praise, you talked only about taxes. you said essentially that you have pushed this item for local property taxpayers for the region that albany was very proactive in pushing thistaxpay faso only talked about the environment. this is to eliminate and save new york 19 property taxpayers millions of dollars. if this is about reforming medicaid, why are and you your colleagues only talking about tax cuts? you re praising tax cuts. i wholly support john faso and mr. collins amendment. here in western new york, people are leaving in droves because they can t pay their bills and take care of their homes. what we should do is put the burden on the state capitol because they control how this program is delivered at the local level.
new york is one of the only states that puts it on the taxpayers to foot the bill. from my perspective, this is a great amendment that needs to be supported and reduce the $145 million in my low income areas across this district are going to be relieved. tha
white house. good morning, al. this morning first response from the white house to north korea s nuclear test overnight. of course it comes in the form of presidential tweets. the president writing, quote, north korea has conduct add major nuclear test. their words and actions continue to be hostile and dangerous to the united states. north korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to china, this is trying to help but with little success. a couple of thoughts off the bat just reading these tweets. first, the first confirmation of any kind from the united states government that this was, in fact, a nuclear test of the north koreans. that s important, they have misrepresented their accomplishments along the way. second you hear the president say it s hostile and dangerous to the united states specifically. not just to allies and friends in the region. having a specific threat in the
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and beyond. you had this growing up, what do you think? if you had this? you re successful but i think early on i would have been able to start my path earlier in my life and start it a little bit later. but i don t even know if i would have this school if i didn t have the trials and tribulations i had when i was a kid and the upbringing that i had. it let me know when i was younger if i ever had the means or became successful or anything i want to be able to give back. do you ever like look around and get down and depressed? i know you said you always want to be positive with dr. king and those guys when you see what s happening in the country, oh, man, we re going backwards? absolutely. that s human nature. no way you can look at certain things and not feel like, why are we not pushing forward. for me, as one of the leaders of america or one of the leaders of my community, it s my
responsibility to stay as positive as i can and let people kno
to win, would you run? well, in that case i may. if they had no one. i believe there are some people out there. i hope. let s see first. let s see first. we also talked about living while black and how money and fame don t insulate you from racism. do you think it s harder now or always been there and we re just seeing it because of cell phones. no. i think it s always been there. i think the president in charge now has given people they don t care now, they throw it to your face now. lebron also gave me an exclusive tour of his brand new, i promise school, a joint venture with the school. and the lebron james foundation. tuition and transportation is free for for every student who live morse
than 2 miles away. every student gets breakfast, lunch and snacks. college tuition is guaranteed for everyone who graduates. a food pantry for families. parents can get their gets and job placement services. and because how important a bicycle was for lebron, every in escaping dangero
manafort. the defense is going to go on offense to attack gates credibility. all of that is part of the drama today. the nuts and bolts of this case are still in the numbers, in the tax fraud, bank fraud, alleged deals for these clients allied with the putin regime. now, paul manafort faces 18 fraud charges from a time before he ever joined the trump campaign. this was all the ukrainian consulting work, which means there s a ton of paper and prosecutors are arguing to this jury whatever happens with mr. gates, the paper doesn t lie. for example, also new, we can tell you, they showed an e-mail today that manafort sent to gates with gates testifying that trump s former campaign chair wrote this is a disaster in april 2015 in that e-mail, about a higher than expected tax bill, throwing in a wtf as well. the full quote is he told the jury he s not happy, i just saw this, wtf, how could i be blind
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