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August 9, 2017
How youve got the trump administration, allies, trying to muddy the waters. it is all the more reason we need special counsel mueller to act quickly and get to the bottom of this. >> senator van holland, thank you very much. another tense day in paris after a 36-year-old man allegedly slammed his bmw into a group of french soldiers injuring six of them three of them seriously in an affluent suburb, home to frances main intelligence service. theyre calling the attack a carefully timed ambush. p...
August 8, 2017
Innovation, economy, and wall street and all that. >> franks right. the democratic party did change during bill clintons presidency. bill clinton made the party a bigger tent. and into that big democratic tent went the elites of america. its lawyers and doctors and stockbrokers. but lets remember, clinton essentially tied his republican opponents in the white working-class demographic in both 1992 and 1996. so why did the white working class vote for bill and not for hillary? >> what theyve beco...
August 8, 2017
So why did the white working class vote for bill and not for hillary? >> what theyve become over the last couple of decades is a party of the professional classes. highly educated, affluent, white collar people. 10% of the income distribution. >> david brook says hillary clinton fits into this category perfectly. >> went to a fancy school, went to an even fancier law school, married a guy from a fancy law school, lived in places where those people would gather and sort of zip codes with restorat...
July 23, 2017
>> and we a little bit of a delay for our audience. but lets talk about the district. and why do you think you can win the district when it has voted so rarely for democrats? >> its a really interesting district. in the bottom of the district, we have parts of palm beach county and palm beach county has a lot of people from new york, new jersey, people who resettled in florida. a lot of seniors and retire ceos. but its affluent, a lot of gated communities. but a pretty good balance between democ...
July 5, 2017
Schedule set by paul ryan. >> showing projections of the health care senate bill and steve has charts on that. take it away. >> ill take it away. its important to look beyond the first ten years. weve all focused on this ten-year window but when you see what goes on in the longer term -- >> ten-year window on the cbo chart? >> in general all the scoring and the discussions about the next ten years. >> summarize quickly the first ten years just for our viewers that arent as familiar. what does th...
July 3, 2017
Repeal off the table. mean you make in the meantime, democratic senator says it is time for a recess, watch. >> there is great value if you introduce a bill, we have some time to read it, a chance to hold hearings and have discussions, talk to the cbo director, if we can do that and go through that process, we would end up with a much better plan. >> chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live in washington for us, hi, mike. >> one conservative senator told fox today that in order to ...
July 2, 2017
Result in an agreement about. >> so on the campaign trail and even on inauguration, trump said the forgotten will be forgotten no more. and he also talked about his commitment to repealing obama care. this was senator mike lee who put those two things together in this manner. >> this bill, the one weve been discussing in the senate has bailouts for insurance companies. it has hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief for the affluent. it has some provisions for the poor, who leaves out the f...
July 1, 2017
American history in your adult life when insurance premiums on an annual basis have gone down? >> no, look, there are winners -- >> the cbo says this bill -- maybe next year. >> no. for people that buy high deductible plans, the small tiny slice of the public who you only see. you dont see everybody else. the rest of the people arin visible to you because youre thinking of the wealthy affluent business owner who doesnt want to buy insurance for their employees. and maybe they hate obamacare, but...
July 1, 2017
You the last word. have you ever known a year in american history in your adult life when insurance premiums on an annual basis have gone down? >> no. i mean, look, there are winners and -- >> the cbo says this bill will make them go down. maybe next year. >> no. for people that buy high deductible plans, the small tiny slice of the public who you only see. you dont see anyone else. the rest of the people are invisible to you because youre thinking about that wealthy affluent business owner who ...
June 24, 2017
Governments cannot provide better services under the program. this is a great amendment that needs to be supported and reduce the property taxes to 40%, $145 million in my low income areas across this district, are going to be relieved of that tax burden. thats the right thing to do. >> -- is not a low income district. were talking a more affluent district. put oup the tweet. it talks about the amend of money that taxpayers would save. this is what his focus was. those are pretty significant amo...