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Withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which i have kept for emergencies and the history of my family Facing Confiscation in cuba. He did address these on your screen, the gold bars, the stash of gold bars. He did address the gift of the mercedesbenz convertible. And of course, he is absolutely innocent until Proven Guilty in a court of law. And he is not the first lawmakers to even face corruption allegations. In a moment, im going to talk to former illinois de...

Those. it goes to your point, matt, which is she said about her decision. im quoting, i truly dont see this as sending a message at all about one way or the other about border security but rather about executive overreach. look, if you skim the federalist papers, if you know something about separation of powers, if you know about the power of the purse and the constitutional authority given to congress, you can make that argument. but my question is do the voters care? >> they dont care about ar...

Lets weigh in with matt bennett. former white house deputy assistant under president clinton. christine is also back with he many. so mitch mcconnell didnt want the president to do this. lamar alexander has been offering up some alternative ways to get this funding recently and no go. why do you think, matt that, the president is so adamant about this? >> well, its pretty clear that this is the thing he promises his base and going to deliver come hell or high water. >> even if he goes down, hes ...

Is so upset. >> if the president vetoes and, again, congress unlikely to overturn that veto, does it actually become a victory for the president? >> i think the president knew he would have this declaration filed against him and he can veto it. he can go out to his base, see, i fought for you. i did what was necessary to secure this country. if the courts overturn this hes going to go out in 2020 and say if it wasnt for the activist judges, theyll be the new book end. and its all a political str...

For the american values institute. good to see both of you. >> great to be here. >> arthel: very good. so lets say that each of you is going to broker this deal. tell me the concessions you would make and what would be the deal breakers. im going to go with you first, matt. >> okay. so im in the seat of power. i guess if im a republican, i want to make sure that if im going to negotiate a deal that ive got real concessions in terms of getting a comprehensive tax reform bill and weve got real con...

Boehner in the politically right direction or if theyll be humbled by this defeat and understand the american voters want a real deal here that is not going to be brokered on the backs of middle class americans. >> arthel: alexis, i have some info from the congressional budget office saying that increasing taxes on just the wealthier americans while sparing all other taxpayers from higher taxes would increase gdp by 1.3%, by the fourth quarter of next year, and create an additional 1.6 million n...

The middle class and simply just focus on the 1% challenge or extending the bush tax cut is not going to be sufficient. >> arthel: not going to be sufficient. matt that, good news to you? let me make sure that i understand what youre saying. youre saying that thats fine, you should not raise the taxes on middle income people, but the 1%ers, those who are considered wealthy, then you should not increase their taxes and not let it expire for them as well? hang on, matt. i want to clarify. what did...

4.3 magnitude quake in kentucky, felt for miles around. residents in eight other states also feeling the tremors. >> arthel: serious new questions over the governments ability to prevent the u.s. economy from going over the so-called fiscal cliff. in the last 24 hours, newly relie detectorred president barak obama and house speaker john boehner have both vowed that they will not let this happen. but is that even possible given todays decisive political climate? before we get into the discussion,...

And its opposite of the basic tea party values. we fought obama care, against the idea that government would intrude so deeply into the most personality aspect of our lives. and here we are, and were looking for something better out of a presidential candidate. >> but isnt it true, just to make the case against you while youre here, matt that, a lot of republicans over the years have supported this individual mandate concept, that the hospitals shouldnt have to have people come to the e.r., pay ...

Tea party values. we fought obama care, against the idea that government would intrude so deeply into the most personality aspect of our lives. and here we are, and were looking for something better out of a presidential candidate. >> but isnt it true, just to make the case against you while youre here, matt that, a lot of republicans over the years have supported this individual mandate concept, that the hospitals shouldnt have to have people come to the e.r., pay for all of their treatment, an...