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>> . >> welcome to hannity, and tonight we're learning that the white house will be the site after critical showdown over gun control later this week. now, the face-off between vice-president joe biden and his gun control task force and the national rifle association is slated to take place on thursday. now, n.r.a. officials confirmed to fox news had the organization accepted an invitation to attend the closed door session, it's expected that the group will discuss a variety of options how to curb gun violence and issues related to mental health and entertainment and video game indus...

For economic growth if we allowed that to happen. so tax relief has been achieved. now, is the time for the president to work with congress to address government overspending, the underlying problem and i yield back the balance of my time. >> gentleman yields back his time. gentleman from michigan, mr. levin? >> ready to close? >> bret: bring in chris stirewalt. obviously the republicans supporting this piece of legislation are listing all of benefits of this -- of these tax cuts and congressman royce mentioning the permanent fix for the alternative minimum tax. >> if they were going do this, ...

On the house floor. to hear sandy levin, congressman levin, ed, talk about this s not the end of potential revenue essentially saying this isn't the end of tax increases and the effort to go after high income earners for more taxes was something that the president seemed to be signaling the other day that campaign style event at the eisenhower executive office building. >> you're right, bret. the president said it at that event here at the white house basically said more taxes will be going up in the days ahead in order to pay down the debt. and let's not forget there are other taxes going up ...

They strategically should have done it sooner because with no cuts, zero cuts and that is what is in this legislation is zero cuts, they should have done it sooner. this is wasteful to have gone this long and get this close to the end an hour and a half away from the end and get zero cuts is wasteful. tom cole the congressman from oklahoma who used to run the republican's political arm in the house basically said and he said it probably too soon in order to get buy-in from the members of the house republican caucus but if you going to do it, do it sooner, don't wait until the end and then you ...

Spending. and with that i urge support for this bill and i reserve the balance of my time. >> the gentleman's time is reserved. >> i yield myself 15 seconds. >> the gentleman s recognized. >> i just don't want the chairman's statement that this settles permanently how much revenue will be made available. the president has made clear there has to be a balanced approach and no one should be misled into thinking otherwise. no one. i now yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from new york mr. rangel. >> that was sandy levin the top democrat there on the house ways and means committee ma...