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Majority of the benefits going to the wealthiest 5%, 10% of the population, even the top .1% will benefit from this. there are all kinds of loopholes in the pass-through entity, the so-called llc or other corporate provisions that were going to benefit others. very difficult to figure out exactly what the loopholes are at the moment. i just got off the phone with my own accountant trying to understand in detail what this means. but it does not help individuals who are below $100,000. in fact, it probably doesn't help individuals who are below $200,000, given the analysis we've seen thus far. i...

Particular conclusion. >> yes, i think, and let me just speak as somebody who has readily admitted and did yesterday as we were covering this, that although i ride trains fairly frequently, i do not consider myself in any way an expert on being anything but a passenger. what you heard a lot of people talking about this morning was there was a curve before they got to this area. if it was speeding through that, maybe that's what caused it. that's a gross oversimplification basically is what you're saying? >> well, i can say for example the track speed over the route, the top track speed, is 79 ...

Tax reform for the middle class. >> i want to ask you about what you wrote in your column today. i want to quote you. the tax bill the gop is trying to foist on the country is not only an unfair and deficit bloating hodge bpodge written o the fly, it is also deeply corrupt. we'll start with the unfair. i made the point that a number of studies have suggested that, in fact, it does tend to favor the rich in terms of real dollars. but why corrupt? >> well, corrupt, because there's a reason why the republicans don't seem to care about public opinion. and by the way, a poll, he invent add word the...

Deduction. so under the -- most people, most taxpayers, take the standard deduction and do not itemize their deduction. if you itemize the deduction, that is a good sign that you are in the upper reaches of the tax brackets. under this bill, almost everybody will get a double standard deduction. simply doubling the standard deduction takes, you know, for a married couple $12,000 off of their taxable account. >> but the bottom line, on the screen, if you make less than $25,000, the bottom line is on the screen if you make less than $25,000, the percentage of after-tax income is going to go up ....

Corruption, and one for sexual harassment, in the case of corruption, you're never going to go on the case of someone anonymously. you need documents, actual evidence that the crime took place. in the case of sexual harassment, it is enough to just to have someone's word. if you are going to destroy someone's life, why shouldn't that person have the right to look into the face of the person making the accusation and explain himself? that is the essence of justice, isn't it? >> i think that if this goes to a court of law, if al franken'se sexual harasser goes to a court of law and accuses him o...