i think lippman probably would have felt the same way but darrow was a very common man. there are letters in which people talk about the fact that he had dirty fingernails and egg on his ties and he always looked like he is slept in his suit. i just don't see that fitting in well with the kind of intellectual liberals that lippman represented. >> thank you. >> i have one. i seem to be the very odd man out in this gathering and my history, as they came to -- came to birth and an era and time where, if you didn't have it ph.d. in science, you are doomed to be a lowbrow and a ne'er-do-well. so, notwithstanding the fact that i liked literature and so juan, my dear parents forced me into a science career, costing me five bucks a year, courtesy of the city college of new york. so, my impression of clarence darrow is almost entirely different than the collective impressions here. i thought of him as a sort of a bad guy who was a tool of the richer classes. he was the one that took down scopes who was the one who had truth on his side. so, the scopes trial in my early thinking s

. >> joanne lippman, we have to create confidence. that will be interesting to see how they do that. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >>> president obama today renewed his push for federal spending on bridge, highway and other construction jobs, standing under the aging bridges that connect cincinnati, ohio to kentucky. the president had an in-your-face message for critics who label his jobs plans higher taxes on the wealthy as class warfare. >> if asking a billionaire to pay their fair share of taxes, to pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare, then you know what? i'm a warrior for the middle class. >> our senior political analyst ron brownstein is the political director of the national journal. campaign on. >> in for a dime, in for a dollar. really doubling down on the message today, not historically of his identity, much more about bringing the country together, but faced with the likelihood of stalemate in congress on the substance of this idea, these ideas, really, both his jobs plan, his long-term de