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Progressive tax proposals we have ever seen in the country. i was also struck by that joe manchin clip you showed where at least for one moment the guy who has been mostly fighting people on the left sounded a bit like elizabeth warren or bernie sanders saying we should tax capital. now, i thought that interview with representative yarmuth was very revealing. if there was cold water on this show, it was in that segment and he was suggesting, boy, i don't think we could write this that fast. he also spoke as a budget guy, not a ways and means guy, because he didn't want to talk about the taxes....

How we can afford something like this. >> brian, we can't. it's important to not look at the numbers. i know that sounds strange coming from the budget guy. go over those policies. don't put a number attached to those. because you can cook the books. believe me we all know how to do it. the thing that i heard tonight scarces me the most settling on a number that's 2 trillion. all you have to do to get there from where they are right now. we have this give away but only last two years or three years instead of five or ten. that's a way to game the congressional budget office scoring. a way to g...

Budget guy like me, you want to look at the combined rate of the payroll and state and federal and of course you want to look at all of the very important progressive things you do like universal preschool or other things. that said, i think that the idea that you could have a higher marginal rate for people making just super incomes who are extremely well off and that that would not deter their innovation or growth or work effort, i think is unobjectionable. what the exact amount is open to question and debate. >> let's put this to you. the average rate that the wealthiest earners in this cou...

Brink of some difficulties here with the trade war heating up. nobody really knows who's in charge in the united states. >> speaking of being in charge and the economy, you know, we're at the -- a couple of days left until this potential government shutdown. and this is the time at which the president decides to take the director of the office of management and budget and make him his acting chief f staff. the question was asked of sarah sanders, will he continue to have both roles, and she said this -- mick mulvaney will not resign from the office of management and budget but will spend all o...