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increase taxes for you, the american people being crushed by the skyrocketing cost. skyrocketing cost of everything else. you are watching alexandria ocasio cortez on monday im todd piro. >> ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. downplaying concerns about recession and are responding with even more spending and even as abc poll finds 69% of americans think the economy is headed in the wrong direction. the democrats are still celebrating. >> todd: alexandria hoff with the fallout, goo...

>> greg met a couple more poop jokes tonight, is it too far? >> no its not, i love his poop jokes. they are so great, i love them. of [applause] >> greg: cant argue with phyllis, shes a national treasure! [scattered laughter] >> greg: so whenever theres a problem with these clowns it has to be because we are all racist and sexist, right? its never about their incompetence or callousness or loathing for average working americans, which is just another form of bigotry, a coal miner could finish a ...

Joe biden running against donald trump. last year towards end of the campaign, headline, joe biden talked about having a fist fight with donald trump outside of an auditorium, the school yard. these two men could get into it verbally in a way -- >> these two 70-something men. >> why talking about punching each other when that old rgs number one, but could get into it verbally in ways that hillary clinton could not. >> but problem that democratic party has, consistently moving towards the left, c...

You can call it trickle-down economics or anything else, but having worked for jack kemp, we called it supply side economics. which was classical economics and it worked. >> people point to the stock market has gone up. donald trump calls it a trump bump since he won the election. is it -- should people be looking at that as reflecting something real? >> no. i mean, its real to the extent that you are wealthy and you have a lot of stock. the richest 10% of americans own 80% of all the shares of ...

Barbara starr tonight reports. >> i am pushing through it every day. its difficult. to go through the pain. but you have to look forward. >> for 18-year-old kiani martinez and her brothers and sisters, there is utter devastation beyond the pain of burnt shrapnel and broken bones. their mother, gail was killed. they and their father were among the americans critically wounded in the march isis suicide bomber attack on the brussels airport. lieutenant colonel martinez was just back from afghanista...

Donald trump calls it a trump bump since he won the election. is it -- should people be looking at that as reflecting something real? >> no. i mean, its real to the extent that you are wealthy and you have a lot of stock. the richest 10% of americans own 80% of all the shares of stock in america. including retirement savings. what the stock increase means, why the shares of stock are going up is because a lot of companies anticipate there is going to be a big corporate tax cut, and that means mo...

They are father were among the americans critically wounded in the march isis suicide bomber attack on the brussels airport. lieutenant colonel martinez was just back from afghanistan. they had been waiting to check in for a flight to go on vacation. >> local media reporting an exchange of gunfire and theyre reporting that this was a bomb blos. >> reporter: 35 people were killed, 300 wounded when isis attackers detonated bombs hidden in suitcases at the airport departure area. in their first int...

But this is -- >> one of the problems is the job americans are getting is pretty low-paying. 62,000 were created by mcdonalds alone last quarter. as the average working person is struggles. their profits wednesday up. in 2010, the average dpen session for an s&p 500 ceo was $9 million. thats their average. that was up 24% from 2009. so what are politicians dock about all this? are they creating jobs? seeing were still at 9% unemployment? no, theyre doing the bitting of

Abroad. they are not expanding jobs here in the united states by in the reasonable amount. the jon numbers look pretty good. if you consider we need about 350,000 new jobs every single month for the next three, four years to get back to 6% unemployment, this is a very poor jobs numbers, and a very poor jobs report, given what we all to be seeing in a recovery. let me give you two graphs that are really telling. when you look at the top 1% of americans, their average income tax rate has decline f...

Because its an energy tax. the opponents say. but you dont believe that. why not? >> no. first off, we had a cap and trade for sulfur dioxide, remember the acid rain thing in the 90s? it worked amazingly and there is -- so it was fewer cost than we thought there would be. further more, we have a pollution problem. because were addicted to fossil fuels we have national security problems. we need to put a price on carbon. this is a way to do it. >> cheryl: lets talk about spending here for a secon...