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Majority of the benefits going to the wealthiest 5%, 10% of the population, even the top .1% will benefit from this. there are all kinds of loopholes in the pass-through entity, the so-called llc or other corporate provisions that were going to benefit others. very difficult to figure out exactly what the loopholes are at the moment. i just got off the phone with my own accountant trying to understand in detail what this means. but it does not help individuals who are below $100,000. in fact, it...

Particular conclusion. >> yes, i think, and let me just speak as somebody who has readily admitted and did yesterday as we were covering this, that although i ride trains fairly frequently, i do not consider myself in any way an expert on being anything but a passenger. what you heard a lot of people talking about this morning was there was a curve before they got to this area. if it was speeding through that, maybe thats what caused it. thats a gross oversimplification basically is what youre s...

Tax reform for the middle class. >> i want to ask you about what you wrote in your column today. i want to quote you. the tax bill the gop is trying to foist on the country is not only an unfair and deficit bloating hodge bpodge written o the fly, it is also deeply corrupt. well start with the unfair. i made the point that a number of studies have suggested that, in fact, it does tend to favor the rich in terms of real dollars. but why corrupt? >> well, corrupt, because theres a reason why the r...

Deduction. so under the -- most people, most taxpayers, take the standard deduction and do not itemize their deduction. if you itemize the deduction, that is a good sign that you are in the upper reaches of the tax brackets. under this bill, almost everybody will get a double standard deduction. simply doubling the standard deduction takes, you know, for a married couple $12,000 off of their taxable account. >> but the bottom line, on the screen, if you make less than $25,000, the bottom line is...

Corruption, and one for sexual harassment, in the case of corruption, youre never going to go on the case of someone anonymously. you need documents, actual evidence that the crime took place. in the case of sexual harassment, it is enough to just to have someones word. if you are going to destroy someones life, why shouldnt that person have the right to look into the face of the person making the accusation and explain himself? that is the essence of justice, isnt it? >> i think that if this go...

Were injured and 1 had a fractured spinal cord. didnt hear a lot about that. kate steinle was murdered by an illegal alien felon who was deported five times, the media yawned. neo nazi mows down an innocent woman and the world goes wall-to-wall. identity politics that steer this kind of coverage and a lot of times its designed to lay the blame on the foot of the president. guyou are award winning author. music, you felt strongly that the music was harmful. ice tea, body count all that stuff. do ...

March, 21 police officers were injured and one had a fractured spinal cord. kate steinle was murdered by an illegal alien felon who was deported five times. the media yawned. a neo-nazi mows down innocent woman and the media goes wall-to-wall. theres a lot of identity politics that steer this type of coverage and a lot of the time, its designedd to lay the blame on the foot of the president. >> greg: want juan, you are an award-winning journalist. i remember you talking about censorship in music...

Fractured spinal cord. didnt hear a lot about that. kate steinle was murdered by an illegal alien felon who was deported five times, the media yawned. neo nazi mows down an innocent woman and the world goes wall-to-wall. identity politics that steer this kind of coverage and a lot of times its designed to lay the blame on the foot of the president. guyou are award winning author. music, you felt strongly that the music was harmful. ice tea, body count all that stuff. do you believe that the medi...

Are being directed to it. and for now, its going to be really hard to see how tax reform, infrastructure, health care and even those big agenda items that donald trump had campaigned on, had promised and said he would pass, how any of those get the kind of focus and attention that they were once expected to get. >> i want to go to the phone. nbcs mike viquera who we have had running all over trying to gather stories. have you been able to track anyone down about this? >> the halls of the white h...

Under obamacare but it doesnt happen overnight and its not an easy political fix. >> there are two people old enough to realize were going to be concerned about that. david and i. ill give him the last word here because my whole point is why has this been so pliticized? and shouldnt we -- >> absolutely. weve had seven presidents who have tried to get this done. it is hard to do. and obama got something passed but with no republican votes. a triumph and a tragedy at the same time. if the republic...