candidates for president as it turned out they were supposed to be two, john adams was running as a federalist made upon thomas jefferson running as a republican jefferson was running with aaron burr. jefferson burr is the vice president hurry back to before the 12th amendment who ever got thewh most electoral votes would be the president. for reasons i don t need to get into although it s very exciting aaron burr decided he had a shot at being president. the federalist were playing games and they knew adams can get the presidency and having decided that they then decidedo to try to stop thomas jefferson. they had a problem even though hamilton despised both jefferson number he decides to more they were both with bad expenses. with burr jefferson was furious about all the visit they were playing games and he was furious that burr had stabbed him in the back. in the end it was pointed out in the smithsonian a piece written 2004 and excellent piece by john, the federalist decid
these people working for me. we were trying to figure out how to get a crop in the ground and get to calving seasonn with our cattle herd and i got a letter in the mail from the irs that said we owed a debt taxes. i couldn t figure that out i was 22 years old and i could not see our family can have a tragedy in all of the sudden over the federal government taxes on everything then family owned and threatened to take away the family business. it made me angry i showed up in meetings got passionate about tax reform. if you remember tom was the senate majority leader and he was from south dakota. i started going to all of his meetings and talking about the importance of tax reform. i was raised by a dad the said you don t complain about things you fix them. that s the only reason i got involved in government and politics. i decided i couldn t complain about tax policy i needed toy show what and willing to fix it. mark: as a governor i m sure
compromise and i don t see much bipartisan in this at all. charles: you talk about how this has been going on for weeks now. not long ago president biden took a victory lap on the bipartisan nature of this only to almost immediate i will say it had to coincide with the 3 and a half trillion dollars. he kind of walked that back but nancy pelosi has not. and so is this really a bipartisan deal, is it still being held hostage to your point the 3 and a half trillion dollar bill? senator: i think nancy pelosi has been very clear. she s not going to even look at the so-called bipartisan bill until she has $3.5 trillion package right in front of her. i ve been a business person all my life, charles. you spend more time negotiating out of the deal. you focus what isn t in the deal and more important what s in it. raising debt taxes, crippling taxes on corporations and killing the fossil fuel industry
taxes, which is a republican line. we will have more. we ll stop there. joan and josh will stick with us. much more to talk about. meantime, those preparations are under way for more than eight million people in the path of hurricane harvey. coming up, the mayor of houston talks about evacuations and emergency plans under way right now. and take a look at this from a texas sheriff s office. a hurricane harvey gator warning. this freaked me out. it reads, expect them to be displaced. simply looking for higher ground. leave alone until water recedes. i mean, come on. they need to tell you not to mess with the gators. stay with msnbc. all day long and throughout the weekend.
reasonable proposal from republicans. this all comes after a leading voice on debt taxes and spending warned about the cost of not getting a deal done in the short time that s left. with i m a guy that drives at 55. i m more optic or less optimistic, i m hopeful, but don t put me anywhere near the optimistic category. we have got a long way to go and a very few days to get it done. megyn: chris stirewalt is host of power play on foxnews.com life. it doesn t sound promising, and it doesn t sound like tim geithner made a lot of progress so far on the hill today, chris. well, one assumes that secretary geithner s job was to tell republicans, look, you don t like what we re asking you to do now, but later we re going to do a deal that you re going to like. give us a deal we like now, and later on we ll give you something back, we promise. for republicans who were skeptical to begin with about the idea of increasing taxes, now they are absolutely up in arms because by their way of