and then we will discuss syria with martha mccallum. "the factor" is coming right back. >>> tonight, poverty in america. if you make less than $12,000 a year you are poor. a family of four brings in less than $23,000 a year, you are poor. in 2008 the poverty rate in the usa was 13.2%. in 2011 it is 15%. that's according to the census bureau. the same organization put together what the poor have in their homes. television, 96% of the poor have tv. cell phone, 81%. refrigerator, 98%. air conditioner, 83%. computer, 58%. washer/dryer, 65% combined. based on the stats, the poverty description may have to be redefined in america. fox news anchor geraldo rivera. you were raised in modest circumstance on long island. i had a better deal than you did. your father was a cabdriver and a restaurant worker, right? a kitchen worker? but you didn't consider yourself poor? >> no, my dad never made more than $10,000 a year and we considered ourselves solidly in the middle class. that has changed tremendously. i don't want to be the grinch that stole ch

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today, general egres, the head of the free syrian army had an interview with martha mccallum on fox. he said if there is a light strike, it will do more damage to the rebel forces. what do you think of the reporting of the rebels? it is obviously difficult to get ground truth here throughout all of this. >> i think a turning point was the new york times with the front page photo the other day and the video obtained by the newspaper of syrian rebels lining up the civilians and executing them. that means whose side are we intervening on? at the same time, there are members on capitol hill who would support it if it was george w. bush are pushing this. some know we don't want any part of this. some are weary of the middle east entanglements. this one-time strike that he is talking about may not be one time. it could drag on. >> this administration says it has taken so long to get weapons to the rebel forces is because they were trying to vet them. >> this goes back. keep in mind last summer, the cia director at the time, who is now gone, the secretary of defense at the time, went to the

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