The majority of people are blaming washington. Molly the is from traition is taking its toll on the white house, the congress. The president s Approval Rating dropping to 4. Dropping dropping to 40 . Over half of americans dont approve of the job hes doing. This is a bowl filled with bad news. 70 believe the country is heading in the wrong direction. 80 are down on the countrys political system. I think the big number is 21 say they believe their childrens lives will be better than their own lives. 76 say they have no confidence that will be the case. This is not just bad news about people not liking congress or the president who will only be in office for a few more years. This is about the entire future of the country. So many of them have seen their standard of living go down off a number of years. We found out that the median household net worth. People right in the middle has declined from 87,000 in 2003 to 56,000 in 2013. Household income right in the middle has gone from 55,000
The Bush Administration. Martha the cia director is set to defend something the president strongly criticized. How is this going to play out . Reporter thats a good question. Its highly unusual. Hes having a press conference and that is rare indeed. The release of the Senate Committee report on enhances interrogation has led to people calling for war crimes convictions. Brennan said it saved american lives. The administration condemned and ended the practice of enhanced interrogation in 2009 but has retained two of its directors. Reporter you dont see a conflict. The president has complete confidence in the professio in e professionalism of these individuals and that they are following the law and doing everything necessary to protect the mayor cash people. The president is bleeds their service. Reporter hes expected to say right after 9 11 when people were clamoring for revenge after the 9 11 attacks. The cia looked the competency when it came to al qaeda detainees. Bill back to the i
Darrell issa is never a shy questioner when it comes to these things. He runs the thousands Oversight Committee. He describes it as obamacare through deception. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage age. Call it the stupidity of the American Voter or whatever, bit was critical to get is passed. We just tax Insurance Companies and they pass it on to the consumers. Its a clever exploitation of the basic lack of understanding about it American Voter. Turns out political chicago its hard to get rid of and the only way we could take it on was by mislabeling. Calling it a tax on Insurance Companies when we all nots really a tax on the American People who hold the plans. Martha hes not the only one testifying today, right . He will be joined by the administrators of the medicare services. She does not want to be seated next to mr. Gruber. Lawmakers are going to put them together and dig down on some of those comments he made about the lack of transparency as it relates to laying
This nation. This nation had its alltime highest, the Record Number of receipts coming into the treasury. Are entrepreneurs going to be better off with more taxes and more government . No. Stuart varney host of varney and company with me now. Hello my friend. Good morning to you. Here is part of the big deal now, right . Increase taxes for the wealthy youre going to increase Capital Gains tax. Increase tax on inherited property. 6789s. This is redistribution very large. It has not helped the middle class in the last six years but that is the present policy. Let me explain exactly what the president wants here. Number one, if youre in the top 1 of income earners and you make a profit on the sale of a house or gold coin or a stock, your tax rate is going to go up. If youre in the top 1 and you pass away the president wants to take more from your estate. House or a stock your tax rate will go up. That money will then be turned around. The president wants to traffic this group, take that 3
From losing the popular vote. And as the plot to dismantle obamacare unfolds, a certain doctor returns with his prescription. His Laboratory Tests are astonishingly excellent. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We are now 30 days from donald trump becoming president of the United States and 146 days from the day he last held a press conference. Back on july 27th when trump opened his remarks attacking Hillary Clinton for you guessed it not holding press conferences. For you as the reporters who give her the glowing reports should ask yourselves why. And ill tell you why. Because despite the nice platitudes, shes been a mess. Trump did speak briefly twice to reporters today, though it certainly wasnt a press conference. It was closure of the conversation you would have as a Hotel Manager if youre checking in and you quickly wanted to get his views on the issue of the day. He was at maralago where he met with michael flynn. Earlier this afternoon tr