he plans to cut and veto any legislation that cuts medicaid and medicare that doesn t raise taxes on the wealthy. i will not support any plan that butts the burden on ordinary americans. i will veto any bill that does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. this is not class warfare. it s math. this is not class warfare, reference to the opposition he s getting from republicans who are saying it is just that, class warfare. they re calling the president s tax proposal a cheap political gimmick. pure political play, they say, hayes runs for re-election and works to get more support from middle class voters. here s what john boehner said today of the plan. the president wants to talk about increased taxes. listen, i am for increased revenue to the federal government. we need revenue. but i want to get new revenue from putting americans back to work again and back on the tax rolls. republicans say no
we begin with this, president obama has wanted tax increases all along, but the republicans resisted, but now mr. obama is helping to pay for his new jobs plan and come monday morning your going to hear all about it when he announces details of the so-called buffett role, named after warren buffett. a tax on millionaires to make sure they don t pay a smaller percentage than the nation s middle class and as candy crawly reports there s already an uproar in washington. reporter: the president s plan to pay for his jobs program includes the idea of a millionaire minimum tax rate. at least as high as middle class rates. the administration calls it the buffett rule, for billionaire investor warren buffett. i have a lower tax rate, counting payroll taxes, than anybody in my office. reporter: it s catchy moniker, although republicans call it something else entire. i when you pick one area of the economy and say we re going to tax those people, it s class warfare. class war
peer piers morgan tonight. jermaine, i want to start with the imminent trial of conrad murray. hugely significant for your family and the world to try and discover through the process of trial if we work out what really happened to your brother michael. as we approach the start of this trial, what are your feelings? my feelings are just as well as the family the truth is going to come out. it s something we ve been long awaited for. it s up to the point now where it s been a lot of speculation and hearsay. but i think we re all going to it s not going to bring closure, but it s just going to give us a clear understanding of what really happened. i think it s important that the fans and the public and as well as ourselves need to know what really happened. what took place. there s so many things that happened that we weren t aware of as a family because we were kept away. do you think conrad murray was solely responsible for your brother s death? my gut feeling i
thanks for joining us here in the cnn newsroom. i m don lemon. we begin this hour with new information about a deadly crash at a nevada air show. crowds have been going to reno, nevada for decades to watch incredible acts of courage in the skies. the national championship air races draw up to 200,000 people every single year. planes have crashed and pilots have died in the past. but until now, no spectators have been killed. here s what happened. one witness called the sound of the impact unbelievable, and you can certainly see why. veteran pilot and hollywood stuntman jimmy leeward was killed. eight people in the crowd also died. photographs taken right before the crash show a piece of the plane appears to be missing. a piece that would have had a major impact on the pilot s ability to maintain control. cnn s dan simon is in reno, nevada tonight and he has more on the pilot and the investigation into the crash. reporter: he was an aviation all-star, at least here in reno
i think he was trying to do whatever he could right up to the end. i could hear the engine of the plane changing rpms and it just happened so fast. i thought he was coming in on top of us. instead, he missed us by about 100 feet and went out into the box area in front of us. and there was no fireball as a result, right? no. i was sort of surprised p you know, we are all kind of like a deer in the headlights. i have been coming to the air races for over 20 years. as a matter of fact, we stay out here for the entire five days, camping, go to the air races, but there was no fire whatsoever. so the direction of impact, hard to say why there wasn t, but fortunately, there wasn t. did you get a sense of the number of people who have been injured? no it was pretty hard to tell, you know? after thinking back on it, it looked like, you know, he may have done as little damage as possible, the direction he came in. most of the debris went out onto the tarmac and taxi way in fron