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Campaign announcement. and according to his spokesperson, someone on his team, he says the money came in without a dime from political action committees or corporations or special interest. now, as a comparison point, vermont senator bernie sanders raised slightly less in his first 24 hours, $5.9 million. pretty close. sanders will set the pace for 2020 grassroots donations. so, bernie sanders took in more than $10 million in his first week. and we should note most of that is coming from small d...

Done by labor day. now hes continuing to negotiate the parameters of his question with mueller and his team. the fact he is allowing him to use written answers because it is difficult to test the credibility of somebody when you have a written answer, but it does not say they wont be able to ask follow-up questions in person. they will have before them not just a script but the hard-and-fast statement of the president of the united states that they can test against. as you know, he is somebody w...

With mueller and his team. the fact he is allowing him to use written answers because it is difficult to test the credibility of somebody when you have a written answer, but it does not say they wont be able to ask follow-up questions in person. they will have before them not just a script but the hard-and-fast statement of the president of the united states that they can test against. as you know, he is somebody who may be prone to falsehoods and lies, now you have a direct comparison point. it...

Is undeniable democrats for selling the process and there are democrats on the process. that is complicating further. >> it is. the senate responsible for confirming people cant do anything unless folks are before them. most of them are not. there is no question that the confirmation has been longer, but the vast bulk of these jobs, no one can even go to the senate. its a very complicated process about finding great people. given extra new-line vetting process that has to take place. again, to g...

And, positive point of comparison point here, wage growth, which we havent seen really so strong since the recession at 2.8%. that was pretty good. look, the jobs report isnt without problems. there is still a high number of discouraged workers, long term unemployed. there are real systemic problems that we have to fix in the economy. >> lets listen to what donald trump said yesterday in new hampshire about the economy and those numbers. >> these numbers are an absolute disaster. nobody believes...

Sounds a lot like doing your taxes. does it really have to be this complicated? >> so the way its going to be presented, carol, is really simple. let me just give you a comparison point. if you try to go in the individual market today in the state of illinois, you have to choose between 1,800 different plans that arent categorized by any means that make any sense at all. starting on tuesday, heres what youll see. five different categories so theres catastrophic, if youre under 30, a bronze, a si...

About the 1%, i mean, its hard to feel sorry for the 1%. but when you do the numbers and you look at the hard math, what are the income disparities in that top bracket? >> within the 1%, african-americans make about 22% less than caucasians. and im using them as a comparison point since they comprise the majority of the 1%. but what we found, the issue is not so much on income as it is on net worth. and that is where the disparity really is very prevalent. african-americans in the top 1% have ne...