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the people that they heard from were local chamber of commerce types in their home towns, some bigger donors, as well. we heard a lot about the koch brothers, for example. there was a sense that we are not going to keep giving you money if you don't actually show us that you are doing the things that we were trying to get you there to do. i think that was a very real fear and concern and it is motivating a lot of this. i also think overall the politics of it, the momentum, the challenge of the failed obamacare vote and the way that people felt it made them look, i think all has add up to this being i don't want to say inevitable but almost politically intevitable they would get this done. no choice it was do or die. for paul ryan it is a unique thing because he spent his career on this. >> i wonder what paul ryan might want to do with entitlements. peter, the white house has delayed the briefing until after the vote. president trump sold himself as a populist on the campaign trail. he sold himself as providing a massive tax cut to the middle class, a tax cut that would not benefit him. we haven't seen his taxes so we don't know for sure. w

. >> that they gave us in the chambers but as we were walking up the steps i am walking with brother cornell and as we walked past a couple of security police but then we continue walking in and i turned to brother and say what was that about? he says this is the first time i was ever to the supreme court not to get elected left laugh. >> that was martin luther king day. >> chief justice roberts was so gracious that was magnificent. >> there is a new 25th edition out of your book and in the new introduction cornell west you rightly live in one of the darkest moments of american history spiritual blackout and imperial meltdown. >> with integrity and honesty we have normalized our way of life and naturalized criminalityf making the crimes look as if they are natural. it could be a drone strike or wall street to engage in predatory lending so many different ways i call it four fight back because it isn't just a political issue but a moral and spiritual issue and only by example we need young people to say we still have love willing to fight and disagree not by abstract but the example.

chambers by the chief justice. as we were walking the steps in front of the supreme court to go into the building, i'm walking with brother cornel, and as we walked past a couple of police officers, security, i see one of them catch cornel i and the two of them, cornel and the officer stared at each other from a up and give each other a little head nod and we continue walking. i turned to brother cornel and i said what was that all about? he said brother robbie, this is the first time i've ever been to the supreme court when i was in here to get arrested and that the officer who arrested me. >> via just arrested me two weeks earlier. [laughing] that was on martin luther king day we went to jail i think to pick at wall street or something tragic chief justice roberts was so gracious. >> that was a magnificent, magnificent moment. >> host: there is a new 25th edition out of your best-selling book "race matters" and in the new introduction to that book cornel west, you're right within one of the darkest moments in american history, a bleak time of spiritual blackout anti-imperial meltdown. >> guest: yeah, that spiritual blac