world. it is tuesday, october 18th. i m christine romans. just three weeks to go until the mid-term elections. today president biden will zero in on abortion rights when he speaks at a speech in washington. the latest cnn poll finds it s the economy, inflation, voting rights, guns all ranked ahead of abortion in the minds of voters. cnn s jasmine wright is live for us bright and early in washington. jasmine, what do you expect the president s message on abortion to be? reporter: the president is going to talk about how he believes there is an assault on women s bodies and their right to choose. they can go with the republican party who wants to ban abortion, he s going to say, or go with democrats who don t, who want to codify abortion. the president has been trying to drum up the democratic base hoping they ll come out and support their base. control is on the ballot come november. now of course two things stand in contrast here. first, we talked about a majority of voters
Get to languish, which military families are able to settle in their new posts and which must remain in limbo. Thats Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer calling on his republican colleagues to put pressure on senator Tommy Tuberville to end his months long blockade of Military Promotions it comes as the chamber finally confirmed a top officer yesterday. Also on capitol hill House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy will again try to pass a defense spending bill, a measure that typically sails through easily after far right members blocked it from moving forward and ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy who will also be on capitol hill today hoping to secure more military aid from congress. Hell also meet with President Biden at the White House Well have much more on all that straight ahead good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, september 21st im jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. We have a very busy morning and a lot of news to get to. Lets start her
they were just together and 43 gave a wonderful welcome and shared some incredible stories of his mother. and from what i understand, everybody was laughing through their tears. as the bush family always does. in particular, 41, who was absolutely weepy last night. but i think drew a lot of strength from being surrounded by all of his children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. i know you wanted to be there, but you couldn t make it. tell our viewers why. i am 38 1/2 weeks pregnant and i would give anything to be there and be a part of it, but to be perfectly honest, in classic barbara bush fashion, i heard her in my head saying, if you go into labor at my funeral, you re going to make it all about you. so it s an honor to be here today and thank you for letting me serve in this capacity, so i feel like i m a part of it. and we re honored that you are here with us and helping us and all of our viewers that
against the loss in the value of the state and local tax deduction, which i agree with you, i think it is good policy to stop forcing low tax jurisdictions to subsidize high tax jurisdictions, but what s the net effect? sure, you lose some value if you lose the deductibility, but keep in mind, we take the the top bracket does not kick in as low an income level under our bill as it does under current law, and specifically the point at which that highest rate, which in the senate bill is 38 1/2 38 1/2% kicks in is not until a couple filing jointly 1 million dollars income. being taxed at the lower rate of 35 rather than 38 1/2 that had to be taken into consideration. if your income is over a million, then yes, i think you could make the case that you ve lost some of the deduction the deduction you have lost is greater than the rate reduction
against the loss in the value of the state and local tax deduction, which i agree with you, i think it is good policy to stop forcing low tax jurisdictions to subsidize high tax jurisdictions, but what s the net effect? sure, you lose some value if you lose the deductibility, but keep in mind, we take the the top bracket does not kick in as low an income level under our bill as it does under current law, and specifically the point at which that highest rate, which in the senate bill is 38 1/2 38 1/2% kicks in is not until a couple filing jointly 1 million dollars income. being taxed at the lower rate of 35 rather than 38 1/2 that had to be taken into consideration. if your income is over a million, then yes, i think you could make the case that you ve lost some of the deduction the deduction you have lost is greater than the rate reduction you have received, but people