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May and at that court appearance in may, that guy was allowed to -- i mean, it seemed like he was allowed to absolutely skate on what otherwise looked like a whole list of big serious charges. this guy, this nickname is literally "the taxi king." he was michael cohen's taxi business partner and finance guy. and he got this whole host of charges against him boiled down to basically nothing in a new york state courtroom in may in exchange for him becoming a cooperating witness for the government. so it made sense that anything that might have been a little bit hinkie with michael cohen's finance...

Pled guilty to five counts, five felony counts of tax evasion. there was consulting that he had done that he hadn't paid taxes on. there were some real estate sales he brokered that he hadn't paid taxes on. he also apparently sold a fancy purse. seriously. he had brokered the sale of a fancy purse and had not paid taxes on that either. most of his tax trouble, though, related to his involvement in the taxi business, and that, too, made sense, at least from the perspective of those of us on the outside watching this case trying to make sense of it. michael cohen's partner in the taxi business h...

It say we are cutting and those who are against it say we are curting the growth in spending. >>neil: fair enough but you her we added another $1 trillion plus deficit fourth year running, is it time people get testify about big serious spending cuts. >>guest: yes, we should about spending cuts and about revenue raisers. our tax coat is crying out for reform. we know that. let's reform the tax code. make sure that everyone has the same benefit, everyone pays by the same rules so that everyone can be part of this growth going forward. >>neil: does that include, sir, the half of all households t...

Back" and carol costello. >> what can we do? what can our politicians do? deficit, deficit, deficit. have you heard enough about the deficit lately? we all mow it is critical to our economy in the long term. sky high gas prices, $3.83 a gallon on average, says aaa. what to do? ray lahood just told suzanne has a vision. >> we're going to encourage people to buy cars that get better gas mileage but we know that people are still driving cars that use a lot of gasoline and we know this is a big, big serious problem for family budgets and we're going to stay on it and take a multi-faceted approach ...

Good bold plan. i was at georgetown university when he laid it out. the president has a vision. we're going to do our part to work with auto manufacturers to manufacture cars that get better gas mileage, that use more battery power. we're going to encourage people to buy cars that get better gas mileage. but we know that people are still driving cars that use a got of gasoline, and we know this is a big, big serious problem for family budgets, and we're going to stay on it and take a multifaceted approach to it. >> all right. mr. secretary, thank you so much. ray lahood, appreciate your time. ...