recently ryan made these comments about innercity poverty on bill bennett's radio show. listen. >> we have got this tail spin of culture this our inner cities in particular of men not working and generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and culture of work. and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with. >> so ryan eventually offered an apology calling his open words inarticulate about the point i was trying to go make. regardless, it made for a tough moment at a recent town hall in his own hometown. >> bottom line is this. this statement was not true. i'll point it out to you why it wasn't true. as a code board for black -- >> this is not a race thing. it's a poor thing. poverty knows no racial boundaries. that's the issue i'm trying to get at which is we have to rethink our war on poverty in our program so is that it always pays to work. because we have these incentives to people pot to work. that's the whole point i'm trying to make. which grant you -- race -- you don't know me. i get it. you don't know who i real