country i'm joined in the studio by robert borsak co-director of the campaign for america's future heather mcghee director of deimos his washington office leo hindery chairman of the economic growth smart globalization initiative at the new america foundation and a member of the council on foreign relations natalie foster co-founder of the rebuild the dream organization and from the university of california berkeley former labor secretary robert reich so welcome back so far we've looked deep into the abyss into which the american people are plunged in two thousand and eight in the really scary prospects for countries of conservative ideology prevails going forward so let's shift gears now and focus on solutions that could actually work in the novel idea what's going to take to turn our economy around what's it going to take to rebuild the military the middle class and create greater opportunities for all of us moving forward so to kick start this conversation to play a video made by natalie your organization rebuild the dream here take a look at this. project for the american dream has. all right

america's future also runs an annual gathering of progressive called take back the american dream heather mcghee is the director of demos his office washington office demos. attack you have heather is also de deputy public policy director for domestic and economic policy on the two thousand and eight john edwards for president campaign and she coauthored a chap. on retirement insecurity in the book inequality matters the growing economic divide in america and its poisonous consequences leo hindery is the chairman of the economic growth smart globalization initiative at the new america foundation and a member of the council on foreign relations leo is currently an investment investor in media companies and is the former c.e.o. of telecommunications and liberty media and their successor eighteen t. broadband natalie foster is the co-founder of rebuild the dream an organization focused on strengthening working families by creating good jobs and making sure that all americans pay their fair share of taxes natalie was pivotal in organizing more than nine hundred house meetings across the united state

heather mcghee. christian otter and sam seeder, host of radio show majority report live daily at majority.mn and co-host of "ring of fire." also, i will say that the pioneer of the sweater vest which has now absolutely colonized the nation. >> that's right. now -- >> and now you are turning away. you are too cool for it. >> ruined it. exactly. same thing happened. >> you don't wear tonight the spring. >> no, it got ruined. once it gets too mainstream forget it. >> rick santorum and foster freese. multimillionaire backer of the super pac associated with rick santorum also likes to -- >> if he is willing to make me the way he's backing -- i will reconsider. >> since we are talking about rick santorum, i thought we would stay on the topic we played this bitter of sound yesterday that was uncovered by people for the american way. and it was rick santorum speaking to ave maria college. let's play that sound first just so people can hear what we thought was the most jaw-dropping moment in a speech that was

special teachin to take back the american dream want to thank our amazing panels even robert heather mcghee leo hindery natalie foster and secretary former secretary robert reich for your great insights one final note this can all seem forbidding after all this is the worst economic recession since the great depression the greatest inequality since the eve of the great depression the worst long term unemployment since the great depression the worst housing crisis since the great depression the worst trade deficits ever and college students carrying the deepest debt ever but here's the reality we were pretty clear idea about the policies and the excesses that drove us off the cliff and we have a pretty clear idea about major reforms vital to rebuild the middle class revive the mirror. dream question now is whether we the people can do enough mobilizing and organizing and educating and agitating to challenge the misrule of big money and special interests of conservative ideas and corrupted politics we've done it before starting at the beginning of the last century and populous in the rest of