We'll have video from the show posted shortly. In the meantime, here's the chart we showed of domestic oil production during President Bush versus President Obama.
-Brett Brownell (@brettbrownell) is video and web producer for Up with Chris Hayes which airs on MSNBC Saturday and Sunday morning.
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Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How did we get here? With "Twilight of the Elites," Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it.
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I don't know what Ms. Drema is talking about in the tweet to the right of the page that the whole show was crap, and how many viewers were lost today.
Very important work today. I was thinking what a stellar job Chris did handling the panel, with so many transcendent themes this morning. My goodness--people need that discussion on how the drumbeat to war is happening yet again. I found it illuminating and daring. This is tricky turf. I don't think being acrimonious about the effort is appropo, and maybe you really are Ms. Drama?