Last issue that most republicans in the congress can agree on. They are all for tax cuts, thats part of what it is to be a republican i think. Is there anyway that this this doesnt pass . A very narrow majority in the senate, there are benefits in this tax code now that would have to be stricken to make room for the cuts, so you dont have a big blowout in terms of the budget and so they will be fiercely supported and defended by those affected. It wont be easy, not with a narrow majority of the kind that we have now among republicans. Democrats by large do not favor tax cuts, particularly tax cuts they will inevitably say benefit the rich. Its not that easy sl for this reason. For one thing, every time you pass tax cuts and you are the president tonight say theyre going to increase the number of people in the zero bracket, you
have fewer and fewer people actually playing texas. That is fewer and fewer people who stand to gain when taxes are cut because it is simply a mathematical truism that when you taught, cut taxes, the people who benefited the people who pay taxes. As the population shrinks, the constituency forced Tax Cuts Rings with it. This is not such an easy deal. I would say, however, prevent momentum is provided by a certain republican desperation to get something done because they failed so spectacularly on obamacare repeal. This is the other bigticket legislative item and i think theres a widespread feeling in the Republican Caucus in both houses that they need to get this done. Tucker so the debate among republicans i think outside of the congress is, does this make good on the president s promises to his core constituency, the american middle class, during the campaign . Will this, from what you can tell so far, benefit that group, middleclass americans . There are two ways to look at tax cut benefits, tucker. Theres the indirect kind of benefit where you pay a certain amount taxes this year and because the new law comes along, your taxes will be reduced by x amount. Thats one way you benefit. The principal purpose of a large tax cut of this kind, especially where you are also cutting the corporate rate, is not just to put money in the pockets of consumers to spend it. It is to encourage investment and growth in the economy, which benefits everybody. I think its fair to say that the principal benefits, the major benefits, the most important benefit in economic terms of a big stack cut is to stimulate the economy. People benefit indirectly, that is to say, jobs are created, this competition for hiring. Wages go up. And there is a possibility of a rising tide that does lift all boats. But when you are selling at tax cut, as you can tell by what the president was saying tonight, you often have to focus on the narrower question of how much
they pay Social Security, state and local taxes and so on. Everybody has taxes they would like to see cut. I think the constituency for it is still there. The constituency for the kind of tax cuts the president is selling, or you are reducing the rates, where you can point to people and say look at this guy, hes got hes going to get millions and benefits. Thats because he pay so much. We live in a country, after all, or 10 of the population, the richer 10 , pay about 70 of the taxes. It figures that when taxes are cut, they will benefit the most, because they pay the most. That is not a particularly good selling point to an ordinary taxpayer. Tucker but that is math. Brit hume, thank you. You bet. Tucker one of the most famous economist in the world, worked in a break in administration during the last great overhaul of the tax code. President trump just tweeted about him saying art just said he doesnt know how a democrat could vote against the Big Tax Cut Reform Bill and live with
it will be a great thing for the u. S. Tucker judging by the Equities Market Corporations are making a lot of money. The problem is not corporate profit and you still have close to 100 million americans unemployed and the stagnant wages. Why, if that hasnt worked previously, when it work now . The corporations that have lots of cash on hand and all that dont find it available of valuable to invest in the future. They invest overseas, but once you bring that rate down to below we are number one highest tax rate. Corporate tax rate. That means all these other countries are a tax haven for American Companies and thats why there is so much money abroad. This money will come back, they will create jobs here and hopefully if we get it low enough we can become for tax payment and their jobs will come here. It will be great, just the way it should be, just the way we did it in 1986, the president cut the highest rate from 46 to 34 . That really rocket at the end of
in the oecd, of all the major countries, we were the only country that had global taxation. We have the highest tax rate and just for the record, just so you know, in the year 2000, the u. S. Was seventh highest out of the countries in the oecd and i was the very highest. Every country in the oecd cut their Corporate Tax rate dramatically in the last 17 years except the u. S. And of course hungry, which raised their tax rate from 18 to 19 . All of them lowered it to get a more competitive. We are just keeping up with the joneses. Tucker really quickly, when i was born this country was twothirds middleclass, a middleclass country. Two years ago at the middleclass became a minority in this country, that seems like the central problem. You sincerely think that this tax plan would help change that . Yes. This tax plan will help change this. One of the things about the Corporate Taxes as it stands now in the u. S. Is that a lot of
companies shelter their income, they choose different Corporate Tax if they do all of this other stuff that is not productive trying to get around taxes. When we lower that tax rate they wont shelter their income as much anymore. There will be far less tax evasion, they wont choose these forms, companies will come back and you will see tax revenues rise dramatically over the next ten years. Im estimating that this will raise somewhere in the neighborhood of 1. 3 trillion net, which will allow us to do all sorts of other things for the rest of the country, especially the middle class. Tucker i hope thats true. Im rooting for that. I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Tucker great to see you. Is this the end of the Weinstein Company . New information on todays board meeting, apparently Harvey Weinstein was there. Details next. Stare with me into the abyss
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took her to dinner and then afterward suggested he go to his hotel room. She claims that she very firmly denied this offer. Stella still allegedly pursue ts relationship. After three months she claims she had to get her lawyer to contact the Weinstein Company and ask them to have him stop. Tucker thats a bad sign when a lawyer gets involved. With the claim count on the story of our . You have any sense of how many women have come forward . It has really gotten Out Of Control at this point but we do know for sure at this point that the number of women making allegations of assault and or harassment is over 50 right now. Tucker over 50. Does each one represent a legal action do you think . It dispense, it depends on the state. In new york there are currently probes into two allegations of Sexual Assault against mr. Weinstein. One of the women who shared their stories in the new yorker and another woman whose identity we do not know. Tucker those are criminal probes by the state . Yes. Tucker so Harvey Weinstein is, or is no longer affiliated with this company . This is where its tricky. After all this talk of him really wanting to go in and fight for his position, we learned that he resigned, but he does stop at 23 stake in the company. It remains to be seen whats going to happen. Many directors and actors have been very firm about the fact they have no desire to work with him so if the company is going to be bought, he would have to be bought out by whoever decides to come in because anything that will profit him. It tucker when this broke, lisa bloom was center stage representing Harvey Weinstein and basically making assurances that everything is fine, its cool. When it got Out Of Control she fled the scene. Has She Reemerged . Have you seen her recently, or is she in hiding . She actually was with black china, one of her former clients last night, Rob Kardashians estranged girlfriends. But she has sort of return to her typical thing and try to distance herself from this is much as possible, which is what
every lawyer has done. If the company itself is about a spokesperson. You have to actually call the office to speak to someone. Tucker in contrast i think with most lawyers, lisa bloom has been accused of an effect, bribery by rose mccowen, who was that she offered her some huge number, 6 million to change her story, any movement on that story . Rose mccowen is not the other one, there were also some yesterday, one of the clubs were an alleged assault took place was called by lawyers for weinstein and asked if he could go on the record and say this it never happened. It seems this might be a new story coming to light were multiple people were contacted about keeping quiet or denying claims that were being made by victims. Tucker if you think Harvey Weinstein was sleazy, wait till you meet his lawyers. They are really unbelievable. Are there potential criminal penalties attached to that . Are you allowed to encourage people to change their story in exchange for money . It depends. It would happen to someone who actually excepted ipad. Is all developing and it sort of
unbelievable which each new thing we learn, so theres a vey real sort of feeling where this might get to the point where someone who is representing weinstein will get charged. Tucker that would not surprise me at all. Thanks for that. When news report says the fbi has uncovered evidence of a major russian bribery effort just before the Obama Administrations approval of a deal back in 2010 that gave russia control over large amounts of american uranium. Why would the Obama Administration gave russia control of the document great question. To answer that and others, with invited chief National Correspondent ed henry, who has the very latest. Good to see you. I major exclusive from the newspaper because its raising new questions about just what kind of relationship the obamas and the clintons had with russia amid all these other investigations going on right now here in washington about the Trump Campaign and alleged russian collusion. The exclusive goes back, as you
say, to 2010 when the Obama Administration approved the controversial Celtic Of Moscow control of a majority a big chunk of american uranium. At what they have in this report is that the f fbi was actually investigating in 2009, 2010 the fact that money was pouring into the u. S. For motion sources, Russian Nuclear industry officials, kickbacks, all kinds of money, problems, and they say in this report federal agents obtained an Eyewitness Account backed by documents indicating Russian Nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the u. S. Designed to benefit former president bill clintons Charitable Foundation during the time Secretary Of StateSecretary Of StateHillary Clinton served on a Government Body that provided a favorable decision to moscow. She was running the State Department at the time. A panel with him at the apartment deciding this. The story goes on to say the Obama Administration and the clintons defended their actions at the time insisting there was
no evidence that any russians or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no National Security reason for any member of the committee to oppose this uranium deal. Fbi Energy Department and Court Documents reviewed by the hill newspaper showed the fbi in fact had gathered substantial evidence well before the committees decision that the main russian overseeing Vladimir PutinsNuclear Expansion inside the u. S. Was engaged in wrongdoing starting in 2009. Whats interesting is that the Justice Department began investigating this 20092010, investigated it for four years but obviously weve never seen anyone charge from all of this and which Justice Department was investigating this . The obama Justice Department investigating obama officials like Hillary Clinton. Remember, peter schweitzer, dominic raised some of these questions in the last campaign, thencandidate donald trump jumped on it, if you will. At the time, a spokesman forHillary Clintons campaign was saying she was not actively engaged on this panel, was not involved in the decision involving uranium, but obviously these questions were raised and it was interesting that the fbi maybe had evidence coke tucker ed henry, he was joining us from the white house, unfortunately lost the connection. Thats an amazing story. They always accuse you of what theyre doing themselves. Theres even more news about Hillary Clinton summit, a Search Of Anthonys Laptop has uncovered new files from home without the details coming up. Because i am cured with harvoni. Harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of Chronic Hepatitis c. Its been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. And is proven to cure up to 99 of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. Certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. Before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if youve ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious Liver Problems during and after harvoni treatment. Tell your doctor if youve ever had hepatitis b, a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv or any other medical conditions and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. Taking amiodarone with harvoni can cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. Common side effects of harvoni include tiredness, headache and weakness. Ready to let go of hep c . Ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. Also in kids chewables. Tucker looks like carma congressman Anthony Weiner will be headed to prison soon, but the saga continues. The fbi now says it has found huma abedins files on his computer and will release all of them by the end of the year. The president of judicial watch, his lawsuit against the State Department caused those documents to come to light and he joins us tonight to explain what they mean. Thanks for joining us. To mike sorry to superimpose against a picture of Anthony Weiners chest. Whats the significance of these documents . They are new documents, we dont know whats in them yet. Huma abedin had an Email Account on Hillary Clinton server. The emails from Hillary Clinton server. They were on Anthony Weiners laptop. The fbi picked them up last year, the end of last year, highlighting the fact that they found this information. It turns out they had nearly 3,000 of them, government records on the laptop. We will get access to them by the end of the year. Tucker they were government records . They were, they acknowledged that. Based on the other abedin emails that we have which involved classified information, Hillary Clinton emails that we hadnt seen before that she didnt turn over and try to delete. I suspect there will be classified material among these new records. This is another example of top Government Officials like huma abedin and Hillary Clinton having classified materials and places they werent allowed to, which are grab potomac violations of criminal law despite mr. Comeys appendage to the contrary. Tucker moreover, we spent the last year talk about russian hacking, clearly its not safe to keep Government Data on a private computer. The larger question was