from donald trump. he was all smiles, but another day has gone by without an answer to a crucial question. does mitt think we should pay more taxes? here are his returns. sorry, this is unwieldy. for 2009 and estimated for 2010 and 11. it turns out that 30% of mitt romney s income, $12.9 million comes from one very specific thing. in these tax years, 2010 and 2011. it s calling the carry. here s how it works. partners in private equity and hedge funds invest money for their clintss and clients and get a significant cut of the profits they make. this cut is taxed at 15%. not 35% like regular income. now, money people think it is right to reward people for investing money, for taking risks with a lower tax rate. they argue this encourages people to create jobs. but almost no one says it is right to award the guy what invests other people s money with a lower tax rate. after all, romney didn t take the risk. someone else did. we re knocked down with opm. it s legal and he didn
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening, everyone. outfront tonight, a burning question for mitt romney. today, he got an endorsement from donald trump. he was all smiles, but another day has gone by without an answer to a crucial question. does mitt think we should pay more taxes? here are his returns. sorry, this is unwieldy. for 2009 and estimated for 2010 and 11. it turns out that 30% of mitt romney s income, $12.9 million comes from one very specific thing. in these tax years, 2010 and 2011. it s calling the carry. here s how it works. partners in private equity and hedge funds invest money for their clintss and clients and get a significant cut of the profits they make. this cut is taxed at 15%. not 35% like regular income. now, money people think it is right to reward people for investing money, for taking risks with a lower tax rate. they argue this encourages people to create jobs. but almost no one says it is right to award the guy what invests other p
soledad. you look gorgeous. you like the hair. you satisfy. it s all about the hair at the end of the day. see you guys. it could be the end of the fen year war. leon panetta says there is a new goal, end come bad and switch the role of u.s. and nato troops from fighting and training. presidential candidates already weighing in. mitt romney s trashing the plan. the chairman of the house armed services committee calls it premature. we re going to talk about that? just a second. first barbara starr is at the pentagon. barbara, we ve got about 89,000 boots on the ground in afghanistan. let s talk about what this would mean for them. you know, kyra, good morning. this will mean they goin get some clear signals about when they will be coming home. that s important to so many military families. but let s go back to what you just said. you put it exactly right. it is a goal now that leon panetta is talking about to transition from combat to training the afghans by the end of
that s not why we re playing it. that s a healthy ego. you got to go with the joke. i know. we re just teasing. just want to honor my man. this is in honor of don cornelius. we announced his death yesterday. soul train, did you watch soul train ever? am i right, saturday morning? did you pass by the channel or actually stop? we have a lot to get to. let me introduce our panel to you will cain, john fugelsan, i mangle your name all the time. soledad o brien that s cuban irish. roland martin is back, as well. all right, take it down. here we go. let s get to our starting point this morning which is mitt romney. yesterday should have been the victory lap, the victory lap. but then you had to come in. i did nothing but ask a question and a follow up. here s what he said in my interview yesterday morning. i m in this race because i care about americans. i m not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. if it needs a repair, i ll fix it.
much more influence of evangelical he voteders. among those voting in the south carolina primary, 64% joy themselves as born again evangelical christians. that is up a bit from four years ago, it was about 60% then. so strong influence tonight from evangelical christians. we didn t have a tea party four years ago but 2010 when the tea party sprung up it was important in the governors elections and other elections across south carolina. 66%, two-thirds of those voting in today s south carolina presidential primary say they support the tea party, 25% neutral on that question, only 8% of voters oppose the tea party so evangelicals, tea party, a conservative electorate in south carolina. only 2% of those voting describe themselves as liberal, 37% say they are very conservative, 32% somewhat conservative. we have a 1re67 more cvery much conservative than iowa. many are men, 53% and 47% women. let s bring it over here for a second to show as the results come in, we ll watch this ar