i want to go to charlie black.er the six-month period he's not met with his business council he had a hundred fundraisers. the economy is in lousy shape. i don't know why he isn't meeting with them. a lot of proposals like corporate tax reform have gone nowhere. many of the guys on the committee aren't even backing him, charlie. what's your take on this? >> it's really too bad he doesn't meet with them. since bill left the white house there is not a single business person in the building. not a single business person with experience in how to create jobs works there. i suspect he can't like what they proposed. i know people on the council. they wanted corporate tax return to lead to lower corporate tax rates. they wanted to rein in spending, reduce regulations. they proposed more free trade agreements which the president is negotiated none of. >> let me say this. one of the reasons i think any business person -- and it is hard to get senior business people to go into any government agency, much less even at an advi

charlie basel. he would say to black audiences, he would say don't ask me how many blacks i will have in my government is green if they do the job to make your neighborhood safer and cleaner, and that's what the average american cares about. >> i think that's true. >> i think the money problem is this. if people at home feel they've heard this message and don't like rich politicians, well, the median household is about 75,000. the average of u.s. senator's net worth is $13 million. we have talked about that on msnbc before. if you think this is a problem this is not a mitt romney problem. to finish, both parties, because of the system we have, we are electing richer and richer people, so we have to look extra hard at policies, fix the infrastructure campaign finance as well. if you don't like mitt romney for this, you have a whole problem with the whole senate and barack obama is much wealthier than most people it helps him focus on jobs and spending. >> i love the fact that president obama paid off his student loans basically moments before taking his u.s. senate seat, in part because certainly he's

charlie ] try zinc free super poligrip. >>> inside belgium's prison hasselt, inmate burack ersen has just spent his second night in an isolation cell. he's there for getting into a fight with another inmate. >> i'm the black. if there's ever anything, it's always me. >> this morning he will meet the prison's disciplinary committee to find out if there will be any further punishment. the inmate he fought, erik franzen, will also go before the disciplinary committee. but he seems no more concerned now than he was when he casually walked away from the fight as officers swarmed burack. >> what do you think is going to happen? >> i don't know. >> are you worried? >> no, no. >> no? >> prison officials claim that erik franzen is a well behaved inmate and it's only his violent reputation outside of prison that requires them to house him in section 20. >> with the police he has a very heavy reputation that he's a very heavy guy in the criminal environments. it is a reputation that follows him and he has a lot of crimes and it's often with guns. >> i'm 39 years old. i was before ten years in jail for armed robberies and then i go free and i come back for two years for a fight. and now i'm in jail, they think i kill

black press interviews since 200 9. >> sean: why isn't he showing up? is he afraid because of the horr ific numbers? >> he's not afraid. unfortunately, we can look at marion barry being re-elected. charlie rangel in harlem. sometimes we can be loyal to a fault. but mitt romney -- >> no, no -- >> sean: you are saying that it's race based, then. >> no, no, no. that's not true. let me statistical you something -- >> i didn't get to finish. >> i apologize. >> i think that some of it is race based. i think some of it is that we do want to support a black president. but i commend romney for showing up and putting the facts in our faces what have we could do and what obama hasn't done. >> but what i object to, angela, is the smearing of marion barry, he has been in service to the broader community -- >> greta: he was -- >> sean: he was on video smoking crack cocaine. >> a lot of people have a lot of problems. there is a lot -- no! angela. that is out of line. >> as a former activist in washington, d.c. -- >> i'm an activist, too. and he was may mior in washington. >> firsthand, viseen how we got volunteers from howard university to help welfare mothers in d.c. get their g.e.d. let's talk about

he joined their line of service as a member of charlie company first battalion 26th marine regiment and was wounded. but when presented with a choice of blackold or scarlet and gold, my dad was the old soldier. he ended up winning out. as fate would have it in 1999, 17 years after being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the united states army, i received orders to report to united states marine corps base for a three-year joint exchange assignment. i finally was able to walk the sacred ground of montford point, where the giants once tread. where the crucible of prejudice was beaten by men whom had been my unseen mentors and heroes. it was truly an odd blessing that a young army major was promoted to lieutenant colonel, my final promotion, at camp lejeune, by a marine general. somehow it seemed as if the ghosts of these giants looked over to the second marine expedition headquarters from across onslow bay. with a tear in their eye and with a smile on their face i heard them say, hoorah, army doggie, we are proud of you. today my journey is complete. i have come full circle to a member of the united states house of representatives and a

obama claimed the black vote because it had been thought for a year -- >> with clyburn hopie helping him. >> her base was going to be african-americans and blue collar whites. >> it was charlie50% of the white vote. that's when everybody realized he had the coalition. play that game out in terms of what you said about bill clinton. does it help hillary clinton to have obama get re-elected? >> that's a tough one. >> is it better for her in pure political terms for him to lose 2012 and have no joe biden as an incumbent and have a clean field? >> the ideal would be you don't want to go against a president when there's an economic rebound. i think the cycle moves. steve knows this. an upturn business will do everything they can to help him. it will be happy days are here again for the republicans who don't like regulation and corporate taxes. they'll be happy as hell when they get back in there. i don't think you want to run against an incumbent president. bill clinton i think has to talk hillary clinton into running. he euchres into it by clearing the field. she's not going to have to run against any heavy weight. biden will be discouraged at some point. i don't think cuomo tra