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And take a look at new hampshire, donald trump has a bigger lead there in the recent polls in new hampshire. up 12.6. lets bring in our panel. charlie hurt, political columnist for the washington times, amy walter, national he hadder for the political report and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles? >> well the trump interview was extremely interesting. hes extremely good at this. because he dances and he dekes and he faineints and he disa appears. without backing down, when you as...

Current seven income tax brackets to four. individuals earning less th$25,0 and couples earning less than $50,000 would pay no tax. the wealthiest americans would see their tax rates slashed to 25% from nearly 40%. trumps plan also eliminates the estate tax paid by the wealthiest americans. meantime, the corporate tax rate would be cut to 15%. but how to pay for all of that is not clear. trump promises to get rid of unspecified deductions and close tax loopholes now available to special interest...

What you really want to know is what your effective tax rate is, whether it goes up or whether it goes down. yes with be these rates look like theyre going to go very low. but if you lose all your deductions, it could not come out in the wash the way you want it to. i agree there are a lot of details to be learned on the plan. >> but this was a big part of this announcement yesterday, was that finally we would hear some details from trump about a policy. when you talk to him about syria, for exa...

Romney did in 2012. we can compare it to what george bush -- im sorry, jeb bush proposed a few weeks ago. this plan is much more generous and very unlikely to be revenue neutral. >> when trump says that people are wrong, that they would be bringing in at least $2.5 trillion in money thats stuck outside of this country, does that make any sense to you? >> im afraid it doesnt, because when you do the math, when you bring in that $2.5 trillion, for example, the most that would raise would be $250 b...

Business people is even higher than the rate corporations pay. so we definitely need to bring these rates down if were going to be competitive internationally. >> matt, the tax foundation which advocates lower tax rates says that the cost of trumps cuts could easily total more than $7 trillion over the next decade. >> depends on what happens to the deductions. >> im glad matt brought up question of the deductions. we arent flying blind here. ever since bowles and simpson made the big push for ta...

Emphasizing, but his rate cuts are just so far off the charts in terms of revenueistic to thi be a net revenue razor. >> billionaire investor carl icahn says he endorses trump. trump says icahn would be his treasury secretary if he were elected. you also have grover norquist giving his blessing. of course he is the architect of the anti-tax movement, major player on your side of the aisle for republicans. >> yes. >> whats your take? do you give trump a thumbs up, thumbs down, on his plan? >> i t...

Since reagan, but probably even before that. this will be a rocketship for the economy. >> let me bring in our political panel, martin sullivan, chief economist for the non-partisan group tax analysts and formerly worked for the congressional committee on taxation. martin, youve said that the trump plan is not realistic on the revenue side. still no specifics on the deductions and the loopholes he would close here. are we really getting a specific plan from donald trump as some have called it wh...

Passionately there should be absolutely no or all restrictions abortion bans should be put in place have felt that way and have been very animated about it. people who support planned parenthood on the other side of that issue are not moving because of these videos or this because of this testimony or because of carly fiorina or because of anything thats brought this issue to the fore. we need to get to presidential politics quickly here. this morning donald trump is defending his plan to over...

Purchase private insurance. in 2006, the basic heritage health care framework was established as law by a republican governor that was going to go out and run for president. romney didnt win in 2008. barack obama did. one of his first orders of business was health reform. his model was, i think you know this right now, the plan that was working in massachusetts, the romney plan, the heritage foundation plan. those subtleties may have been lost on the right. >> they were launched. the very conser...

You look at the two conventions, not to be partisan this way, but if you look at a republican convention, it looks monochromatic and theres a few women there with power and then at the democratic convention, its pretty diverse. its interesting. its like america. >> yeah. >> its different. >> when you turn the camera randomly on at the democratic convention and point it in any direction, you would see the diversity of america. the only time you see diversity at a republican convention is when the...