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>> i'm sure you understand, the tack plan that i've described is very much consistent tax plan with the president's bipartisan commission came up with. it's similar to mine. president obama just abandoned his own tax initiative. >> chris: he took a trillion dollars and used it for deficit reduction, you don't. >> yeah, i take, i get tax rate. take the marginal rate down to encourage economic growth. it will put more people back to work. i also broaden the base which means for certain individuals, high income individuals we're going limit the deductions. then i go through and reduce the rate of...

>> i'm sure you understand, the tack plan that i've described is very much consistent tax plan with the president's bipartisan commission came up with. it's similar to mine. president obama just abandoned his own tax initiative. >> chris: he took a trillion dollars and used it for deficit reduction, you don't. >> yeah, i take, i get tax rate. take the marginal rate down to encourage economic growth. it will put more people back to work. i also broaden the base which means for certain individuals, high income individuals we're going limit the deductions. then i go through and reduce the rate of...

Described is very much consistent with the tax plan the president's own bipartisan commission came up with. the simpson commission laid out a plan that was similar to mine.mm what is astonishing to people in the country is that president obama just abandoned his own tax commission. >> if i may, sir, he took a trillion dollars of that money and used it for deficit reduction. you don't. >> well, what i -- >> well, he did. >> what i do is i take -- i get this tax rate and take the marginal rate down to encourage economic growth which it will do. it will put more people back to work and get people...

"superstition." you knew that, though. >> i know all that, soledad. >> he lives it, yes, he does. >> superstitious dude. >> we begin this northemorning iran. defense secretary leon panetta says there is a growing likelihood, quote, that israel will attack iran this spring and try to destroy its suspected nuclear program. israeli defense minister ehud barak said this, quoek, iran must be prevent fred becoming nuclear and no option should be taken off the table. let's get right to barbara starr this morning at the pentagon. good morning, barbara. >> good morning, soledad. a lot of chat...

Up to talk about poverty programs saying that is what his father, the slain civil rights figure would be talking about today, advocating for today. they did discuss that during this meeting. in terms of martin luther king iii believes donald trump will be a president for all americans. i thought it was interesting he did not definitively answer that question and said it's up to him and other civil rights leaders to keep donald trump accountable on that score. >> all right. jim. thank you so much, hearing words like i'm a bridge builder, i need to build bridges there from dr. king's son today v...