the george w. bush library is opening. except the history section. that s being rewritten. i am so pumped! because this thing is going to be packed with bush-nography. more than 4,300 artifacts and 2 million e-mails on display. and those 200 million e-mails could have almost 18 nonredacted words. at today s dedication of the george w. bush presidential library, no truer words were spoken than this. i told president obama that this was the latest, grandest example of the eternal struggle of former presidents to rewrite history. ha-ha-ha. that is the business that presidential libraries are in.
income tax payers, the higher income tax payers making a million dollars or more are the most economically agile taxpayers. they re most able to change their income, shift it overseas, change the form, change the timing, so as a result, i think the income tax rate increases on the upper income earners are probably going to lose revenue, too. if all the tax increases together push the economy back into recession, total revenues will decline rather than increase and so the deficit will rise rather than fall. clayton: maybe we can take everyone down to the public library and walk into the history section. we should have a field trip, walk through the history session and show them what 20 years ago looked like. peter, used to work for the first president bush, thanks. glad to be here. clayton: coming up on the show, the white house about to expand a program to help struggling homeowners. how you can take advantage of that next. then what makes a mate a perfect 10? we ll have a look a
poverty s role in this campaign. we know when money is speech, millionaires and billionaires get mega phones and the middle class gets muted. we know that because we crunched the numbers from the fec data that came out. and the adelsons have given a $36.3 million to super pacs. that s a rounded error for them, 0.3% of their net worth. and it would take $321,000 middle class families giving the equivalent amount of net worth to equal the same political voice the two people have. 321,000, that s a jaw-dropping statistic. i learned two things. my book dead wrong is the number one amazon kindle book under the history section. i m very proud of that because my previous books have been novels and put in entertainment sections. this is a history book. number two, i learned they are misusing ptsd to describe the murders in the sikh temple. ptsd, we can t demonize our
middle shelf in the american history section. after he went to the movie money ball the agent sent back and he took pictures with his camera phone and he said the titles on the shelf made him feel extremely uncomfortable. he testified today that the titles included, politics, things about the air traffic controllers, but specifically a title called the president and the assassin. what is key here is that there was a second episode last year in july where once again hinkley was at a pw-rpbs and noble bookstore and he became focused or fixated begin on a title on president reagan and the attempted assassination. what the prosecution is trying to show here is a pattern to suggest that hinkley is still dangerous. the defense has cross-examined the secret service agent to show that hinkley never picked up the book, never read the book and certainly never purchased the book and showed no violent acts in that bookstore. megyn: very interesting. catherine, thanks so much. reporter: you re we