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Little easier. a new irs data showing this. thats down from 435,000 a year earlier. thanks to a slew of tax changes. the top 0.1%. it took 1.9 million and 9.5 million to join the more elite. imagine the tax bill t. top 1% earned 19% of all income and paid atlantic% of all income from the u.s. a record year box office, stranded astronauts. the 2015 u.s. box office crossed the 11 billion mark for the first time in history, thanks in large part to a big end of the year push from this little film ...

Our society called tea party. which, by the way, whether you go to a tea party meeting or not, if you believe in the constitution, if you believe in spending cuts and not putting more on your plate in the here and now so your kids dont have to pay for it later, then youre a tea partier. thats all these folks want. thats all these folks believe. by the way, i think its a large section of america. to have the dnc or whoever it was in the last segment keep putting out press releases saying -- just ...

Pension peril. >> reporter: many state and city workers around the country are worried what happened in detroit may happen to them. abru bankrupt city that starts cut pension benefits. >> theres a tendency to overpromise, underfu them, and when a problem comes up, the actuary says put in so much, theyre very ready to just defer that cost onto the next generation. >> reporter: some pensions have been improving, but a study found eight states have less than 60% of funds. illinois the worst at 45%....

Pension peril. >> reporter: many state and city workers around the country are worried what happened in detroit may happen to them. abru bankrupt city that starts cut pension benefits. >> theres a tendency to overpromise, underfund them, and when a problem comes up, the actuary says put in so much, theyre very ready to just defer that cost onto the next generation. >> reporter: some pensions have been improving, but a study found eight states have less than 60% of funds. illinois the worst at 45...

Affordable health care act. what to do, be aware of tax changes, things of that nature. so they might tweet obama care or affordable health care act and theyll all of a sudden get into conversation with other par it is pant and it will say get involved. >> you can use it as research. so you can senior. hash tag obama care just to see what people are thinking about. >> absolutely. its a great way to find out. you can google it. >> barry, again, its really simple. >> real common sense. use the too...

Today is laid out what he considers a compromised position to try to restart debt talks with republicans. the headlines out of this budget are that hes proposing reforms to social security and medicare. big thing from a democratic president to do, not well-received by some progressive groups in the presidents own party. but even republicans say its not enough. so hes managed to -- with the budget anger both folks on the left without winning over people on the right. a bit of a challenge in under...

Why would they want that? >> depends on how you are cutting medicare. if you are asking seniors to take a voucher thats not covering their cost, of course not. if youre asking special interest to give up a little bit, of course, the answer is yes. democrats want a solution. we want to go home to our districts and say we have solved this problem but it has to be solved in a fair way. >> that would include cuts in medicare, of any kind. >> look, ill give you an example. we have already, as i said ...

Have a meeting today or yesterday. as you noted they will be waiting until friday. they did meet briefly today in the capitol all of the leaders they werent focused on sequester they were at a ceremony. they will finally sit down here at the white house on friday. whats significant about that its the first time this year all these house republican and democratic leaders are getting together. even though this has been hanging over them, thats why the republican senate leader mitch mcconnell today...

See right there with williams. she is the only american left in the tournament. williams smashing her racket in the changeover in the decisive third set. williams lost the third set 6-4. she did injury her back in the second set causing her serves to slow down considerably. thats her first loss since way back on august 17th it means stephens, there very happy, will play in her first career grand slam semifinal tomorrow. she will face off against victoria azarenka. to golf, where the recent tax...

Prevent them from going onto the floor of the house and, you know, blasting me for being a big spending socialist. martha: and of course it was republicans that the president says he gets along fine with at picnics, and then they call him names on the floor of the congress. critics have called those comments pit ooh length, childless. bill: north carolina among numerous states pursuing major tax changes. well talk to the man leading the charge in the tar heel state. see if it works for your stat...