I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

Influential conservative Arthur C. Brooks issues a challenge to the Republican Party.

The crisis in the American economy today, Bill, is that we have economic growth that's concentrated in the top 10%.

People who are impoverished and people who lack power are going to lose out. This is

something that we need to remember. We need a moral reformation in this country. Republicans could

come screaming out of the gate going forward and say, we're the ones who will fight for the

poor. We're the ones who will fight for workers. You might not agree with how we're

going to do it. But let me tell you, you will not doubt what's on our hearts. That means we need

a new kind of moral climate for the future leaders. Thanks for joining us.

My guest Arthur C. Brooks says the compassionate conservatism once touted by George W. Bush

is making a comeback. Now, if you've been listening to the heated rhetoric on the right toward

poor people, government, immigrants, and liberals, that may come as a surprise. But Mr. Brooks

is being taken seriously by influential conservatives in government,

business, and the media. In Commentary magazine, he called on conservative leaders to articulate

a positive social justice agenda. And just last week in the New York Times, under the headline

Love People, not pleasure, Arthur Brooks wrote that while

money relieves suffering in cases of true material need, when money becomes an end in itself,

it can bring misery to. That message has some people scratching their heads, coming as it does

from the President of the American Enterprise Institute, that

venerable conservative Washington think tank, funded by some 1,200 donors, including the likes

of ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, the Walton Family Foundation, that's Walmart,

the pharmaceutical industry, and the chairman of the Carlisle Group.

...