reich couldn't let it go.terday he wrote a column a year or so ago, actually it was 18 months, professor, bill o'reilly did say on his fox news show that i was a communist. i couldn't imagine what i could have done to provoke his ire except appear on several tv shows for arguing higher taxes for the wealthy. this was an example of uncivil society that i viciously attacked him and then some guy at an airport called him a communist as well. joining us now from north carolina purveyor of bernard goldberg.com. mr. goldberg. here is what i don't get. he drags this up 18 months after the fact. he has already done the huffington post thing. why is he doing this again? i mean, what's in it for him? attention? >> i think robert reich is trying to make bakinger point about the culture. i think he is trying to say that we have a hyperpartisan culture that honest civil debate has been replaced by name-calling and that we not only don't like the other side. we don't even want to hear what the other side has to say. and on

odds are you know of robert reich. perhaps as the public servant he was under three administrations -- for his work as president clinton's secretary of labor, "time magazine" called him one of the best cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. he's written thirteen books, including his latest, "beyond outrage: what has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it." but you're about to see professor reich who teaches public policy at the university of california, berkeley, in a wholly new light. as the star of a dynamic, witty, and entertaining new film to be released next week in theatres across the country. it's called "inequality for all,' and was directed by jacob kornbluth. here's the trailer. >> now the thing you want to know about this mini cooper is it is small. we are in proportion, me and my car. my name is robert reich, i was secretary of labor under bill clinton. before that the carter administration. before that i was a special aidt to abraham lincoln. of all developed nations the united

in a wakeup call to america former labor secretary robert reich takes his lifelong fight for economic fairness to the big screen in the documentary inequality for all he believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens take action to lay out the problems the potential solutions and explain why some as things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politics with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley and the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all and equality for all opens across the united states this friday has already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film festival we'll talk a lot about that film a little while robert joins us from new york for some other things robert the federal government shutdown looms will the government be open after september thi

i thinking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all inequality for all opens across the united states this friday it's already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film festival we'll talk a lot about that film a little while robert joins us from new york for some other things robert the federal government shutdown looms will the government be open after the september thirtieth yes or no well my betting is yes larry because the republicans don't really want to fall out they know what happened in one nine hundred ninety five ninety ninety six people are looking for a way out on the other hand the very conservative tea party republicans don't want to compromise so inside the republican party there is a civil war going on and the result of that civil war will probably dictate what happens

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in a wakeup call to america for the labor secretary robert reich takes his lifelong fight for economic fairness to the big screen in the documentary inequality for all he believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens take back. to lay out the problems the potential solutions that explain why sometimes things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politicking with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley and the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all inequality for all opens across the united states this friday and it's already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film.

politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and.

you know i think anytime you make a film called any quality for all and you put somebody like robert reich at the center of it there's a danger that it gets sort of trapped in the same partisan bickering that i was trying to avoid by making this film but the way we approach this issue is to try and take a big picture of you we step out of the sort of partisan fights of the moment and we try and look at say the last forty years or even the last hundred years and sort of look at the shape of the economy and what you see that is something that republicans have had issues with and democrats and liberals and conservatives this when they kind of he gets this on structured as it did in one nine hundred twenty eight and again as it didn't two thousand and seven in both of those two years those were the two peak years of income inequality and the economy had its two biggest crashes of the last century right after both of those years so this is something that concerns both republicans and democrats and when you step out of the sort of day to day twenty four hour news cycle into a larger picture it d

my name is robert reich i was secretary of labor under bill clinton before that the carter administration before that i was a special aide to abraham lincoln. of all develop the united states as the most unequal distribution of income were surging toward even greater inequality. nine hundred twenty eight and two thousand and seven become the peak years for income concentration and looks like a suspension bridge. last year and leave me thirty six thousand got my makeshift child working seventy hours a week the middle class is struggling the people occasionally say to me what nation does about the answer is united states in the decades after world war two the economy boom but you have very low inequality you know i do and he's a communist when i was a kid bigger boys were coming i think it changed my life i had to protect people from the people who would beat them up economically who is actually looking out for the american worker the answer is no but. wealthy british style. markets. can find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred. global financial headlines

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in a wakeup call to america former labor secretary robert reich takes his lifelong fight for economic fairness to the big screen in the documentary inequality for all he believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens take action to lay out the problems the potential solutions and explain why the stumbles things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politicking with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and.

my name is robert reich, i was secretary of labor under bill clinton. before that the carter administration. before that i was a special aid to abraham lincoln. of all developed nations, the united states has the most unequal distribution of income and we're surging toward even greater inequality. 1928 and 2007 become the peak years for income concentration, it looks like a suspension bridge. >> last year we made $36,000. >> think i probably make $50,000 a year working 70 hours a week. >> the middle class is struggling. people occasionally say to me, "now what nation does it better?" the answer is, the united states. in the decades after world war ii, the economy boomed but you had very low inequality. >> do you know robert reich? >> i do. >> he's a communist. >> when i was a kid, bigger boys would pick on me. i think it changed my life. i had to protect people from the people who would beat them up economically. who is actually looking out for the american worker? the answer is, nobody. if workers don't have power, if they don't have a voice, their wag

we're back with the roundtable including speaker gingrich and robert reich and jeff zeleny and gwen ifillr gingrich the republicans, what are they going to do with this and what should they do? >> i think they should get plenty of sleep. this is the next three, four, five weeks are going to be very tense and very challenging. everyone who wants the house republicans to surrender, obama goes three times this week for partisan attack speeches and basically says i'm not going to negotiate. this isn't a dictatorship. under our constitution, there should be a period of tension and a compromise on both sides. the president said no one gets 100%. but what is he going to give up? >> this issue isn't about the affordable care act. i think the issue is whether one party in congress is going to be allowed to use the entire system of government as basically blackmail to get its way. after a law has already passed both houses of congress, has been put into law by the president. the constitutionally of that particular law has been undeniably afirst e le ly after supreme court. what's next? social secur

no one knew in 1938 the extent of the third reich's evil. right now you've got a guy using poison gas to kill civilians. you know iran is up there trying to develop nukes. you know other bad guy arabs if he has the gas, hezbollah has the gas. so i think there is a parallel here and i think if the united states becomes isolationists, as many, many people do, and i don't blame them. there's not a lot of good guys over there, all right? it's going to be worse down the road for us. >> i agree if isolationists means we don't accept refugees, we put tariffs against the products, as people wanted to do before world war ii. you sigcite world war ii. in retrospect we should have intervened. you're leaving out somalia, vietnam. afghanistan. >> vietnam in retrospect was a mistake. >> how about -- >> just because we made past mistakes, and we may have, doesn't mean that you recede from the field. you just have to do it smarter. i'll give you the last word. >> we're not isolationists if we don't want to kill people. >> but you don't have any solution to

funds that have put thousands of people to work in construction reich -- right here in san francisco.hanks to the recovery investment act funding which we received $400 million from. this is the result of the hard work of the dedication of our congressional delegation all led by house democratic leader nancy pelosi. leader pelosi is a national treasure and we are so honored to have her here today. i can't tell you how appreciative we are leader pelosi. house democratic leader pelosi. >> thank you very much, maria for your kind words of introduction for your exceptional leadership. when we gathered here 3 years ago we sang your praises as an operational person to get the job done and here we are. it's an honor to be here with you mr. mayor and thank you for your leadership, not only on this project, but everything that surrounds it. supervisor kim, thank you for your leadership as a transbay joint powers authority chair as well as a member of our board of supervisors. michael from the building and construction traits council, of course none of this would be possible without the buildin

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we would reich like to start the meeting. if everybody can take their seats. >> good evening. i would like to call to order this special meeting of the san francisco unified board of education for tuesday september 17, 2013. >> miss casco would you please take the roll. >> miss fewer, haney, mr. mendoza, murase, wynns. >> i would like to call upon our superintendent mr. carranza to set the stage for us. >> thank you, i would like to welcome everybody to this special meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district. i can't help but being giddy tonight. i'm so excited about our agenda this evening. not that i'm not excited about every board meeting agenda, but i'm particularly excited about this evening's agenda. many folks who are watching and the public, this is a long time that has been coming and building momentum and at this time we have the opportunity of san franciscans and specifically as san francisco unified school district members to lead in nutrition addition. i want to share if you were to right now use a search engine and search the w

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robert reich, he knows what he's tabout.bout. )p >> jon: that's our show, join us tomorrow night at 11:00, here is your moment of zen. >> it's been a good couch. >> right, whs's left of it but it's out with the old, in with the new, steve, ready? >> you know what, this is

. >>> joining me is robert reich. his new film, which is excellent, "in equality for all" is out friday. suzy khimm is with us as well. she wrote a great piece and the cruz cam goes up and if any dr. seuss classics are read, we will be sure to go to that live. robert, before he was reading dr. seuss, ted cruz was making an argument that you hear from the right, which is basically an argument about the fact that the affordable care act has broken the labor market. that there are all these things wrong with the labor market that we haven't seen a very robust recovery, there's too many people doing part-time work, that we have -- you know, we have employers that are anxious about the future. does that argument hold up? is that the reason the labor market is broken because of obama care? >> no, chris. the labor market is broken because almost all the gains since the recession have gone to the top 1%. so most people don't have the money to turn around and spend to create jobs. you know, the job creators in this country are

>> i think robert reich is trying to make a bigger point about the culture. >> are you? you're trying to make? >> the bigger point is that we are at logger heads in this culture in this society now, a lot of anger, a lot of bitterness. mainly because people are not getting ahead. but it's being fueled, that anger and bitterness, is also being fueled by the name-calling that we find -- likes of bill o'reilly saying i'm a communist. and that name-calling, that kind of vitriol in which one side is basically talking to its audience, the other side is talking to their audience, well, it's splitting america at a time, honestly, when we have to come together. if we're ever going to solve these problems, we've got to just stop all of the bickering. >> could i add to that? >> you grew up, jay, in a family where you received state support in terms of free school lunches and so on. was your mother a moocher? were your parents free loaders who were fraudsteres, trying to steal from the government? >> my mother was a hard-working, wonderful person. >> no, she wasn't. she was taking b