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3.2% tax on investment income retroactively. now, you know, theres some argument you can make that you take meez tax cuts for incentive purposes. its just a grab, right? >> and also the president cant stop talking about the trump rally in the stock market. its not as if investors are disincentivized right now. its not a health care bill. its kind of incidental. it has two main components. its a big tax cut for rich people and a restructuring of medicaid that not a single member of congress campa...

Like -- my favorite example is theyre cutting the tax of -- 3.2% tax on investment income retroactively. now, you know, theres some argument you can make that you take meez tax cuts for incentive purposes. its just a grab, right? >> and also the president cant stop talking about the trump rally in the stock market. its not as if investors are disin sedi disincentivized right now. its not a health care bill. its kind of incidental. it has two main components. its a big tax cut for rich people and...

Untethered. obviously the home state senator of mitch mcconnell so that comp cat complicates things. and if paul grabs one of those slots, theres only one card yet to give away. >> to heller. they would love to give that card to heller. but if susan collins grabs the other or murkowski or portman. >> with more seniority. thats where things can get difficult. the other thing ive heard is theres a rumbling that theyre not going to do conference committee. theyre going topaz it right back to the ho...

And if paul grabs one of those slots, theres only one card yet to give away. >> to heller. they would love to give that card to heller. but if susan collins grabs the other or murkowski or portman. >> with more seniority. thats where things can get difficult. the other thing ive heard is theres a rumbling that theyre not going to do conference committee. theyre going topaz it right back to the house and have the house pass it word for word which is of course happened after the death of ted kenne...

Substantially, thats not providing healthcare to everybody. thats not great. thats a disaster. thats wrong. and the american people do not want to see this legislation passed. >> do you have enough time to try to make that case? democrats, most recently in the georgia sixth. democrats have had a hard time getting their points across to the american people. >> not quite so sure, you know, we can argue about where the democratic party should go. and as you know, my view has been that the democrati...

[cheers and applause] speak out big round of applause. >> bill: congressional womens softball game last night, she is also one of two officers who helped stop a gunman last week. she had extensive restructuring on her leg it, republican congressman steve scalise, has been upgraded to fair condition. good for her. and she did it with vigor. >> shannon: she did. and unlike most of us, she is in a wheelchair, recovering from surgery, she gets it done. well, the investigation of the michigan airport...

Im optimistic that whatever mistakes occurred in the past, theres an array of issues and factors why we did not win and on a given day you can say that its one over the other. the fact of the matter is that right now were on a road to restructuring. were stronger, we have a vision, a fresh new face and im optimistic well do really well. >> shes also pointing the finger squarely at russia and their information war campaign against her. do you think its productive for clinton revisit whats happeni...

Fueled this takeover phenomena. >> we romanticize these characters, but these are fat cats, first cousins to the financial manipulators, the robber barons of the late 19th century. >> theyre trying to make a buck by doing nothing and putting people out of work. >> economists agree that some unemployment, some hardship is unavoidable in the vitally important process of making the united states lean and mean again. what the takeover specialists call corporate restructuring. >> corporate america ne...

Cant expect any help, any arm twisting, any real influence from president trump while hes embroiled in that stuff. so its a kind of do it alone situation for congressional republicans. >> all right. and, ken vogel, the other piece of this, the news here, potentially at least a white house shake-up. these things have been rumored it seems since january 20th. now we hear about this idea maybe of a war room being created, of steve bannon -- bannon a couple weeks ago looked like he was on the outs. ...

They got it into court so reporter won that, the lawyer who masterminded that case is now the lawyer who our next president has retained to be his counsel on, quote, matters related to the russia investigation. sure, why not him? well, lawyer marc kasowitz played a role in the lawsuit against trump university in which he had to settle. he was involved in the restructuring of the massive and controversial debt in trumps atlantic casinos. his most recent high-profile gig since trump has been presi...