is not true. joining me, eric forward, new york magazine dave sherman and democratic strategic gentlemanal simmons. david, i m going to you, first, this is among other things, your scoop. describe to me what is going on with the new racial discrimination lawsuit which does include an afternooner? anchor? these allegations are shocking they reveal the allegations that roger ailes presided over for 20 years. one of the employees, a bangladeshi man alleges that when he mistakenly walked into roger ailes office, roger ailes believed that he was a terrorist. and they erected a security door outside of ailes office the next day. and employees of color after this were denied access to the
reagan took office. and the fed cut that over the first two years of his presidency down to 9%. and also there was a huge stimulus from government spending because of the defense build up. those two things probably had a lot more to do with the growth in the 80s than the tax cut did. there is this belief in trickle down economics that is persistent among republicans. any time republicans control enough of the government to enact a big tax cut they do it and the argument is always that cutting taxes on the very rich stimulates economy activity and job creation. is there any data to support that idea? only in certain instances. i mean, when we discussed a tax cut in the obama white house, we really thought about targeting. targeting those people who would spend money quickly, who have what we call in economics a high marginal propensity to consume and therefore would increase
authoritarian act. on the other hand, you have this sealed off vice president s office that can present to capitol hill, to the country the face of normalcy. is that a normal way that a system like this, an authoritarian system would operate? absolutely. one temporarily looks a little worse than the other. what is lost in the shuffle is what unites them. what unites them in this particular case is utter incompetence, right? if we take pence at his word, which actually i would recommend doing at least as a thought exercise, then what we re looking at is a perfectly incompetent transition team and the results bear that out. we re 100 days in. government agencies are not staffed. they never did go through the transition process of having their people talk to the people in every agency to sort of receive the expertise and have
up for job pay to get the points. do people want that? no, i don t think so. it s bizarre. it s strange. it reveals a philosophy essentially of content for poor people, you that have to force them into getting job training and trying to find work which is not the ality. and also not the reaty of most di recipients working full time in most cases. what matt bevin actually campaigned on was a full repeal of the medicaid extension. and obamacare has been so beneficial in kentucky. one-third of kentuckians benefit from obamacare in some way. once he came into office and realized the political reality, he found out it would be a disaster to pull back the full medicaid expansion. what he decided to do, he still has to find some way to make life harder for poor people they
the status of our death penalty. you can attack me. you can attack me. you can attack me. can you not change the reality of our death penalty system is in chaos and has been like in a lot of turmoil for several years. does seem do you have the support of the people in your county. people s opinion on what should be the punishment for first degree murder, 62% say some form of life in prison. you do have the public on your side. is this partly tied to the quality of the drugs or quality of the cases. we ve had controversy over the actual drugs used to kill people. my position wasn t dealing with the drugs. it was dealing with the problem of our death penalty statute. when i ran for office, for example, we didn t have a death penaltystatute. it wasn t until march 13th of this year that the governor signed a new statute. and that is now requiring a unanimous verdict and the last time we had a unanimous verdict was in 1998. well, state attorney in the