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What Obama the ex-President should be doing: a "poverty tour."

Here's Van Jones, responding to the question whether Obama's taking $400,000 to speak to Wall Street people is "distasteful."



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JONES: It's not distasteful. You think that he started off talking to those kids in Chicago and we need a Bobby Kennedy in this country and I hope that he will do a tour, go to Appalachia, go to Native American reservations where they are shoving these pipelines down their throats and they don't have a clean running water. Go to south central. Go to the Arizona border where you have a lot of poverty. If he would do a poverty tour first -- listen, he should not be the first president that has to be broke. Listen, every other president went out there and gave big speeches. Don't hold him to a double standard -- don't double standard him. But I'd tell you what, from a moral point of view it would be great for him to do a --

The interviewer, Jake Tapper injects that Obama got a $60 million book deal and "I mean, he's not broke." Jones acknowledges the fact but shies away from criticism of Obama for what he is doing. Jones wants to talk about what he isn't doing:

JONES: Clearly if I were -- if I were -- if I had the opportunity he has I would do a big poverty tour for six months. Everywhere I go it's poverty, addiction and high death rates from West Virginia to south central. If he would do that, then go ahead and do a big speech later.

It's so much easier to see what is happening and to spend all your time talking about that. How big is our failure to see what is not happening?

Here's Van Jones, responding to the question whether Obama's taking $400,000 to speak to Wall Street people is "distasteful."



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JONES: It's not distasteful. You think that he started off talking to those kids in Chicago and we need a Bobby Kennedy in this country and I hope that he will do a tour, go to Appalachia, go to Native American reservations where they are shoving these pipelines down their throats and they don't have a clean running water. Go to south central. Go to the Arizona border where you have a lot of poverty. If he would do a poverty tour first -- listen, he should not be the first president that has to be broke. Listen, every other president went out there and gave big speeches. Don't hold him to a double standard -- don't double standard him. But I'd

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tell you what, from a moral point of view it would be great for him to do a -- The interviewer, Jake Tapper injects that Obama got a $60 million book deal and "I mean, he's not broke." Jones acknowledges the fact but shies away from criticism of Obama for what he is doing. Jones wants to talk about what he isn't doing:

JONES: Clearly if I were -- if I were -- if I had the opportunity he has I would do a big poverty tour for six months. Everywhere I go it's poverty, addiction and high death rates from West Virginia to south central. If he would do that, then go ahead and do a big speech later.

It's so much easier to see what is happening and to spend all your time talking about that. How big is our failure to see what is not happening?

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