contact us by the disgust he felt watching media coverage of the russia story. not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. the russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 presidential campaign. intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. he just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. the story he told us is astonishing. we will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. at first, here s an overview of what he told us. media reports describe paul manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as donald trump s campaign chairman. according to our source, that s only half true. he is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. in fact, paul manafort spent years working with the podesta group on behalf of russian gove
why rob portman is hopeful. mick mulvaney is warning. and steny hoyer is fighting mad. they re all here and only here. we begin with blake burman with the latest. blake? it s clear here in the halls of the capitol as house republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. there s a host of issues to work through. earlier today, the club for growth, an influential republican group put out a note saying they have issues with four different things on the individual side of this house republican plan. here they are. top tax bracket for millionaires with the possibility that those that make in the low million dollar range can see the top end taxed north of 45%. they take issue with a portion of pass-through profits would be taxed 25%.
growth. you had big deficits. it wasn t tax cuts that did it. cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil: but you left out ronald reagan. i know. deficits didn t grow with him. the first two years were h
argentina s new treasury minister acts fast to stabilize the beleaguered peso selling dollar reserves in a much welcomed move but can he solve the country s underlying problems including its massive pile of debt. also coming up its legal bills are mounting now german heavyweight buyer is selling its animal health unit to free up cash. and fasten your seat belts singapore is getting ready to launch a trial itself driving buses. this is your business report i m stephen bears in berlin thanks for joining us argentina welcome to new treasury minister on tuesday and on the coon s it wasted no time in dealing with the country s fragile economy argentina s central bank auction $112000000000.00 u.s. dollars from its reserves to stop the country s peso from falling markets welcomed the move but more remains to be done. it s looking increasingly likely that the
presidential palace in buenos aires will have a new resident in the near future although the current president mary snow mccree has j
tonight, the news coming in late today, reports pfizer is now in talks with the u.s. government to provide tens of millions of additional doses of the vaccine. and that new variant of the virus. they re now testing for it here in new york. all of this as the nation now marks the deadliest year in american history. we re now seeing an average of more than 2,600 american lives lost every day. as concerns mount tonight over that new variant of covid. the testing in new york and the new steps from some airlines to test passengers for flights from the uk to the u.s. but tonight, dr. anthony fauci saying we must assume it s already here in the u.s., as he gets his own vaccine shot before the cameras. and that news tonight, pfizer reportedly nearing a deal with the trump administration for more doses and what we know so far. hospitals tonight under growing pressure. we have an alarming look inside.
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Consequence here, as i said, this bill was promoted hurtomething that was going to help the worker and it was going to hurt the corporation. it s ending up hurtingt shurtin the worker and helping the corporation. already we ve seen it thousandsr of workers have been laid off. all of the corporations saw this coming. so they re automatinat g workforce. the workers that are still are on payroll are going to have to double the amount of woro dooublk. the and the cost of everything is going to increase. the small businesses ethin thatt necessarily fall within the purview of this bill are going to have to increas oe their own wages, but they can t afford to automate, so they have to increase their pricess bu can td or shu. so once again, inflating the cost of everything in their local econom cy. thi but the actual approach to this, if you want to help the workero helps just cut payrl taxes, california has the highest payroll tax of any coate in the country you put more money in the worker s