the sunday times ran a piece called obama s masterminds catch in. they basically admitted they stole the social graph which is the connections between the users from facebook, blowing all of the terms of use of facebook. and facebook let them. the wrote from the article was you can do this, as long as you stop doing it on november 7th. so there was no backlash then. but now there s a huge people are calling it the tech-lash, big tech is blamed for everything, it s inequality problems, diversity problems and now swinging elections. we re in a lot different environment for these companies as they become these big, massive multi-hundred billion dollar valued enterprises. paul: on that point, facebook has had a really dream ride, right, up 500 more than $500 billion, $500 billion in market capitalization. a big chunk of that, 10%, 12% off this week. so clearly the market is fearing
paul: if it s 25, you could live with that? i could. that is an equal 43% tax cut for both. but it s really important for our non-c corporations that have so much growth. and we are not going to do that this time. paul: state and local tax deduction is on the table. is it going to stay there? i m hopeful and here is why. under the current taxcode, washington tax codes have a higher rate. some can use that deduction. we are proposing the lower rates for everybody so everyone gets helped. getting your kids in college, putting your mom in a nursing home. give people the ability to do what they need to do. paul: google s diversity problems.
the country this year, we ve seen issues of race come to the forefront as students of color speak out about their experiences on campus and challenge their institutions to improve their diversity. at ucla law school where black students have not made up more than 4% of the student body since 1996, a video campaign was launched to push the program to admit more african-americans. the university of michigan as students advocated with demonstrations on campus, drawing in luminaries like harry to help address its diversity problems. at harvard university, the i am two harva harvard campaign. hear directly from other students on campus. then there was this story out of a high school, not just any high school, the lawrenceville school in new jersey is the most expensive prep school in the nation, as well as one of the most prestigious. over the years it has, at times,
lizzy. i asked her to come here today to comment on this story. lizzy, thanks for joining us. thanks tom. happy to be here. do you think american girl has some diversity problems? no, i don t, tom. i feel like american girl just like america in general celebrates diversity. that s interesting. that s exactly how i feel. what would you say to those that think american girl dolls are not edgily and political enough. amy schiller in the atlanta said perhaps it s time for a doll who occupy wall street. i would say american girl is a business. we want to celebrate all kinds of girls but we have to make dolls that our customers are interested in. exactly. you re dead on as usual. well, i remind you, tom, that you are my doll. what s your point. that dolls tend to reflect the culture and view point of their owners. are you saying you have no free will that you don t have opinions of your own? if that s what you re saying,
inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding in the short term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. one thing we re looking at has to do with a clean or simple measure funding fema. this is what everyone was looking for, fwunding fema as well as not shutting down the government. and did strips away all the obstacles that had really been holding up the agreement to this point. the second measure that they will be voting on is actually here s the confusing part. a one-week extension. one-week short-term spending extension. and the purpose of this is simply the house is out this week, as you well know. if they can t get members back in time, or they can t get an agreement to pass it very quickly, they ll need that one week of funding to avert the government shutdown and get the house back in time to vote on this measure. john? what changed? this morning into the afternoon we were told that you still had