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tuesday night right here on fox, of course its not just washington, control of statehouses across the country also in the balance on tuesday. georgia governor brian kemp and stacey abrams are making their final pitch this weekend. meanwhile, the republican candidate out in nevada, adam laxalt, and the incumbent democratic senator, catherine cortez masto, crisscrossing that state in the tight senate race. and up in new hampshire, senator maggie hassan trying to hold off a last minute su...

Host of jason chaffetz. what does this mean? >> when you reach the age of 70.5 the government says you have got to start taking money out of your 401(k) whether you want to or not. 4% or 5% of retirement savings have got to come out. it is taxed. when it comes out of those accounts you pay tax. suppose you are still working at the age of 70.5. a lot of baby boomers still are working at 70.5, we you pay for your tax on income and then pay a fortune on the money that has to come out of your 401(k)...

Going to happen during the day today, why we thought today would be the beginning of what should be a heavy round of rain, possibility today 4 to 8 inches on top of what theyve seen. the flashflood warnings, the biggest thing that happened overnight some of the bayous started coming down, slowly, coming down, because it hadnt rained that hard in the last 12 hour, but they also had to release water out of the two dams and all of that water from the two dams comes into the buffalo bayou which goes...

>> bret: thank you. the dow was up in the u.s. 70.5. s&p 500 climbed nearly 11. nasdaq rose 42. democrats on capitol hill are heaping criticism on the house health care reform bill after yesterdays financial scoring by the nonpartisan congressional budget office. many republicans are sticking with the plan. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has the latest. >> what the cbo told us is the reforms will help lower premiums. im very encouraged. >> congressional budget office announcing 2...

>> bret: thank you. the dow was up in the u.s. 70.5. s&p 500 climbed nearly 11. nasdaq rose 42. democrats on capitol hill are heaping criticism on the house health care reform bill after yesterdays financial scoring by the nonpartisan congressional budget office. many republicans are sticking with the plan. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has the latest. >> what the cbo told us is the reforms will help lower premiums. im very encouraged. >> congressional budget office announcing 2...

Elevator pitch. have an up a trip knew and give me a pitch and meet a panel of judges. i expected pushback and everybody was go for it. >> varney blocked one of the elevators. >> i should have gone there first. >> i told mariey this, do not accept food from anyone here. >> all right. ill take that advice to heart. >> varney -- and do not even look at -- >> i appreciate it. >> i want to help you out. thank you. its great having you. look forward to the show. youre quite the steal. we appreciate i...

Back to action. >> oh, my god. >> the headline is he is okay. >> oh. >> thank goodness. >> wow. >> one other thing to report, college football this weekend, the huge game at evanston illinois, vanderbilt on the reed taking on northwestern in the nerd bowl. >> seriously. >> my cats are going to crush -- >> im going to the game. want to come? >> oh, yeah. >> sat bowl two. >> spread in college football not to be believed, florida state is favored over savannah state by 70.5 points. 70.5. the larges...

Both parties are all rich, which is there theres ambivalence about the buffet rule, because they pay it. >> im not in that category, by the way. have the media done their due diligence on the buffet rule? whats the figure? 36.7% of all income taxes are paid by the top 1%, and 70.5% of all income taxes are paid by the top 10%. >> were beginning to hear even if the buffet rule were enacted it would still account for a small portion of one day of federal spending. i mean, i think the media are tryi...

Both parties are all rich, which is there theres ambivalence about the buffet rule, because they pay it. >> im not in that category, by the way. have the media done their due diligence on the buffet rule? whats the figure? 36.7% of all income taxes are paid by the top 1%, and 70.5% of all income taxes are paid by the top 10%. >> were beginning to hear even if the buffet rule were enacted it would still account for a small portion of one day of federal spending. i mean, i think the media are tryi...

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