. >> washington carpetbaggers, washington bones, our favorites, david putnam, the washington filibustereat blocking but the team never seems to make any progress. the washington orangemen, the mascot would be john boehner. >> wow. i won't talk about any tobacco. a lot of word play on dot, dot, dot skins, i'll keep it pg and say some were funny. to "morning joe" which starts

about religious congregations is a big political view and within the congregation to campbell and putnam increases the pattern of polarization today. we can see a field restudy americans watch them as on the three networks. they were not clearly differentiated by partisan viewpoints and they are rather centrist, rather bland and now of course is cable television, people watching and is the separated themselves an online you got the same pattern with the blogosphere's differentiated and organized on a left he says. and once people make these choices, their further influenced by them. one example of that in the oprah's book where he discusses frightening seven economists who track students from their high school years into college and students who have high school seniors express liberal views were more likely to become majors in the social is in humanities or others are able to go in to business and over the course of their college years, the ones who chose social science is become more liberal. this is exactly the same pattern observed in other areas. so it seems to me this is something

consider a book published in 2010 by a sociologists putnam and campbell called the mayor can grace. our religion unites us than divides blind negative device as a refutes that it is a lower class affair. during the first half of the 20th century century, college-educated but dissipated more in church than those with less education. that pattern changed during the '60s that saw a church attendance falloff among the educated but then he merged another pattern those that tended to rise again this trend is contrary to any idea that religion is now providing solace only to the disinherited or that higher education in subverts religion. " end quote. so there are pockets where god is a minority view and among professors at ivy league schools or among other scientist, these are exceptions, not the rule. some movie in research summarized of american social class coming apart, political scientist makes the same point* the upper 20 percent coming data from the surveys show is more likely than a 30% to believe in god day and go to a church. 61% of the maturity say they didn't go to church or re

we're bowling alone to use a frame from robert putnam.lem has got worse since he wrote that essa i. >> we could spend hours. i'm sorry you haven't treated us to any of your magnificent humor today. i understand you're having to be more circumspect. >> thank you very much. the book as i said is the great degeneration. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] this is betsy. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard. ♪ all aboard. uh-oguess what day it is!is?? huh...anybody? julie! hey...guess what day it is?? ah come on, i know you can hear me. mike mike mike mike mike... what day is it mike? ha ha ha ha ha ha! leslie, guess what today is? it's hump day. whoot whoot! ronny, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? i'd say happier than a camel on wednesday. hump day!!! yay!! get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. [ banker ] mike's younger brother, kevin, had hi

and the dekalb and putnam county sheriff departments have come up with a creative way of getting peoplethemselves up. >> as sheriff i was looking for innovative ways to do my business. every sheriff's department in the country has numerous warrants that are outstanding. people become difficult to find. >> the inspiration for the operation, a fake giveaway used by the federal marshall service years earlier. >> we sent out letters to someone telling them they won a laptop computer and they would need to show up, claim their laptop computer. >> these people have been calling us for all these years, it's our time to con them. >> the sting is set up at a rented warehouse meant to look like a new business, cbi computers. as cameras roll, detective lip don powell runs through the details. >> we've already got customers outside waiting to be arrested. the way that the operation is designed is in the location we'll have two to three cbi employees at this point. >> the office is staffed with members of local law enforcement acting as cbi employees. once the undercover officers confirm the identit

the loss of hundreds of dairy farms, milk production in the state has never been higher, says dan putnam, a forage expert at the university of california davis. >> we've increased production per cow at about 2% to 2.2% per year relentlessly for about 30 years in california, and that even continues today. and so what that does is it creates a real problem for the dairy producer in the sense that a couple of years goes by and they have another 5% more milk they have to figure out how to market. >> reporter: so who's going to buy all this milk? remember mr. wei, the cheese buyer for a chinese pizza chain? he's part of a growing middle class in china, who, as incomes rise, are consuming higher protein diets, including more dairy. in fact milk consumption in china has tripled in the last decade, and chinese milk producers are desperate to ramp up. recently, leading chinese dairies came to the world ag expo in tulare, ca, to acquire the latest technology. leon sun is with the shanghai dairy group. >> our main priority in this world ag expo is trying to expose ourselves to world dairy business,

welcome tom putnam and brena sanchez, producers of the successful documentary "burn" which comes outn dvd today. welcome, you guys. explain to me why it is that detroit has so many fires going on. what is it culturally about detroit? >> thank you so much for having us. you know, detroit, there are so many cultural issues, there's so much discontent. as one of the firefighters says in the film, you know, a gallon of gas is cheaper than a movie ticket. if someone -- you know, you've cheated on me. you've evicted me. you've -- you know, you've wronged me in some way. it's relatively inexpensive way to exact my revenge on you by burning down your house and it's also a form of entertainment when there's very little entertainment to be had. >> that is really scary. tom, i actually had the honor of meeting a number of the firefighters in this film a few months ago in washington, d.c., and talked to them about their stories. they have a truly huge job. they put out a fire, there's another one next door and it never ends. what are some of the city or structural barriers that they're dealing w

putnam and david campbell called american grace:how religion divides and unites us. its single handedly refute the idea that religious us to be in the united states is a lower class affair. in the first half of the 20th century the authors observed college-educated people participated more in churchs than those with less education. that pattern changed in the 1960s which saw church attendance of all of among the educated but then re-emerged another pattern according to which attendance tended to rise again faster among the educated and among the less educated. as the authors observe what makes this trend is contrary to any ideas that religion is nowadays providing solace only to the disinherited and dispossessed, with that high irritation subverts religion. it is true that there are pockets where belief in christianity or god is a minority view. among professors at ivy league schools for example, certain other campuses and among certain kinds of scientists to give two examples drawn from studies but these are exceptions, not the rule. similarly in research summarized

. >> washington carpetbaggers, washington bones, our favorites, david putnam, the washington filibuster, great blocking but the team never seems to make any progress. the washington orangemen, the mascot would be john boehner. >> wow. i won't talk about any tobacco. a lot of word play on dot, dot, dot skins, i'll keep it pg and say some were funny. to "morning joe" which starts right now. ♪ >>> to insure that they were limiting their searches to nonamericans, prism's data's an fa list would key in search terms designed to produce at least 51% confidence in a target's foreignness. they just used search terms americans weren't familiar with such as portion control, paid maternity leave and -- >> good morning. it is thursday, june 13th. welcome to "morning joe." >> it is thursday. not friday. oh, my god. with us on set msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele, another proud day for your party. we'll get to that. and former governor of vermont and former chairman of the democratic national committee, howard dean. >> every day is a prou