Welcome, everyone. U. S. President Donald Trumps impeachment Defense Strategy is beginning to be unveiled. His lawyers took center stage in the senate trial on saturday. Chief among their arguments, that the proceedings are merely an attempt by the democrats to overturn the last election and derail the next. Heres our sara murray. The president did absolutely nothing wrong. Reporter President Trumps defense team took to the senate floor, arguing that democrats have failed to make their case that trump should be removed from office for abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Today we are going to confront them on the merits of their argument. Now, they have the burden of proof, and they have not come close to meeting it. Reporter they accused democrats of trying to overturn the last election and preempt the next one. Theyre here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in american history, and we cant allow that to happen. Reporter trumps team aimed to poke holes i
security, are likely to hurt the middle class. for more, i m joined by james galbreath, professor at the university of texas in austin. he has been studying income inequality since the 1970s. good to see you again. good to be with you. look, this is not a uniquely american problem and it s not even a modern problem. it s been going on for some time. we should be looking at changes to the tax code that stop growing income inequality and that hasn t been achieved by this one. no. on the contrary, this tax law now will affect income inequality in a number of ways. one of them, perhaps the most important one since the headline feature of the bill is to cut corporate tax rates, is that it will foster corporations buying back their own stocks, driving up the stock market and that will benefit corporate executives whose incomes are tied to stocks and people who