this now with a important guest, i m bringing in christine pelosi, the dnc vice chair and california democratic party woman s caucus chair. thank you so much for being here. just a guttural reaction to that video that the president tweeted out of your mother and the house speaker. well, nancy pelosi is at the top of her game. i would never, ever underestimate her. she is winning in court. she is winning in legislation and i think that the best thing the white house can do is encourage the president to have that infrastructure meeting but also sign the legislation she just sent him this week repealing the kitty tax, that taxes survivors of military people who have been killed in combat, especially given that it is memorial day weekend. so i would i wouldn t advise against it. you saw the video. just for a from a daughter standpoint and from a grand kid standpoint, watching their grandmother and mother portrayed in that light, in that video, what was your guttural reaction
the gop tax scam. with the kitty tax, republicans took half a billion dollars from working and middle-class families and gave it to big corporations and the wealthy. a half a billion dollars. the kitty tax. it s unacceptable that surviving children of our fallen heroes who have suffered so much are now forced to pay thousands of additional dollars in taxes on their benefits. they cannot be forced to sacrifice twice. as democrats take action to protect military families, we also are hard at work to protect our workers in stark contrast to republican special interest agenda. today, in the same legislation that contains the kitty tax act, the tax fix, to fix what the republicans did in their tax scam, we re passing the secure act. we re passing strong measures to help workers have a secure retirement. and yesterday, congressman
jamie: if you were going to take it anyway, this would be the time. how about one more and then i want to move on and ask you different age groups that can take advantage of tax breaks that may be expiring. the teachers. teachers get to take a $250 credit, unlike the rest of us for things that they ve done for our kids. they buy extra supplies, extra books fort classroom. and they re allowed to take it differently than the rest of us. this is set to expire at year end. what i would say is everybody loves teachers. these are teachers who are giving that little bit extra. if they re not making that much, they re throwing their own money into the classroom, it s set to expire at year end. but hopefully congress will extend this. jamie: i hope so, because a lot of teachers are spend ago lot of their own money. let me ask you about the kitty tax. this is congress. they give with one hand and they take it away with the other and i got caught on this one myself. this is where kids who