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Warren buffett. >> buffett grew more than $20 million. he paid about $23 million in income tax. republicans calculate that as a true tax rate of 0.1%. >> jeff bezos added $99 billion in wealth and paid less than 1% in federal income taxes. when you compare bases to the typical american household is even more stark. notice anything strange? the typical american households is paying more in taxes than their wealth is growing. jeff bezos taxes, they stay relatively the same and his wealth is going ...

President biden is coming from, right? hes got no vision. >> geraldo: remember crimea fell to pollutant during the obama administration. and the democrats have been very squishy. katie is right, about nato particularly, as a war correspondent overall these decades something that always irked me was how little the presence was of our european allies, 2% of their gross national product should be spent on their own defense and yet we are paying for the bases in germany, we are paying for the bases ...

Feeds. the interesting thing about raf mildenhall is at one point the americans were going to pull out altogether. they only decided last year, afterfive altogether. they only decided last year, after five years of uncertainty, that they would in fact keep their presence at raf mildenhall in suffolk. worth remembering that it is an raf base, it is a british air force base, not a us airforce base. most of it is a british air force base, not a us air force base. most of those bases over time have ...

Yellen believes the agreement will ensure a more level playing field. double minimum tax but also help the global economy thrive by levelling the playing field for businesses and encouraging countries to compete on positive bases such as educating and training or workforces and investing in research and development and infrastructure —— a global minimum tax. well, how will this proposal effect the rest of the world? one of the countries that has benefited from a low corporate tax rate is ire...

This going to do? hes like im going to -- thats the scariest part there. what is the plan with the baseball bat? >> sandra: i dont know. to protect ones self, i suppose. nothing more embarrassing than seeing yourself running and screaming from an animal. dont mess with a raccoon. trace? >> john: pride flags wouldnt be supplying at military installations this month. the pentagon keeping in place to ban all pride flags at u.s. bases. jennifer griffin has more. hi, jennifer. >> this decision puts t...

From afghanistan by the september 11th deadline has the cia scrambling. this is according to a new report in "the new york times." in the "times" they say its creating intense pressure on the cia to find new ways to gather intelligence and carry out counterterrorism strikes in the country. joining me now is one of "the new york times" reporters who is behind the story, mark mazzetti. hes washington investigative correspondent at the times and a national security analyst. this is interesting. i l...

9/11. and that creates the problem of, you know, the terrorists safe haven. so whether its the cia or mil military. it could be further operations. these are some of the real tough decisions that president biden and the biden administration are going to have to make after the pullout this year. >> so if theyre not in afghanistan, if the u.s. doesnt have a presence in afghanistan, the cia doesnt, what are they looking at? what are the possibilities of being able to keep an eye on afghanistan so i...

Longer have that. so the scramble is to figure out where to baze cia officers, how to actually gather intelligence without a large presence on the ground, and as one of the former officers was quoted, he said when youre not on the ground and youre relying on your own agents, human informants, its kind of like a game of telephone. its very difficult and also very difficult figuring out what country might allow the cia and the military to use bases because theres a lot of thorny diplomacy. >> why ...

Require vaccination of customers or they may meet a fine. thats where the stand off is. heres a maritime attorney talking about that struggle right now. >> the cruise lines have a trump card for lack of a better term. they can pick up and leave florida and make their home ports in the caribbean, and i think governor desantis who claims to be business friendly would be playing with fire by forcing a multibillion dollar industry to pick up and leave from all of its gigantic bases of operations in ...

Looking for in an infrastructure package. while theyre pushing forward the multibillion-dollars into the partisan avenue of the bill. these conversations are still ongoing as to whether or not they will show results and that mark-up on wednesday could be an unofficial deadline. >> theyre covering their bases. thank you so much. joining me now california congressman, john garamendi on the infrastructure committees. awfully glad to have you here. thank you for joining me. joe manchin doesnt think ...