she uses some pretty harsh words, some would sayvilleifies successful people. i don t like vilifying anybody. i ve paid over $10 billion in taxes. i ve paid more than anyone in taxes. but you know, i m glad to have paid, you know. if i would have had to have paid $20 billion, it s fine. but you know, when you say i should pay $100 billion, okay, then i m starting to do a little math about what i have left over. elizabeth warren responding with a calculator where billionaires and anyone else who s curious can see how much the wealthiest americans would chip in under her plan. sibile marcellus is a reporter with yahoo! finance and is here with us now. good morning. good morning, jo. okay, so, is this a good strategy for warren? does it help further the fact that the current i mean, what does this do? because the current occupant of the white house also happens to be a billionaire.
you re talking about, jo, but it seems the republicans are more interested in making it in the meantime a battle about the process, whether or not enough is being done to call their witnesses and whether it s unfair to the president. why we re hearing that discussion and pushing out the factual discussion is there is a fundamental disagreement between the president and many of his republican defenders about the facts here. remember the president s mantra on this is that his phone call was a quote perfect call. he s said that maybe 80 times, a hundred times since this controversy started. the problem for him is that many republicans, especially senate republicans do not agree that it was a perfect call and so as we get closer and closer to these hearings what you ll start to see this focus on process and fairness and how many witnesses there are, because there s still significant disagreement about even if there was a quid pro quo, you know, would that have been necessarily an impeachab
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evil out there no matter what the calendar says. and sadly, sometimes the horror of halloween is the real thing. that s all for this edition of dateline. thank you for watching. good morning, i m jo ling kent at msnbc world headquarters here in new york. it s 6:00 in the east, it s 3:00 a.m. out west. here s what s happening we ve got an impeachment inquiry, and it s on the march. new transcripts released just moments ago with key moments on the ukraine saga. details on how it will all spill into public view in the inning week. coming week. explosive new details. the book by anonymous about the trump white house. what it tells us with a view from inside the oval office. and wintry blast and early chill sweeps across parts of the country, and some places are already battling the snow.
advice for customers, read the fine print. and if your connection slows down, file a complaint. jo ling kent, nbc news let s turn now to a shocking incident in south florida. a sheriff s deputy charged with a felony today for slamming a student to the ground. the stunning surveillance video now released gabe gutierrez has more tonight reporter: it seems to come out of nowhere. a school resource deputy slamming a 15-year-old girl to the ground it s embarrassing, okay reporter: today the local sheriff announced 38-year-old deputy willard miller was charged with child abuse. after a bond hearing, his attorney had no comment. he d been hired three years ago and was assigned to the cross creek school in mpo ach, florida. i think it s awful. i think it s not right. they have to know how to control themselves. reporter: authorities blurred the faces on the surveillance video, which has no audio, so it s not clear exactly what happened before the incident in late september, but you