77% oppose an extra tariff on the top of the income tax. from a brand new fox news/opinion dynamics poll , and a chief market strategist for jefferies & company, a mainly global investment bank, art, good morning. happy friday. bill: 77. there is one good reason not to proceed. question is, will they? well, they have to raise taxes, right? we spent a lot of money the last 12, 24 months and our defendants are running high, and they ll get higher. and we have a lot of things we need to pay for and, obviously the exploration around that makes sense, but, if you look back and say, let s see how well it is done and let s look at other models and see how that is done, if you look at the european models, and look at the u.k., and say how successful has it been? it has been an unmitigated disaster and the problem is, you know, the third time around, that you get tacked, obviously the people making money, selling the obvious are paying regular taxes, you are getting taxed on
operates in exactly the same way. that he used a labor union official as a cutout, to send word in these negotiations, over who should be picked for the seat, that he was at that moment occupying and getting ready to vacate to take and there is nothing wrong with the president saying that, but, if the governor was trying to sell the seat, if there was a transaction going on, then the president can be involved and he can t be saying he has a preference. martha: we ll hear more and i want to remind everybody patrick fitzgerald, the prosecutor on the case, said, lincoln was would roll over in his grave if he could hear the back and forth on the tapes patrick fitzgerald. we don t know where he is and are waiting to hear where the case stands and why it has not been pushed forward. good to get your thoughts as we start to unravel this one. thank you, chris. bill: in a moment we ll get back to our top story, top level staffers at the sec caught surfing porn rather than doing
held at sea, and we have crews and producer in norfolk for the arraignment today but don t expect to see arrives an departures, tight security and there will be a courtroom artist and press conference later today. bill: i have yet to meet a smart one, thanks, brian, brian wilson in washington. martha: the $13 trillion that this nation owes to other folks. okay? it is all we have been watching it closely and the president refuses to take the value added tax, a national sales tax off the table and there were mixed messages coming out of the administration on that one, so what do you oink that have? america speaks on the vat tax, that is next. bill: look at that number! a question, why were police storming an apartment of lindy lohan earlier today. martha: poor lindsey. bill: the latest and greatest chapter. martha: enough, lynndie. bill: maybe not the greatest. coming up here.
economic climate? that s why i think we re going to have a group together to be able to defeat the efforts to put a tax on this, but they re always looking for ways to raise taxes and spend more money, and that s what i m opposed to. i think we need to really focus on making the investment in the technology, that we can use here in the united states but also around the world to reduce emissions and make the entire global environment better. bill: that is a bit of a preview for what we expect monday. we ll get the other side then. seb senator john barrasso, thank you for coming in today, republican out of wyoming, with the story on the hill. martha: here s the question for you, did they cross the line or are they american heroes getting a raw deal? the navy seals facing court marshal for roughing up a terror deet knee. we have the very latest on this story today. bill: it is the season and it can be a deadly one there, trailing tornadoes in
prisoner in his custody. keefe at first wanted a jury trial, but he s changed his mind on that and now his case will be heard only by a military judge and the case will be decided solely by that judge. keefe appeared in court wearing his navy uniform, seated between two attorneys, one civilian, one military. and he heard the testimony against him, including once again the testimony of the prisoner himself, the accused terrorist ak had hashim abed, bill. bill: and abed testified in the trial of julio hiewras. dy change his testimony, steve? reporter: apparently there were inconsistencies according to our fox news producer. abed is accused of masterminding the grizzly murders of four american contractors in fallujah six years ago, he was arrested last year by these navy seals who are now being tried, was taken to two different locations before the alleged abuse took place. at that third holding cell, abed claimed on wednesday he