perkins' statements? >> i'm grad he' glad he's sayine things. we need to understand that we're a democracy, we are not a corporation. the ideas he has been proposing have been examined by philosophers and economists for more than 2,000 years, and every classic worldly philosopher and by the way george w. bush believes in progressive taxation. the idea of it is that we're all equal as people. the greater the gain you manage to attain, in a society as mr. perkins has done very well, the greater the burden you should bear to put back into society that made it possible for you to do that so that society will endure. mr. perkins is only thinking about himself, and today he's not thinking about the america that we will not live to see. >> it also sounds like he's not even thinking about history because it was not that long ago when the wealthy payed a higher percentage of their income to taxes. >> david, in 1961 if you compare it to 2011, now that's a long period of time, 1961 to 2011, it turns out that the 400 highest income people in america that is

kleiner perkins, of which he is the perkins part wrote "tom perkins not been involved in the company in years. we were shocked by his views expressed today in "the wall street journal" and do not agree." "washington post" columnist vivic west spreads the blame, not perkins alone, he writes, but ceos and venture capitalist and even regular employees who have lost touch. with us this morning along with his role at the newspaper, a fellow at stanford, distinguished scholar, emery, vice president of singularity university, "time" magazine says he is one of the most influential voices in tech, joined by martin giles of the ecomist and kill lean taylor of tech crunch. i'm trying to -- i think we can all sort of agree, instead of just asking you, we can all just jump in on this, it was a stupid move. >> absolutely. >> there's no discussing it, it was stupid and we can have that verdict and moved on. one of the points you're raising though is that in general, tech is sort of blind to all of this. >> there's so many blowouts these days about dumb things the tech industry has done, a lawsuit r

my letter was not about kleiner perkins and i did not mention kleiner perkins at all.hey did not need to say anything, but they chose, i guess to throw me under the bus. and, i did not like that. they said they were shocked. and i sort of feel like the guy is saying, look, do not go swimming because there are sharks. if you get shocked by that, you do not understand the warning. i was presenting a warning. and secondly, they made quite a point of me not having been involved for some years and that is true. i think as i distance myself from the firm, there's been a corresponding decline in the firm that i will not go further than that. in a way, i'm missing them and i hope they miss me. and we will bury the hatchet over this one. >> your name is on the door. when you say something, it does reflect on them to a certain extent or do you worry about it? >> i did not -- i did not have them in mind when i wrote this piece. it was not about to them. it had nothing to do with them. they are right. their philosophy and strategy hasn't diverged significantly from my own -- have

quit my interview with kleiner perkins -- >> my interview with tom perkins, founder of kleiner perkinscebook is turning 10. dennis kucinich interview with mark zuckerberg. ♪ >> welcome back. i am emily chang. it is an inclusive story about the future of facebook. they are celebrating their 10th birthday on february 4. mark zuckerberg is turning 30 in may. i sat down with brad's dona -- brad stone who conducted the interview. not just the two anniversaries, it is been 10 years since his first date with his wife. fall typingt things. one of the things that jump that newe a surprising, and a kind of mobile strategy. they put a lot of emphasis on the social networking site. going forward, they have creative labs and they will be doing more apps. flexibleto be more about the way people use facebook's product. >> is a twist on clipboard? >> didn't want to consider it a clone. it has some unique features. they're doing some editing things with it. it is a way to look at friend updates and articles and -- in visually interesting ways. it is a newsreader like clipboard. it has no the clutter of

but it is very unlikely that tony perkins knows he's lying because it's very unlikely that tony perkins jefferson's any actual writings on religious if tony perkins could have asked what thomas jefferson thought of atheists having a booth at cpac, jefferson would have told him, it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no god. that's another line that jefferson wrote on notes of the state of virginia. reason and inquiry are the only effective agents against error. nothing about god showing you the way to the truth. just reason and free inquiry. jefferson went on to say difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. tony perkins certainly doesn't think that difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. and now cpac doesn't think so. as soon as they heard that tony perkins doesn't think so. cpac will allow no difference of opinion on religion now that tony perkins has objected to the presence of people who have a difference of opinion on religion. jefferson wrote his notes on the state of virginia years before the constitutional convention, when most states

i first of all my letter was not about kliner perkins. i didn't mention kliner perkins at all. they didn't need to say anything. but they chose i guess to sort of throw me under the buss bus. and i didn't like that. they said they were shocked. and i sort of feel like the guy saying, look, don't go swimming there's sharks in that water. and if you get shocked by that you don't understand the warning. i was presenting a warning. and i don't think they got that. and then secondly, they made quite a point of my not having been involved for some years. and that's true. and i think, as i've distnd myself from the firm, there's been a corresponding decline in the firm. but i won't go further than that. in a way, i miss them. i hope they miss me. and we will bury the hatchet over this one. >> your na is on the door. >> yes. >> so when you say something, it does reflect on them to a certain extent. or do you worry about it reflecting on them? >> well, i didn't have them in mind when i wrote this piece and it wasn't about them. it had nothing to do with them. t they're right that their

i want to write a book about max perkins, it is a fantastic idea, max perkins is the great enigma of american literature, no one has ever written about him. the big question is whether you can write about him. looking at your transcript here, a very solid d- work, it is a great idea. why, he suggested, don't you write your senior thesis, why don't you do that on perkins'? if you are still interested, carry on, write a book and you have written an interesting thesis. i spent basically my last three years in college working on my senior thesis. when i turned it in, they turned it back, they gave me an a plus, gave me up fries and most important they gave me three single spaced pages saying this is not relieve a senior thesis, it is the first draft of a book. if i was waiting for a sign, there it was. and i then decided i would turn this into a book. what the princeton english department failed to tell me is it would take another seven years to do that. but, you know, it is a powerful impulse not to want to go to law school. [laughter] >> and so i worked on that book. we are going to ge

tony perkins is a conservative who has never stood for freedom of religion and freedom of expression. as he proved once again today. perkins, who spoke at cpac in 2012 said in an e-mail to cnn today, does the american conservative union really think the liberties and values they seek to preserve can be maintained when they partner with individuals and organizations that are undermining the understanding that our liberties come from

you may remember perkins. he was the venture capitalist who compared the vilification of the rich to the treatment of jews in nazi germany and he apologized for that extreme comment but doubling down on the sentiment. his latest idea, if you have more money, you should get more votes. >> so the tom perkins system is you don't get to vote unless you pay $1 of taxes. but what i really think is it should be like a corporation. if you pay 1 maryland in taxes, you should get a million votes. how is that? >> perkins later said his intent was to be outrageous but he's not the only member of the 1% fighting back. investor sam zell and the ceo of the fashion company nicole miller also got attention for defending the rich. >> this country should not talking about envy of the 1%. it should talk about emulating the 1%. the 1% work harder. >> we've got a country that the poverty level is wealth in 99% of the rest of the world. so we're talking about woe is us, the guy that's making, oh, my god, he's making $35,000 a year.

perkins here is out of touch. but i think he is spot on with his nazi analogy. because you know who else called their enemies nazis, the jews. it looks like an anti-sell identify now. -- santa semite now, it's still me. got to work on that. got to work on that. all right. >> well, despite near universal condemnation tom perkins somehow found the courage to go on a network owned by a billionaire to make his case to the nonbillionaires. >> you are a multimillionaire. >> no, i'm not a billion -- >> i said multimillionaire. >> i created some billionaires but i unfortunate leigh am not one. i can buy a six pack-of-rolexes, but so what. >> so what, he's just a regular nonbillionaire joe six pack of rolexes. but somehow this appearance failed to win over the 99% thanks so president obamalib and the progressivecrat demagoguing by income inequality, the pope attack the so-called idol tree of money and hollywood vilifying the-- villifying the wealthiest 1% of dragons. i mean come on, come on, the deslation of smaug? how about the appreciation of smaug. don't get mad at hi

. >> tom perkins spent most of his adult life building a fortune. he's not quite a billionaire, but he is close. he's unabashedly enjoying his wealth and becoming a self-declared defender of the richest americans. he says they are being vilified. >> frustrations have been building for a long time about what i see as demonisation of the rich. >> that frustration prompted perkins to write a letter to "the wall street journal." he made is a controversial comparison, likening occupy wall street demonstrators who criticise the wealthiest 1% of the population to the jews in germany. >> they made the point in germany 1% of the population is jewish and the mad fiendish dictator used incredible political skills to focus at hatred on the 1% and use it as a stepping stop to power. i saw a parallel between our 1% and that 1%. >> he quickly apologised. >> it was terrible words chosen. >> now another controversial comment. perkins says the right to vote should be tide to how much you pay in taxes. if you pay $1 million in taxes, you should get a million votes. >>

multimillionaire tom perkins. >>> tom perkins has spent most of his adult life building a fortune. not quite a billionaire but close. now in his 80s he's unabashedly wealthy. these americans are being vilified. >> frustrations have been building up for a long time about what i see is the demonization of the rich. >> he made a controversial comparison, like thing occupy wall street demonstrators, to the wealthiest 10% of the nation, to the crystalnacht. of the nazi era. >> a mad fiendish dictator used incredible political skills to focus hatred on that 1% and used it as a stepping-stone to power. and i saw a parallel between our 1% here in america, and that 1%. >> he quickly apologized. >> it was a terrible word to have chosen. >> but now, another controversial comment. perkins said the right to vote should be tied to how much you pay in taxes. >> if you pay a million dollars in taxes you should get a million votes. how's that? >> perkins says he was trying to be outrageous but he has his supporters who are defending his staunch opposition to higher taxes and redistribution of wealt

told audience members about the tom perkins system take a look. and. would i really think it would be like a corporation if you million dollars and you're the million votes. basically perkins wants the wealthy elite in america to have even more power and americans who are struggling to make ends meet have less power that's a terrible idea right assassin even conservative commentator and pro-business advocate david welcome back. it tom thanks for having me as always it's a pleasure do i have this right that you're suggesting that people who don't pay taxes people who are who are or who always don't pay income taxes because pretty much everybody pays some kind of taxes you buy a snickers bar you pay in taxes sales taxes but the people who don't pay income taxes in your mind should not be entitled to vote. i think you hit the nail right on the head and i want to go on the record as saying i disagree with mr perkins i don't think your wealth should determine how many votes you of as that would undermine the integrity of our system what i take issue wi

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tom perkins has had a lot of controversial things to say. he took questions from the audience. >> he is still saying the same things. i think it is interesting to hear from the other side of this debate. it is good to have a voice and put a face to it. you become that voice for the 1%. >> the most controversial thing he said is that rich people should get more votes. you pay more in taxes, you should get more votes. we will talk about that coming up. >> the struggles having going on for so long. there is a publication that wrote the nsa spying story. a guest will come on the show later to talk about how technology talks about nsa in ways they have never before. nsa gather cyber material. drones making the strikes. humans involved hardly at all. we will talk about that and the publication as well. >> and there is a new news organization that he has founded. the top story is twitter. insiders will be able to sell their shares for the first time tomorrow. yes, saturday. why tomorrow? >> it is after trading when they start. >> it is a small perc

it's coming from people like tom perkins. he is worth $8 billion.ntly compared the treatment of the 1% to the holocaust. and now he is out with a new talking point. >> the tom perkins system is you don't get to vote unless you pay a lar of taxes. but what i really think is it should be like a corporation. if you pay a million dollars in taxes, you should get a million votes. how is that? >> wow. i mean, that's really out of touch. but that's surprising, right? i mean, mr. perkins has been so down to earth in the past with interviews. >> you have owned fancy yachts, fancy cars. >> yes. >> and underwater submersible. >> airplane. underwater airplane. >> i saw it. it's basically an airplane that flies under water. >> right. >> do you worry at all that you are divorced from reality? are you divorced from reality? >> i don't know if anybody can answer that. truthfully, i don't think so. >> wow. this is absurd talk. he is not alone. just last week, the ceo of aol cited two sick babies as the reason he needed to cut employees' 401(k)s. forget the fact that

or in the france where the top one percent you messed and the private equity guy tom perkins who claims that being rich is like suffering under kristallnacht so i don't know what s. of them lap dancer he's been visiting but having a billion dollars is not the same as suffering kristallnacht in the extinction of a genocidal maniacs on ace ethnic group tom perkins unless you're snorting so much p.c.p. while you're getting a lap dance that your brain is turned into frickin mush which i suspect is the case you need to hook up with francoise hollande get on a moped and go down to a lap dance club right now and get slapped silly and slap straight because you're out of your fricken mind tom perkins well the boss napping they're not just holding them for ransom they're basically they're holding their kidnapping them and holding them until they get what they think they deserve so in the case of goodyear tire factories i think it was forty thousand euros each all the workers wanted before they would let the boss go that they wanted this as reparations for her working all that time there no way no

what do you make of perkins tax comment? >> i think it was a silly thing to say. how he is being there. i do agree a little bit with what he was saying. one of the problems we have had in the united states over the last 25 years is a smaller and smaller share of americans are actually paying any income tax. i do agree we should have a country that people who vote should pay some tax, even if it is a very little amount. so everybody has some skin in the game. that's not talking about taking the vote away from people. it is changing our tax system so that everybody is paying at least something. i think most americans would probably agree with that. here is the point i would make about the comment by these two ceos. there is some truth that we are blaming a lot of the problems that the middle class and lower income people are facing, specially people in poverty and rich people. the people in the top 1%, 2%, 3%, they are the people that create the jobs and sign the paychecks. it doesn't help poor people to try to tear down the rich. what we want to do is have people c

perkins. letter to the comparing itl come to nazi's and juice. >> i feel that as a class i think we are beginning to engage in class warfare. i think the rich as a class are threatened through higher taxes, higher regulation. >> what do you make of mr. perkin's comments? >> i've never met mr. perkins and i would not share his point of view. the key is that we all live in this region together. and the leadership groups role has always been define the problem and theb find workable solutions that everybody is all of us. i'll give you a quick example. 15 years ago we formed our housing action coalition. not just employers but the broad base of our community to environmental groups, neighbors, faith community members, our labor partners, trying to advocate for homes that are well built, appropriately located and well tively affordable in such a high cost marketplace. most of the homes that we advocate for throughout the region are not even for our own workers. they are for those who everybody is u

tom perkins is at it again.t thedown at an event commonwealth club with "fortune" magazine, reiterating his key points about america's war on the 1%. he had a lot of controversial things to say again. we should be getting good stuff out of him as usual. is interesting to hear from the other side of this debate, even if i don't tend to agree with it. it's good to have a voice and put a face to it. you become that voice for the 1%. >> the most controversial thing he said was that rich people should get more votes. >> one would argue that they do. we will look at an interesting story. ways to find new media. .nteresting new publication jeremy talked about his amazing story he has written about, how technology is driving the decisions of the nsa in ways they never have before, perhaps exclusively providing content for decisions about drone strikes. nsa gathered cyber material, drones making the strikes, humans hardly involved at all. we talked about that story and the publication as well. >> the founder of ebay, thi

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tom perkins thinks so. don't worry 99%-ers, you'll be able to vote -- if you qualify. >> the tom perkins system is, you don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes. but what i really think is, it should be like a corporation. if you pay $1 million in taxes, you should get 1 million votes. how's that? >> now, he said people are expecting outrageous from him and he gave it to them. john avalon a cnn political analyst and executive editor at the daily beast. 4 43% of americans didn't pay taxes last year. do the 1%, a rhetorical idea, frankly, but there's a drum beat of the 1%-ers saying, don't complain, the rest of you, because we're the oneses macking it happen? >> no, dhoent have the power to make it happen. the constitution takes care of that. you are seeing a riff. perkins have been out front on this, earlier with the letter in the "washington journal," anger at the 1% and sam zell -- >> who says the 9% soar emulate and envy the 1% and that the 1% works harder than the rest of america. >> the thing

we are simply living in the world perkins is hoping for. without an equal voice the rich get more and more influence and the rest of us, well, we get a washington that works for them, not for the people. that's it for "the cycle." time for alex wagner. >>> thanks, abby. chris christie greets the people! just nobody say the word "bridge." it's thursday, february 20th, and this is "now." >> the embattled governor of new jersey. >> his first town hall since the bridge scandal broke. >> chris christie unscripted. >> all of us from new jersey. if you get it, you are getting it right back. >> document dump that could cause problems for another republican governor. >> did wisconsin governor scott walker's office mix politics with official business? >> there's no good that comes of 27,000 pages coming out if you are someone who wants to run for president of the united states. >> the substance of what each governor is facing is identical. >> like bridgegate. >> very close advisers did something unseemly, potentially criminally wrong. >> there's more

so his name is tom perkins, and he says he wanted to make outrageous comments so he did.g that he seems to be getting used to doing. this is the same guy, just to remind you, who compared what he calls the assault on the wealthy to the nazis attack on jews. he later apologized for making that comparison. but this time he spoke on the event called war on the 1%. he was asked to name one idea that would change the world. and here is his answer. >> the tom perkins system is, you don't get to vote unless you pay $1 of taxes. what i really think is, it should be like a corporation. if you pay $1 million in taxes, you should get 1 million votes. how is that? >> yes, so a lot of laughter there as a reaction. but it's not really clear if he meant this as a joke or not. now, perkins has been outspoken on this topic, specifically, taking issue with higher taxes on the wealthy and saying 1% pays more taxes than the 90%. and he's not alone with this thinking. billionaire sam zell said 1% work harder and 99% should try to emulate them. at the same time, we have the fast food workers s

it's my honor to call tom perkins to the stage. tom (clapping) >> complaining one and all. i'd be a lot less nervous if you were dressed in black leathern with a thousand hearts laura. so i'm sure you're all wondering how a haefrl davidson dealer and rider gets to obtain on this stage to a accept an award. i'm a proud alumni with a small story. back in 1975 picture me on the motor vehicle at night heading for home then image a truck headed my way that doesn't stop at the red light i'm sure you can imagine the rest of the story i'm loaded into a ambulance for a bumpy ride to general with a team of decreases and nurses worked throughout the night and into the down u dawn enabling me to live and eventually walk another day they jump started any batteries and with plates rods and sensuous in each leg and vuvenl an affordable leg you can put humpty-dumpty back together again there was no traumatic head injuries - (clapping) but if you ask my wife and children that's up for debate (laughter) after a few years guarantee go by and i'm back on motor vehicles i start to look and real

he just told the place to pieces, perkins said. when the noise subsided, the voice that emerged from the weak figure on the platform was superb. the accent and denunciation were of the high church episcopal pulpit and the wall street boardroom. governor and labor. but the words were playing and blunt and there was a note of fellow feeling discouraged any position that the speaker, however highborn, was a snob. the pace with stately, unhurried. perkins sat close enough to see another level of the performance. while he stood there and what his voice was so vigorous and strong, she remember, he was literally trembling. and it was on the paper was shaking because of the extreme pain and tenseness which he held himself up to make that speech. that everybody saw that. decided house this enormous popularity to ordinary new yorkers. he spoke of smith as a champion, a progressive ideals and an efficient and honest management of government. decided his prowess as a vote-getter. is the happy warrior of the political battlefield, this meant a

phil, tom perkins when he was asked to be pro vokative, he was. he says if you pay a million dollars in taxes you should have a million votes. he was intending to be outrageous, he might have been joking but, class warfare, because of that income equality talk. is this a tempest in a tea pot? the 1% really haven't suffered much. >> well, president obama came into his state of the union address, not having much of a legislative agenda. so the smart thing to do given the upcoming congressional elections is to rattle the caimg of thcageof the republicans. a number of people have come forward with a kind of a rather tone-deaf response, just falling precisely into the trap that president obama has laid for them. and i think that's most of of what we're listening to. >> jonathan in your piece you pose the question why do some forecast have the exaggerated sense of being attacked and being demonized? at the same time, president obama has pretty consistently raised income inequality in virtually every speech he's gone out there and given. >> well, he's ra

youhe perkins system is do not get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes. if you pay $1 million in taxes, you should get one million votes. >> asked mckee spoke to me exclusively on "bloomberg west" ofre he dreaded the comments the bridge being compared to the nazis and hews. 0-- jews. trulia reported earnings. the revenue was up. the ceo is here in studio. we'll get to the inequality thing in a minute. let's talk about earnings. give me the highlights. >> significant growth in our core market base based on revenues. 100%.up more than record. it is growing rapidly. of our growth in mobile. the big announcement was the strategic marketing campaign focusing on how to scale the awareness and engagement of trulia. >> you are hiring a cmo. >> yep. mo has joint asc to drive the marketing campaign and awareness. we think of it as the evolution of our business. we scaled our audience. now is opportunity to expand that. >> how do changes in the market effective business? if the prices in san francisco are higher than ever before, what does that mean for you guys? ma

speaking of retail metrics, ken perkins joins us.e is the founder and president of retail metrics. welcome back to bottom line. >> good to see you. thank for having me on. >> was the ceo of macy's right about the winter weather? or are there structural economic impediments to blame? >> it is a combination of both. been so severe and disruptive. there is so many store closures. it really has created havoc. restaurants have been impacted and the housing industry has been impacted. auto sales have been impacted. it has definitely had a negative impact. >> what is the breakdown between retail numbers in impacted areas versus those in other areas? if it is a great question and we have limited data on it. 75% of the stores were impacted. was25% that wasn't, it seven percentage points. other retailers have said that the discrepancy has not been that great. there is something going on. there is also more structural elements going on. been aas not particularly good gain over the past year. personal income has been flat. wet consumers are not

perkins said he was trying to be outrageous.e has staunch defenders. >> i have sympathy with that perspective. the problem now is you have people voting to take money away from other people. you are talking about legalized theft through the balance system. >> perkins' critics say there's another perspective. one shared by americans. > there has been a recovery by the 2008 recession. we have not seen wages increase for average middle class and lower to middle class americans. it's at the heart of the economic disputes here. >> that was al jazeera's randall pinkston reporting. many polls showed that most americans believed there's too much money in politics. if you think it's been a rough winter ride. check out what they are dealing with across the atlantic. live to londoned. and latin america it may be worse, tens of thousands forced to higher ground. >> secretary of state john kerry talking about north korea's nuclear program with diplomats in china. >> good morning to you, welcome back to al jazeera america i'm morgan radford,

the tom perkins system is you don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes.think is it should be like a corporation. if you pay a million dollars in taxes, you should get a million votes. how is that? >> i think he was joking, don't you think? i hope. anyway you heard people laughing there. but while perkins knew he was being provocative, well, maybe he wasn't joking, maybe he was. he was smiling. perkins, by the way, who has an estimated net worth, no surprise here, $8 billion, is no stranger to controversy. in a "wall street journal" letter to the editor just last month, he compared to the demonization of the 1% to nazi germany's kristallnacht when nazi storm troopers killed jewish business owners across germany and austria. with ideas like those and metaphors like those, no wonder perkins feel he is being demonized. >>> finally, yesterday the tea party-backed challenger to john cornyn tweeted, quote, if you're chilly tonight, huddle near john cornyn's pants, that's right, pants for warmth. well, it seemed like an odd suggestion, especially since the joke w

but about '01% of the '01% like tom perkins, michael bloomberg, a george soros contributing more than0 percent of all money spent in the 2012 election cycle. 40 percent of all money spent in the 2012 cycle compared to only 15 percent in the tv the. -- 9080. tuned the trajectory for the 1% of the 1% is comforting and more than adequate compensation for the constitutional burden of putting up with the equal rights of the other 99.9% and of that i want to present a certain. time to look your comments. talk about the latest polls. >> it is reported that mr. obama but who is under water with every possible scenario how can he be under water who can walk on water? excellent point*. >> is there in the law obama the cannot suspend delay modify or ignore? we have not done the close enough examination but it appears the answer is no. >> i have just finished reading your book "upheaval" the should be required reading for the president and all members of congress. well done. lou: contact us on our social sites. lou@loudobbs.com follow us on twitter and go to the facebook page. free copies of "uph

the ceo from travis perkins.u so much. 50 minutes ago until the pulse is taken off. 39 years old, coming in as the new head as a new italian government. he wants to do things. he wants to make the country work harder. he was to deliver on promises he set out. he said himself a task of 100 days. young, dynamic. has a special on italy. it looks at the economy from different angles. funny -- at the end, this man describes italy as being semi-retired. he is got a right hand, sitting on the beach, chilling out. whatould get his take on italy does next. that will be a fascinating conversation. start with credit suisse. fireworks on capitol hill today. that will be a fun story to cover. hans nichols will work through that. plus, craft beers, a subject close to my heart. back to you. >> thank you very much for that. i will see you later on. stay with "on the move." ♪ the biggestecap on market movements, let's check back in with our markets team, caroline hyde. >> airbus -- you have to admit these guys have got the produc

it sounds like tom perkins.ay that the top 1% has maybe a little too much wealth, a little too much power, and maybe they could pay higher taxes without hating them or demonizing them. i think that's a caricature of elizabeth warren, of bill de blasio, of mayor de blasio, of people like myself. and i don't think it's helpful for democrats to engage in that. your thoughts. >> i couldn't agree more. it isn't helpful for democrats to engage in that kind of name-calling. >> are you agreeing with her, with joan? joan disagrees. she disagrees with what andy stern said. she thinks it's important to be populist. and to talk about income inequality and go after the vast difference between the top and the bottom in the middle. do you agree with her on that? >> no. i agreed with andy stern. i think fundamentally, politics has to be about the future and it has to be optimistic. and that's what andy stern was talking about in that quote. every time democrats have offered up candidates that are truly about the future, offerin

what do you make of perkins' comments?> if anything, if possible, i find him more offensive than i did earlier in the week. i thought i found him resoundingly offensive the first time. now it is just cartoonish. he walked back some of his most egregious comments with respect to the direct comparison to the persecution of the jews in nazi germany, but he went off the ranch with all of this other completely adrift commentary. not just socioeconomic stuff, but you asked whether or not he is connected to the economic reality, and got into a conversation about underwater airplanes and six packs of rolexes. either he has no grasp of how to construct a sentence, or he is completely adrift. maybe both. >> i have gotten so much feedback on this interview. the vast majority of people agree with you. some people have come to his defense. i want you to take a listen to another thing he had to say. an argument that has been made over and over again. just now in this very specific way. take a listen. >> it is absurd to demonize the rich

. >> it's been a while since mary francis perkins last visited the green bins on the family farm. >> what's it made out of grass. >> this is grass. >> seems to help out with almost everything on this strip 06 land in carlyle arkansas but after a recent diagnosis of parkinson's even basic cures became too much. >> get awe hold of him. >> like many family farmers he didn't have access to health insurance. and a preexisting condition meant he was denied repeatedly when she tried to buy her own plan. >> i was out here with no health insurance whatsoever. i spent days and weeks in the bed. couldn't walk. went to different doctors throughout little rock, had to pay cash for everything. slowly paid off the debt. a little each month until it was paid off. had different tests that cost five, $6,000. paid it all off. but kind of held back from what i really needed to do because number one they couldn't figure out what was wrong and number two it cost so much money. i had an mri. >> sreenivasan: at first the affordable care act didn't help much either that's because perkins fell into a coverage