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Americans, afghan allies, women and children to make sure that they have safe passage on to, you know, into some place, some country where they will be safe and secure. >> what is our obligation to those folks for this country? how, you know, how many of them should be provided safe passage to the united states. >> well, i agree with peter. we work together. we just had on and we have to, one, make sure that we honor our commitments. keep our word. and i believe we must lift the refugee camp. we...

Healthy. and lets just remember that donald trump and melania -- we like to act as if melania wasnt part of it or look at her with rose-colored glasses, but they perpetuated this birther myth and lie and this racist attack and now donald trump jr. is perpetuating this racist attack as well. and im not calling them racist. im just saying they do racist things. and so what you have to do now is understand that you have to fight back against these attacks, but then even more so, you just have to ma...

>> weve got a variety of proposals. not only the 4% surcharge which i call the fair share surcharge. the buffet rule which would have a minimum tax rate for people making more than $1 million, limiting deductions to 28% with a charitable exception. going after a lot of the subsidies that, for example, still subsidize the oil and gas industry about $6 billion a year while we have to move toward a clean renewable energy future. so i have put forth plans, paid family leave, tuition, debt-free tuiti...

Incomes over $5 million. and i believe that that would raise about $150 billion over ten years. does that go far enough in addressing income inequality? >> well, weve got a variety of proposals. not only the 4% surcharge, which i call the fair share surcharge, the so-called buffett rule which would have a minimum tax rate for people making more than $1 million, limiting deductions to 28% with a charitable exception, going after a lot of the subsidies that, for example, still subsidize the oil an...

Clean, renewable energy future. i have put forth plans, paid family leave, tuition, debt-free tuition for public colleges, tapping prescription drug costs and much more. and it would cost about $100 billion a year, all of which i pay for. in contrast, senator sanders has very big ideas but he hasnt yet told anybody how he would pay for them. he had promised that he would roll out his tax plans before the iowa caucus on february 1st. well, if you wait too long nobody will have a chance to see the...

Have emerged in the area after katrina. how do you describe it? >> i think weve had problems in new orleans for a very long time. katrina did not create the problems that weve had. it exposed problems that existed for a very long time that really werent being addressed. i think the difference is today that weve put forth plans over the past five years to address many of the issues dealing with homeless issues, connecting to opportunity those residents that still do not have jobs. and i think the...

>> reporter: imagine that. gregg: you know, beyond senator paul, are there other republicans saying they want to do something about poverty as well? >> reporter: there are. theyre not going to relate the president own -- let the president own this space, if you will, as he tries to frame the upcoming elections. youve got paul ryan whos been putting proposals on the table, marco rubio, the republican from florida, both of those gentlemen along with rand paul potentially looking at the 2016 presid...

the most recent cnn o.r.c. polling says 51% of americans would hold republicans responsible if the debt ceiling is not raised. just 30% would find president obama more responsible. peter moresi joins us. i have to ask you this, you are an economist, youre a well-respected economist and we have spoken together for years. do you have any evidence of what so many conservatives are saying that if we were to increase taxes at all, at all at this point in an economic cycle, that it would act...

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