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Pennsylvania, they will change the name. They will change the name. How the Keystone State has become the crucial battleground. s co what the Harris Foundation is doing is so important. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The Labor Day Holiday is over its a first tuesday in september. First day of tuesday in november, its happening. We are two months out, 63 days to be precise which means the sprint is sent to the finish and republicans are getting nervous a...

"the washington post" reporting that rosenstein whose been on the job for two weeks, three and a half weeks is threatening to resign because they had hung the entire resignation on him, clearly this helps explain why we saw, if true, a shifting rationale coming out of the whus today start wg the president himself in the oval office saying he wasnt doing a very good job. so mike pence still on talking poins this morning when he was on the hill. but then the president and sarah huckabee sanders sa...

Corporate profits have rebounded so much in the last couple of years? i mean, corporate profits have been doing great and, yet, what corporations have been doing with that profit is sitting on it. theyve not been plowing it back into the kind of investment that would create jobs. isnt that right? >> i wouldnt say this has been a theory very amenable to evidence. in the bush years of course we lowered taxes on the rich dramatically and i dont think anybody looks back at that and says it was a gre...

Important distinction. theyre not just for low taxes. they are specifically for low taxes on the rich under a sort of randian philosophy that the rich are the ones who drive economic growth in this country. >> havent we seen a bit of experimentation with that as corporate profits have rebounded so much in the last couple of years? i mean, corporate profits have been doing great and, yet, what corporations have been doing with that profit is sitting on it. theyve not been plowing it back into the...

With that profit is sitting on it. theyve not been plowing it back into the kind of investment that would create jobs. isnt that right? >> i wouldnt say this has been a theory very amenable to evidence. in the bush years of course we lowered taxes on the rich dramatically and i dont think says it was a great time. but as you say there was a shifting rationale. its all about deficits and they want to come in and extend the bush tax cuts at a cost of 4 trillion and then all about reducing uncertai...