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Come up to 39.6%. these numbers, senator, i don't have to tell you, are probably not going to get a big backing, a big vote of support from senator joe manchin whose vote is critical in this. do you see for example the corporate tax rate coming down? is that something you'd be comfortable with? >> look, i think it's a solid framework that may be near final, if you ask most americans they would agree the largest corporations in america, the multinational corporations making record profits ought to pay their fair share, and frankly, behind closed doors, a lot of ceos and business groups confesse...

Democrats on his side, whether he brings it to the white house, aboard air force 1, you name it, trying to get it done. >> trying to pull out the stops. thank you for that. while democrats struggle how to move forward, house democrats are still laying out specifics on how to fund that $3.5 trillion budget plan by hiking taxes on the rich and corporations. a draft proposal obtained by cnn calls for a top individual tax rate of 39.6%, for americans earning $400,000 or more a year. the taxpayers would pay more on their investment profits. the top corporate tax rate for businesses making $5 mi...

And find its sweet spot. but if it -- if we have the sense that they'll succeed in imposing these taxes, everything takes a hit. >> neil: yeah, they're bracing themselves, the market, the financial types, most of them looking at what democrats are coming up with, that the top rate will go back up to 39.6%, corporate taxes will go up. we don't know how much. some of this other stuff like taxes on assets and daily trades, profit gains and going after companies whose ceo is making more than the ratio of the less paid workers, all of that goes through, then you have another game entirely, right? >...

I think even if we get to that top line number, there's some many programs on the wish list, i don't see how you do that. >> the financial committee meeting today to go over which proposal should make the cut. republicans on the committee did not get the invite. still some of the ideas being considered, raising the top income tax rate to 39.6%. raising the corporate tax rate to 28%. hiking taxes on capital gains. a new .1% tax on every stock trade on wall street. also a possible yearly tax on any gains that people would make from their investments, even if you weren't selling your asset and ho...

Gail is struggling to walk and needs spinal surgery. she has two collapsed discs in her neck. she's been waiting for an operation for nearly a year and she doesn't know when it might happen. if i had a date for my surgery, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. with no date, there's no light at the end of the tunnel. it isjust a long, dark tunnel of pain medication and sofa sitting and... that's my life. surgeons say for gail and others waiting a long time there is a risk that things will get worse. they may not have been urgent but they are... they become increasingly urgent the longer pat...