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Basically, they had 16,000 filers who paid taxes on $1 million in income or higher. one year later, after they raised the rate from 40% to 50%, they had only 6 thousand. 16,000 it to6 ,000, a 60% reduction. they saw the lost tax revenue was $7 billion euros. so that is a key pound -- pounds in britain. that's a key loss. it shows how part of the people leaving the country. i don't think that millionaires are leaving america. we are americans. but you can do things to your income to look like you are not making a million dollars. >> greta: look at google, perfectly lawferl. they did tax avoidan...

Basically, they had 16,000 filers who paid taxes on $1 million in income or higher. one year later, after they raised the rate from 40% to 50%, they had only 6 thousand. 16,000 it to6 ,000, a 60% reduction. they saw the lost tax revenue was $7 billion euros. so that is a key pound -- pounds in britain. that's a key loss. it shows how part of the people leaving the country. i don't think that millionaires are leaving america. we are americans. but you can do things to your income to look like you are not making a million dollars. >> greta: look at google, perfectly lawferl. they did tax avoidan...

They will have legal immunity. plus 5,000 or 6 thousand con traerkts and cia will still have a presence. so there will still be a presence. it is possible the negotiations could open up again about potentially some trainers helping iraqi forces. the question is, a, will they happen, and, b, what could that training look like? it could take place in another country. you could see iraqi forces come to other american train tag silts. those negotiations have not started, i want to make that clear. something that the president and leon panetta left open. >> how is this going to play out politically...

Caught up in my own self-importance. unfortunately the urge to believe in it was stronger than the cowher to fight it. this is how dangerous the feeling of power and adulation can be. >> ensign's former colleagues said he violated campaign finance laws and made false statements to the practical election commission about $96 thousand payment his parents made to the hamptons. the justice department is reviewing all of the charges which could amount to jail time and as for the senate ethics committee, issuing this kind of damning report about one of their season never easy. the fact they were so ...

That was excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate, and hopelessly inadequate to addressing the pressing fiscal challenges. what we heard today was not fiscal leadership. >> reporter: demand is just on sharp on taxes where the president vowed to raise taxes on the rich even though he avoided that chance in december when he extended the bush tax rates. >> they want to give people like me a $200,000 tax cut that's paid for by asking 33 seniors each to pay $6 thousand more in health costs. that's not right. that's not going to happen as long as i'm president. >> reporter: they feel here insid...