it s an outfront investigation. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett. and outfront tonight, romney dodges, obama spins. it s sort of a new dance move. dodge and spin. while the republican candidate just spoke with our wolf blitzer and when wolf asked him to get specific on tax cuts, here s what happened. even though you re going to lower the income tax rates for people making let s say more than $250,000 a year, but you re going to eliminate some loopholes and deductions, exemptions, tax credits, is that what i m hearing? that s right. i ll bring the rate down across the board. but eliminate or limit, rather, deductions or credits and exemptions and so forth, particularly for people at the high end, because you have to do that to make sure that distributionally we continue to have the high-income people still pay the same share, the high share they pay today. would that add up to the $4.8 or $5 trillion that s been estimated your compreh
good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett. and outfront tonight, romney dodges, obama spins. it s sort of a new dance move. dodge and spin. while the republican candidate just spoke with our wolf blitzer and when wolf asked him to get specific on tax cuts, here s what happened. even though you re going to lower the income tax rates for people making let s say more than $250,000 a year, but you re going to eliminate some loopholes and deductions, exemptions, tax credits, is that what i m hearing? that s right. i ll bring the rate down across the board. but eliminate or limit, rather, deductions or credits and exemptions and so forth, particularly for people at the high end, because you have to do that to make sure that distributionally we continue to have the high-income people still pay the same share, the high share they pay today. would that add up to the $4.8 or $5 trillion that s been estimated your comprehensive tax reductions would cost? well, actually, the p
on june 24th. congressman s wamp s campaign committee accepted the contribution five days later on june 29th. so far congressman wamp has not returned that money. jack wamp, of course, is a conservative family values republican. he is campaigning for governor in tennessee, in part on his enthusiasm for the sanctity of marriage. when the john ensign scandal broke, mr. wamp told the knox news , quote, these are trying times and obviously with senator ensign and governor sanford, everybody is disappointed. there s no doubt about that not so disappointed he would turn down their money. he also said, i hated that john ensign lived in the house. and it happened because it opens up all these kinds of questions. but he also said, quote, i m not going to be the guy who goes out and talks. one of the major unanswered questions about the role of this secretive c street group, in the ensign scandal, is whether the other members of congress who lived at c street, who studied there ha