>> if there's a republican that can speak to middle america unlike mccain and some of the other candidatesse in 2012. -somebody got a brand new car! -it's got that new car smell... -wait, wait, wait, wait! -what? -c'mon, man. you gonna say no to this? bam! -double quarter pounder. -with... -cheese! -cheese! if i see one sesame seed... [ male announcer totally irresistible and fully loaded with flavor -- the big mac, double quarter pounder with cheese and angus third pounder. oh, let me get a napkin. thank you. ♪ i'm in the back seat. ♪ it adds character. [ laughter [ male announcer the simple joy of giving in to flavor. >>> 2012 does barack obama get re-elected yes or no and why? >> if there's a republican that can speak to middle america unlike mccain and some of the other candidates he's going to lose the white house in 2012. >> if we have another ronald reagan he'll get ousted in four years like jimmy carter did. >> i'm really concerned. i see this sarah palin movement and i never thought it was serious enough, but i actually think that it's frightening actually, that sarah palin could

>> i think they are a barometer to a certain extent of middle america. they remain very steadfast on those budgets. little fatter than last year those budgets, but still very targeted. >> reporter: and that's exactly what he notices at checkout. >> i'm looking at what people have in their hands. and for me, i wouldn't say it's light. but it's not necessarily gangbuster type spending. i don't think we are going back to super splurging we saw in 2007. >> reporter: and with that, he's off to another store. like santa, sozzi has plenty of lists to make before christmas. erika miller, "nightly business report," new york. >> susie: here are the stories in tonight's n.b.r. newswheel: stocks ended moderately higher despite a spike in oil prices. the dow added 26 points, the nasdaq rose nearly four and the s&p 500 was also up four points. trading volume thinned out as we move closer to the holiday. 783 million shares traded hands on the n.y.s.e., 1.6 billion on the nasdaq. oil prices climbed over $90 a barrel in new york on word of a drop in supplies. a gallon of

"the retreat from marriage in middle america," says wilcox, "means that all too many americans will not be able to realize the american dream." >>> now, a special report on a private muslim school in buffalo. the curriculum meets all the new york state requirements, but students here are also taught values, discipline, arabic and god-consciousness. lucky severson reports. >> reporter: the first thing an outsider might notice at the universal school in buffalo is how well behaved the students are. the chaos that sometimes erupts between classes at public schools is not to be found here. universal is an islamic school for students in pre-k through eighth grade. it's one of 240 private islamic schools in the country and is supported through tuition and fundraising. kathy jamil is the principal. >> we hope to instill in our children what it tak to be a responsible, caring and giving person who is god-conscious, and we believe we can only do that if we develop a whole child. so we focus on academics, but it's just one small part of everything else, because we actually feel if we can hit the

way to go johnny now we know that miss middle america makes good decisions but let's move on we have made no secret here on this program but we're skeptical of what the tea party movement has become so we were excited when we found out that somebody else out there shared our views and got us thinking how could we show the tea party just how much we don't like them and then it came to me how about a video showing how i would handle all those tea baggers jokingly of course. the tea party we talked about them posted interviews about them and with them and we feel them just did a little bit on this show you know this show has no. long live calling them out for their contradictory views it looks like someone else out there who agrees with us the agenda project has started a campaign called f t a way to say that normal americans won't put up with that radical group anymore well i thought their campaign was a great way to put those tea baggers in their place but i gotta admit it was me i'd probably take a much more aggressive approach. with the baggers. do you. really. so clearly after we a

and replace the industries that used to create good middle america paying jobs and i'm talking about you know the the collapse of manufacturing which which nine hundred fifty s. was a quarter of the of the labor economy and now is about ten percent something has to replace that and if it doesn't we're going to see a lot of stagnation in the middle class especially in light of the fact that over the last thirty years middle income americans wages have basically been stagnant because nothing is as your place that engine of growth for for average americans almost every making people do funny things and yesterday on the program we had a story in millinocket maine talon which essentially has lost all of their jobs thanks to globalization to china so now they're doing is they're asking chinese students to pay twenty seven thousand dollars a year into wishing just to attend their high school so they can you know make another buck again but i want to return to the bankers for a second because i feel like in this culture where you're so focused only on your bonuses and on the next check that'

and especially the tax cuts for 95% of middle america. how copies not getting credit for that?rry: if he asked you to go out and stump would you? >> sure. absolutely. by the way, the other thing is, i mean, the idea of the stimulus and how he was fought on that and how it's paying off and the economy is recovering and i was -- on television yesterday see citigroup paid back their loan and a $12 billion profit, gm also is paying back the profit, that's the american taxpayers. >> larry: the perception can be improved. >> the perception. they're not selling the message right, and it's the truth. sell the good stuff. >> larry: well said. how's you and brolin work, huh? >> it's been 14 years. >> what's the -- >> how long have you been married? >> larry: 13. >> so we're more than you. >> larry: what's the secret? >> he does his thing in one room and i do mine in another. i don't know. you know, opposites attract. >> larry: they're definitely opposite, right? >> i think so. yeah. >> larry: he's more laid back than you. >> yeah. oh, yeah. much more laid back than me. >> larry: brolin h

for my guy, the guy who i work for, i think for him when you listen to people out there in middle americaout -- not understanding what all the fighting is about and saying why can't they all get in the room and work together, the president's imperative was to finds bipartisan. to me for him to finds it to bring this up was important for him to look like a leader and adult in the room with all the kids around and fighting. >> by setting this up that it comes up again in two years during a presidential race, isn't the president kinds of walking into a trap of basically letting this become a major issue during the presidential race? >> well, no. a lot of provisions will come up within a year. it's the stuff that the rich people get that comes up within two years. the stuff that the working stiff gets is in a year. they get half a loaf here. let's be careful there. i suspect that that was about all he could do because this makes the deficit nims -- the ten-year projections look awful because the tax cuts are hideously expensive, something like $4 trillion over ten years. everybody comes and s

america stays in the middle.u go too far left they slap you back and when republicans go to far right, they slap you back as well. >> what does he do to actually make the politics difficult for republicans now? it hasn't been that difficult up till now. >> this is what's ridiculous and this is what president obama has experience on the streets of chicago really help out. you've got real people. my city, you have real people that don't care about politics or process. they're looking for progress. when it comes to issues like this tax bill, the president made a compromise to help americans who were desperately in need. this is what frustrate mees. seeing what's going on in newark every single day, i cannot advance our city with a republican governor unless we find common ground. working with the manhattan institute on issues, ex-offender reentry. there's enough common ground in the united states of america to stop this silly pulling least lest and right, which is good for the ratings, but does nothing to move our c

not so much as an author, but as a man who is raising his family in middle america... >> hmm. >> hinojosaerville, illinois. >> naperville! >> hinojosa: which is a... is a... you know, near chicago, a changing part of the united states as well. but when you look at the landscape and you see so much anger on the question of immigration, what goes on in your heart as you're watching this play out in our country? >> well, it's sorrow and anger and suffering, but also, you know, i'm on the road three times a month, every month. i've been on the road now certainly since devil's highway, so i'd say since 2004 i've never stopped touring. i feel like a one-man blues band. i should get a bus, you know, and go from bar to bar. so i'll tell you that the rage and the anger and the all that nativist propaganda is manufactured. i talk to tens of thousands of people. >> hinojosa: manufactured by... >> people aren't as angry as first of all, the propagandists would have you believe. people are concerned, people are baffled, people are open, however, and curious. and i've talked to every imaginable group a

a sophisticated and fall full america believes the middle east should be is essential, but not enough. america will demonstrate its determination to stand up to enemies of israel and the bar moderate neighbors. former prime minister understood and recognized the great importance of nurturing a strategic relationship with a major power. this, if you will, is one of the foundations of our nation's security doctrine. founders of this movement were people of both vision and stature. they left behind the old order with a single goal, to create a modern society in the historic land of their forefathers. they strove to create an open society that would be a grisettes it society -- would be a progressive society. it would be jewish and democratic in the spirit of the declaration of independence up 18 -- of 1948. there would be a society where where young's -- israelis would be proud to associate. it would be a country that leads in science, technology, education, and culture. equality for all, human dignity, and quality of life. we can all be proud of the achievements the state of israel has

not in the last 70, 80 years has america seen such an accumulation of wealth among the very, very few and a disproportionate holding down of the great middle class in america. the health reform program was an effort to provide one of the most critical things that every person in every family needs and that is access to health care. we'll put that aside and come back to that. but the issue of the day today on everybody's mind, the president doing his press conference, saying he's cut a great deal with republicans. we don't think it is. last week, this house passed a very, very important piece of legislation that laid out a significant tax cut for the working men and women in america, those people who get on a bus in the morning, get in their car, commude to work, spend their eight, nine, 10 hours working, come home and take care of their family. that tax package this democratic house passed last week is a good, solid tax package, it provides a reduction in taxes for the working men and women, the middle class of america and it is simultaneously one of the most important stimuluses that we can provide to get this economy up and moving. when

cut , but i'm going to vote for this bill because i refuse to allow the middle class to be the victims of partisan gridlock. america's middle class is the reason i've come to the floor multiple times over the last six months to declare the necessity of taking a vote on these taxes. and, mr. speaker, i went to my own district. there are 334,000 households in the district. less than 1%, less than 1%, 1,092 are making $1 million or more. their argument is dead in the water with heavy sand that brings it deeper and deeper because they don't talk about the middle class. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. pascrell: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. camp: i would just say in comment to my friend's remarks, this is not about giving anybody a tax cut. this is about preventing a tax increase in a time of great unemployment that has gone on, as i said in my remarks, for more than 15 months at 9 1/2 percent. and now i'd like to yield to the distingu

it was clear there was, you know, one group was the mainstream of the middle class black america. it was clear that one group was the abandoned non-middle class black america. and then the other groups were, you know, i did think that the existence of a small but very powerful elite was something new. and so i called that the transcendent group. and then i needed a category to deal with, with other groups that didn't fit the other categories like immigrants, for example, from the caribbean and africa. and also biracial americans. and i thought that they would kind of fit into an umbrella group i called the emerging, so that's how i got to four. >> are yes. i noticed that you put new immigrants and biable people together. and you were comfortable with that, grouping them under the same umbrella? >> well, i was mostly comfortable with that. it was not precise, and it was -- it didn't make for as clean a category as the other categories. however, i thought that the similarities were -- this concept of emergent groups that were becoming more prominent, that kind of hadn't been around i

we should be focused on giving tax cuts to middle america. we should be focused on tax cuts to small businesses. we've done net tax cuts in this country of $300 billion in the last 18 months and all of those tax cuts were focused like a laser on the middle class and on small businesses. don't anybody -- don't let anybody sell you a bill of goods that the democratic party is not fighting for tax cuts for middle america and small businesses. now, we're not so excited about the millionaires. those are stimulative, they haven't created the jobs. it has been an economic experiment that's failed. once again, the trickle down didn't trickle and it's time for us to get busy, make these tax cuts permanent for the middle class, ton try to reduce our deaf -- continue to try to reduce our deficit. i see my friends -- nobody has worked harder and i've tried to be a partner with him and to reduce spending in the federal government, but this, all of a sudden we're going to take our football and go home if you don't give us what we want by monday? and here's

let's look at what's happening in north america. middle part of the continent will stay dry and settled but over towards the west and towards the east, containing lots of wet and stormy weather. now eastern canada is due to pick up some more significant snow especially eastern ontario, quebec, looking at up to 20 centimeters of snow and it will be blowing snow and lots of lake-effect snow over towards the northeastern side of the u.s. new brunswick set to pick up lots of torrential rains on tuesday. now as i said, it is going to be largely dry across the east and central portions but lots of cold air ushering from the north, dropping temperatures dramatically again. down towards the southeast we've got freeze warnings in effect for you. then towards the northwestern corner dealing with lots of showers. it's been raining here for days now so the ground here is quite saturated and we have had had reports of much later occurring in washington so more rain is not particularly welcome. 17 in seattle. 18 in denver. towards the east it is going t

america's middle class.blicans have started to wonder if they made this deal too soon. got to rap ♪ the nation's taxpayers have a crisis ♪ ♪ they might stop paying their taxes like wesley snipes ♪ >> in his latest effort to win support from his own party obama enlisted the services of former president clinton. oh, yeah. with obama swings this way and that only makes sense to call in the biggest swinger of all, the smoothest of them all, the barry white of democratic politics, slick willie, bill clinton's a bad mother -- >> shut your mouth. >> i'm just talking about bill clinton. >> i can dig it. it just gets funnier every time he welcomes paul rudd and alan black weeknights 12:35, 11:35 central time on your local nbc station. >>> it's time for your "first look" at entertainment news. last night at the premiere of his latest film johnny depp gave swarms of fans more than their money's worth. he waded into a huge crowd patiently signing autographs and posing for pictures as hundreds turned out for the italian

. >> i travel a lot, sometimes hooters is the only place in some crappy town in middle america, no offenseat i can get a decent meal. that said, it's up to parents whether they decide to bring their impressional little children whether to bring children into this joint. megyn: but they say that hooters is actually, in at least a few counties, is classified officially as an adult entertainment establishment and they say the state and local laws in california prohibit sexually oriented adult businesses from serving minors. >> you're there for the wings, you're there to watch the game, enjoy yourselves. they are not seeing anything you haven't seen in a video in terms of -- >> megyn: but is it okay that your child be exposed to those breasts? and i'm not talking about the wings and those lovely bodies, it's somehow corrupting them? >> i thank law enforcement has limited resores and i think we should focus on more dangerous cases like child predators. >> you don't think this ranks up there with that? >> i don't think so. i don't think it's sexual entertainment, there's no exposed body parts, n

to that committee, the foreign ops committee, he brought the values of middle america to our foreign policy. values based, people-oriented, again in the interest of our national security, the strength of our country and recognizing that that strength was also about our values. he then chaired the health and human services subcommittee, where he measured the strength of our country in another way, in the health, the education, the economic well being of my's working families. to see him operate on that committee was to see a master at work. we use that phrase from time to time in the case of dave obey, it is an understatement. i sometimes think when he's working of the phrase, you'll understand when you understand, because when david sees so far down the road from the rest of us, sometimes we're not quite up there with him and then he is always right. i don't know whether he's a self-fulfilling prophecy or he's just always right from the start. the start. from half a century, more transparency in our caucus, ethics reform, he has been union yielding and unflinching reformer. mr. obey

cut , but i'm going to vote for this bill because i refuse to allow the middle class to be the victims of partisan gridlock. america's middle class is the reason i've come to the floor multiple times over the last six months to declare the necessity of taking a vote on these taxes. and,r.peaker, i went to my own district. there are 334,000 households in the district. less than 1%, less than 1%, 1,092 are making $1 million or more. their argument is dead in the water th heavy sand that brings it deeper and deeper because they don't talk about the middle class. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. pascrell: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. camp: i would just say in comment to my friend's remarks, this is not about giving anybody a tax cut. this is about preventing a tax increase in a time of great unemploymenthat has gone on, as i said in my remarks, for more than 15 months at 9 1/2 percent. and now i'd like to yield to the distinguished me

. >> the unlying problem is the get middle of america has stagnated over the last 20, 25 years. not seen their well-being improved. in fact, if you eliminate the two income family, husband and wife, you've seen a decline. they are working longer, harder, two people are working and they've been stagnated. at the same time you have seen this shift to the upper levels of america's wealth. that is an underlying problem. >> greta: i'll be watching your vote to see which way you vote. >> i think you will fan consistency in what we talked about tonight. >> greta: hop you come back. next, jim demint is here he wants to run out the clock and stop the lame duck congress from passing terrible legislation. what is he doing? find out, next. >> caught on camera, shocking. more video of a gunman opening fire on a school board meeting in florida. full report, minutes away. ♪ [ male announcer ] let's be honest. no one ever wished for a smaller holiday gift. ♪ it's e lexus december to remember sales event, and for a limitetime, we're celebrating some of our greatest offers of the year. lease the

plot to undermine american ingenuity. >> i don't even know what that is. >> what the kids in middle americaon the upper west side. >> okay. "usa today," the jets' strength coach caught on camera tripping a dolphins player during sunday's game has been suspended by the team for the -- he really did that on purpose? look at this. god. suspended without pay for the rest of the season, also defined $25,000 for the incident. how do you not get fired for that? >> you know what you know what i usually complain about them not disciplining people enough. that is a strong -- >> that s. >> rex ryan, he should have done t. >> rex took care of business. >> good for rex are. >> go to politico now plate books, editor-in-chief there, mr. john harris. >> hello, willie. good to he sue. >> talk crossroads gps, the conservative group that flooded midterm elections with ads about to launch another offensive ahead of the 2012 elections. what are they up to? >> no time like the present to get going on the next election and spend what they are trying to do is put pressure on democrats, specifically folks and democ

. >> if i did not that correa a deal done on january 1, the taxes of the middle class america would not go up. that is pretty straightforward. if we did not get the correa deal done by january 1, 2 million people would have no way to support their families. you've got a situation here that was urgent for millions of people. companies but also of labor, the story was not talked about as much. i am happy to be tested over the next several months about our ability to negotiate with republicans. >> do you hope to use this two- year window to push for a broader overhaul the tax code? >> the answer is yes. part of what i want to do is essentially get the american people in a safe place so that we can then get the economy in a stable place and then we will have to have a broad based a discussion across the country about our priorities. i have started doing that yesterday down in north carolina. this will be the long-term issue. we have had two years of emergency, emergency economic action, the banking industry, the auto industry, and employment assurance, a whole range of issues, on some state

for a way to remove itself because others like china are stealing a march on america washee he's essentially stuck in the middle east like an america remove herself at this point you know i mean there are there are terrorist attacks there was a there was a bombing and in russia today there are attacks in europe as well but it seems like america is really the one that you know took that and made it the catalyst for starting a worldwide war to combat extremism it did and my old boss colin powell who recently told a group of people we are creating a terrorist industrial complex coined his phrase they're echoing ours and howard and said look they can kill us they can knock our buildings down we will mourn and it's tragic but we will not be deterred from our system they can't destroy our system only we can do that so that's a very valid point we're doing damage store sales let me tell you how much money we're spending to chase roughly four hundred al qaeda remaining in the fall. if you take the hundred billion dollars we're spending in afghanistan and you divide it out that means about a quarter of a million dollars

once again, middle-class america got dumped on again. -- the republicans got pretty much everything they wanted. once again, middle-class america got dumped on again. status quo. that's all i've got. caller: good morning. my opinion on the lame duck session is that i think they should go with what is on the table, what the senate had passed. i'm one of the 99%. i unemployment ended on the fourth. many people say they're not hiring until they know about this tax increase. i think that's nonsense. they should go ahead and pass it, instead of going back and forth with these debates. that's my opinion on all this. host: francis, a democrat in michigan. you are on the air. what do you think? caller: my concern about the lame duck session is that we favor the wealthy over the middle class and the poor. if we passed the tax bill as obama suggested, we are throwing crumbs everybody except the wealthy. they get money they do not even need. people have to consider how desperate people are. i'm in a low-income area. i worked all my life. i chose to work in a service industry. it was an independent

they were not in middle america. the practical thing is that hiv is a part of our community now. cannot deny that or ignore that. it's better to talk about that and raise awareness. host: let's hear from gerald on the line for democrats. you are on with donald blanchon. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i wanted to call in on several points. i'm 68 years old. i tested positive in 1989. the good news is that the medication, if you take it properly, it is a lifesaver. i've been undetectable since september 1, 1999. over 10 years, and it is because i've been sticking to the regimen. there is hope out there. i would recommend that to anyone. guest: i would love to say that yours is a wonderful story. you can be an advocate for treatment, but you can also be an advocate for why it makes sense for society to make sure individuals living with hiv get their medications. host: panama city, fla., ruby, republican. caller: yes, i am also a licensed practical nurse in the state of florida. i have to renew my license every year, even at the age of 77. i'm required to take at l

and especially in that broad swath of middle america, the midwest, the rust belt, the places that haveeen hit hard by unemployment over the last decade, democrats either did not come out to vote, independents did not vote for democrats, and the result was they voted for republicans or they didn't vote at all and it was a disaster for the progressives. >> santa fay new mexico, democrat's line. go ahead. caller: i'm so glad you're here. i wanted to talk to you. you mentioned president obama and governing. but what we also need more than anything else is for him to lead and we need a plan. the entire country needs one job. we need to focus on one thing that will be beneficial to the entire nation. every single state could contribute to. and my idea is simply this. the joint of creating a water desalization pipeline from san diego to el paso. if we are intent on building a wall along our southern border, let us not make it another wall such as we had in the east germans built, a berlin wall. we need a wall and we need -- we must have a partner on the other side of the border. so my idea is

, despite the fact we've been saying here for two years that he was way too far left for the middle of americai hate this bill. this tax bill, but now he is focused like a laser on jobs. and i can't believe those numbers don't start creeping up. >> also he's, i think, getting a little bump out of the one he repeatedly used over the last week and a half. compromise. he's getting a bump out of that. people want to see these fool, nitwits in congress working with the president, and that's the impression. >> it's christmas, we're hearing. that's a christmas gift to obama. >> yeah. you could just -- >> people will be saying, doctor, nurses, all the things that -- >> by the way, after they just were, gave so much on the tax deal, they can do the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. >>> up next, the top stories in the political playbook. also our business roundtable with financial adviser jean chatzky, a "new york times" business columnist jonah, but first a quick check on the forecast with bill karins. >> thanks, mika. >>> winter once against, rearing its ugly head. ice storm last night in kentucky. snow and freezing

we're talking about an economic problem america faces. middle class incomes are declining and they need a tax break. upper incomes are greatly increasing and they can help reduce the deficit and improve america. and i don't know, i heard the economist that my good friend from alabama was talking about, i believe that if you talk to them they would also tell you you get far more bang for the buck in other types of policies to get the economy going than in giving an additional huge tax break to the millionaires and the billionaires. and we're not going to stop. they hide for 15 or 20 years -- the other party has hid behind the idea, don't increase taxes on anybody. code words. it means don't increase taxes on millionaires. that's what they care about. because right now i've offered them a deal. give everybody else the tax break except the millionaires. they're going to take it? of course not. because the millionaires come first in the economic books of my friends -- most of my friends on the other side of the aisle. but let me tell you something,

if there's one thing we can agree on, it's the urgent work of protecting middle class families, removing uncertainty for america's businesses and giving our economy a boost as we head into the new year. >> white house press secretary robert gibbs responded for the first time to that now famous nearly nine-hour filibuster led by new progressive hero bernie sanders in protest of the tax deal. >> let me address just tangentially about what you said about mr. sanders. the president would be the first to agree that there are -- there are aspects of it he doesn't like. rather than threaten our economic recovery, the president believed that this bipartisan agreement was the best way to go. >> so gibbs seeming to approve sanders' philosophical point but not the tactic he used to make it. house democrats are scheduled to meet in a closed door caucus tonight to discuss the tax package. that meeting comes after democratic leaders said they would not schedule a vote on the tax bill without some changes, specifically the higher estate tax. however, house majority leader steny hoyer predicted his chamber would ultimately appro

that's the middle class of america. what are we doing for them? what are we doing for that middle class? every time i hear that $250,000 and below is middle class i'm thinking wait a second, you're talking about the top 5% in america. if you want to talk about the broad middle class you've got to start talking about people making less than $100,000 a year. what are we doing for them? it seems to me if we're going to have tax breaks and stuff we ought to think about this group. and in that group -- in that group -- of the broad middle class is the army of the unemployed. that's where the unemployed are. the unemployed are not on wall street. they got their bailouts. they're getting $1 million bonuses this year. and my friends on the republican side want to extend the tax breaks so not only do they get their $1 million bonuses they won't have to pay their fair share of taxes on them either. not to mention that some of them are getting these bonuses the way they're getting their money they're being charged at the lowest possible tax rate. not as great

we are middle america and embrace middle-class values. the more of indiana we can have in washington, frankly, the better washington will be. to my fellow hoosiers, let me say that while my time in the senate is drawing to a close, my love for you and devotions to our state will remain everlasting. as i begin my final remarks, my final former remarks on this floor, my mind goes back to my first speech as a united states senator. it was an unusual beginning. i was the 94th senator to deliver remarks in the first impeachment trial of a president since 1868. the session was closed to the public, emotions ran high, partisan divisions were deep. it was a constitutional crisis, and the eyes of the nation and the world looked to the senate. my first day as senator, i was sworn in as a juror in that trial. there were no rules. all 100 of us gathered in the old senate chamber. the debate was hot, but we listened to each other. we all knew that the fate of the nation and the judgment of history, things far more important than party loyalty or ideol

america that is talent. quite a different challenge, which is the growth of a middle class, on almost every continent in the world. tavis: you narg the book that markets -- argue in the book that markets need morals. let me say to you at best, some would find that oxymoronic and at worse, laughable that markets can, in fact, have morals. >> i think you have to underpin free markets. important in your family life, the way you deal with your neighbors and the way you expect a small business to operate. if you don't value integrity and responsibility and fairness and people doing the duty and telling truth, then you don't have a successful economy in long run. what happened is that wall street and the financial institutions and britain and elsewhere forgot at the center of the economy there has got to be trust. they shreded the trust that people have and they made these banking institutions difficult for people to support and even want or the part of. ymbing i think the lesson for the future is you need not to underpin. belief in fairness and responsibility and so we should build into our rules and standards f