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good evening. i'm erin burnett and "outfront" tonight, we have breaking news. rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse announces tonight he'll introduce a warren buffett rule bill in the senate. first touted by president obama in his state of the union last week, the bill would require those earns more than a million dollars to pay at least 30% in taxes. that's an effective rate. the marginal rate would be 44%. he comes "outfront" tonight. we appreciate you taking the time, sir. thank you very much. >> it's good to be with you. >> a lot of people say this bill isn't going to go anywhe...

rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse announces tonight he'll introduce a warren buffett rule bill in the senate. first touted by president obama in his state of the union last week, the bill would require those earns more than a million dollars to pay at least 30% in taxes. that's an effective rate. the marginal rate would be 44%. he comes "outfront" tonight. we appreciate you taking the time, sir. thank you very much. >> it's good to be with you. >> a lot of people say this bill isn't going to go anywhere. you're going to get fights from republicans. millionaire's taxes didn't pa...

rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse announces tonight he'll introduce a warren buffett rule bill in the senate. first touted by president obama in his state of the union last week, the bill would require those earns more than a million dollars to pay at least 30% in taxes. that's an effective rate. the marginal rate would be 44%. he comes "outfront" tonight. we appreciate you taking the time, sir. thank you very much. >> it's good to be with you. >> a lot of people say this bill isn't going to go anywhere. you're going to get fights from republicans. millionaire's taxes didn't pa...

Income. if you have earned income you pay double of that. that is what warren buffett was saying when he said his secretary was paying at a higher rate. and buffett was paying at 14.7%, as i recall, of $66 million. the average american can sit down and see if you're going to work every day and you're paying double the same percentage on your amount of money, whatever that amount of money is, that something needs to be fixed in terms of how we pay people for what they do. >> could you do this where you actually lowered rates on wages, essentially, on working income, and then you would raise the...

Christian spirit and the evangelical community to rel really reach out as jesus did to those who are under privileged and that need help rather than demonize them. when we hear mr. gingrich talk about food stamp people and food stamp president, when there were 14.7 food stamp people under bush, only 14.2 under mr. obama, doesn't truth and being understanding of the poor also fit in to the christian spirit? >> i think it does. i think what we talk about is avenues of approach in dealing with those issues. i don't think the solution is necessarily in any party. it's in the policies adopted. obvi...