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legislative session in florida will provide him and that willnd in may, conveniently leading to a june announcement as ali is reporting, it provides a platform to further the trump-like governance style you ll see from desantis, more culture wars, more attacks on the media, frankly, going after some liability provisions that protect media. you ll see him move to loosen gun laws, remarkedly in florida going to permitless carry. the session will provide a trump-like platform. what you ll see that s difference than trump is an organization that will be a juggernaut. he s doing everything right to build out a massive organization you ll expect from a front-runner, like in 2000 when george bush 43, it almost looked like a coronation. that s what ron desantis is trying to strike here with the book tour and the speaking tour and the meetings with bill nairs. he s trying to show it s me and everybody else in this field.
back to our breaking news, some of our breaking news. senate democrats unveiling a proposal to tax bill nairs and a new minimum tax for corporations to pay for president biden s spending bill. the president leaves tomorrow for europe, so lawmakers are up against the clock once again to strike a deal. and once again, the white house really seems to be waiting to see if senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema will be on board. joining me is democratic senator chris van hollen who sits on the budget appropriations committee. let s get through where things stand. you ve been a supporter of getting the bill over the finish line no matter its size well, yes am i wrong? i support getting this done. they re the two big pieces. we still have the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the senate. of course, we re trying to wrap up the other part of the build back better agenda.
group you re writing about. you said they re going to raise gazillions of dollars and their goal is to out-koch the koch brothers. we have all these multimillionaire, billionaires who want to put money into politics and they re tortured about it. should we do it by saying the cokoch brothers are criminals. it s hypocritical. if you care about politics, you should spend gobs of money. the campaign finance rules work in your favor. you can have barack obama became the first billion dollar candidate. he knows how to raise and spend money. exactly. both parties will race enormous sums of money. where do you get it? from people that have enormous sums of money. it would be lip critical. democrats can say our bill nairs are spending their money on
with bill nairs raising the money, untrue on both sides of the aisle. republicans are trying at the beginning of the book tour to push, push, push any weigh she can, to make her look vulnerable and they hope for her to not run for president. republicans are jumping on it. here is what one super pac, america rising said this. if hillary is going to run for president, she might be advised to take a lengthy sabbatical from her $200,000 per pop speaking tour and private shopping sprees as berg door ofs to try to reconnect with what s happening back here on earth. beside the stupid sexist remark on a shopping spree who should haven t anything to do with this they went full bergdorf. where does everyone else shop, the men shop? we don t care. is it a valid political point?