the american public. there are 2.6 million people in the state of missouri who would be negatively impacted if this is repealed. not to mention the $802 billion in additional medicare costs if this right. is repealed. congressman emanuel cleaver with that little, i d have to say the first time i heard a humpty dumpty lyric in relation to the affordable care act. great to have you with us this evening. thanks for joining us, sir. good to be with you. donald trump mocks intelligence officials, what happens when they go face to face in two days? we re going to talk to a former cia officials who has actually sat in on those meetings. also president obama reflects on eight years as commander in chief. with a very emotional speech. that s straight ahead. stay with us. when coughing keeps your family awake.
months, we never paid so much money in tax. ever. that is a flatout record. where did that money come from? half of it came from individual income taxes. it s you and i, the income taxpayers of this planet who paid $192 billion towards that record tax inflow. but what happened? we spent it all and then some. so we kept racking up this massive debt which is dproag and growing and growing and growing. by the time president obama leaves office in january 2017, we will owe collectively $20 trillion. for that statistic, $402 billion in two months, and what is it? 47% of people in the united states don t pay federal taxes. that goes to show what a crushing burden it is on the mitt romney just confirmed it is 47%. president obama wants taxes to go up. he wants to raise more tax revenue and he wants to
pushing the grow america act. the $302 billion investment, and that s what it is, would provide four years of transportation funding to fix roads and bridges in the country. the white house estimates it will create a million jobs but i m sure the righties would say the numbers are phony. the republicans are always pressing the president about job creation but at a time when we should be verdict investing in our infrastructure, the republicans are interested in more sorties over ukraine. they have money for all the wrong stuff, don t they? joining me is scott paul president for the alliance of american manufacturing and job the professor of politics at usc and democratic strategist. great to have you with us. bob, you first, how heavy of a lift is this to build bridges that will not fall down and kill americans? why are we are where we are on
it has cost our economy dearly. never been a political issue until now because of president obama and their flat out hatred for the man. quickly, scott, would $302 billion make an impact? would it have an impact? is that a good start, a good number. it would keep our head above water so the problem doesn t get worse. we can rebuild some of the bridges but we need to do more and we have to pay for it, too. bob shrum, fox and friends, fired on for attending scheduled events. they cited george bush s response to 9/11 attacks. isn t this a baseless comparison, how baseless is this? they attack him about anything. you have the wonderful piece of film showing bush saying the terrorists will pay for this. and then turning to the golf tee and saying watch this drive.
or reagan. this is a president, does it really have to matter, to come to the decision we need to do something for our country that we ve always done in the past? can t we agree on this? president obama s grow america act would authorize $302 billion in transportation funding over the next four years. and the white house estimates that it would create over 1 million jobs. it s a win for everybody. now, if you re a governor of a state, and you had bridges that were in really bad shape, would you feel compelled as a liberal or a conservative governor to say, you know, maybe we ought to do something about this. president obama said that it wouldn t add a dime to the deficit. my plan would not add to what is already a rapidly shrinking deficit. we ve cut our deficit, by the way, by more than half since i came into office [ applause ] and we wouldn t be adding to the deficit, because because