wait i m not sure i follow your math here. he pays 13% in taxes on . martha: capital gains investments that is the money we re talking about. right. i believe, capital gains rate is not 13%, is it? martha: 13.9% is the rate buffett paid. is the rate that mitt romney paid in taxes. the capital gains rate is 20%. martha: what they re making is just on their invests. then you have to ask yourself, again, we can disagree on this and obviously we do. i just don t think, particularly so much of that is paper money that they re making by shuffling stocks around and options and rest of it. bob, the president had a deficit commission come together and put together a plan to reform the tax code. he has not touched that. and furthermore, the president took a tax rate of 20%, less than the buffett rule , our own president doesn t even apply to the buffett rule . would be good idea for the president to lead by example. he pays considerably more than mitt romney does, mitt romney give
romney s sudden focus comes on the heels of two polls released this week by abc news and the washington post which show romney 57% of women say they prefer president obama while just 38% were in governor romney s corner. will, this 92.3% stat has everyone all fired up. that s a pretty dramatic statistic. he flipped the script. it turned right around didn t he? it is obama s policies that are the war on women, not the war on women that people have been saying is waged in the republican camp. amazing flip of the script. two points. it s true. the statistic is shocking and true that 92.3% of women are jobs lost under obama meaning the start of his administration have been women. i can t even fathom how is that possible? something like 730,000 jobs lost? context. 680,000 have been women? now, although that is true it is not all that useful. for this recession, for defining this recession and who is responsible for various aspects of it. the recession has been much l
afghanistan. we re going to get a live report from kabul. also the race for president heads to daytona where a big race of another kind is also taking place. tonight is oscar night in hollywood. once again, comedian billy crystal taking on the toughest job in show biz. we start with the search for a gunman in afghanistan blamed for killing two ranking u.s. officers inside the heavily for the fiortified ministry of law enforcement. nato is pulling advisers from minute tris and it suggests it may have concerns over secure how secure facilities are. nick, this is really like some one walking into the pentagon or the justice department, going into an office, and then opening fire. what are you learning? reporter: the afghan justice department, yes. we re learning interesting details from senior afghan counter terrorism official about this gun man, apparently an employee of the interior ministry. registered out a pistol, went to this secure area of the ministry called th
government this week? i ll explain. first, here s my take. if you are trying to understand the recent protests against the putin regime in russia, one of the best guides is an outspoken columnist that s been writing essays in the nation s leading newspapers over the past month. political competition is the heart beat of democracy. this author writes noting the absence of such competition in contemporary russia. he describes the frustrations of the russian middle class, demanding political rights. today the quality of our state does not match civil society s readiness to participate in it. on corruption, perhaps the issue that most riles the public, the problem is scathing. it s from the lack of transparency and accountability of government, he says. now, what makes this all deeply strange is that the author of these essays is vladimir putin, the architect, builder, and chief enforcer of the system that he is critiquing. putin seems to understand russia s problems better tha
finally, what the dickens was going on in the british government this week? i ll explain. first, here s my take. if you re trying to understand the recent protests against the putin regime in russia, one of the best guides is an outspoken columnist who s been writing trenchant essays in the nation s leading newspapers over the past month. political competition is the heartbeat of democracy. this author writes, noting the absence of such competition in contemporary russia. he describes the frustrations of the russian middle class, demanding political rights. today, the quality of our state does not match civil society s readiness to participate in it. on corruption, perhaps the issue that most riles the public, the author is scathing. the problem comes from the lack of transparency and accountability of government, he says. now, what makes this all deeply strange is that the author of these essays is vladimir putin. the architect, builder and chief enforcer of the system tha