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Of all the children. he was adopghted by a local referenced, a man who founded the local church which is the heg church. this is why had you such deep ties to the church as well. >> definitely lutheran. >> founding father of a lutheran church. rachel: fascinating. pete: i want to get to rachel too. this is your grand fathers war world 1. mason, light gray eyes and brown hair. i know that service to this country is so very important to you. clearly thats something thats in your heritage as well. ...

Get 4.5% of the benefit of the tax cut bill when you look at the individual taxes. 45% of filers who are between 40,200,000 income, basically the middle class, they pay about 38% of the taxes today. they get 52% of the tax code. most of the tax cut flows to them. at the top, the top 5% who pays 60% of the tax burden, 59.9% today, they give 44% of the tax cut. this is geared more towards the middle class. the people in the middle class get two times the benefit of the top 5% and three times the b...

Outraising the counter part. according to fundraising reports they outraised the rcc in 16 of the last 18 months this cycle. over all in every election cycle since 2006. so far democrats haveout raised republicans $101 million a cycle. they brought in $23.3 million. republicans raised $19.3. democrats have a cash advantage over republicans. 59.9 to 42.5. they reserved 14 million in tv ad time in ten more congressional districts. is it a reflection of the ability to fundraise ore the nrcs ability...

Of the vote. that seemed to be the magic number. everybody wanted to see it. could he reach 60? >> would send a strong mess allege and he did and is he you 59.9, you dont reach it. but that was a high mark set by a lot of people who said if he wanted to show he had national potential, he had to show a huge win. >> worst? >> worst week, rob ford from toronto is on the list. when your best defense of smoking crack is, i was in a drunken stupor, its really time to go. >> and saying give me ten minu...

Maybe. maybe, maybe. look, i think -- i dont look for a property that is owned by donald trump to be evincing perfect feminist values. many of the women who have competed in these pageants are very intelligent. it does not appear that marissa powell is the most articulate spokeswoman for them. but she doesnt sound that much better than a lot of republican leaders. i mean, look at some of the statements by elected members of congress where they say, for example, as marsha blackburn did, that wome...

Look, i think -- i dont look for a property that is owned by donald trump to be evincing perfect feminist values. many of the women who have competed in these pageants are very intelligent. it does not appear that marissa powell is the most articulate spokeswoman for them. but she doesnt sound that much better than a lot of republican leaders. i mean, look at some of the statements by elected members of congress where they say, for example, as marsha blackburn did, that women dont want equal pay...

Rates below,59.9%. robert schueler is an expert in this category. he has been saying that we may not see housing prices rebound lifetime. uj employment problem. general electric. maybe just glass half empty kind of guy. 8.8%. they can see rates here in new york city zero. cant find a place to live, right? and what you are paying for that apartment, isnt going up at all good news for people looking for places to live. >> some parts of the country gas prices are down 40 cents year to year comparis...

Activists. the united states estimates the syrian government has killed more than 9,000 of its own people. a team of u.n. observers is already on the ground in syria, to salvage a ceasefire that was supposed to go into effect weeks ago but we have seen little signs of it. the government troops in opposition fighters have largely ignored it. the homeownership rate not united states is now at the lowest level in 15 years. according to the census bureau the rate fell below 66 percent in the first q...

In annual fees. it was targeted to people with poor credit. can you imagine that? 59.9% interest, and then on top of that an annual $100. >> im still stuck on the restaurant workers. we apologize to anyone going to a restaurant tonight. lisa sylvester, thank you very much. its not clear if sarah palin is on the campaign trail, but shes definitely taking shots at the current occupant of the white house. >> what president obama is doing and what this administration is supporting is america being...

Classified information was stolen. they wanted sensitive financial information. the government is now investigating. and the sun is acting up. the largest solar flare in four years jumped from the sun this week. it is sending masses of charred articles into space. this time those lights could extend as far south as washington, d.c. one in eight restaurant workers has come to work vomiting or with diarrhea at least twice in the last year. its mostly because restaurants dont have paid sick lea...