and new york city called middle america, where we live. many of the indian reservations are in middle america. we have much land, a lot of poverty. one of the things that i like to remind audience, is the american indians are the only ones mentioned in article 6 of the united states constitution where, in fact, the quote is to honor all treaties made by this government and the united states of america. so, when we go to washington, d.c., and we're always in washington, d.c. trying to get one more penny for health care, one more penny for education. the question arises, if we are mentioned in the constitution of this country's founding documents, why are we always hustling around trying to get more money to address the poverty in our communities? the other thing i want to be very clear is that we have at this point, that the majority of the women who work in tribal communities are women. and most of them are college graduates in our tribal community are women. many of the positions held in our tribal communities, whether they be principals,

. >> if i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america. i've been reading that for years. true? >> there's no evidence that lyndon johnson ever said that, and the power of the anecdote that's discussed in "getting it wrong" called the cronkite moment, supposedly lyndon johnson was watching the cronkite show, and at the end of it, johnson supposedly leaned over and snapped off the television set and said something to the effect of, if i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america, or if i've lost cronkite, i've lost the war, or if i've lost cronkite, i've lost the country. there are various versions as to what he said, a lot of various versions as to what johnson supposedly said. that in my view right off the bat is a tip-off, a marker of a media-driven myth. if you can't get the story straight as to what the president said in reaction to this, there's something wrong with it. more than that, it doesn't take much research to find out that lyndon johnson was not at the white house that night. he was not in front of a television set. he was in austin, texas, attending the 51st birth

ten i mean and the techniques those people used to get elected nixon was the man appealing to middle america but he was the really a hands on political strategist he could manipulate liberals i mean he we have him on tape he'll say well if i put out the stories you know the liberals will react this way and and then we'll put out this story and and that's the story we really want to get out and they're still busy responding to this earlier which we don't even care about anymore and he was always playing chess and he was always two steps ahead and the press people talk about well the press hated nixon well yeah after watergate became a big story it was not a big story a week after it happened it faded from the news it was zero factor in the seventy two election it was not until march of seventy three. and that was well after the november seventy two election the watergate happened in seventy two that it became front page news again because most of the mainstream press ten to one favored nixon nixon had and the nixon had great relations with the press he had ten thousand journalists he called t

. >> like much of middle america these churches have fallen on hard times. "our members are middle-class and have many needs. their struggles have strained the churches resources." donations are down by $700,000 per year. and the land they planned to build on has lost much of their valley which makes it impossible for them to finance the outstanding loans. muse gives to his waterfront home to keep the church afloat. he said the church as but those expansion plans on hold there in no danger of closing, simply reorganizing debt. >> this is bad news to drive them to bankruptcy. i would like to see that church make it. >> mark segraves, abc 7 news. 9>> still ahead, these small price break coming for the people who use cabs to get around. >> also you may have to crank up the air-conditioning later this week. >> roger clemens gets the verdict and i have the latest. the nats tried to get over the yankees spanking. and the heat turned up in okc. lebron exists statement. will it be >> you are watching abc 7 news at 6:00. >> the first day of the metro new rush + schedu

i don't think middle america is paying attention to this trial absent a smoking gun. >> pun intended.> they sure will be if the nra has something to say about it. >> hogan, say it, say it. this theory is crazy. go ahead and admit it. >> i don't know if the theory is crazy or not. >> come on, hogan. >> they're putting it out here and making this thing relevant for november. no, they don't like this president. that's pretty obvious. >> kyle, what do you think about the three democrats on who got donations from the nra but didn't sign that letter to the president about fast and furious. how important will losing the nra support be? do you think they'll lose it? >> i couldn't tell you if they'll lose it or not. that's the definition of walking a fine live when you're talking about conservative to moderate democrats and how they deal with this nra endorsement. it's something that they want desperately, but also a really big problem if their opponent, if they're running in a moderate to conservative district, their opponent is probably primed and really ready to take that nra endorsement an

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. >> reporter: rolling down the highways of middle america, the nuns on the bus are hard to miss. their driver bill says he normally carts around famous musicians. well, these nuns including 81- year-old sister diane donahue from los angeles say they feel like they're get rock star treatment. >> hi, there. >> that's the most amazing thing when you walk out of the bus and you see the excitement and the anticipation. >> reporter: the nuns are attracting crowds of supporters of the stop. they plan to drive more than 2,000 miles through nine states ending up in washington d.c. july 2nd. the a man purpose of the bus tour is with us -- the main purpose of bus tour is wisconsin congressman paul ryan's passed budget plan which ryan says is in tune with his catholic faith even though it cuts services to poor. >> congressman ryan claiming the catholicism mantle really set our teeth on edge. >> reporter: the nuns stopped at ryan's wisconsin office tuesday delivering to one of his staffers what they call a faithful budget proposal that protects the poor. the idea for the bus tour came after t

charges of vulture capitalism in the beltway, you hear people say they didn't play well, yet out in middle america, and in focus groups, i think you get a different reaction. what will be the reaction to this? >> i still think we're at the very beginning of this conversation. mitt romney so far is sticking to his line which is i have experience in the private sector. he doesn't want to go beyond that to discuss specifically what he did at bain. the obama campaign is determined to hit them over and over again all through the summer and they have had some success in these swing states doing this. i think this is just another piece of that. romney's going to have to be able to establish a difference between his experience in the private sector, which is not about creating jobs. i think everybody admits here, it was creating more efficient companies, about increasing profits, and lowering the cost of products. and what he plans to do when he comes into office, which is not outsourcing jobs, despite what chicago is sort of saying right now. a vote for mitt romney is a vote for offshoring more jobs. mit

get a lot of their political information from gangsta rap i mean that is a seminal vehicle to middle america to who they should be voting for so i think i mean educated on the gangsta rap of the talk a lot about the east coast versus west coast. and you probably pick out a lot of political those names and they're right i mean i remember biggie and tupac always drop and lyrical bombs about their state represent their congressional representatives and you know their favorite senators so i've nailed this one nailed it i still reference you know public enemy lyrics. however i mean i think it's not necessarily a great argument like i was going to take the approach of you know jazz didn't really do anything but i guess then again you know you couldn't really vote at the time and america so. yeah i don't know if i buy it first like i don't trust him this is. no no no you know you hello because he loves coco you know now is the only way to go it is going to do with like you know being in body count and now he's just like a crappy actor but not in order and i think we could see that rap didn't elect

partially responsible for this ignorance with a misinformation campaign that has swept across middle america like a wildfire so for trying to explain away rulings he doesn't like he is tonight's top time winner. all right so this is interesting the sort of banal fitters is not what you may think it is despite what seems to be a store for you know alternative hipsters it's actually owned by a very conservative man richard hain who was a pretty big donor for presidential candidate rick santorum so it's not surprising then now at urban. fitters you might see t. shirts with mitt romney's face on them but that's not what's causing problems or making waves other teachers you can find there are extremely racist this is the subject of an article written by lauren kelley associate editor at alter net hey there lauren. i guess i was really surprised to learn that that the owner of this store i mean i go to urban outfitters quite a bit and you don't see a lot of you know so-called republicans in there i know this is probably possibly you know small minded of me or stereotypical but resupplies to learn

have so many members some of whom are profiled in my book who work in fine dining restaurants in middle america and take home two or three hundred dollars a week so that particular worker the server who earns sixty thousand year is actually very very rare in this industry of ten million the majority of folks on the techno wage in fact if you look at the data folks on the top minimum wage there median wage is eight ninety six below the poverty line for a family of three and so you've got an industry in which servers servers in particular not even the dishwashers who are less pay than servers servers in particular have three times the poverty rate of the rest of the american workforce and they use food stamps at double the rate of numerical workforce meaning the people who bring food to our table can't afford to eat themselves just crazy real quick we're almost out of time i wanted you to point out a couple chain restaurants are i saw five guys in a now these are restaurants that people work at that actually do treat their employees well give me give me two or three more that people should attend

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middle america has not recovered the prosperity which it knew in 2007, period. martha: of course prices on everything that we buy have not come down commensurate with that new reality of that wealth. >> that is the spending power of the money in your pocket. it has gone down some more since 2010 when those numbers were factored in. martha: tough numbers to think about but that's the reality and the report from the federal reserve this morning. thank you so much. stuart varney from the fox business network. rick? rick: eric holder on the hot seat once again. the attorney general is set to face the senate judiciary committee today. likely facing a barrage questions about the threat of contempt of congress over the "fast and furious" program. some lawmakers say holder has failed to cooperate with subpoenas from congress. and yesterday the white house responding to the contempt proceedings. >> "fast and furious", the house is moving towards a vote, contempt vote. what is the white house view on it? >> white house view. [laughter] as you know, ed, fighting criminal a

the country on the bus tour and then president obama focusing in on -- i don't know if it is middle americaymore. it is people being hit hard in the economy. michael. >> it is a rural issue, but it is a result of technology. this is the most sophisticated campaign for the presidency. you think of the front page story a couple of days ago. they are not just going into big markets and spending dollars. they are narrowly focused. they know where the votes lie that they need to win in the electoral college. this is a result of that strategy. >> michael, thank you. a.b., i'll let you get the last word on this as michael goes back to his worldwide audience. a.b., here we are in the summer -- is a.b. still there? >> i'm here. >> i didn't see you anymore. we have people getting ready for summer vacations. what about the strategy of the president giving interviews of local television and romney hitting the bus trying this before the end of summer and the big guns come out. >> both campaigns are worried about every single vote. they are worried that people in the communities are disengaging from the

things are out there on main street and proving night after night he has no shame in misinforming middle americadies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> this notion that somehow we have caused the deficit is just wrong. it's just not true. if they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures, suggesting it's true. what they are not telling you is they baked all this stuff in the cake with those tax cu cuts. prescription drug plan they didn't pay for. so all of this stuff is baked in, with all the interest payments for it. it's like somebody goes to a restaurant, orders a big steak dinner, martini, all this stuff. then just as you are sitting down, they leave. and accuse you of running up the tab. >> eric: really? ignore the facts and figures? reality? let's not ignored the facts and figures. break them down inside. unlike approximatelytitions, mr. president, the numbers don't lie. take a look. president bush in 2008. average annual receipts outlays and deficit. look. about the same for both bush and obama. $2.2 trillion for bush. that means the taxes collected. $2.1 tr

middle america blames wall street.t seems millions blame congress for the gridlock and dysfunction. how did we get here? that's the question posed by an author of a new book "twilight of the elites" joining me now, author chris hayes, host of "up with hayes" on msnbc every saturday and sunday and author of this book. congratulations on getting your first book out there. >> fantastic, thank you. >> so take us in a broad sense. who do you blame for the problems? who is behind this, in your view? >> what i think we have seen is, this cascade of institutional failure and elite failure over the course of the decade. let's remember, the iraq war, we watched katrina drown the city of new orleans on national television. >> dissipated. >> after talking about watergate, during watergate, there was a sense in the country we were under going a crisis of authority in which faith in our institutions was at an all-time low. and organizations like gallup and general sources started polling on it and it turns out in retrospect that was

do you think in cocoa mow, indiana bobby and susie middle america get up and say god that eric holder bill: absolutely right. it's cumulative though. >> nobody cares. >> bill: if they keep hearing nips about national security leaks and fast and furious over here. you know how that waters down anybody. and the president canned afor the. >> i have never seen a presidential election go on the basis of a cabinet member. >> bill: stand by your man then. >> absolutely. these guys accusing him like issa himself almost got indicted for car theft. >> what about the president hanging around with the swells. tonight he is over at sara i can't jessica parker's house raising the money george clooney's house what about running around with those. the folks don't like that, do they? >> you didn't get invited? no they don't like me over. >> there i wasn't invited either. >> bill: i think they like you less than me. >> that's a given. i don't get invited. i don't get invited to the christmas party. >> bill: no, i don't. >> yes, do you. >> bill: is he hanging with the rich liberal swells. the folks aren

things are out there on main street and proving night after night he has no shame in misinforming middle americatlemen, the president of the united states. >> this notion that somehow we have caused the deficit is just wrong. it's just not true. if they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures, suggesting it's true. what they are not telling you is they baked all this stuff in the cake with those tax cu cuts. prescription drug plan they didn't pay for.

going on and to y comments like what we heard the past few weeks where they don't understand how middle america is really struggling. for me, we are out there. we are hearing it. we are feeling it. it is not even that we are he r hearing it. you can just feel it. it is in the air. and there is just something happening out there that is we are not going to go with four more years of this. we want change and we want a new direction. so, you know, i'm just sensing it and feeling it and -- >> sean: you feel a different, i guess -- you are just getting a different feel than what you felt in 2008 maybe when you are out with senator mccain. >> very different. >> sean: joe biden said the greatest cities are in china, not the u.s. i'm sure you take issue with that, governor. >> absolutely. this country is unique. it's exceptional. it has done more to free people from tyranny than any nation on earth. the policies of free enterprise and freedom and opportunity b being copied in various places around the world are fortunat fortunately lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. this nation is extraordina

>> charlie: there's nothing, i think, more to be scared about than what's happened to the middle class in america. the middle class is the essence of america. >> yeah. i think we all do better -- >> charlie: and the essence of america, the majority, and yet their standard of living, their sense of the future, you know, is shrinking. >> right. that's right. >> charlie: they're shrinking. their numbers are shrinking. >> so you have that as a backdrop. we've had the ate other type itr history, say in the 1920s. on the rules of the road, these common-sense rules of the road, is to think about, you know, my mom and dad -- >> charlie: i want you to think at this table now larger. what are we doing wrong so that somehow the middle class is shrinking in america? is it the fact that we've made rules that only be benefit the , and 1% controls everything, so therefore the system only works for them? >> well, i'd like to think it works much broader than that. >> charlie: you'd like and don't or you'd like to and believe it does? i mean, this is the essence of one of the great questions in america today. >> i

i said that this is a make or break moment for america's middle class the policies the president put in place to make america create more jobs how does generate good middle class matter of fact made it harder for america to create more jobs our economy will be truly healthy a bill. that much longer and the rule of middle class jobs and the middle class and go. i want to make it once again america once again the most attractive place in the world for job creators and it's not just because of the job creators it's because i look job so there you have it different to two different futures although they disagree on the means both agree that the state of the economic union is weak but let's break down just how bad things are right now just last week there was a spike in americans applying for unemployment aid as hiring remains sluggish according to the federal reserve americans have seen their wealth plummet forty percent between two thousand and seven and two thousand and ten looking bleak for college grads fifty percent of them can't get jobs more than seven out of ten teens without a jo