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Despite the fact he left office is continuing to keep the nra in the cross hairs. 50 million bucks to try to defeat you, your agenda and everything you stand for. your thoughts on it? >> well, megyn, the truth is if he didn't have a billion dollars or $31 million we wouldn't talk about michael bloomberg but he had a lot of money and says he'll try to spend it to purchase the freedom. he can buy a lot but not the hearts and minds of american people who love this freedom and love the second amendment and want to be able to exercise freedom and not be lectured by a ball near nanny on how to live ...

The threshold. it's simply outrageous. what i ask senator levin, and many other colleagues, better your time spent on making the tax code. right now we have the dubious distinction of having the highest corporate tax rate in the entire world. the we want more companies to invest here, to stay here, to employ people here, we need to get our tax code more compliant and consistent with other countries around the world. >> well, here's a case where the reality is so far from the rhetoric. you often hear this president attack specifically exxon mobil, the biggest oil company for the giveaways it re...

500,000 over the next ten years, who many of whom are employable, yet only 15% of them have jobs. we need to educate the employment community about the talents and skills of these people, but you're exactly right, these are people that could be productive. they could be taxpayers, could be contributing in many ways to society. they don't want to be a burden on the government, but you're right. every governor around this country and legislator in washington needs to look and see what the economic impact is of not taking care of autism, not funding the research. >> let's talk about funding, beca...

Of $31 billion, but that's just 19% of what would go to families who actually live below the poverty line. and, michael steele, here's the problem. you look at the cbo report. up to 1 million people could lose their jobs. >> right. >> according to the cbo. that's the high end. but up to 1 million people could lose their jobs if the unemployment -- if the minimum wage goes up to 10 bucks. >> right. >> but it's offset by maybe 500,000 people getting better wages. but what the cbo says is that doesn't all go to people who live below the poverty line. >> right, right. >> that goes to, you know, a ...

Americans their jobs. >> douglas holtz who used to run the cbo weighed in. >> really striking part of the cbo report was this does nothing for poverty. it raises about $31 billion for low wage workers. 19% goes to people in poverty. there are 45 million americans in poverty. 900,000 get helped. this is a puny, puny effort and the white house is pumping it up as a big deal. they'll change the rules if they have to. they'll argue about the results of a cbo study which is pretty common sense when you get right down to it. that's all election year politics. we're going to see more, not less, in th...