george packer, i'm so grateful to have you.o hope you'll come back at some point with with more of your reporting when you have it. thank you thank you. >> all right time now for sports. the la clippers open their new $2 billion home with a hard fought loss to the suns in overtime andy schultz has this morning's bleacher report andy good morning. yeah. good morning katie. the clippers owner steve ballmer. you know he built this arena for the fans. he wants everything seamless. he wants everyone in their seats cheering. and that's why the intuit dome has more than 1400 toilets. never a line for the bathroom which which is great. i can definitely get behind that now the suns kevin durant he called the new arena the best he's ever been in that scoreboard inside i mean look at that. it's just amazing. now the fans got treated to a thrilling first game. phoenix was down two with under 30s left and kd the tough fadeaway there to tie the game. we would go to overtime and three seconds left. clippers needed three but grayson allen stea

joining us now, staff writer at "the atlantic," george packer.three factors that will decide the election" profiles charleroi and explains how the town embodies the country's changing political dynamics. good to have you on the show, george. tell us more about what is happening in charleroi and how it pertains to the election as a whole. >> i went out there because there are two things that have happened recently that really are a microcosm, i think, for what's happened across the rust belt. one is working class jobs leaving over many years, and including now a glass factory that had been opened since the 1890s. the private equity partners who own the company that controls that factor announced they were shutting it down and moving some of the operations to ohio. that'd be over 300 union jobs lost to a town that's already lost hundreds and hundreds of jobs and a lot of its population. the other thing last month, donald trump heard about charleroi, heard about it, and started talking about haitians. there have been 2,000 or so migrants arriving in

and george packer, this takes me to your question. the last one is nativist anger but you want to also argue that education, not race, is the starkest division in the country. and in the history of the united states, nativism and race are intimately linked. and in so many ways, race is the mode by which class is experienced through the united states. talk a little bit more about that claim particularly when we know that the kkk's presence in a town like the one in pennsylvania is having an impact. talk about more this education as opposed to race, as the starkest division. >> well, just the kkk i don't think is there but a flier from kentucky started circulating there and it freaked people out. a lot of haitians decided not to go out on the street. i think that you are absolutely right. race and class and the interaction between them finding and the determinant factors in this election and in the last two elections. but the sharpest divide in our politics today is education. it's whether you have a college degree or not. that's the li