the security of europe and president trump was saying year ago that germany and other countries and nato need to spen more on the defense of europe and we re starting to see that happen now. its unfortunate crisis had to happen for countries to come together, but hopefully they will be more secure in the future. best of luck to you on may 3rd in the. triggering an exodus of russian elites. in the state of the union address tuesday night president biden vowed to seize russia s lots, right-click three apartments and. that morning, grabbing the attention of russian oligarchs fleeing in the hope of finding safe harbor. live with this in new york is actually. those russian oligarchs are fleeing to the indian ocean on their super yachts as they sent
during the president s state of the union address, he touted that passing this tax law was for working families. he has said it over and over. by my estimation, it has always been for corporate america and it was going to trickle down. he said this was a tax cut for the middle class, for working families, why are so many people realizing they re getting less of a refund? because the republicans ran a sort of stimulus program by reducing your withholding under new tables without the experience of knowing exactly what would happen and about 25% of taxpayers who had been itemizing deductions will not be able to do so under the new law and those people are going to get a real shock because of the limitation on how much they can deduct for state and local taxes. if you were paying $20,000 in state and local taxes, you re only going to be able to deduct half and that likely means that
that s right. it s certainly a concern. it was the concern when the parties were flipped back in the late 90s and the republicans who had the house majority were very aggressively investigating then democratic president bill clinton and politically at least it seemed to backfire on the republicans. there is that concern right now. house speaker nancy pelosi has been careful to sort of keep her members at bay and avoid, you know, the impeachment question and avoid members who are eager to try to impeach this president from beginning any of those proeldings. they re cautiously taking their time but clearly it s a concern among democrats and i think the white house is looking to capitalize on that and make it appear that the democrats are obstructing and doing a lot of pointless partisan investigations which is what the president raised in his state of the union address tuesday night. all right. phil, thank you so much. we are keeping an eye as matt whitaker has taken his seat. he s
bypassing congress. just a few moments ago, within the last hour, the pentagon confirmed they were taking that step, but it is going to be a few more troops than we expected. 3,750 will be assisting customs and border patrol agents, potentially some of them through september. you could potentially expect the president to mention that action among some others he may take during his state of the union address tuesday night. as he told reporteders fridrs f should be an exciting speech. fred? boris sanchez, thank you so much. joining me now, white house reporter for the washington post sun min kim and senior editor at the atlantic ron brownstein. good to see you both. so the president not backing down from the border wall funding demand. then you heard boris right there talk about the pentagon putting plans into place to send upwards of 3750 troops to assist border patrol along the border. it s likely to be an item he
doing something about it. do you think president trump will address that in his state of the union address tuesday night, since many of us feel he s exacerbated it. this is the state where he said there were good people on both sides in the charlottesville incident. certainly if i was his speech writer, i would certainly address it, al. this is not a republican issue, no, sir, not a democratic issue. i m roughly ralph northam s age. there was never a time when i did not know that appearing in blackface or in a ku klux klan outfit was not reprehensible and repugnant. you around the same age and you knew blackface and a robe i did. hallelujah. i went to a catholic school by entire life, al.