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it s amazing the way these things spin out in washington. we won john roberts, thank you very much. i want to bring in our david webb, host of reality check on our fox nation app. he s also fox news contributor and has a big-time radio show at sirius xm. we ve been talking about this. i know you and your listeners have come too. we are looking at the stats on baltimore, and there are immutable stats that no one should be comfortable with. jumping from 2010 all the way to 25.6%. nobody should be settled on tha that. nobody should be settled on 50 is a failure and baltimore. in 50 years they ve never had an alternative to the liberal leadership. the elected officials of the city level, the congressional level, and cummings has been
baltimore, maryland, 55.8 murder rate since 2017, that the latest numbers. gosh, only more in st. louis. thank you very much. another number is the poverty rate. just looking back on recent years, it popped a 25.6% in 2010. came down a little to 24.8%. the poverty rate in the city of baltimore, it is still hovering around 22%. those are stubborn facts, lisa. lisa: obviously. there is no doubt that parts of baltimore are facing major issues. the homicide rate last year alone. people are suffering in parts of illogic cummings district. i think the president should pump the brakes. there s a point of exhaustion for swing voters. i also think if you step back, no one really has the moral high ground in today s politics. you ve got the media, who has also fanned the flames of
americans have no claim to paid or unpaid leave. the family and work institute says 58% of companies do provide some form of paid leave for new moms. another key difference between the united states and other countries is child care. the oecd, the organization for economic cooperation and development. short form for developed countries says fems in member nations spend an average of 15% of their income on child care. here in the united states it s 25.6%, making this the second largest expense for many families. only housing is more expensive than child care in the united states. the u.s. also lags when it comes to giving workers flexibility to spend more time with their families. the fair labor standards act which was passed in 1938, mandates that hourly workers be paid time and a half for any work over 40 hours a week. salaried workers by the way have no protection under this at all. in contrast, the european work
not to raise taxes maria. the intention is to focus the tax relief on the middle-class and we believe that the plan unveiled by the house, the plan that will soon be unveiled by the senate reflects that guiding principle of president trump s framework for tax cuts and will continue to drive forward on that. maria: with all the things we are talking about whether it s the 25.6% rate or removing the deduction for state and local tax that affects middle income taxes in the northeast you see people with a higher tax rate as a result of eliminating that deduction. is there room for compromise? he been your own party says it doesn t reflect republican principles of tax cutters? there is always room for compromise with what the president is not going to compromise is his determination to see this congress pass historic tax cuts and pass them this year and the president is also absolutely committed maria