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>> thank you. >> cofounder of the project. tell me your thinking. mostly millionaires, right? >> sure. we've got 75 millionaires to date that signed the tax pledge. >> what's the plan? >> basically what they have done is they've calculated what their tax savings were from the bush tax cuts and they've pledged to give those away. the point is to call attention to the bush tax cuts that were past ten years ago, the same argument sarah palin is giving, that it's going to unleash a trickle down. >> shepard: trickle down. i keep hearing that. >> it hasn't happened. we have the worst decade growth. ...

Than it is here. officials there threatened to suspend all adoptions by people from the united states, affecting 3,000 cases until moscow and washington sign an agreement to prevent this from happening again. the council general is with us, thank you for being here. what's the situation now? >> well, shep, adoptions are continuing here in russia. every day we issue more advice is visa's to go to america. there's no frees or moratorium. >> shepard: is this story headlines in the paper? is it -- describe if there's a russian sentiment toward this. >> it's gotten a fair amount of attention certai...

After president obama expressed that confidence, republicans came out of that meeting and said the bill was essentially a disaster, would institutionalize big banks and. others said it was ludicrous. it looked like the same parted san bickering. it's hard to know how much of this is theater, how much -- how many differences remain. we heard from treasury secretary geithner after that who said he's confident there will be a bill this year. but it's -- this is what investors are worried about. there are no rules in place. nearly two years after the near collapse of the entire financial system. a...

They're putting pressure on congress from both sides, largely funding campaigns on both sides. they've made record profit as a result of the bailout and the last thing they wanted are regulation. they'll fight this tooth and nail. >> that's right. and we heard that again from the administration today. be prepared. this is -- the fight is far from over. there will be in army of lobbyist opening loopholes and exemptions and as geithner says, the money goes where the rules are weakest to the loopholes are particularly dangerous in legislation like this in his view. so absolutely we're going to se...

Decision to send the trial to new york city is circling the drain. as the senator said, just come out and say that it's not going there but the public response from the attorney jeb before the senate judiciary committee is it's still on the table though he gave no timeline as to when they would make a decision. for context, that original decision to send it to a federal court informs november. later this year we will be ten years -- almost ten years away from the attacks themself with no trial military or civilian. >> shepard: then the matter of the attorney general defending his comments on b...