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Education programs. social service programs, other perhaps that the people of hawaii depend on. they and our families. >> and thats the breaking news this hour. congressional budget office estimating that the republican tax plan as it currently stands will explode the deficit by $1.7 trillion. the national debt. senator, thanks so much. for joining us. mazie lirono of hawaii. up next, the cia director raising eyebrows after mighting with a conspiracy theorist that was president trumps idea. plus...

Lets go back to the substance of the proposal. >> none of them believe that the wage gains would be anything close to what you are estimating. >> thats false. why did you say that. larry kotlikoff said its $3600 and we put out a study that estimated the wage impact from a host of studies. you can go back to page 24 of the study. lets think about why thats not a crazy number. real wage growth has been almost nothing over the last 8 years. in fact, it was only .6% while profit growth was 11%. wage...

Have universities that have exposed the fallacy of summers very simple mistake and already a week later youre still talking about it here. its been exposed as a mistake and youre still asking about it. i dont understand why. lets go back to the substance of the proposal. >> none of them believe that the wage gains would be anything close to what you are estimating. >> thats false. why did you say that. larry cotlakof said its $3600 and we put out a study that estimated the wage impact from a hos...

Ourselves cool. >> how long did you hide there in your swimming pool? >> probably 90 seconds or so we are estimating. the middle 30 is the worst part. it was the difficult part to make certain that we were keeping cool at the time. >> where there times in the 90 minutes you thought you would not survive this? >> no, i dont think we were ever quite in that level of danger. we were fortunate, you know, the pool was big and we were saved from the blaze going through initially. >> there was another ...

That he has that we may not know about, the kinds of returns, the profits hes making from various holdings. we are definitely estimating. we talked to tons and tons of real estate brokers who are super familiar with the properties, particularly in manhattan, but at the end of the day, yes, we are estimating. we do know, though, for example, we have been in touch with trumps finance people and one of the assets that has dropped in value since last year is this hotel in washington, d.c., the trump...

Thats one reason there is a curfew in effect and why they told some 12 hotels and casinos shut down because they were worried about having a large tourist population along the wart front should something go horribly wrg. this is not a worst case scenario as hurricanes go. its a strong one blowing in, its coming at night and coming at high tide. thats whats blowing the storm surge that theyre estimating is at seven to 11 feet. the first responders are here keeping an eye because they want to see ...

Been -- what the president has been focused on it always brings republicans together in the end if they dont get it through this calendar year maybe they can do maybe they can do it in january or february. still we have to see what effect it has on the real economy. even if they get it through im struck looking at the last few weeks in alabama, its not going to stop the civil war but as you say the civil war may not be bad, you could have a healthy debate. i dont think if it produces senators li...

Struck looking at the last few weeks in alabama, its not going to stop the civil war but as you say the civil war may not be bad, you could have a healthy debate, dont know if it produces senators like moore in alabama is good for the future of the republican party for conservativism but i guess people are under estimating what this next year will look like. we have not seen this spectacle of majority party in congress having this kind of fight across the board, nevada, arizona, missouri, you na...

Dr. oliver, can you hear us now? dr. oliver, can you hear us? you know, unfortunately, i think were having an issue with coms down there. its difficult. the cell service is weak, and it drops down consistently. weve been having a hard time connecting with our own reporters down there because of the situation. again, it is so dire. were going to be following the story from puerto rico. weve got a big team down there. this is not something were going to ignore. these are americans in desperate nee...

no votes already with two no votes. but with three they are dead. it would be toast. cbo put out the latest score on the republican plan because the way it written, its hard to estimate because it was all health insurance and the cbo felt safe today and estimating that the number would at least be in the millions. its anybodys guess at this point whether republicans will go for it again and if so when. but if they do, unless they change course radically, they are very likely to keep running i...