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But vote in effect against the wall very specifically tonight. Yes, and as Hakeem Jeffries just said live onair just moments ago, as these bills now head to the senate what the house has sent to the senate are two bills that the senate has been very, very happy to not only support but act on and vote for in the past with absolutely no controversy on either side of the aisle. So this is calling the question in terms of whether or not the border wall is the thing that republicans in the senate wan...

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Money at a bank become a risky enterprise? you know, they want mike werent buying corn futures on the mercantile exchange. >> todd: to your point, biden was firing and we will hold people accountable but werent his regulators supposed to do that in his administration? his white house as the ones that missed the vote on this. >> where was gerald bernstein, the principal advisors when he was saying those things? the trouble is the culture in the west wing. everything that happens, you pull a strin...

Resolution to raise the debt ceiling without any of these antics and add-ons, and so we will see if there are six moderate republicans who can do that. there probably arent more than six moderate republicans in the entire house these days, as we saw with the speakers election, an unwillingness to stand up to these extremist elements within their own party. but hopefully there are six who recognize the dire circumstance if, for the first time in american history, we breach the full faith and cred...

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Apple, i think there are a heck of a lot of u.s. companies that have a lot of sales in china that are basically going to be watching their earnings be downgraded next year. and so after the huge increase in the deficit and the national debt created by the trump tax cuts and after the increased costs imposed on americans by the trump tariffs and the business losses imposed on american farmers by the trump tariffs and the worst year in the stock market in ten years after the very worst december in...

2019? will the trump kpeconomic polics make the worst year of donald trumps life even worse? gerald bernstein will join us with that next. gerald bernstein will join us with that next heyre talking ab. or the one that j.d. power says is highest in network quality by people who use it every day? this is a tough one. well, not really, because verizon won both. so you dont even have to choose. why didnt you just lead with that? its like a fun thing. (vo) chosen by experts. chosen by you. get six mo...

Last month an employment fell to 4.7%. the president celebrated the numbers but he of course called previously data that was similar phoney so joining us now to talk about this is peter marysesy of the maryland business school and gerald bernstein. so dnc chair tom perez released this statement. trump inherited an economy from barack obama with the longest streak of private sector job growth in history. so do we think jared that he has a point? >> thomas perez has a point and you really cant ass...

Payroll tax holiday. that means a 2% tax increase for every last one of us. joining me is gerald bernstein, a senior fellow at the center of budget and policy priorities. get the title out. lets get to business. why are we not talking about this? talking about the cliff, but everybodys taxes going up with the payroll tax holiday. >>ith a great question, t.j. an important and underappreciated part of the fiscal cliff. the answer to the why is it really doesnt have any champions. when you hear the...

"weekends with alex witt" is next. new years resolution? will a last-minute fiscal cliff deal get done? and if it does what will it look like. we have a deal. we may still get hit with an automatic tax hike. how much will that cost you? in time for the new year, a new snowstorm headed to the northeast. well let you know how bad this will get. and the yore in review, up with of the most unique and appalling takes on the year in review. good morning to you all. welcome to weekends wi...