medicare on the rich, making sure that millionaires don t get food stamps and unemployment it looks like it s going to be another year-end showdown over taxes. elsewhere, a new accuser in the penn state sexual child abuse scandal. has filed the first civil lawsuit against former football coach, jerry sandusky. in the suit the 29-year-old claims sandusky sexually abused him more than 100 times over the course of four years and threatened to tell his family if he told someone. he said he chose to come forward now because of the bravery of other victims and the pain feels about those who may have been abused after him. sandusky has admitted to showering with boys, but he continues to deny he is a pedophile. well now here s your first look at other news going on around america today. california federal agents have derailed what s being called the most sophisticated underground drug-trafficking tunnel ever discovered.
look like a lot of kids right now, the message of the events is as mainstream as anything gets in american politics today. joining us now, democratic bolster jeff. thanks for joining us tonight and figuring this out. thanks for having me. the idea of changing the tax structure so millionaires don t pay less tax than other people bears out very, very, very, very, very well across the political spectrum. does it translate into support for the democrats who where proposing that idea? it does. and i think this is a quality fight because it s the kind of fight that drives those numbers you were talking about earlier about who s on the side of the middle class. republicans say this is class warfare. the middle class understands they ve been under siege for years. they want to make sure somebody else is sharing a little bit of the burden and the republicans are putting themselves on the side of big corporations and the wealthy in part because that s what they believe but also in part be
may not look mainstream and may look like a lot of kids right now, the message of the events is as mainstream as anything gets in american politics today. joining us now, democratic bolster jeff. thanks for joining us tonight and figuring this out. thanks for having me. the idea of changing the tax structure so millionaires don t pay less tax than other people bears out very, very, very, very, very well across the political spectrum. does it translate into support for the democrats who where proposing that idea? it does. and i think this is a quality fight because it s the kind of fight that drives those numbers you were talking about earlier about who s on the side of the middle class. republicans say this is class warfare. the middle class understands they ve been under siege for years. they want to make sure somebody else is sharing a little bit of the burden and the republicans are putting themselves on the side of big corporations and the wealthy in part because that s what
is older than scott brown s. he doesn t have any high-paid consultants or ad budget. he s raised about $40,000, chuck. but he says he has something the millionaires don t. he says he s in touch with regular voters. so the question is, will that help. well, it s interesting and i want to ask you a quick question. you mentioned meg whitman. she is writing a staggering check so far, $59 million she s put in so far. they ll probably put in i m told at least another $50 million more. she ll get over $100 million. michael bloomberg only has spent that kind of money. but california has never let somebody buy these guys have tried. we saw al check can i, nicknamed al checkbook. miming huffington tried. californians a lot of times say huh-uh. it s true. and you have to be careful with the early polls but you re seeing some of that here. she s has actually told people
i think the nra is a disaster area and i m going to make a move, i shouldn t say this, but i ll tell it to you howard. i m going to make a move we meryl streep and we ll take this issue head on and they will wish they weren t alive after i m done with them. k.g., wish they weren t alive? traumatized by shooting the snowman in the face. frosty never hurt anybody. yeah, this is such hypocrisy. you pocket millions and millions of dollars off of action movies, violent films. you line your coffers with it and you make more films that have violence in it and then you have the audacity to go against an organization that is saying i want to protect our constitutional right to bear arms in a legal and thoughtful way with background checks that also don t want people to get shot and murdered, but it doesn t mean that you can t own a gun. i mean, this makes no sense to me, and now look what he s doing. he s luring meryl streep into it. bobby? i think harvey probably overstated the case a