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Pete: i bet he got a grant to do this. pete: probably a federal grant. lisa: arent there other things to study. pete: super heroes use too many fossil fuels and earth would be better off without them. lisa: we need them. gotham city feel about that. pete: dig into research. really riveting. to run the speed of light the flarn would nee flash wouldo consume 59 billion cal calories a second. a 59-foot hamburger. 900 pounds of carbon dioxide a year and flying alone. leland: i like. he would burn th...

The big five tech companies -- apple, amazon, facebook, google, microsoft -- have $457 billion in overseas subsidiaries. if you bring it all back stateside incentive spending 159 billion in taxes, the tariff is only 70 billion. thats 89 billion in added profit. now you know why during the third quarter of this year the tech company spent 25% more on lobbying than they did during the second quarter. listen to how the president sold this last week. >> you look at the great companies, apple and so ...

The big five tech companies -- apple, amazon, facebook, google, microsoft -- have $457 billion in overseas subsidiaries. if you bring it all back stateside incentive spending 159 billion in taxes, the tariff is only 70 billion. thats 89 billion in added profit. now you know why during the third quarter of this year the tech company spent 25% more on lobbying than they did during the second quarter. listen to how the president sold this last week. >> you look at the great companies, apple and so ...

17 was considerably above average. of those, six ended up being major hurricanes. the ones that usually kill the people and do the most damage. on average we usually have two major hurricanes. here are the numbers. estimated number of deaths and this should go up once we get all the reporting in, especially from puerto rico with all the devastation there. the costliest hurricane season ever. beating 2005. estimated 203 billion. that number continues to grow. i mentioned 2005 was the worst in my ...

Economic growth a little less than 1% in 2018 and generates an additional $159 billion in tax revenue, though it would also add or than $1 trillion to the deficit in a decade. on the senate plan, the analysis found it would reduce taxes on average for all income groups in 2019 and 2025. 9% of taxpayers would pay higher taxes in 2019 but that number would rise to 50% in 2027. back with our power panel, jason chaffetz and marie harf, i have problems with that math, having studied economics myself ...

The gang members in this country illegally, so out of touch. hard-working americans, they dont have $1 billion bank accounts to fall back on. they get up every morning, go to work and deal with problems these billionaires, a lot of them dont understand. you think it matters if taxes go up a little bit or gun laws become more -- heather: that is a good point. because they all have a very similar political leaning. lets look at that. bill gates specifically ranked number one, network $89 billion. ...

Engle. john mccain, 3-14% chance of survival with his battle against brain cancer. >> a very poor prognosis. i understand, and we will do what we can. get the best doctors we can find it at the same time, celebrate with gratitude of life well lived. >> shepard: senator mccain told "60 minutes" coming he feels more find and engage because of his cancer diagnosis. theres breaking news, an announcement on jobs, the present will sign a memorandum directing the department of education to spend $200 m...

As you can imagine, treatment of alzheimers like the other diseases ive been talking to but here is costly. $259 billion is spent in treatment each year. 68% of this comes from medicaid or medicare. thats why this is such an important part of this discussion. cost of treatment isnt exclusively monetary, either. last year, more than 15 million americans contributed to the more than 18 billion hours, get this, of unpaid care to individuals who are affected by alzheimers and other forms of dementia...

Wall, whatever it takes because it saves lives on both sides of the border. when it comes to making the mexicans pay for it, thats donald trumps promise. i hope he can figure out how to do that. i would say a 20% duty on products coming from mexico is a nonstarter. thats more than a rumor than it is anything else. when you look at that logically, that would generate $59 billion, with a "b," thats enough to build that wall seven or eight times. i dont think we need to do that at all. i think ther...

Stations and stores. the u.s. imported $296 billion from mexico in 2015. a 20% tax on that is $59 billion. more than double the cost of the wall. here is the important note. mexican companies are not paying for that tariff. it would be u.s. companies paying for it. importer of record pays the tax for the privilege of bringing the goods in. mexicos foreign minister met with officials yesterday said it would make a pppliances and fla screen tvs more expensive. 6 million jobs are dependent on trade...