of wealthy white men who needed to put themselves above and apart from a black man to render him unequal and inferior and diminish his accomplishments. president obama has been labeled with this word by his opponents. >> nbc news strikes again. the word she's referencing -- obama care. you won't believe what she said. and the always hilarious larry the cable guy stops by straight ahead. >>> welcome back to "hannity." tlang "wall street journal" of the left reached a new law oop when melissa harris-perry likenened the term "obama care" to the n-word blaming wealthy white men for coining what she called a derogatory term and accused them of using it as an attack against the president and his race. you have to see it to believe it. take a look. >> i want to talk about a controversial word. a word that's been with us for years. like it or not it's imprinted in the pages of american history. a word that was ornlally intended as derogatory meant to shame, divide and demean. it was conceived of by a group of wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man t

in screw news the united states is now the most unequal country in the developed world the richest ten percent of americans control a whopping seventy five point four percent of all wealth in our nation by comparison finland top ten percent controls only forty four point nine percent of the wealth in japan it controls forty nine point one percent in france the richest ten percent has fifty one point eight percent of that country's wealth and it's not as if things have gotten any better since the financial crisis they've actually gotten worse a recent study by economist and emmanuel sands found that from two thousand and nine to two thousand and twelve the top one percent incomes grew by thirty one point four percent while bottom ninety nine percent incomes grew only by four tenths of one percent and the top one percent captured ninety five percent of the income gains in the first three years of the recovery republicans a libertarian say that this sort of inequality is good for the economy because it encourages people to work her for those republicans and libertarians don't understand h

he added among other things and the us and the dropping of charges against unequal gravity. certainly that there's no discussion like that going on with this one the price system that is not true. the state department says and yet this with is in charge people a doctor kenyan farmers to some encore she said. or new teacup the second highest heaven and want to add to the statement made by the manhattan use it on the prima donna. a new foreign ministry spokesperson say that they didn't say the statement isn't it tends to force facto knots tonight is an issue that's not happened. when he says in another opinion them up at the country is and if you do that in this manner. it not only a month or so and fifty events but what's amazing to see his grandson up calling into question the baby. this system of the country. it is our considered view that this statement is one more attempt at the post facto nationalization. what an action that should never have taken place in the first instance. called the doula something is in jeopardy constant and that nearly all was arrested on december

stripped of whatever cushion they had left, and the result is an economy that's become profoundly unequal. >> mr. obama in professor mode had stats. america's top 10% now earn half of all u.s. income, up he said from 1/3. ceos he said used to make 20 to 30 times what workers do, now he said make 273 times more and the top 1% of americans who have net worts now 288 times what a typical u.s. family has. >> that is a dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility that has jeopardized middle class america's basic bargain, that if you work hard, you have a chance to get ahead. >> reporter: he wants at least a higher minimum wage and an extension of emergency unemployment benefits. the president said when budget talks get going obama care will not be on the table because, he said, his plan is ending one of america's worst inequities, unequal access to health care. larry. >> thanks very much, steve handelsman. we appreciate it. i'm going to say it again with all due respect to mr. president, growing income inequality is not the greatest challenge of our time. we need strong economi

we are becoming more unequal. we've talked about the statistic before about how the top 1% had a 30% pay increase over the last three years after inflation. bottom 99% had zero. >> you have some charts? >> i have some charts. remember we talked about economic mobility and the question of whether you can get ahead in this country or less easily than other countries. so i have a few charts to try to illustrate that. the first one compares inequality and lack of economic mobility in this country to some other countries mostly in europe. and so if you look across the bottom where it says inequality, this is the amount of income inequality that there is in the country and it goes from least to post and you s post a to most and you see u.s. up here. the higher you r, the less like are you to move up. >> so when you combine those two, if urt united states or the united kingdom, you have the least amount of mobility moving upward. and the greatest income inequality. >> correct. it's called t"the great gatsby" chart. so yo

that that was used to render him unequal and diminish him but he had to submit to it and that's onlyson he took it on as his own. what was she talking about that it was conceived of by wealthy white men? >> i'm not sure. melissa harris is not only a tv host but a professor. if we are going to talk about obama care being a bad term can we talk about romney care, hillary care? for me it goes back -- >> also racist. >> it's all thrown in as racist because they don't want us to talk about it anymore. to get rid of the argument is g they have a lazy race argument to get off the, oh, i don't want to be called a racist campaign. >> does this work anymore? this person in particular sees racism everywhere. remember the movie "boomerang"? there was a joke. they would see the pool table and they were like, the black ball gets hit. it was a joke about how some people see racism everywhere. it diminishes claims of racism. >> exactly right. so everyone who criticizes obama care is a racist. doctors fleeing their practice because they can't afford what will happen, the franchise owners are saying,

it's key for them -- anonymous says freedom, we're not helpless and then dominic goes on to say very unequal and democratic societies, counterterrorism is a smoke screen. do you buy that? this is not just about this kind of surveillance not being effective, whether there's a sinister motive underneath. motive. i don't think big brother is around the corner but big brother is somewhere down the hall. we did a lot of things after 9/11 that headed in that discretion and i -- direction that can be revol relative secure. i don't think that the people in fusion centers are trying to build a surveillance state but they might unfortunately be steps on that pathway. what they're doing is not necessarily helpful, isn't necessarily good for our privacy, isn't consistent with our values, so we might reconsider whether we want them doing that or produces better law enforcement gains. murder and rape is not sofd as much as it should be -- satisfied as much as it should be. as opposed to doing counterterrorism which is an kind of indulgence, since there's so much terrorism here. >> after the break, keep tw

. >> when it comes to the unequal distribution of wealth, president obama calls income inequality the defining challenge of our time. >> since 1979, our economy has more than doubled in size, but most of that growth has flowed to a fortunate few. the top 10% no longer takes in one third of hour income, it now takes half whereas in the past, the average c.e.o. made 20 to 30 times the income of the having a worker, today he makes 273 times more. >> what's driving america's wealth and income gab and why does it matter? joining us to answer those questions and i guarantee you many more is policy analyst as r. street institute which supports free market and limited government. ronald is the director of the program on justice and peace at gorge town university and derek hamilton from the new school in new york. thanks to all of you for joining us. lori, explain the difference between wealth inequality and income inequality. >> income inequality one get your paycheck and it adds up to your income over the year. we know there's in equality between a c.e.o. and a worker at mcdonald's, wealth,

significant social policies for reducing inequality, we must keep in mind, columbia is an of the most unequalies in the world socially speaking. level and in a widespread fashion, we have seen the rise of what i call dictatorships, paramilitary apparatuses that assassinate the population with a single objective, which is to accumulate and concentrate wealth in the most savage form possible, one of which is exporting cocaine to the united states. and because of denouncing [indiscernible] having spent five years of my work as a legislator pointing out the first names and last names of certain columbia rp legislators in certain regions of the country, draft laws in the morning and at night with order massacres. because i've helping revealed this intricate network of relationships between persons carrying out genocide, drug traffickers and politicians and public officials, i received an insult from the president of colombia who said i was a terrorist in civilian clothes. considered a terrorist because i was telling the truth. i was telling the relationship between the countries rulers and drug tr

this remained a profoundly unequal society. >> yes, we do have our freedom. we have our rights. but they are abusing our rights. >> you are stuck in poverty. >> we are stuck in poverty, and i don't think poverty is going anywhere. it is not going anywhere any time soon. >> but few hold that against mandela himself. they will be toasting him here tomorrow even if this miraculous nation is still a work in progress. tonight barack obama is en route to south africa. david cameron, tony blair and many others will always be arriving in the morning. the forecast for tomorrow is rain, but that seems unlikely to spoil the mood of what promises to be one of the grandest and most heart-felt send-offs of the modern era. andrew harding, "bbc news," johannesburg. >> as world leaders arrive for that memorial, his daughter recalls his final moments. this week newspapers and magazine around the globe are celebrating the memory of nelson mandela with images. for the new yorker, it is this portrait by the artist, kadir nelson. he has illustrated children's books, and he spoke to us about the messa

. >> what we were trying to say is she was being treated unequally as were all other kids in her age reporter: they sued. a judge ruled in their favor, temporarily suspending the policy. the network optn allowing some ak exceptions for very sick children, then the policy is up for review. now, her challenge isn't her lungs, which work fine, it's hur muscles and her bones, which weakened while waiting for the transplant. >> now, here we are, climbing out of that. and she will. but she shouldn't have been in that position. she shouldn't have had to go through this much. >> reporter: sarah knows she has a long way to go. >> i told myself i can do it and i push myself. >> reporter: do you feel like you are getting better every week? every day? >> every day, i get a little stronger. >> reporter: and gets a little better, one step at a time. since the national policy was changed last summer, ten other children like sarah have also been approved to receive lung transplants. what they ultimately want is better policy that would benefit all children. fred? >> thanks so much, jason. appreciate

koran. [ speaking in foreign language ] all praises due to the almighty, lord of the world, who is unequalnd unmatched in every one of his attributes. [ speaking in foreign language ] the ba neff sit, the merciful, the master of the day of judgment. [ speaking in foreign language ] o, almighty lord, you alone do we worship. you alone do we seek assistance from.. we extend our condolence to the mandela family and to the nation during this time of sadness for the passing away of madiba, a global icon of freedom in recent times. we place our endebtedness to madiba for his self-less efforts in salvaging the nation and leading it to the path of peace, reconciliation and harmony. and laying the foundationn of a free and prosperous south africa. almighty allah, o, our lord, our supreme lord, we besiege you that future leaders of this great country and leaders of the entire world y and people of th country and people of the world would stand up for the ideals and vision our madiba stood for. as madiba never lost an opportunity to reconcile people. we pray to you, o, almighty lord, let us strive to

but it's an empirical fact when you look across the country is, the countries that are more unequal are also those that are less mobile and ultimately, i think everyone in our society subscribes to the quality of opportunity. you can't be serious if you don't have a high-quality preschool if you don't have a middle class family having a same shot at saving for their retirement and there are a lot of elements of a quality that show up in the income distribution as well. and it's expanding and making sure that everyone has enough. >> for what you are saying, it sounds like the inequality framework, it is a broad framework for presenting the agenda and understanding what the agenda actually is. and i'm wondering if that is new inequality things that we haven't heard about that you can tell us about and that was a good description of it last week. and that was not a speech where he was -- they have all been motivated by this, and it's also the freedom that we are using as we think about policy proposals going forward and you always see new policy proposals. >> with the labor market, the par

they don't see themselves as unequal to boys.y are just proud to be feminine. >> but juanot argues that pageants are just the beginning of a process, where young girls are objectified by society and often turn that objectification inwards. you're talking about something that is so broad in the culture, affecting everything from parents to education to the media to our values -- do you think that going after pageants is the best approach to dealing with this enormous issue? >> no. the ban of beauty pageants was only one recommendation among 12 recommendations. and that's a shame that the only recommendation which has been adopted today is a ban of beauty pageants. >> anais is continuing to compete in pageants, she just did another one last week. the senator's proposed ban on pageants will likely be voted on early next year. anais obviously hopes the measure fails. >> translator: it's our passion, so if she takes it away, we're going to be really sad. time now for broadway and a production that focuses more on the audience than wha

unequal justice and i think the double standards that have been applied here are very evident and you know before we were you know we should talk about amnesty certainly for edward snowden but we also need to look at the laws under which he's being prosecuted the espionage act is a piece of legislation that was passed in one thousand nine hundred seventeen it was designed to go after world war one era spies and it's now being used by the obama administration more than any other any and ministration that came before him to go after whistleblowers like edward. the laws are out of date and we need to have a serious look at changing the laws i think certainly we can give amnesty to people like chelsea manning or edward snowden but that doesn't protect the next whistleblower you have to change those laws in or order to protect free speech to protect people who are pointing out abuses within government and who should be protected and allowed to share that information in order for us to correct these wrongs mary very good point there i mean could that could be a case here with manning and wi

corruption this affects disproportionately the poor so we see an inequality that is for what i say it's an unequal distribution of economic freedom only those close to power feel that they have freedom the other people feel disadvantage and i think the pope with his experience in argentina where he sees the division of world vision of culture polity. division's will relate well to the quarters of the world that doesn't have a look at it and say ok ok if i got to go i mean but reading what he wrote and it was about capitalism even if the word wasn't mentioned it was very clear it was about capitalism scotney it again being this pastore old pope i mean he's going to be the champion of the poor it least on t.v. in. pictures with great leaders and what not i mean he can be that protracted is that but can he actually do it is another question right here because the catholic church has had this opportunity for a hundred two thousand years now and it still really hasn't pulled through for the people oh. peter i can't believe you just said that i mean when you when you look at the history of the catholic

supreme court declared that separate educational facilities are unequal, south africa codified it expris sit ri for their nation. separate everything. everything assigned to different races. and the best of everything reserved for the white minority. people classified as colored. for a while, they had a right to vote specifically for white people to represent them. only the white minority had the vote in the ends. and only the white minority had any say. 80% of the country lived entirely segregated and without representation under white rule. 80% of the country. by 1960, the demonstrations had started to zero in on those pass books, the laws that made your mere existence criminal if you were challenged by a white person as to what you were doing there. the best way to overthrow apartheid, just outside johannesburg somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000 people turned up and said they wanted to turn themselves in. thousands of people. they turned up and said that they all felt that they needed to be arrested, all 5,000 of them because they said they tid not have their passbooks. so they were tu

group of wealthy white men who needed to put themselves above a black man to render him inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments. y'all know the word i'm talking about, obamacare. >> that's the dumbest analysis i think i've ever heard. even for them at msnbc, this is nuts. what about hillary care? >> get this. the first time it was mentioned she mentioned the first time it was mentioned, it was in march 2007. it was in a journal called health care financial management. it was coined by a woman, jean schultz-scott who talked about obamacare, hillarycare, guilianicare, mccaincare. >> romneycare. >> that was the origination. number two, barack obama has used this. does this make barack obama a wealthy white man? he said in the debate he was proud of the word. do you know who else used it? this very same reporter. she said it as recently as november. she was using the term in her reports. suddenly it's racist. i don't know what got into tulane university to hire this woman. >> there are reports about the president flirting with with a woman at mandela's memorial service. taking a se

and that was his big achievement you know the south africa as it was though it was very poor very unequal in terms of economics and it still is to this day he didn't have a magic wand he couldn't just change everything just by force of will but his example and his determination was important and inspiring others to get involved and to stay involved in not only in south africa but in the world don't forget there the free nelson mandela movement was a global movement movement of people all over the world who fought for his release and for freedom in south africa and that's an achievement that was really impressive i was watching bano on another channel talking about it. i worked with bondo on the sun city album in one nine hundred eighty six calling for an end to apartheid many artists many cultural figures were part of that struggle so to speak and it's still ongoing the long walk to freedom is not over even though the movie and the second at certain time the actual walk continues for those people who really were moved by mandela to realize that we need to get together to make change in th

gentle caress of the surveillance state into a sharp reminder that we inhabit a world of overlapping unequal and often conflicting information flows right on dave's right of the surveillance folder is still a prototype and is probably more of an art piece than a consumer product but i for one think it's brilliant and perfect because when you are i knowingly being watched by someone you don't know it should make you jump a little tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the residence . and finally before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm eastern for larry king's politicking tonight's guest is david gregory moderator of n.b.c.'s meet the press and larry will also take a look at christmas in washington including scenes from the white house with michelle obama here's a snippet of tonight's interview with david gregory at the newseum. we're in the first amendment gallery. and as fit as do those that is the first amendment fair in will the first amendment is very pretty well i think that there are a lot of platforms for expression i think we have ordinary citizens who hav

if you hate poverty you might go for unequal society before getting ahead. >> let's move on to a more recent success story in africa. you went to zambi. >> in 1995 this land locked nation was one of the lowest ranked countries in the report. today zambia is the most economically free nations in the country. in 15 years this impoverished african nation moved to a level of can ability as poland and franls opening doors to silvia bander. her first business was to open a small one room restaurant. from this beginning she expanded the business between expensive caterers a school for restaurant service workers and processing of nationwide distribution of zambian foods. >> so good for her but are people doing well in zimbabwe? >> no they are not. they used to sayyaf kau was a hope lrs continent they came up with all sorts of explanations it could be history, it could be culture and so on. but what we sees when some african countries begin to liberalize they begin to make progress. what we need is creativity. >> economic freedom means allowing people to try something new as he said like a new

koran. [ speaking foreign language ] all praise is due to the almighty, not of the worlds who is unequalnd unmatched in every one of his attributes. the beneficent, the merciful, the master of the day of judgment. [ speaking foreign language ] almighty lord, you alone do we worship. you alone do we seek assistance from. we extend our condolence to the mandela family and to the nation during this time of sadness over the passing away of madiba, a global icon of freedom in recent times. we place on record our indebtedness to madiba for his selfless efforts in salvaging the nation and leading him to the path of peace, reconciliation and harmony and laying the foundation of a free and prosperous south africa. almighty allow, our lord, our supreme lord, we beseech you that future leaders of this great country and leaders of the entire world and people of this country and people of the world would stand up for the ideals and vision our madiba strove for. as madiba never lost an opportunity to reconcile people. we pray to you, o almighty lord, let us strive towards peace, harmony, reconciliatio

we were the second most unequal country in the whole latin america. and we said we were going to break this trend we've had for so many years. where by the economy grew but also the inequality grew. the rich became richer. the poor became poorer. we put in place specific access and we can also proudly say in the last three years, colombia has lowered its inequality more than any other country except for -- the progress has been tremendous. what i hope if we reach a peace agreement, then we can concentrate even more of our resources in achieving a better social indicators and more progress in that respect. in our international relations i also dpdzed -- decided to change the way we were doing things when i arrive we must change this. we have to be relevant players in the world scenario if we want to have a good interperformance. and we decided to start changing the situation the first thing i did was to call my -- until then one of the worst enemies was i invited to come to colombia. we sat down. in front of each over and said this we've been at odds f

if you hate poverty you might go for a more unequal society.nt successtory. in africa you went to ambia. >> in 1995 this landlocked nation was one of the lowest ranked countries. today it is one of the most economically free nations. in just 15 years this impoverished african nation as increase its economic freedom to a level comparable to poland and france, opening doors for people like sylvia. her first official business was to open a small one-room restaurant. from ts modest beginning she expanded her business to include extensive catering. a school for restaurant service workers, and the processing of nationwide distribution. john: could for her, but are people doing well? it is africa. >> no, they are not, but there are taking a for steps. that is an incredibly important step. people used to say that africa was a hopels continent and came up with all sorts of eight to five explanations, history, cultur. but will we see is that when some african countries began to liberalize and give people a chance, you know what, they begin to make progre

if you hate poverty you might go for a more unequal society john: let's move on to a more recent success >> in 1995 this landlocked nation was one of the lowest ranked countries. today it is one of the most economically free nations. in just 15 years this impoverished african nation as increase its economic freedom to a level comparable to poland and france, opening doors for people like sylvia. her first official biness was to open a small one-room restaurant. from this modest beginning she expanded her business to include extensive catering. a school for restaurant service workers, and the processing of nationwide distribution. john: could for her, but are people doing well? it is africa. >> no, they are not, but there are taking a for steps. that is an incredibly important step. people used to say that africa was a hopeless continent and came up with all sorts of eight to five explanations, history, culture. but will we see is that when some african countries began to liberalize and give people a chance, you know what, they begin to make progress as well. what we need is the creativit

men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man to render him inferior and unequal and to diminish his accomplishments. ya'll know the word i am talking about. obamacare. that's right. i said it and i am not ashamed and neither is president observe. -- president obama. >> rudy giuliani responded to the comments on "hannity." >> it is pure propaganda absolutely outrageous and i believe it is racist. i believe what they are doing is racist. obamacare is a neutral way to describe a program that after all is a president's center piece program. we use terms like clintonian, nicks o nixonian, romney care, hilary care. >> giuliani blasting her saying the president himself has used the term obamacare countless times. obamacare likely started from a lobbyist who was simply coining a term based on the existing hillary care. >>> terrifying moments for a dc woman who clawed her way out of a bathroom after being locked inside. karen says she was working late. she says she packed up all of her stuff ready to leave but when she went to the rest room first when she tried to get the

. >> i gather that this proposal is made on the assumption that they would continue to benefit unequally from the funds retained by the federal government ands by pursed. correct? for instance, the state of california gets only $75 per person from the federal government in the course of a typical year whereas the state of alaska gets $447 per person. under the reagan plan, the state of alaska would be getting much more than the state of california but in addition it would have a greater return from its own revenue. >> that's right. >> okay. now what, in fact, as governor of california can you do considering that your proposals are not going to be enacted into law by congress? what kind of scope do you have left considering on the one hand the limited resources of people even in california and on the other hand the federal dread nought that comes in on the 15th of april and scoops up everything in sight? do you have to maneuver within what's left? >> we are in that position now. here is a state that's one of the highest tax paying states in the union per capita. at the same time as a resu

south africa remains a very unequal society. white south africans on average earn six times more than the average black south africans. there is a huge racial component to all of this. psychologically there are huge racial divisions. economically, a lot of the economic assets remain in white hands. recently in the last few years, that has increasingly become a big talking point in a lot of political circles. there are a lot of poor black south africans who remain unemployed, who may not feel they have benefited from the end of apartheid. >> we are bringing in ian bremer, the founder of the euro asian group. he is on the phone. what role did nelson mandela play on the world stage? >> it was unique. you look around the world today, and absent of the kind leaders and al statesmen that mandela represented. if people like gorbachev, yu and others in singapore. but he did not just capture the imagination of the country and the continent, but of the entire world in thinking about prospects of hope. there are people who have things like

. >> guest: the tutor to replication children there is always the unequal distribution of time. and those who also become famous like benjamin one of the most important science professors at the history of yale. and you really begins a science program faces this choice when he finishes but watts in heads south. but he does not find it his father has been supporting him and and when this endeavor has proven true best he does study law. thank goes right back to alabama and establishes himself over the next decade he becomes quite successful as a planter and on the eve of the civil war arms more than 100 people and a leading voice of the southern slaveholders. that man sat in the class of the abolitionists. he took the course he heard him make the argument the anti-racist argument trying to argue the mountain of this used to defend slavery was nothing more than that. event if one looked at history. >> host: to approach this in a scholarly way. >> guest: he chose examples from history you went back to ancient egyptians to make the argument that we make on the street corner in the 19

we were the second-most unequal country in the whole of latin america. after haiti. it was unacceptable to me and to our colombians. we said that we would break this trend, this perverse trend that we have had for so many years whereby the economy grew, but so did inequality. the rich became richer and the poor became poorer. he put in place specific actions , we broke this trend. we can also proudly say that in the last three years, columbia has lowered its inequality more than any other country except for ecuador. ecuador performed better than we did. but we are not any more than number two in the hemisphere. we are not on the average. -- we are on the average. of course, we still have tremendous inequalities. we still have almost 2 million people unemployed. of course, we still have about 30% of colombians living in poverty. but the progress has been tremendous. i hope is that if we reach a peace agreement, we can concentrate even more of our resources to achieve a better social indicator and more progress in that respect. in our international relations, we have a