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And the fact is that over the years, the marginal rate for the wealthiest has come down significantly. so even if we accept him at his word and say hes not going to reduce it further, its already been reduced tremendously, and independent analyses have shown that his plan, to the extent that he has one, because he hasnt been very specific, would overly burden the middle class. >> e.j., peggy, discuss? >> first of all, i think your interview really made clear he wants to cut taxes. he wants to ra...

Wealthiest has come down significantly. so even if we accept him at his word and say hes not going to reduce it further, its already been reduced tremendously, and independent analyses have shown that his plan, to the extent that he has one, because he hasnt been very specific, would overly burden the middle class. >> e.j., peggy, discuss? >> first of all, i think your interview really made clear he wants to cut taxes. he wants to raise defense. and then he doesnt tell us how hes going to balanc...

Hes going to balance the budget. this is a core problem that he has. i think you really got to him on the issue of taxes. because he cant do what he wants to do without cutting -- raising taxes for the middle class, in some way. and it really struck me that he kept falling back on these studies. i mean, a republican leaning on studies from harvard and princeton over and over again is like clint eastwood throwing away his six-gun and saying lets rely on sweet reason. he just couldnt explain what ...

And guide for the next 60 days of this election. voters will be asking that question. i think that despite what governor omalley said both times and were going to see that replayed. that is core problem for the obama campaign going forward. its how people feel about that question. its a challenge for them. >> ill say its a challenge for them. this is why they have been trying to raise every other issue, war on women, the dog on romneys car. were not as well off. that is obvious. any numbers, the...

This is going to be soundtrack and guide for the next 60 days of this election. voters will be asking that question. i think that despite what governor omalley said both times and were going to see that replayed. that is core problem for the obama campaign going forward. its how people feel about that question. its a challenge for them. >> ill say its a challenge for them. this is why they have been trying to raise every other issue, war on women, the dog on romneys car. were not as well off. th...

And guide for the next 60 days of this election. voters will be asking that question. i think that despite what governor omalley said both times and were going to see that replayed. that is core problem for the obama campaign going forward. its how people feel about that question. its a challenge for them. >> ill say its a challenge for them. this is why they have been trying to raise every other issue, war on women, the dog on romneys car. were not as well off. that is obvious. any numbers, the...

Days of this election. voters will be asking that question. so i think that despite what governor omalley said both times, and i think we are going to see that replayed again in his own political future, that is a core problem for this obama campaign going forward. not just how they semantically answer it but how people feel about the question. its a challenge for them. >> bret: do you agree? >> ill say its a challenge for them. this is why theyre trying to raise every other issue over the last ...

This? so i think thats a core problem. dana also put her finger on something important which is the deep cuts in the ryan budget on health care are cuts in medicaid. that is cutting poor people off. its also, by the way, cutting mostly disabled elderly people off depending on how you distribute those cuts. but i have to say one thing. who knew that glenn beck would become a hero in this campaign. i believe it is glenn beck who kind of pioneered the white board in political commentary so maybe he...

Youre talking about the sort of core problem people keep coming back to here with penn state is the athletics impeded -- became bigger than the entire university. football became bigger than the entire university. in this case it fed this horrible, you know, sex abuse scandal. i thinkcase, it fed the horribl sex abuse scandal. the issue of athletics getting too big and dictating campus policy, that goes far beyond penn state. doesnt always lead to a sex abuse scandal, but it leads to bad things....

the scorched earth partisan politics in washington could push america over a fiscal cliff and quite possibly into a recession if congress doesnt act. economists now say that the so-called fiscal cliff has now overtaken europe as the biggest threat to the u.s. economy. in other words, our home-grown storm has a bigger chance of causing a hurricane here than the actual hurricane thats blowing our way from europe. ive been berating congress on this show to pass legislation now to head off...