tavis: shechem on the show a few times. the last time it was for her but. we will rebroadcast the show again tomorrow night. pleased to have van jones here. i respect and love the work you do. i want to challenge you. the first is, i read with interest your mission statements. the word or does not appear one time. there is references to the middle class. am i missing something? is it about the middle-class tax i think the poor are being left behind. >> it does appear in the preamble. sometimes people do not look petioles thing. -- the whole thing. here is what is going on. we have the traditional port. -- poor. folks nobody wants to hire. we have the traditionally impoverished and then, thanks to the malfeasance of wall street and both parties, we have a 20 million more people out of the middle class down into poverty. what we have to be able to do is rebuild the middle class. we have to create pathways out of poverty so that the people who used to be in the middle class can get back in there. the people who have been running away with all of the benefits o