amy: robert reich will join us from california. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. super tuesday has arrived. it is one of the most important days of voting in primaries and caucuses in the 2016 presidential campaign. republicans and democrats each go to the polls in 11 states. about a quarter of all delegates are at stake. the five republican presidential candidates will compete in contests in alabama, alaska, arkansas, georgia, massachusetts, minnesota, oklahoma, tennessee, texas, virginia, and vermont. democratic voters will decide between their two candidates in similar states, except alaska, and also in colorado and american somoa. -- and american samoa. recent polls show billionaire trump could win at least eight of the 11 states. on the campaign trail, florida senator marco rubio criticized trump's remarks refusing to disavow backing from former kkk member david duke. >> he is unelectable now. he refused to criticize the ku klux klan. he is been given for interviews. this

more with larry kudlow and robert reich. we'll be right back. >>> gentlemen, welcome back. want to pick up where we left off. secretary, i you propose a number of solutions to what you see as problems in the united states. among them including free public higher education, single payer health care plan, stronger units in the public sector. your book is called saving capitalism. i understand you're more inclined to support bernie sanders. are your opinion capitalist or socialist? >> they are certainly capitalist. i don't think we'll be able to save the current form of capi l capitalism we have unless we make changes. between 1901 and 1916 we saved capitalism from the excesses of the 1990s. we saved capitalism before that in the 1830s when a lot of forces in america wanted to create a new aristocracy and prevented us from going down into the great depression again. >> robert, robert. >> we periodically save capitalism from its own excesses -- >> i want to be as polite as i can and say with respect, i love you, budd ddy but you're wrong. bernie sanders wants to make everything

callss robert reich donald trump "the american fascist," we will speak with columbia university professorobert paxton. all that and more coming up. ♪ amy: welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in what is being billed super tuesday 3, democratic and republican voters head to the polls today for primaries and caucuses in florida, illinois, missouri, north carolina, ohio, and the commonwealth of northern mariana islands. all eyespublican race, will be on florida and ohio. marco rubio and john kasich are hoping to defeat donald trump in their home states. on the democratic side, hillary clinton and bernie sanders are locked in close races in ohio, illinois, and missouri. sanders said he can defeat donald trump. bernie sanders: one of the arguments made against the say, bernieeople sanders, nice guy, nice ideas, but he can't win the general election. that's wrong. that is factually incorrect. take a look at all of the polls. almost all of the polls that have been taken over the last several months -- the last national poll done by nbc "wall str

our economics correspondent, paul solman, recently sat down with robert reich to hear a more progressivel take on these issues. tonight, paul gets a more conservative view on how it helps explain the trump phenomenon. it's part of his weekly reporting on financial news, "making sense," which airs every thursday. >> the poor are getting everything for free and the rich are getting all the tax breaks. >> reporter: long marginalized, economically anxious voters are now center stage in the daily drama of the presidential campaign. >> i am currently unemployed. i think the middle class they don't really care about as much as they should. >> well i lost my job, so my one full time job is now three part time jobs. >> that's what america needs. that's what the people need. they need their jobs back. >> reporter: to which donald trump responds loud and clear... >> i will be the greatest jobs- producing president that god ever created. >> reporter: economics is a key driver of the voter anger charles murray calls "trumpism"" conservative charles murray, who's been a lightning rod of controversy si