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Volcano began earlier in the month. 56 minutes past the hour. check on money stream. global stock market mixed today. a good day because of tax reform. president trump releasing a blueprint yesterday. we need more details but this does propose tax cuts for companies and small businesses. right now u.s., a little bit lower. facebook, google and twitter may testify mr. russi testify about russian meddling. the topic how foreign nationaling used their platforms. facebook admits to selling ads to russian troll farms and twitter is expected to disclose similar findings on capitol hill today. face...

Today. facebook, twitter and google haven't answered that invite yet and did not immediately respond to our requests for comment. all right. america's inequality problem is getting worse. at the richest 1% of families control a record amount of u.s. wealth, about 39% last year. that's nearly twice as much as the bottom 90%. the slices only become smaller. that's from a new report from the federal reserve. a stark picture of inequality in the u.s. even the fed acknowledged that it has become increasingly unequal. those numbers sort of the heart. >> so the trillion dollar question is does this...

What peter is describing is something that really just has never worked in the history of the last 30 years of republican trickle down supply side tax plans. so the idea here is that -- >> ronald reagan's plan worked. >> if you cut tacks for those at the top of the scale, far more for those at the middle or the bottom, the people at the top will somehow spend it or nvms it in a way that will create faster growth. this didn't work for ronald wray rey gan or george w. bush. it worked in reverse for bill clinton who raised taxes and got a productivity boom. this is simply supply side trickle-down...

Think he's pretty foolish. he's a second hander. he's a real peter keating type who needs other people to like him. we know he's an obama fan boy. obama met with him. what is his whole point here? you know, that it's a moral imperative that ceos don't make so much more than the lower employees. the truth is, he's worth a lot more. he's the one who started the company when he was 19 years old. i don't know. his employees seem to like it. it's almost like you're saying you're not really worth this amount of money but i just feel so bad for my success i'm going to, quote, share the wealth. straig...

At bernie's moment. i think they're afraid they have a candidate they have to prop up from now until november of 16 that there isn't any substance, there isn't any charisma and most of all, she's not trustworthy. and that's what those polls you show, the quinnipiac polls, she fails on the trustworthy question again and again. >> it seems as if, though, this is a challenge for her, to break out of this. >> and how far left she goes is the big one. you know, there is the massive inequality problem, but democrats have not persuaded the country that government is the solution to it. if you're amon...