are being polled, 58% of them support extending the payroll tax cut. 46% support taxing millionaires. they're not even listening to the members of their own party. >> they're listening to the far right part of their party, to the tea party part of their party. they're pursuing in my view a conscious strategy as congressman fattah just said, of getting this economy in as bad a shape as possible. they think if they keep millions of americans from getting jobs, they're going to get the job of president of the united states. it's cynical. it's transparent. look what they did with this deficit committee. at the deficit committee, they proposed to give bigger tax breaks to the wealthy while instituting the ryan plan to voucherize medicare.

you can't negotiate with people like that. jfk once said it, there's no way to negotiate with someone who says, what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. >> congressman, i'm glad reraised the debt ceiling negotiations. you and i talked during that time. we were saying that maybe the president was playing chess while they were playing checkers. it seems like that's the case because they put themselves in an untenable position. they're nowhere they're faced with the trigger, the trigger nightmare for them, the bush tax cuts expire january 1st, 2013. the pentagon cuts, $600 billion, and they negotiate and negotiate and negotiated and the president really ended up in a place that we would have never gotten had they just negotiated fairly at that time. >> well, look, if nothing happens, he gets basically

almost 3 1/2 to one income to cuts based on present law. this is the deal where republicans said they got 98% of what they wanted when they got it a few months ago. now they say it's a lemon, not lemonade, that somehow this was a bad deal, that obama should have rescued the talks. i heard the majority leader kantor say, look, we don't need the president. this is what he said when he walked away from the talks at the white house. he decides whether he signs them or not. now all of a sudden they're saying, well, the talks didn't work because the president us away on an asian trip. his trip to asia brought almost $40 billion of contracts for boeing. boeing has workers at 40 states in our country. they're going to be working for a long time. he got a lot more done in that trade mission than he did listening to republicans here. they have selective amnesia. they don't care what they say. months before gadhafi fell, they were accusing the president of

being some kind of deal to get gadhafi's guy released from a scottish jail. >> they're all over the place. we're going to be monitoring and heading toward progress in the country. happy congressman. >> we're going to lean forward. happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. >> have a safe and happy holiday. ahead, what's old is newt. the guy who is against child labor laws now leading the gop field. meet your gop, america. and willard can't get away with untruths in this new ad. now he's stretching the truth about his own name. plus who will be the "politicsnation" turkey of the year. with so many options, it's a tough one to pick. we'll have them all, the thanksgiving guest who can't stop talking about how great republicans are. my tips on how to handle him with the facts.

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welcome back. folks, we know willard mitt romney has a hard time finding his way to the truth. we've seen him flip-flop on everything from immigration to abortion to gun control to stimulus to health care. if there's an issue out there, he's probably taken both sides. but his latest nontruth is a whopper. >> i'm confident we can steer out of this. it's going to take a new direction. if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose. >> but the president was actually quoting an advisor to john mccain, his then rival for the white house. >> senator mccain's campaign actually said, and i quote, if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose. >> the ad is clearly false, but the romney campaign admits its

being intentionally deceptive. they just don't care. politico asked romney advisers about using the out-of-context quote. here is their statement, quote, we used that quote intentionally to show that president obama is doing exactly what he criticized mccain of doing four years ago. obama doesn't want to talk about the economy because of his failed record. unbelievable, unbelievable. not only is this ad a lie, so is the campaign's so-called explanation a lie. president obama's been talking about the economy almost every day for months. this untrue ad is airing on one tv station, wmur in new hampshire where the general manager came up with a preposterous justification for airing it. >> by federal law we're not allowed to sensor in any way a legally qualified candidate for federal office's ad.

>> let me get this right. something could actually be wrong and it will still air. that's quite a standard, about as low as willard can go. msnbc contributor maria theresa kumar, executive director of vote latino, eric mcpike for real clear politics are my guests. thank you both for coming. >> thank you. >> maria, if a campaign admits this ad is intentionally deceptive, should bit on the air at all? >> well, one, it's truth in advertising. if you're a company and you actually do something wrong and not advising -- if you advertise falsely, you can get fined. they should do the same thing. i do caution the mitt romney campaign. what he doesn't understand is this is not politics of 2000 or 2004 or even 2008. citizens are very, very conscious and very, very thoughtful about whether or not

candidates are lying to them. in the face of twitter and facebook, citizen journalism, i gotcha is going to spread. i would caution them on being careful. >> erin, the fact is that we are looking at a blatant manipulation of what happened, and aside from, in my opinion, a ridiculous notion by the general manager that they had to put it on which to me is absurd, if you're being accused of being a flip-flopper, do you have any respect for the people, if on top of being a flip-flopper you're going to be intentionally descentive and letting your spokesperson admit it? >> they do have a problem because the obama campaign is saying -- >> i think we lost erin. maria, why don't you answer that. we've just lost erin. >> he clearly already sees himself as a front-runner. because he already considers himself a front-runner and he's

also been a flip-flop per and the democrats will have a hard time with their base, now it's time for obama to start defining mitt romney as a fat cat, somebody completely out of touch with the middle class and basically do what clinton did against bush, basically saying he's out of touch. does he know the cost of a turkey, the cost of gas? republicans are not going to appreciate someone that is not giving them the straight facts. >> now, they're saying that the president has not been talking about jobs. that's why they came up with this deceptive ad. let me show you the president's jobs tour. you might have a jobs tour to talk about jobs. >> slightly. >> willard, you know, that's why they have jobs tours. look at the tour. 11/22, 11/21, the 8th -- all of these november. the 7th, the 2nd. the man has been on tour all over the country on a jobs tour discussing jobs. yet they claim we had to do this

because he won't talk about jobs. >> i think what it's saying is that mitt romney is having a hard time dominating the air waves when he's being paired up against the republican candidates and that the obama campaign is being very effective by going locally and dominating the local media. that's what basically that demonstrates, he's trying to figure out how do i get the obama campaign to talk about me because nobody else really is. >> the other point i think is when you made the point that we're in a different time with citizen journalism and all kind of technology, this was a small ad by new hampshire because i think they're so out of touch with the times, they think they can get away with a little small ad bite not knowing that everything now is global. you put it anywhere and it's going to be everywhere, especially if it's something that is this blatantly deceptive. >> it's global and transparent. i think voters have been able to demonstrate time and time again

they have very little tolerance for somebody blatantly lying to them. the tea party is a perfect example. the tea party believes the government is about them and believe inasmuch transparency as possible. mitt is demonstrating once again that not only does he not have their core values, but at the same time he's willing to do anything to get a vote, even lie to them. >> it's going to be interesting. he's the assumed nominee. maybe what the president should do if he is the nominee is not debate romney, just let romney debate himself. maria theresa kumar, thanks, and have a great holiday. my apologies for erin mcpike for losing her shot. we hope she has a great thanksgiving, too. folks, last night we saw another case of romney fudging the truth, and it wasn't in his ad. take a look. >> i'm mitt romney. yes, wolf, that's also my first name.

>> what? mitt isn't your first name. it's willard, willard mitt romney. that's been your name your whole life. but willard, i'm a little hurt. if you forgot your real name, you must not be watching "politicsnation" because i remind you. >> willard mitt romney has done it again. >> willard mitt romney says -- >> maybe you can break that down from willard east. >> willard, willard, willard, you never cease to amaze me. >> governor romney, your name is willard. if not, i'd like to see your long form birth certificate, please. ahead, you won't believe what conservatives are saying now about the occupy wall street movement. and we are moments away from crowing the "politicsnation" turkey of the year. it was a tough call this year. the top turkey revealed next. this new at&t 4g lte is fast.

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thanksgiving is upon us. in the spirit of the holiday, we're honoring the republican turkey of the year. this was not easy for our "politicsnation" team because there's so many turkeys to choose from. but without further ado, drum roll, please.

here are the no, ma'am niece. first we've got illinois freshman congressman joe walsh. our next contender wisconsin governor scott walker, and the final contender for the "politicsnation" turkey of the year, house majority leader eric cantor. let's start with congressman joe walsh. he's been in office for less than a year, but we all got to know him very well from saying despicable things like the president's a liar, and this year we also learned he has the same rage for his own constituents. >> the government sets the rules. don't blame banks and don't blame the marketplace for the mess we're in right now. i am tired of hearing that krap! >> fighting the situation, taking -- >> there are already mechanisms.

>> you don't have to scream at me. >> this pisses me off. too many people don't listen. there are already mechanisms in place to do that. >> joe makes a strong case. let's move on to wisconsin governor scott walker. walker became the poster child for union busting this year. we got used to hearing nonsense like this over and over again. this budget reforms help us protect middle class jobs and middle class taxpayers. >> waunger, of course, gutted collective bargaining rights for public workers, slashed funding for schools and made it tougher for wisconsin residents to vote. walker might be tough to beat. but last but not least we have house majority leader eric cantor. he made a very strong case for turkey of the year.

>> yes there's a federal role. yes, we're going to find the money. we're just going to need to make sure that there are savings elsewhere. >> growing mobs occupying wall street. >> stimulus bill which failed to get people back to work. >> this year kantor also walked out on negotiations with the vice president and asked for stimulus money after bashing it. well, you've seen the nominee. now it's time to give the award away. and, as i said, it wasn't easy. drum roll, please. the honor of turkey of the year goes to eric cantor. congratulations, mr. kantor! congratulations for going above and beyond all of the turkeys. ♪ wood trim...

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welcome back to "politicsnation." we're learning a whole lot more about who this group of gop contenders are. last night they gave us frightening insight to how they really think about the world. it starts with spying on people in this country. >> the patriot act. we need to keep it in place. we need to strengthen it if that's what's required to update it with new technologies as they come along. >> use every tool you can possibly use to gather the intelligence. the patriot act has clearly been a key part of that. >> if there are some areas of the patriot act that we need to refine, i'm all for that, but i do not believe we ought to throw out the baby with the bath water. the terrorists have one objective this some people don't seem to get, they want to kill all of us. we should use every means possible to kill them first or identify them first.

>> racial profiling? they say it's perfectly acceptable. >> obviously muslims would be someone you'd look at, absolutely. those are the folks who are the radical muslims are the people committing these crimes. >> targeted identification. if you take a look at the people who have tried to kill us, it would be easy to figure out exactly what that identification profile looks like. >> we are not fight ag war on terrorism. terrorism is a tactic. we're fighting a war against radical islam. >> designing a strategy to defeat it wherever it happens to exist. >> one thing is for sure. they'd love nothing more than to declare war on the rest of the world. >> the right course in america is to stand up to iran with crippling sanctions. this is a time to use not only sanctions but covert actions within syria. >> we better get serious about syria and iran and we better get serious right now. >> if we pull out of afghanistan

too soon, iran is going to help fill that power vacuum in afghanistan. >> pakistan has been the epicenter of dealing with terrorism. this is more than an existential threat. we have to take this very seriously. the united states has to be engaged. >> you tell the pakistanis, help us or get out of the way. don't complain if we kill people you're not willing to go after on your territory. >> i tell you my take from last night. i don't want anyone on that stage taking that 3:00 a.m. phone call. joining me now is nia malik ka henderson, a "washington post" national reporter who also writes for the election 2012 blog, and victoria d. fran chess co-soto, visiting scholar at the university of texas austin. thank you both for being here. >> great to be here. >> nia malik ka, how scared should we be of these folks? >> it's funny, in listening to

those sound bites, it's almost like the republican party is still in 2008 or still in 2004 and using this tactic that george h.w. bush was able to use so well and essentially scare people into voting for him. i think one of the things we're seeing from this party is that it is in this post-bush era, an era beyond neo conservatism and beyond this idea that america's foreign policy should be used to impose democracy across the world. you did see these wide-ranging opinions up there about how to engage in the rest of the world. you had somebody like ron paul saying israel should be left alone, that if iran gets a nuclear weapon, that's okay. you had somebody like jon huntsman right in the middle there saying they should withdraw, we should withdraw troops down in afghanistan even faster than barack obama is doing. so i think it's a party that's all over the place in terms of foreign policy. when you think about mitt romney, i think for him one of the strategies that he's employing is to be really

conservative, he is basically using two issues, immigration as well as defense and america's foreign policy to really seem like he's the true conservative. that's what you saw from him last night. you'll continue to see that from him on the stump. >> i agree. the hard right position is being taken by some. victoria, can they then bring that into the general election and win with these far right, hard right positions? >> you know, the irony is that foreign policy is one of the strongest suits of president obama. and in particular we see that the president is in sync with the american electorate, his middle-of-the-road approach, not too hawkish, not too dovish. a couple weeks ago gallup had a poll that showed 75% of the american electorate supported withdrawal of troops from iraq. >> not only gallop, cbs had a poll that showed that 77%

approved of withdrawal from iraq. 67% says iraq war not worth the costs. 53% u.s. shouldn't be in afghanistan. 55%, iran can be contained with diplomacy. 70% says the u.s. shouldn't try to over throw dictatorships. the american people are clearly not where those on the stage last night are. >> they're done with that neo con model. the american public is supporting the foreign policy where they don't want anymore of the george w. bushes. nia malika said that was so 2008, 2004. american people clearly want a middle dch of-the-road approach. >> the front-runner this week is newt, newt gingrich. the poll has him -- the latest poll we have, he's leading right now on every poll across the

board. and last night he offered the one humane moment of the evening. now, i don't know what got into newt, whether it was strategic or whether it was newt who -- i had a five-city tour that president obama sent us on. newt is always full of ideas, shooting ideas, most of which i think are absurd, but he's an idea person. i think maybe he was just shooting his ideas and not thinking consequentially about what may happen. because the last time you had a republican candidate talking a humane way about the immigration issue, his name was rick perry. let me show you what perry did, and then i'm going to show you what happened. watch this. >> if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other ln

than they've been brought there by no fault of your own, i don't think you have a heart. >> now, that's somewhat what newt said last night. he said it a little more refined, but we are talking about rick perry. but the same point. let me show you what happened. mr. perry who came in the day of the debate 28.4%. then by october 3rd, he was down to 25. then by the 13th down to 13.7, then the 23rd, 12.5. november 3rd, 9.7. now he's down to 7.7%. which means by the time you finish your apple pie tomorrow night, newt may be headed south if he has the same fate that rick perry is showing some humane feeling in the immigration area. >> i no. i think this could be true. i think in many ways newt gingrich was channelling the republican party of 2006. that was men the republican

party was the party of immigration reform. this is a bill that passed overwhelmingly in the senate, that talked about a pathway to citizenship and also talked about increased border security. so that was newt. newt, to be fair, he has been talking about the importance of having a republican party which is a more big ten party. he's been taking spanish lessons. he set up a website that was targeted at conservative latinos. it wasn't exactly a surprise that he came out so boldly in this debate and said that. i think you raise a good point. this whole idea of rick perry and not being as refined in talking about this issue, that i think is where newt gingrich could make a difference with this. he might be the one that can really communicate this idea to the rest of his party because a lot of moderate republicans really see that this race runs through latino america. >> that's the point, victoria. can they be competitive as a republican party in the general if they don't appeal to latino voters?

and how do they make that appeal if they have this far right position on immigration? >> they absolutely have to appeal to latino voters. we know latino voters, the most latinos are neither republican, nor democrat. they're independents. and they swing to the right if they feel that they have the candidate who can represent them. they did that with bush. but more importantly, we see that in the 2012, we have a large latino population in a lot of our swing states, in nevada, new mexico, colorado and florida. so you cannot win the general election by ignoring them. and newt knows this. he has been establishing this path for a long time with his websites and his outreach. but i think the difference with ofeibpçklt7-fcybemmñii t this is going to hurt him in the republican primary. first of all, he owned it. he knew very well what he was doing, and he did not use the rhetoric of the heart. he used the rhetoric of republican family values and he keeps going back to reagan because, if we really want to

talk about republicans and immigration, we need to go back to reagan. and he was a staunch advocate of legalizing immigrants in this country. so that is what newt gingrich was doing. >> nia, i think they were at a disadvantage because unlike any predictions, foreign affairs and national security is not going to be an easy fight against this president who does have a record that he can stand with. so they are in between a rock and a hard place in this particular area. >> no. i think you're exactly right. you see them grappling with really trying to take the mantle of foreign policy away from barack obama and try to figure out what is the republican policy about foreign policy in this era after two wars, after one war that was based on faulty intelligence. that's what you see this party grappling with. >> nia malika, victoria, thanks for your time this evening.

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from the pepper spray outrage at uc davis. we're learning more about lieutenant john pike, the police officer in the now infamous video casually pepper spraying student protesters. it turns out that in 2003 he was involved in a $250,000 discrimination lawsuit alleging that he used an anti-gay slur against an openly gay officer. but this is bigger than just uc davis. the right wing is doing everything it can to undermine the 99% movement since it started over two months ago. >> i, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying wall street. >> i see it sort of like a paris mob. >> that's anti-american. >> attack upon freedom. >> go get a job right after you take a bath. >> and now the republican architect karl rove has an

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thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday, a chance for all of us

to be with family and friends and be thankful for all we have. of course, at some thanksgiving tables, there's that one guest who just ruins the dinner conversation with his political arguments. you know who i'm talking about. he might be your brother-in-law who gets all his talking points from rush limbaugh. or maybe it's your aunt repeating points from the fan balance crowd. if that happens at your table this year, don't get upset, don't get angry, don't take a swing at him with your drumstick. just smile. hit them with the facts. rev al's turkey tips. >> i am thankful for this meal, and i am thankful for my yacht, and i am thankful to live in a country that gave us ronald reagan. i miss him so much. now, let me tell you something.

there was a man, ronald wilson reagan was a leader who knew how to run the economy. you didn't see him trying to raise taxes left and right like obama. >> that guy is a bigger turkey than the one on the table. if he try it is reagan stuff, ask him are you talking about the ronald reagan who raised taxes 11 times? the same reagan who was responsible for the largest peacetime tax increases in u.s. history? that ronald reagan? now, giving him the facts should knock the stuffing out of him. you know he'll bounce right back to the next talking point by the time you pass the sweet potatoes. >> if john boehner and eric cantor have taught us anything, it's that you can't raise taxes on job creators, the job creators. the bush tax cuts are the only thing saving this economy from going down the tubes. >> now, when he comes to distorting the real story about

tax cuts, you can let this guy pass the gravy, but please don't give him a pass on the truth. explain to him that the bush tax cuts would add $420 billion to this year's deficit. that means they account for nearly one-third of our deficit every year. you remember the deficit, that's what we all want to lower. if we let the bush tax cuts expire, they'd return to the levels seen during the clinton administration. remember what the economy was like then? more than 22 million jobs were created. even then, chances are this guy just won't quit. his ideas are more half-cooked than aunty's potatoes. >> you know what i like? i like marshmallows on my sweet potatoes and i like michele bachmann. she's right about the war on terror. obama handed over the handling

of the terrorists to the aclu. he's treating al qaeda with kid gloves. >> kid gloves. if they hit the president on national security, pull this clip out of of your dvr. >> today i can let the world know that the united states has conducted an operation that killed saudi arabia, the leader of al qaeda. >> then hand out the president's foreign policy resume. in addition to wiping out bin laden, he also took out a top al qaeda terrorist and handled a mission in libya which ousted moammar gadhafi and also announced the withdrawal of troops from iraq. knowing this guy, he'll want to hit you with the lazy argument. >> i heard the president called the american people lazy. i mean, what is he talking about? well, i didn't actually hear him say that, but that's what my friend said. my friends over at fox and

friends. that's where i get all my political facts from. i mean, what is it with obama? why does he just love to put down the american people? >> put down the american people. not so fast. what the president actually said -- >> yes eve been a little bit lazy i think over the last couple decades. we've taken for granted people will want to come here and we aren't out there hungry selling america and trying to attract new businesses into america. >> he was talking about business practices, not individuals. in fact, in that very speech he called americans, quote, the best workers in the world. and when he's all tapped out, chances are he'll talk about the wealth gap. >> as we sit down to this beautiful feast, i think we should take one moment to reflect that half the people in this country are getting a free

lunch. and between them and those dirty hippies down at wall street, this country is going to hell in a hand basket. >> folks, there is reasons, real reasons why this country is up in arms about income inequality. the richest 1% have seen their income grow 275% in the last three decades. the poorest in the country, they've only seen 18% growth. we've gotten less fair as a country. no matter where you stand, that's not a good thing. after all this, your dinner guest should be giving thanks to you for enlightening him. >> thank you, reverend. >> you're welcome. i'd like to thank todd brksrisco for helping us out tonight adds our dinner guest. you can get more information on todd and his sketch group at politicalsub