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Has the details from Los Angeles. Evan, what do we now . Well, this was a bit of a Surprise Gambit that we had in court here, just about 20 minutes ago here in Los Angeles Dana Hunter bidens attorneys asked for him to enter an unusual plea. Its called an Alford Plea where Hunter Biden would accept whatever punishment that judge doles out, but he maintains his innocence and instead of Pleading Guilty, hes maintaining his or is attempting to maintain his innocence. Of course, as expected the Justice Department does not does not agree with this and they objected in court to this request from Hunter Bidens attorneys and now the judge has called for break for a couple of hours while he considers what steps to take next. Now this is unusual as you pointed out as i pointed out, today, obviously was the first day of Jury Selection and this trial this is a Hunter Bidens second time going on trial earlier this year, he was found guilty on gun charges in delaware. And these charges have to do with Tax Evasion hes facing three Felony Counts for Tax Evasion six misdemeanor by counts on for failing to file and pay his taxes on time and of course, this was his facing a very difficult situation because Hunter Biden had previously agreed to plead guilty to all of these charges in a deal that fell apart last year in Federal Court, there in delaware. So we dont know what the judge is going to do next, but i can tell you that alpha plays obviously very, very unusual. Certainly in the federal system the Justice Department has a policy against them. They would argue and they were today in court. Theyre pushing for Hunter Biden to plead guilty to everything. If he wants to resolve this case, he needed to plead guilty to all of these charges. That is the position of the government so we will see what Judge Mark Scarsi does when he gets back. Obviously, Dana Big not a lot of consequences are i are here for 100 biden. Hes facing 17 years because if hes convicted, we know President Biden has said that hes not going to pardon his son. However, thats back when hunter, the president , was the candidate for reelection. That is no longer the case will see whether that answer it stays the same so interesting. Thank you so much for explaining that, especially that detail of the Justice Department policy being not to accept such where please keep uS Posted if you hear anything from what the judge actually says in that hearing behind you, evan, i want in the meantime, bring in senior legal so analyst, elie honig. Elie, can you just dive deeper into this socalled Alford Plea, which was not on my Bingo Card for Inside Politics today, but were all about learning new things. And this is a new one for me. Youve obviously got experience with this being a former federal prosecutor explains yeah, dana, this is a surprise development. So ordinarily, when a defendant pleads guilty, he goes in front of the judge in court and says, im guilty as charged. I did it. And heres what i did that makes me guilty. Now, this is whats technically called an Alford Plea. People may be more familiar with the term you sometimes see on tv of a no Contest Or Nolo contendere if you want to use the latin were essentially what Hunter Biden is asking to do is to go into the Federal Court and say, im not admitting my guilt. Im not admitting that im guilty of these charges instead, i acknowledge that the prosecution thinks they have the proof and i willing to take your sentence, judge, based on the indictment as its very very rare to see this type of plea happen or even an attempt to have this type of plea happen in Federal Court and elie, do prosecutors talk about sort of the history of if you know broadly whether or not prosecutors usually accept this type of plea. I mean, i dont want to put you on the spot here, but if you were the prosecutor in this case, is this something that you think that you would consider especially given as you answer that, i just want to add a little bit of context to this Hunter Biden haS Paid back those those taxes, but its not its not as if those taxes are outstanding even though he did more than one year and note a lot of money so it is official Justice Department policy and this is a doj federal case that you do not as a prosecutor, accept an Alford Plea except for an extraordinary circumstances. You asked about my experience. I was a prosecutor for 14 years, never accepted an Alford Plea once in a while, a Defense Lawyer would call and say, hey, my guy is willing to take an Alford Plea and frankly, we laugh at them. Wed say no way. We dont do that. Thats a joke however, what Hunter Biden certainly can do and perhaps this is his next step. If this doesnt work is nobody can stop him from just Pleading Guilty to the indictment as is. Now, hes charged with various tax crimes, so nobody can stop him. It doesnt matter if the prosecutor likes it or not. Hunter biden can always go into that court and say, im guilty as charged. But on this issue of the Alford Plea, the no Contest Plea . Not at all surprising that evan just reported that doj, the prosecutors are against it elie. Thank you so much. Always good to see you and to have you instantly explain things that we are just learning. And you already know because youve already practiced law for so long. Now to the big apple, you are looking at live pictures of The Economic Club Of New York where Donald Trump will speak momentarily about hiS Plans for the economy should he when another term in office were expecting to hear about some new ideas a day after Vice President harris announced some of her own new economic policies, cnn, kristen holmes, is there, kristen, i know youve been talking to you sources and the Trump Campaign. We do expect some new ideas that people who listened intently, the Elon Musk might found, might find familiar well, thats right. Elon musk has become such a close adviser of Donald Trumps. And well see that today on display when he announced in some of these new economic proposal this isnt just to give a little bit of background here, Donald Trump and last several weeks, particularly since Kamala Harris has been at the top of the ticket, has given these kind of smaller speeches that are supposed to focus on specific issues like the economy, like immigration. But however, they often veer off and go into attacks on Kamala Harris on her policies, on her personally we are told that this is going to be much more specific, not just vague proposals like no tax On Tips are no tax on Social Security, but get into somewhat of the nitty so here is what is on the agenda from senior advisers. They say this law be unveiled today at various economic proposals. Its going to talk about tackling, tackling government regulation, creating Government Efficiency commission. That was something that was originally proposed by Elon Musk is something that would do essentially a comprehensive look at the Government Fraud at waste withdrawing unspent funds from the biden administration, adding sweeping tariffs on imports. Obviously something weve heard Donald Trump Talk extensively the about, as well as embracing cryptocurrency, which is something he has done in recent months. Now, how detailed he gets that remains to be seen often with these times speeches, Donald Trump gives a bleak blanket, but does it go into those specifics . But we are told that this is his opportunity to get out there and unveil some of these new policies as you mentioned, this is coming a day after Kamala Harris unveiled some of her economic policies that we also know the economy its a key issue for Donald Trumps campaign. They still believe they can make harris the incumbent candidate that people are still very unhappy with the economy. And as long as Donald Trump Tim Hughes to stay focused in on message, typically when it comes to inflation, prices of groceries, the price of housing that they can win this election in november. But of course, dana, the question is, as always its whether or not Donald Trump can stay on message yes, it is. And we will be watching and we will be taking his speech live to hear the Policy Proposals that he says in his campaign says that they are going to unveil any minute now, we will bring that to you. Thank you. In the meantime for your great reporting, kristen, i have other terrific reporters right here with me. The at the table. Cnns David Chalian, cnns alayna treene, and Jasmine Wright of notice, formerly with cnn. Nice to see you all at David Chalian Yesterday Kamala Harris gives a speech that talks about the Economy Bit more moderate separates herself for the first time really, from Joe Biden on one of the key tax issues that people who are paying attention to that Pay Attention to. And today, we have Donald Trump yeah. I mean, it is Issue Number one for voters obviously. And so both of these candidates want to speak to where voters are, which is a concern about the economy. I also think its an opportunity to practice some Policy Lines before the debate in philadelphia next week. So i think what you hear today from Donald Trump, if he does indeed read off the prompter aS Planned, what you heard from Kamala Harris yesterday, ill be shocked if we dont hear some of that same language on the debate stage, next week its interesting that you noted on the Harris Side dana a little bit of separation from biden, which is noteworthy and interesting in and of itself from the sitting Vice President but actually the fact that she separated from biden to put him in a more left Progressive Area by Raising Taxes by a larger amount than she saying. I dont want to go that far it was just five years ago. She was running on the left of Joe Biden, so it was a very big switcheroo there to hear her try and do that. We should also be clear shes still proposing to raise taxes on these Capital Gains on high wealthy earners. Shes just going to raise taxes by less than Joe Biden iS Proposing. Here. But i thought was interesting in that graphic that with kristen, with all the Policy Proposals that were about to hear from the Musk Idea of sort of Reorganizing Government has also a way of potential Savings Echoes back to Al Gore and reinvented. We go we are theres i dont think that is why the Harris Campaign may go after the association with musk who traffic sometimes a Conspiracy Theories dont think thats what theyre going to go after. It was down towards the bottom of that list. His call for tariffs, nearly a 20 watch the Harris Campaign jumped on that because they will try and paint that purely as Cost Increase as the Trump Inflation of a potential second trump term. Yeah. I mean, i dont want to get too far down in the weeds in policy but you remember when trump waS President , the trade war, the tariffs that he put on really did hurt farmerS Particularly in states like iowa. And the government had to come in and spend a lot of money to help them . No, absolutely. I think this is one of the big questions ive had for the Trump Campaign for several months now is that Donald Trump haS Proposed all of these sweeping im policies i think were actually here at the specifics today. I know the goal for the Trump Campaign is to put a sharper focus on it, not talk about it broadly, but really get into what exactly he wants to do. But one of my questions for them, particularly when it comes to no tax On Tips, no tax and Social Security, no changes to Entitlement Benefits at the same time, how are you going to pay for this . And that . Theres a question ive asked Donald Trump this directly at some of his events that they have yet to answer for and even today when ive been asking them about all of these policies, they still have not answered for that. I think one time when i asked Donald Trump, he said through growth, through great growth, and that was about the scope of his answer and just like that, hes at the microphone lets listen you can speak for an hour and he didnt like the way i look we do. Have a lot to say. I want to thank you. Also want to thank friends respected Business Leaders who are welcoming me back to the story New York economic club story. Indeed a very special things to barbara event out in conversation. Much. And former director of the national economic council, Larry Kudlow former chair of the council of economic advisers, Kevin Hassett Ambassador robert five eyes, referring Person Former Secretary Wilbur was former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Chairman Jay Clayton Ambassador Woody Johnson senior adviser Stephen Miller my friends and respected Business Leaders all john paulson, Jamie Dimon Steve Witkoff steve schwarzman, Scott Passant Jeff Sprecher Richard Kurtz former head of the world bank, David Malpass and the two cochairs of my president ial Transition Team that are being inundated with Phone Calls and requests Linda Mcmahon and howard lutnick. Thank you thank you very much as we gather today, we have an eco an economic disaster on our hands we have an economy in crisis a failing nation, a nation in serious decline under the radical policies of my former opponent, Joe Biden and my new opponent Kamala Harris 1. 3 million workers have become unemployed in the past 12 months. I dont know if anybody knows that the typical american family has lost over 28,000 due to rampant and record Setting Inflation Credit Card Debt has reached the highest in history with more than one in three americans reporting they have maxed out their credit cards. Theyve maxed out families now need to earn an estimated 110,000 a year to afford atypical home. Meaning 65 of households are locked out of buying just an ordinary House Gasoline Prices Grocery Prices Electricity prices, mortgage rates, and virtually everything else are up 30 to 100 since i left office 8. 4 million americans are now working second jobs, the highest and more than 30 years the real wages of african american workers are down by over six 6 short period of time the real incomes from hispanic men are down 6. 6 or 3,600 per year. And on top of that African Americans and Hispanic American jobs are under massive threat from the invasion taking place at our border. They take in the jobs of Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and nobody talks about it. But i wont let it happen yet after presiding over the border, the worst in history for any country has never been a border like this 21 Million people, we project this total economic catastrophe. The Border Czar Kamala Harris has now been slotted in by the democrats to be reelected. She wants four more years to enforce a radical left agenda that poses a fundamental threat to the prosperity of every american Family And America itself were talking about america itself she wants to defund the police, have totally open borders, Ban Fracking in pennsylvania and everywhere else. Take away your private Health Insurance and perhaps most pertinent to the very brilliant people in this room raise your business and corporate taxes and unbelievably, she will seek a tax on unrealized Capital Gains. Most people dont even know what that means what does it mean she has been after all of this for years and as everyone knows, shes a marxist who were destroyed almost singlehandedly. San francisco and when she was the Ag California itself, not the same place. People are leaving. Theyre fleeing like they are in new York Shell seek out and she will try and get those things if shes elected. And she may very well succeed in getting them. She recently said her values have not changed these have really been her values for her entire career her values havent changed. Thats what she wants. So she told the truth. Were not going to let this happen communism is the past. Freedom is the future. And it is time to send comrade Kamala Harris back home to california where crime is rampant and fleeing is the Number One occupation. Im here today to lay out my plan to rescue our country from this nightmare and to bring back to its citizens the american dream bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. Eight years ago, i came before you as a candidate for president and shared my vision to end the Stagnation And Return to rapid growth. Thats what we did aS President , i am very proud to say that we accomplished something that nobody thought that was even possible before the pandemic. Real median Household Income rose by 7,684 and even after the pandemic annual incomes were up 6,400, the average american households, 197,000 increase in real Net Worth in 48 months. For the bottom 50 of households average wealth more than doubled increasing by 121 lowest in come people benefited the most after 12 years of decline, we added nearly 7 Million new homeowners, never happened before and in three years, we created 7 Million new jobs, 260 more than projected when i took office, when i took office, they said you couldnt hit those projections and we were 260 higher than what we said we could do from the day i won two the day i left the S P 500 increased by 80 and we did it all with virtually no inflation. We had virtually no inflation. Think of that. Who could believe that . I delivered the largest Tax Cuts and reform an American History by far slashing rates for working families and cutting the Business Tax from the highest in the world we had the highest in the world 35 and actually, when you add local and State Numbers that were close, getting close to 50 but much, much higher. Nobodys ever seen with brought it all the way down to 21 which everybody said was impossible to do. And i heard it from everyone. They said youll never be able to do that. And i got it down to 21 . I cut a Record Number of Job Billing regulations in four years, we got more regulation than any president in the history of our country by far im proud to be the only president in modern history to achieve a net regulatory reduction during my term and it was a substantial reduction. And for every regulation we added we cut more than five 5. 5 regulations we unleash american energy and within three years we had increased domestic Oil Production by 47 . And we were just getting started the price of gasoline was 1. 87 a gallon, doesnt that Sound Good right now we negotiated and renegotiated more than 50 Trade Agreements with other countries that were taken advantage of us as they all do to protect the american worker and to open foreign markets. So we did a great job i ended nafta, the worst Trade Deal ever made in the history of our country and replaced it with the usmca, perhaps the best Trade Deal ever made in history. Thats mexico and canada. I stood up to china like No One else before me. No one came even close. And i saved the us Auto Industry from Oblivion Duration with a 27. 5 tariff on all chinese cars that remains in place to this day. They want to take it off, but they cant because Number One, its too much Money And Number two, we would be invaded by chinese cars on top of the other invasions that are taking place without our Auto Industry would be dead and now i am going further. We will bring our Auto Making Industry to the record levels of 37 years ago and well be able to do it very quickly through tariffs and other smart use of certain things that we have that other countries dont for four straight years, i fought for american workers like i would fight for my own family i took care of our economy. Like i would take care of my own company in every decision i asked will i create jobs here or will i be sending Jobs Overseas . Will it make america richer and stronger . Or will it make our country weaker and poorer i alwayS Put america first every single time and when our country was hit by the china virus, we saved the economy. We rescued tens of millions of jobs. And after covid i handed kamala and joe the fastest and strongest recovery ever recorded. Nothing even close with 1. 4 inflation, the 30 Year Mortgage Rate was at 2. 4 the highest Stock Market in history. This is despite the pandemic today. I handed them back the highest Stock Market today after having just suffered with the rest of the world, the pandemic, the likes of which nobody has ever seen before. We did an incredible job and remember far more people died of covid under bidenharris than under President Trump. Many, many more people we delivered an economic miracle, which kamala and joe turned into an economic disaster just like they turned the border. And indeed the whole world into a catastrophic surrender starting on day one, camila launched a War On American Energy and orchestrated a nation wrecking Border Invasion with a legal errol alienS Pouring in from countries All Over The World. They came in from countries that nobody ever heard the name of that country those countries from their prisons and jails, there is a difference from mental institutions and insane asylums as well as Record Numbers of terrorists human traffickers, and sex traffickers. Numbers that weve never seen before taking place over the last threeandahalf years then Kamala Cast the deciding votes on trillions of dollars in wasteful spending which together with their terrible energy policies, gave us the worst inflation perhaps in the history of our country nearly twothirds of the jobs created under the harrisbiden administration where bounceback jobs, bounce back they were bounceback jobs that i handed them from before the pandemic this happens with pandemics, you have bounced back jobs. The pandemic comes and it goes and those people go back to their jobs and just last week, Joe Biden admitted that on social media. I dont know if he knew what he admitted, but thats what its said. I wonder who drew at perhaps that person is no longer employed by the democrats but right now, its even worse than that under Kamala Harris, hiS Policies. Okay. Weve been listening to Donald Trump at the New York economic club this was slated to be a, an availing of what he would do aS President so far he has spent a lot of time really all of his time talking about what he believes Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have done wrong when he starts talking about his own plans, we will get back to it as soon as we can. In the meantime, i want to go to Matt Egan because what weve heard so far requires a lot of factchecking and maybe course correcting for our viewers when it comes to the real History And Context as to what has happened during the biden administration with regard to the economy, i want to first just ask you a general question matt, because youre the expert here. What stands out most to you about what we should be fact factchecking well, dana, hes clearly painting a very, very dark picture about the current State Of Affairs in this economy No Doubt, this economy has some major issues, particularly when it comes to affordability but he certainly sounds like hes exaggerating the extent of the current situation, for example, just a few moments ago, former President Trump said this is the worst inflation and perhaps in the history of our country. Now, inflation is nowhere near as high as it was just two years ago. We had a much higher inflation than the sub3 percent right now, it was higher in the 70s and in the ad. So that one just doesnt add up. He also was championing his 2017 Tax Cuts, which No Doubt were massive. But he described them as the largest Tax Cuts in American History by far. That is something that former President Trump has repeatedly said. That is not accurate. Its not the biggest Tax Cut in history either as a percentage of gdp or on inflation. Inflation adjusted basis. At another point here though, is what hes saying about the current state of the Jobs Market is really important to remember that unemployment remains relatively low. It has come up recently. But look at this 4. 3 unemployment as of july, thats the most recent isnt month we have that is significantly lower than in January 2021 the former the final month that trump was in office. Of course, the Unemployment Rate at that point was high because of the Covid Crisis, which is a crisis that trumps critics would argue that he mismanaged. But even if we look at Job Growth before covid, right, we just look at the first three months, three years under trump, we can see the u. S. Economy added a lot of jobs, 6. 5 million jobs during the first three years that trump was in office but look at that much more, more than twice as many under Joe Biden as the economy was recovering from covid. So again and again in the opening few minutes of this speech, Dana Trump iS Painting a much darker picture than what really lives up with reality and i want to ask you about part of hiS Plan and hopefully he will get to that when he gives his speech and well go back to it, but can you talk about terrorists before you get to that started, ask you a twopronged question here we were sitting here listening and he was talking about the Bounce Back Job that he was responsible for with regard to some of the biden era jobs, is that is that a thing . And if it is, can you explain what that is . Well, i think what hes alluding to is the fact that of course the economy was adding jobs when biden came into office in 2021 because the Covid Crisis was a beginning to fade and eventually the pandemic ended. And so as the economy open, of course jobs are going to be rapidly increasing. But again, trumps critics would argue that the Economy Wouldnt have lost as many jobs if the covid, crisis the Health Crisis itself, had been better managed in the first place. So i think thats important context on trade. So we do expect trump to reaffirm hiS Plans to impose sweeping tariffs. Hes called for ten to 20 tariffs on all 3 Trillion of u. S. Imports. Six Steve Percent tariffs on china. Ive got to tell you, ive been talking to economists for years about Policy Ideas and im not sure ive ever heard as much across the Board Concern about a Policy Idea as ive heard about the trump tariffs up, thats not to say that he isnt trying to address legitimate concerns, right . We hear from republicans, we hear from democrats, we hear from ceos and others that china is not playing fair on trade and Thats Something has to be done. But the question is whether or not this fixed would actually do more harm than good because a lot of the mainstream economist, i talked to, they warn the debt, massive tariffs like this that would kill jobs. It would actually make inflation worse. It could cause a global trade war. I talked to jp morgan, David Kelley and he told me that this is one of those magical economic proposals that can actually cause inflation and puts you into a recession at the same time, right . So to be clear, you dont want either of those things to happen and the fear is that both of them could happen i talked to douglas holtz, eakin and former Mccain And George H W Bush adviser. And he told me that this Tariff Plan is just terrible economic policy. And there is some research out there from the peterson an institute that warns that every day americans are going to pay the price that the typical middle Income Family would have to pay 2,600 more a year because of the trump tariffs. And notably dana, this does not even factor in the almost definite retaliation wed have as other the Country Response to those trump tariffs. So theres a lot to break down and to understand about what the realworld implications are from some of these Policy Proposals that was so helpful that you, that you did that i know its just its given me in the surface because its so complex and so, so deep when it comes to the economic questions that thiS PoseS Politically speaking, when you say, im going to stop china from taking advantage of american business that soundS Pretty good to a lot of voters, which is completely understandable matt, thank you so much. Dont go anywhere because we are still monitoring Donald Trumps economic speech in New York and it is also a Big Day for trump in court. His lawyers are trying to convince a federal judge to delay his Election Subversion Trial for as long aS Possible is the judge buying their arguments . Well discuss next . The polls for him. 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He abc newS President ial debate tuesday at nine on cnn welcome back. I want to go back to New York. President trump, the former President Candidate to be president. Again, he is now talking about the plans for his economic policies. If he were to win again, lets listen in for a couple of minutes its massive for the same service that you have right now, trillions of dollars is wasted and Gunn And Nobody knows where it went further, taming inflation. And bring in Prices Way down the fifth pillar of my plan is to make the trump Tax CutS Permanent they are massive Tax Cuts, biggestever permanent and to cut taxes even more. And we will have no tax On Tips, something which they copied for weeks after i said she got up, said no tax On Tips. I said i just said that she is actually copying a lot of my plan. In fact, were going to send her a maga sometime in the next week. Were having a special one. But we also know she doesnt mean that shes going to stick with what her whole life has been about and also no tax on Social Security benefits. People on Social Security but wiped out by inflation. And now on top of it, we tax there fair and benefits were not going to text that benefits. We have so many different ways of making so much money thats country the potential is is so incredible. We dont have to take it away from people on Social Security. Were not going to do that. Were going to save Social Security. Shes going to destroy Social Security under the trump administration, we prove that targeted the Tax Cuts do not increase the deficit they reduce the deficit by growing the economy and raising revenue after we gave the massive Tax Cuts, we took in the following year with a much Lower Rate billions and billions of dollars more than we did the previous year with a high rate. Think of that with a much Lower Rate, we took in more money because people were incentivized corporate tax revenues are 31 higher today than before my Tax Law was signed. With all of those cuts, 31 higher to further support the revival of American Manufacturing. My Plan Calls for expanded R D Tax credits, 100 Bonus Depreciation Expensing for new manufacturing investments, and a reduction in the corporate Tax Rate from 21 to 15 solely for companies that make their product in america you have to make your Product And America if you outsource offshore or replace american workers, you are not eligible for any of these benefits. In fact, you will pay a very substantial tariff when a product comes in from another country. Thats made in another country and comes in we have a big tariff on that product because we want to make our goods in america and most of them we can. My message is simple. Make your product here in america and only in america we are not going to be taken advantage of anymore just as we made great inroads and progress for years ago, we made tremendous inroads on this subject were not going to watch our wealth and jobs get ripped away from us and sent to foreign countries, which is whats been happening for many, many decades with us china was built on doing exactly what were going to be doing. And what i started doing four years ago. What were putting forward is the most pro American Manufacturing and jobS Policy in modern history for any country. ThiS Plan will bring jobs and growth into our country at levels never seen before. Every business on Earth Will Flock to america from europe, asia, the middle east, and All Over The World by contrast, got comrade Kamala Harris wants to sacrifice our wealth, kill the economy, and drive Jobs Overseas to punish businesses more businesses will leave the Leave America. There international companies they report to their shareholders and they will Leave America if her plan even in a small form comes to the fore her tax plan, which includes the promise to end the trump Tax Cuts, which again, by itself would be a massive tax increase, would increase taxes by over 5 trillion. A record many times over. It would result in the largest small Business Tax i can history massively Raising Taxes on 25 Million small businesS People and raising small Business Tax rates to 43 and higher. In other words, 20 higher than communist China Kamala is also vowing to raise the corporate Tax Rate from 21 to 28 were bringing it down to 15 . But she really is looking to raise it to 40, 45, or even 50 . You know, that all you have to do is follow her past path radically raised the Capital Gains Tax Rate, which he wants to do and they dont even want to give a number and for the first time ever imposed a 25 tax on unrealized Capital Gains. So if you happen to have a lot of wealth, but no cash hear a lot of trouble this will lead america into a 1929 depression and it will be a depression and a territory that we have not seen for a long time theres a gentleman that happens could believe that scott these policies, especially the tax on unrealized Capital Gains, would decimate the u. S. Economy. Companies and innovation would flee from America To other countries venture capital, markets would disappear. The Stock Market would be annihilated and investors assess the Tax Liabilities actually talking about some of the plans that his campaign previewed at the beginning of the day at our panel is back alayna, you were part of the Reporting Team that talked before he did about what his new Policy Proposals are. We heard a little bit of it making a Tax CutS Permanent, which is a very, very big part of his economic plan. Talk about a couple of the other things that his campaign really wants to hit home, particularly with those persuadable voters, right . Well, one thing that he did say and he did get to it actually was that he wants to lower the corporate rate. We know that he was going to do this, but this is the first time we said that he wanted it to be 15 for companies that make a product in the u. S. Which is notable, its oh, were than what he had done when he was in office. One thing that we know that hes expected to say if he hasnt already touched on it, is he wants to create a commission for Government Efficiency. This is actually something that Elon Musk had first suggested to him in that conversation they had on x a couple of weeks ago and he said, i would love to be a part of this. I would love to run it. Donald trump had said, i love it. Well, you know what he loves it so much that hes announcing he wants to make it, and that he wants musk to be a part of that team. His campaign is saying that they are in talks with musk about this its very unclear who is going to run it at thiS Point, but Thats Something really looking at. Lowering government spending. See if theres any waste to that sort of thing. Some other things weve talked about already, tariffs a huge deal. Ill let Matt Egan handle that. I know we heard him talk about it as much more informed on some of the policy in the Weeds Stuff on that than i am some other things he actually mentioned that he wants to have gas go below 2 per gallon. I think theres some questions as to why yeah of course so much. Dana, is that these are all things that hes saying, things that he knows a lot of people want to hear, things that arent going to worry economists, just really the goal of this week, which is one of the few areas where he is regular politician exact telling people what they want to hear, particularly on the economy which David Chalian is, as weve said, so many times, it is the driving factor. Nothing else really comes close in the poll that you released yesterday, especially of issues in terms of issues, particularly among those who are still open to either candidate. Yeah. Which we saw across the Battleground States of sort of average of 15 of voters say they are movable in this, i think the portions that we just heard there about the tariffs and about committing to extending his Tax Cuts and actually going further and its xx those are precisely the things that i think the Harris Campaign are going to seize on in his speech. Not only because it gets to your question earlier of like, how are you going to pay for that . But those 2017 Tax Cuts have not proven broadly popular american people. Yeah, no. And i also think that the Vice President is consistently trying to tie the former president to only caring about the ultrarich, only caring about core corporations and making sure that they are benefiting from the Tax Credit Tax credits or tax proposals, not necessarily the middleclass is she has really tried to wrap her arms around to make herself the new candidate of the middleclass of thing that we have formerly associated with President Biden. So that this speech actually really weighs heavily in to that plan. I think also one thing that we heard or didnt hear from the portions that we were listening to was how he would pay for some of these things. I think Thats Something that the Vice President has outlined that she would pay for even the horse smaller Policy Proposals, she would pay by taxing the ultrarich by taxing corporations, even though she broke away from biden on investment gains, Thats Something that we didnt escalate here. Hear from so on Board President who, which the Harris Campaign will again try to jump, okay. Yeah, this is so important. Thank you all. Rock and Roll Today up next, we are going to talk about this really important here at this morning in Federal Court, having to do with those charges against Donald Trump for allegedly trying to overturn the election the last time he ran, dont go special night live writing at eight on tnt. Heres why you should switch from google to duckduckgo on all your Devices Duckduckgo comes with a Builtin Search Engine like google, but itS Private and doesnt spy on your searches. And duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cookies and creepy ads that follow you around from google and others companies. And theres no catch. Its free. We make money from ads, but they dont follow you around, join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your Devices Today its been a waiver. Heard at this table. 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And this was actually an unexpectedly pretty contentious hearing, tricky to the exchanges between the Judge And Defense counsel. Judge tanya chutkan, outright rejecting a suggestion from Defense Attorneys so just toss the indictment against their client. Its clear that is not going to happen. The judge also made it clear she is not taking into consideration the election, the timing of that election. She has said over the last year has no bearing on the decisions that she makes in this case when of the one area of agreement across all the partys was the fact that they need to resolve this question of immunity and how it applies to this case before they can move on to other issues. So the judge needs to take the Supreme Courts decision, apply it to this case before they can litigate other issues. Defense signal, theyre going to try to challenge the legitimacy of the special counsel, something the judge made it clear is unlikely to be successful in her courtroom. There also likely going to litigate questions about obstruction of justice related to January 6 in the wake of another supreme Court Decision related to that question, then theres also discovery questions to be resolved. So this is going to take a long time. Dana, and thats why the one thing we did not get today was a trial date. Theres just too much work to be done before the judge can really talk about when a trial would happen. So right now, we are watching and we are waiting for the judge to release her scheduling order, and that will reveal to us how this case will proceed. I was told before this hearing during that the Number One goal for the Trump Team Today was should just try to delay anything substantial until after the November Election which doesnt seem to have been a successful goal or go reached yet. But as you said, im very important. We havent heard app. Thank you for that reporting. 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