country and our entire government to deal with their debts. and if that s true, it would be bob mueller now probing just how many debts they re accruing. i m joined by a special guest. elizabeth spires worked directly for jared kushner and was editor-in-chief of the newspaper he once ran, the new york observer and also a philadelphia prosecutor joyce vance. elizabeth, i took a moment to lay it all out, because these are people that are widely perceived, even by their detractors as very rich. yeah. if rich means having a lot of money, being high net worth, there is a lot of evidence they are not rich, and they are not poor, by which i mean close to zero, but they are ad aa addele debt. they both worked in real estate and that s an incredibly high debt industry.
67% of the country doesn t have a thousand dollars in saving. so the dow jones industrial average can be 47,000, and it just doesn t touch huge portions of the country. we still haven t seen any evidence that wages are rising in the middle class, in the middle income workers of the country. and that has been the fundamental problem economic delay cli that the country has been dealing with for a generation is the lack of real wage growth for working people. in the middle of the economy is fueling a tremendous amount of political instability in our system at this point as we see a system where all the gains are accruing towards the top. every time i listen to steve schmidt talk, i make a mental note, learn more words. steve, literally has all the best ones. some people say they do. steve schmidt, thank you. thank you for your poetry.
exactly. there s a political risk. in those high-tech states, people wealthy people make these tax increases. by and large, i think the political risk, this tax reform does the tax code. it touches everybody. unlike say, obamacare, for all the attention that was given to it, touched a minority of americans. this will affect everybody and i think the potential upside for the republicans is huge. once the benefits start accruing, showing up in their paychecks, companies start investing and some of these members as they are suggesting, that will be a tremendous wind at the back of the party going to 2018. if it fails, they will pay the price for it. i think there is not a lot of evidence at the moment for tax cuts of this size will fail. and i cannot imagine it will be anything but a plus. the republicans will pick up the benefit, and i think democrats and many of them have made a poor choice here of being
sit down and take a look at this situation. let alone sleep or when they try to sleep. it s impossible. i want to ask you about this girmfriend who s being interrogated, or questioned i should say, right now. but quickly on the reporting from kyung lah and the fact that we know the shooter accrued 33 firearms, mostly rifles, between september of 16 and october of 17. for people who just don t know guns, i mean, when you re accruing again, he had no criminal history, apparently passed the background checks. is there not some alarm that goes off? do separate gun shops not talk? when someone starts accruing weapons in that number, is that okay? i mean, you would think there would be alarms going off. but no, because he spread his purchases around to several different gun shops. and it s not only the weapons that he accrues but also the modifications he made to those weapons, which means he had to go somewhere and practice or had to have knowledge about how to modify those weapons.
he s got white socks on, so i m going to go after him on that. i m looking for some way i can get leverage on her in the room in the event i don t have a hammer and i don t think she s cooperating. so we don t know a lot about her. we ve heard the sisters and they said one thing, that they think he sent her away to asia to be away when he committed this mass murder. we don t know. that s coming from the single source from the sister. we know she lived with him. we know that i don t know how long she lived with him but presumably she was there through the course of the year. according to kyung lah, reporter, catching up all the firearm information. he accrued 33 weapons over the course of september of last year to october of this year. so presumably if you re living with a man who keeps accruing weapons one would wonder are you asking questions? why are you buying all these guns? it s not just accruing weapons. think of all the dimensions. you can almost think of it as a