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The gocht is angry. saying the tax bill will hit puerto ricos already devastated economy especially hard and planning to make republicans pay at the ballot box saying he will organize puerto ricos living on the mainland to vote against republicans in 2018. joining me, the governor. ricar ricardo, thank you for joining us. talking about mobilizing latino voters because you say the tax bill will hurt the island of puerto rico. high will you are targeting in 2018? >> were going to be working on tha...

Symbolic issue more than a revenue issue, because the amount of money raised on it wouldnt be very large, but i can see how it can frustrate people. >> right. a discussion about middle class tax cut, seems weird. and maya, your group is one of several important groups that studied the tax bill, and weve had to rely on your evaluation of it, because we didnt get a proper score on it. this didnt go through the norm processes. your evaluation, maya, if the personal tax cuts, set to sunset or to exp...

Accomplishments. i wish he would do more of this and less of that. >> martha: i read one evaluation of the president so far today that basically said what makes him impolite in a number of areas is -- is also what has made him effective when it comes to jerusalem and other issues. >> sure. >> martha: it has taken sort of a bold brash tact to pull off some things that were difficult to do in the past. but, zach, with regard to the economy, look at the dow up 5,000 points in one year. thats never ...

Lets be very clear, donald trump owns this bill and i want to make that very clear. well be making that very clear across the country going into 2018. this is a bill that was written by 6200 lobbyists. thats 57% of all lobbyists in washington, d.c. had their hand in this bill. the bush tax cuts. >> martha: how many had their hands in the obamacare healthcare bill. >> less than 57%. >> martha: i doubt it. >> the bush tax cut cut taxes for the 1% by 27% of the tax cuts of that bill went to the 1%....

Weeks to even speak to me. again, not talking to my current staff. any number of things that could have been done here they just bungled this. as i said, they made a huge mistake. they have engaged in a sloppy investigation and something needs to be done to fix this. >> tucker: so you have said you had romantic relationships with people who worked for you. >> over 30 years of being in the business yes. >> tucker: first of all, is that a wise idea? and second, is it against the rules? >> at worst...

His health, he returned over the weekend to arizona, leaving walter reed medical center here in washington, d.c., and he returned -- he was, of course, recovering from the side effects of chemotherapy hes undergoing due to his brain tumor. his position over the weekend issuing a statement, quote, senator mccain has responded to treatment received at walter reed medical center for a viral infection and continues to improve and an evaluation of his underlying cancer shows he is responding positive...

Walter reig thd this week. he says he has responded well and had a viral infection. thats a new information about what was going on with senator mccains health. the doctor says an evaluation of his underlying cancer showing that hes responding positively. theres a statement from john mccain when they initially announced his condition. we also have a new statement from his office. they say senator mccain has returned to arizona and will undergo physical therapy and rehabilitation at the mayo clin...

Alternative routes during this emergency response. they are going on to say they are in touch with amtrak and working to get as much information as possible. the transportation department is still with me. the time we have left, the go team from the ntsb. what you are seeing and how the investigation unfolds. they are taking us through the next steps. >> first and foremost, they will get the black boxes and start the download and start the analysis on the black boxes. they have a good head start...

Better for the middle class? i do. do i think they could have done better for the working poor? i mean, rubio tried to get something. he made some progress. but they could have increased the rates for big business. it wouldnt have mattered. >> it just shocks me still that tre very conservatives i helped get elected in 2010. the fiscal hawks who came to washington to say well not spend one dime more than the american people can afford have just signed off on a tax increase on those very same amer...

Terms of the valuation. and the underpinning is low interest rates forever and lots of liquidity from the central banks. any disturbance in that equation and i think that we have a big negative feedback that comes to haunt the economy. and i feel that risk is there next year. central banks across the world will start withdrawing this liquidity that they have pumped in out there and this very wide gap between the economic xhi and stock markets, i think that runs a risk of basically closing in. >>...