i know that middle america l to san francisco. so what can the city's do not only the tech world is leading the world but in the technology industries they're not as progressive as in the tech community part what are your thoughts in the tech community leading the way to be more progressive on immigration and the city of san francisco leading the way for other cities of embracing immigrants. people not knowing we pay the same taxes and have the same obliterations as the rest of the americans. so what can the city and a tech destroy do. that's why the silicon leadership group who have all those members to make sure that all clusters emphasize the need for all immigration. we want to get to one more person >> i'm here actually, i went through the exact same issue i was a foreign student and it took me looked at to get the green card. i'm not sure in the category i see less than 20 thousand people in america - the question i have why people say the farm worker when you look at the - they have the h1 b visa which means allowing both p

i know that middle america looks up to san francisco. so what can the city's do not only the tech world is leading the world but in the technology industries they're not as progressive as in the tech community part what are your thoughts in the tech community leading the way to be more progressive on immigration and the city of san francisco leading the way for other cities of embracing immigrants. people not knowing we pay the same taxes and have the same obliterations as the rest of the americans. so what

so i think it becomes problematic in middle america. >> but interestingly, he is still seen as warm.here's a quinnipiac poll from the beginning of the month and it shows that christie and hillary clinton are the two hottest politicians, meaning people have the most favorable or warm feelings about them. and, yet, kevin, i'll put this one to you, republican voters among them christie falls behind. so, why is he lagging in his own party? >> well, look, i think a lot of it has to do with the fact that he has gotten a certain level of really good press because he has been -- he's had a willingness to criticize folks like rand paul and criticize folks like john boehner, and that hasn't got him the certain degree of goodwill within the party. many people see him as either scornful of the party or lecturing the party rather than being a bit of a team player. and i think this goes to a point that i think that cornell was making which is that this may play in new jersey, but when you go beyond new jersey and you start to go to places like sioux city, iowa, or manchester, new hampshire, it's n

as far as middle america goes, jay leno is the king of middle america. it's the best place to go.master of the no follow-up question. ly not get a tough back ended question. he can go traven yvon to brocco >> overall do you think he did a good job? >> i think jay leno did a great job of interviewing barack obama and i think barack obama did a great job of campaigning to be for the rest of his presidency. >> yeah. it is his. >> yeah. >> he doesn't have to run again. >> he is running can i finish it? >> time is of the essence. great to have you here. >> "totally biased." complete biased. >> excuse me. premi premieres on fxx. you can watch lauren o'donnell's interview with jay leno at msnbc.com. thank you so much. [ female announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day women's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for women's health concerns as we age. with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day women's 50+. with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. a quarter million tweeters is beare tweeting. and 900 million dollars are chan

. >>> now, you may recall when president lyndon johnson said if i lost cronkite i lost middle america to bob filner. leaders on both side are calling for his resignation. four hooters restaurants in san diego have posted signs saying they will not serve him. respect for women and a belief that people should have high standards. if he's lost hooters he's lost san diego. >>> speaking of san diego, we're getting a major announcement from what many believe -- consider as the mayor of san diego. >> do you know who i am? >> no. i can't say that i do. >> i don't know how to put this. but, i'm kind of a big deal. >> really? >> people know me. >> ron burgundy is finally writing a memoir the beloved television anchor will write a tell-all. it's due out in november. coincidentally his second movie will be released in december. he feels pretty good about the book -- you got to love ron burgundy. >>> finally, i have to leave you with some food news. the phenomenon of the cronut continues to grow. the canadian national exhibition is now featuring the maple jam cronut. it may be the first to incorpo

i asked you to find an actor from middle america, a real person.not going to find him in the people's gay-public of drug-ifornia. - jeez, relax. i'm also setting up auditions in toronto. - canada? [chuckling] why not just go to iraq? the television audience doesn't want your elitist east coast, alternative, intellectual, left-wing-- - jack, just say jewish. this is taking forever. - stop trying to amuse yourself and start thinking about what makes

sure we were aware from the standpoint how stocks may or may not open but if you're sit income middle america, you have no idea. >> reporter: for five hours thursday, the nasdaq kept the press and public in the dark about the source of the glitch. the latest to hit the u.s. market and shake investor confidence. >> i think it actually hurts the people trying to get ahead and put back money and invest in stocks to save for their kids' college funds and save for their retirement. >> reporter: crisis management consultant knows it hurts the nasdaq's brand. in an e-mail he said we sleep at night because of the assumption they know what they are doing. this incident tells us they don't. assurances need to be give and based on something other than trust us. thursday's troubles, the second high profile problem in a year and a half. the facebook glitch resulted in a 10 million dollar fine and while he handled the halt investo investors say slow downs, shut downs and halt are part of digital age. >> we're in a fast technical world that wouldn't make me lose confidence in the system. >> reporter: for "n

i asked you to find an actor from middle america, a real person.eople's gay-public of drug-ifornia. - jeez, relax. i'm also setting up auditions in toronto. - canada? [chuckling] why not just go to iraq? the television audience doesn't want your elitist east coast, alternative, intellectual, left-wing-- - jack, just say jewish. this is taking forever. - stop trying to amuse yourself

course america in the fact that you've got someone says the coasts of new york you can't compare middle america to division of opinions in comparison to the to the coasts and that's what they have indeed here in russia you can't compare moscow to sochi but in answer to your question how can the effect disrupt the winter olympics will basically there is nothing short of mass hysteria at the moment regarding the boycotting of the games which i probably don't think will happen regarding countries not turning up if you go back in history to the games that took place in moscow in one nine hundred eighty there were disruptions with that because of the soviet union with afghanistan and all the way back to nine hundred seventy six there were issues with the olympic games in montreal where i believe around twenty five countries from africa didn't actually participate. i don't think it will go that further in such a next year but with a certain boycotting of. the happening throughout the entire globe it's causing lots and lots of trouble i mean the whole thing about olympic games and we soon unite and br

middle eastern societies, latin america societies are not necessarily the same. there are distinctive differences. american advisers place challenges on the middle east in trying to develop countries and also to develop an emerging middle class who hypothetically might naturally become allies of the united states. iran, the country of iran was a test case for this. we devoted more money and more labor hours to iran than any other country in the region. we had 30,000 troops there during the war and to help keep the road to russia open. we had thousands of technicians there trying to develop hospitals and schools and infrastructure projects. the president said at one point that iran will stand as a model for what we under the atlantic charter, the idea that self-determination, teaching these countries to develop themselves can achieve. again, there were mixed results. iran had a very rigid social structure that made it very difficult for the americans to work with people other than the same discredited elites. keep in mind also that the middle east had their own sen

of congress all staff, president, vice president, all of their appointees exactly as same as middle americabill: that is a great question. you written letters to the president and pelosi and reid and boehner and mcconnell. >> right. bill: part of your letter says this on screen for the viewers this is just one sentence. >> sure. bill: this bailout was pulled out of thin air under intense and sadly bipartisan political pressure. you're a republican. are you saying democrats and republicans were on board with the subsidy cut? >> some of them, absolutely. there was intense lobbying behind the scenes, bill, and sadly i guaranty you it was bipartisan. there were plenty of establishment republicans pushing for this bailout essentially, this special exemption for congress. bill: what can you do? can you change it? >> what i can do is demand we legislatively repeal it. that is exactly what i'm going to do. i will fight for a vote and get a vote when we go back into session after labor day. bill, i can't guaranty what the results of that vote will be. bill: we're going to watch it but you wonder, if

caller: i'm a voice from middle america. as i look around my town, it is going nowhere. the problem we have is we have all of these czars in position that are pointed as far as donations and being friends and nothing is being done. on vacation,going i think congress and everybody -- as far as going on vacation, i think i was and everybody should get back in washington and work for we the people. as far as the nsa and the information they leaked, the only time they become a thing is when it is beneficial for them. -- the only time they leaked anything is when it is beneficial for them. gave out they only information about how terrorists are being spied on. they know this. we the people have to step up to the plate because it is obvious that these people in washington that we vote for are not working for us and our interest. host: thank you for the call, mike. on twitter if you're joining us on c-span radio, heard coast-to-coast, we welcome your calls and comments. -- can call in some other news, story this money, front page of the financial times in its first news confere

think a lot of people out there probably think medals of honor go to people who were raised in middle americao parent homes, who were clearly on a path to valor. it doesn't always work that way. >> ty, like every soldier, he's a complex character. i think he looks more like what an average soldier that you meet in any unit on any given day, what he looks like. and a lot of those kids, given the same position and the same -- with the same choices, may have done the same things that sergeant carter did. but certainly he was one of those people that had that capability, that sense. and when the time was there, he did what he needed to do. this is nala. >> this is your dog? >> this is my dog. >> today, carter lives in this bucolic home, not far from the base. >> these are brand new additions to the carter estate. they are labradoodles. >> oh, my goodness. >> oh, yeah, oh, yeah. >> they are just barely starting to get their eyes open. >> how old? >> a little over a week and a half, i believe. >> since his return from afghanistan, life here for his wife, shannon, and their three children, appears n

. >> reporter: middle-class america. >> middle-class america, affluent america. >> reporter: and theeason cane-willis says, has to do with another more high-profile epidemic that has been spreading among affluent teens. >> people start using prescription pain pills. when those are difficult to ge, they switch to heroin. >> reporter: prescription drug use among kids has gotten a lot of attention. for good reason. a recent survey shows 24% of high school students -- that's more than five million kids -- have abused highly addictive medications like oxycontin. that's a 33% increase in just five years. on the street those pills can be spencive. as much as $80 each. so increasingly kids are turning to a cheaper, more powerful alternative: heroin. a bag can cost as little as $10. >> we see this intertwining epidemic growing. i think that we will see more heroin users. >> reporter: users like john. he told me he was doing heroin before four months before he knew it was heroin. >> reporter: like many parents, his mother caroline never saw it coming. >> we were the quintessential american fam

it is not a very wise thing to go out to middle america saying, hi, i'm a reporter for the washington post. that's going to win you friends. it should be the position of a candidate running to give them one chance, to say at the outset, i'm going to give you one chance to be fair and balanced. if you're not, i'm coming after you. i'm going to make you the issue in this campaign. it will take no effort whatsoever to do that. i always believed to give them an opportunity. always give them the first opportunity; then e vis rate them. yes, sir? >> jordan hess, i'm a senate staffer. where does social media fit into this? is that a way around the tv and news and a way -- it looks like a lot of what is getting done and from the conservative standpoint, our message seems to be working via facebook and twitter and those avenues where to benefit in all this. >> very good point. social media and the interpret, the dimming media as a whole, present a tremendous opportunity for conservatives to communicate with one another. kind of feel sometimes like the early christian church makes the sign of a

popularity up and a mistake for the united states to be involved. >> reporter: in the coast and middle americahe lingering miss trust that followed the war in iraq runs deep and al jazeera chicago. >> reporter: let's go to london and she is the editor at large of the newspaper in london and joining us there, good to have you with us. you are disappointed about the uk parliament no vote on military intervention in syria, why is that? >> absolutely. i mean this is really a mistake of historic proportion. what we have seen idea in the debate is a group of mps who are largely uninformed and were not taking the matter seriously and were weak and they also are debating this in the shadows of the iraq war. it's also very sad today that we see the debate has moved on in the media about the understanding of mr. cameron. this is a moral story and a story that will affect the whole world and unfortunately today we see that britain stands isolated and a small island and we don't want to be with europe and the world, what is the future of the island? >> reporter: what is it that you believe that the limite

we're not talking about middle america, we're talking about new york city and it's very different when comes to race relations compared to the rest of the country. this will play well especially people have been critical of stop and frisk. i had like to see him win even though i don't live in new york city. cenk: there is a huge number of minorities that have suffered under stop and frisk. even if you think it's great, they don't think it's great, and they vote, too. he says i'm going to fire ray kelly and bring in a new police commissioner. roth man, go. >> let me be a bit cynical here. "the new york times" poll showed physical tie between deblasio and anthony weeper in the back. african-americans, dead last, even anthony wiener still has the support of 15% of african-americans. it used to be higher. eliot, it's ridiculous. he's got a real problem with the african-american vote. this feels like a play in the african-american vote to propel him into the likely run off that will be held. cenk: that's exactly what it is. you're right, and i think it's smart. i think it's going to work. i

but what he is really saying is i hate those people, middle america. when you wrote the article and put it under your professor pen name did you know you would get this much exposure? >> the fact you said that is the fact that i know how to read and write. the joke is on you. >> the guy did make some good points. i think there is something to be -- >> name two of them. >> he made two of them. >> no i said name two of them. >> patriotism is a prop. >> everyone knows that. >> it is a point that needs to be made even more these days. it should be made periodically. >> that is based on him saying that patriotism is compulsory. it is not. on campuses, the opposite is compulsory of keeping rotc off campuses because of don't ask, don't tell. >> the whole thing started with that may be true as you pointed out, the story that was not true . he put the support our troops jar and trying to justify that by being a cheap -- [bleep]. >> that's number five. >> you cast justify being [belief]. >> you what, you could have said d-bag and now we have to bleep that. >> i

economic message is a flat out loser for america's middle-class.t is a political winner. he is becoming more isolated out there. the fact is we have an economy that is growing, 2% at best. treading water for four years, it should be hard to tread water, you get exhausted and now you're getting these reports, you have been talking about them on this show, all these department store sales. and upper-middle-class or straight lower middle class and the consumers losing hard. thanks for joining us. by now you know it, i am fired up over the disappearance of the traditional, a kid starting school before labor day. the washington post did not agree with me, deal with it later. at a dry cleaner, we replaced people with a machine. what? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello? ally bank. your money needs an ally. stuart: seems to me august keeps ending earlier. sooner than ever. i say give the kids a break and me too. let us have our traditional organs b

the transparency through the blogs, social media -- >> it's the middle america that doesn't care.you don't have the swing voter that cares -- >> the swing voter's not the most vocal person out there the. >> they need to show up. >> when they hear from the constituency -- >> they're only hearing from the base, right, the middle, the sort of rational middle, the angry middle, they're not going to town hall meetings. >> look, gerrymandering, think about it, right, we go back to it every time we talk about it. there's no incentive for house republicans and democrats to compromise. >> but you're talking about the vise that boehner's in. look at mcconnell. he's taking the opinion, it seems, he used to rule with an iron fist. he basically is going it's every man for himself. i feel like he's basically saying, i got to deal with my problems and i know it makes me probably a less affective leader so he's backing off. he's letting -- what's interesting to in, he's letting some republicans -- yeah, you want that, go for it. >> mitch mcconnell, he's going to that fair this weekend, and he has

jay leno's show, one he's done a lot, it's a way to talk to middle america, the people who don't watchsnbc or fox for that matter. he's trying to reach that group of the public where he's dipping in approval rating and trying to use that leno with a broader audience. he talked about the economy a lot there. it's a way for him to seem more informal, to be the natural barack obama. that's the big focus. the white house talks a lot about getting him out of washington where it's not the beltway media. >> perry, that's so true. you bring up a good point, that many americans are sitting right now, you know, unsettled and unsure about this global terror threat that we're now faced with. president obama spoke to that last night on jay leno. let's take a listen. >> this global travel warning, this is for americans all around the world. are we telling people don't take that european vacation just yet? what are we saying? >> no, i think the general rule is just show some common sense and some caution. >> obviously, an abundance of caution is what we've been seeing. it's really hard to talk about

. >> in the past few years, there continues to be a delineation of the middle class in america that kind middle class movement. >> to the day i die i'll argue that the vehicle to the middle class was organized labor because the importance issues of good wages, good health care, representation in the workplace, those were all of the things that we stand for in organized labor. the three of us as labor leaders, nobody here has a problem with developers or corporations making money. our issue is, don't fill your pockets by taking money out of our pockets. >> from 1978 to 2011, the annual compensation of a typical private sector worker grew a mere 5.7% but a typical ceo's compensation increased more than 725%. the huge economic gains that have been made over the past 30 years have consistently gone to the wealthy, which only increases the income gap and pushes people further down the economic ladder. >> this disparity of wealth that exists today, this is the largest gap between the haves and have-nots that's ever existed here before and it's unsustainable. there's been such a deterioration i

you know, we've got a middle america that we really need to develop, and that's where a lot of jobs likeanufacturing and others can come into play that we're very involved in. but i also think, though, that america needs places for everyone to start. and sometimes the opportunity from the starting role on to grow and develop, i'm just extremely proud of the fact that 75% of u.s. management started with walmart as hourly associates. and this creation of opportunity, it's a great story of america, it's a great story of walmart. so whatever we do, we sure don't want to take away from the opportunity to get started, and the opportunity to grow and be a part of personal growth as well as the growth of our business and growth of america. >> lots of great stuff there. stick around. part two of maria's exclusive interview with mike duke is coming up. she asks him some pretty direct questions, especially about the company's bribery charges in mexico. >> are heads going to roll? is anybody going to get fired over this? >> oh. you'll have to wait to hear -- i wanted to hear the answer to that quest

one of the few countries in the middle east dubbed america's friend for decades now stands on the brink of a civil war. its relationship with the united states is in question. its chances for peace are grim. after 72 hours of violence and bloodshed in egypt we are keeping a live eye on a mosque. a mosque in cairo where supporters of the ousted muslim brotherhood have been holed up. the egyptian military is using bullets and tear gas to pry them out and that scene follows one of the bloodiest in egypt's modern history. nearly 800 killed in three days of violence and protests the brotherhood fighting to be heard. egypt's military fighting to keep them out of power. we have learned this morning that the brother of the al qaeda chief al zawahiri was arrested. in fact the military arrested more than a thousand supporters of the muslim brotherhood this week alone. we go live to martha's vineyard where president obama continues his vacation. any sign from the administration of what they will or even perhaps what they will not do next? >> well, craig, good afternoon. the administration at this

that's where the president is coming from with this housing plan and the emphasis on the middle americaincome homeowners. that housing plan has something for everyone. it's got something for renters and something for new buyers and refinancing and even a plug for his new nominee for the federal housing finance authority. >> lynn, back to the politics, this is a continuation of the president saying he is focused on the middle class, a series of speeches. we see the president there. a series of speeches challenging the republican party to come up with its own ideas as we watch the president exit air force one. >> absolutely. i see he's with hud secretary sean donovan behind him. yes, part of the politics of the few weeks of speeches, tamron, is to try to put some pressure on house republicans to cooperate more. very tough environment that he's playing in. you know, the other thing on housing where there might be common ground is trying to take apart fannie mae and freddie mac and try to simplify the mortgage process so people understand more about what they're getting into. you know, we m

but there was a kind of a sense that i think some people still had the sense, you know, that middle america is conservative and these group that i mentioned are just visiting. they not the real america. and i would maintain that now after the last two presidential election. it's the real america. there's a minority of americans who are obstructing the will of the majority. so that's where we are now. and for kind of disspiritted progressives, i just experiment. imagine if romney was president now. if romney and ryan had won. there were a lot of ways it could have gone that way. for instance, if scott hasn't turned on the camera it's unlikely that obama would a 7 point lead going to have first going to the first debate. if might have been hard for him to catch up. there are a number of other factors that contributed to his victory. imagine if romney and rhode ryan were in the office. the economy is improving. but not as sharp as one would hope. the deficit has gone down in the $200 billion. it's around $1 trillion. it's quite likely that the bulk of the ryan plan would have been enacted in t

. >> reporter: along the coast and here in the middle of america for many the lingering miss trust following in iraq runs deep. >> reporter: from london is edward hunt and he is a senior consultant at ihs james which talks about defense and security issues. despite the vote at westminster against the deployment of any force, is it, do you think, still a question of when, not if the west attacks syria? >> well, obviously the u.s. position on this has yet to be entirely determined. the latest comment from the president they will look at the reports of the u.n. inspection of the chemical attack site. but it does seem there is momentum for this. the uk parliament saying not for action at this time, might change in the future, would suggest there might be a cause and effort into next week as more facts are available and the positions are reconsidered. >> reporter: so it's still a possibility. u.s. officials have been stressing and very aggressively talking to chuck hagel and john kerry and joe biden is aggressive towards syria but they are stressing any strike would be surgical, that is the word

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the middle of middle america.d by 6,000 miles but sharing someone remarkable. what do you call these? >> we just call it head. reporter: that is a head. the head. reporter: six feet and 1200 pounds of head. and the brain child of artist keneko who works here in omaha. now omaha is known for warren buffet, steaks and your art. >> warren buffet and steaks, i agree. my art, maybe i need to catch up a little more. >> reporter: he set up shop here 25 years ago. it's his wife's hometown. since then, he's been rewriting the rules on the shape and size of ceramic art. >> i call it the spiritual scale. i'm trying to make pieces strong enough to pull the viewer into it. then you become one with it. >> reporter: he was born in japan in the months after the attack on pearl harbor. he showed promise early on. at 21 he came to america to study painting. his host family, it turns out, collected ceramic art. and his focus soon expanded from two dimensions to three. this is painted and glazed. >> yeah. reporter: but it needs to go