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♪ >> marie: house democrats ramping up their investigations of president trump now that they hold the majority. and their list of targets is a long one. while new polling may embolden democrats and their probes, it also shows the need to be careful. an "abc news" "washington post" poll finding 60% of americans support obtaining and releasing the president's tax returns, and majorities also favor investigating russian collusion. the president's relationship with vladimir putin in any financial ties to foreign government. but, a plurality of 46% believe the investigations will "go too far," wh...

Fund things like green infrastructure and medicare for all. let's look at how taxes run right now. the current highest tax bracket at a federal 11 is 37% on all become above $500,000 a year, down from 39.6% on income that was made because of the republican tax law that trump signed in late 2017. the united states has a progressive federal income tax system where americans are taxed at higher rates with rising income brackets. a progressive system spreads the burden more equitiably between the rich and the poor. here's how it works practically speaking. you pay a 10% rate on the first $9,525 of...

Share in taxes than everyone else does. she says all individual income above $10 million a year should be taxed at a 70% tax rate. that way the extra revenue generated could be used to fund things like green infrastructure and medicare for all. now, the current highest tax bracket on the books for individuals is 37%. that's on all income above $500,000 a year. this is down from a previous high of 39.6% on income of more than $418,000 a year, thanks to the republican tax law that president trump signed in late 2017. now, you see, the united states has what's called a progressive federal income ...

Administration we raised taxes, to 39.6%. guess what? we paid down the deficit and we created a surplus. in contrast when bush came in office in 2001, 2003 and cut taxes we created more deficits. don't preach trickle down economic philosophy. >> let's establish one thing. the king of the national debt is barack obama. >> the king of debt is donald trump. >> king of debt is donald trump. >> nobody knows more about debt than donald trump. donald trump, that's what he himself said. >> there's a thing -- >> i'm going to leave it. >> the economy grew at 3% this year for the first time and that neve...

Increase under president trump, when you factor in inflation effectively it's a with-inflation increase. the only thing i can see in terms of this claim that he's made is that if you added up the value of the pay increase without taking into account inflation overt four years of trump's presidency that would be about a 9.6% pay increase. but that's effectively just maintaining level pegging with inflation. so at -- if there's a grain of truth in it, that's probably where he's getting it from. but it's a gross distortion and it's also completely inaccurate to say that there hasn't been any pay ...