espionage charges that could leave him in prison for years. it s hard to believe he s been in jail or detention for ten days. we learned about his detention the way the rest of the world did. on monday morning we were concerned because we knew he had disappeared or gone missing. so i used the internet to do searching and searched on things like american killed in moscow and found that the ministry announced that it had detained him for espionage. we knew he had gone missing because he missed the wedding, the whole point of his visit. and it was the groomsmen who made a report to the u.s. embassy to say that paul was missing david, any reason for you to any rationale in your ming from the outside, we don t know the detail wbt don t know paul the way you do. his background.
what reason would there be for russia to say he s a spy, we re going to detain him? i don t know. honestly i know what everybody has seen about paul and they must think he s one of the more quirky people that could have been picked up. i can t think of anything in particular that would have caused the russian government to want to detain him and particularly on espionage charges. seems totally unbelievable. the u.s. ambassador to russia has visit d visited him. secretary of state mike pompeo say the u.s. may demand immediate return of paul. take a look at what he says. with respect to mr. wheeland, we ve made clear to the russians or expectation that we ll learn more about the charges, come to understand what he s been accused of and if the detention is not appropriate we will demand his immediate return.
you said like the tippy-tops on your ten millionth dollar sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70% president as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more. ed: well, that s alexandria ocasio-cortez, a congressman floating a massive tax hike on the rich to fund what she calls a green new deal related to climate change, claiming now that wealthy americans should be contributing more. but according to a bloomberg analysis of 2016 tax returns, the top 1% of taxpayers already pay a greater share of income taxes, 37.3%, than the bottom 90% combined. here to help us break down the numbers, director of strategic initiatives at americans for tax reform, paul blair. good morning, paul. good morning. thanks for having me. ed: gist give me your general
at the actual facts, the actual numbers, the rich are paying an awful lot already. average total tax rate for the top 1%, 33.6%. top 10% of taxpayers, top 10% paid 69% of total individual income taxes in 2016. and, finally, top 50% of taxpayers paid, yes, 97% of total individual income taxes in 2016. so paul, quite simply, what more can rich give? well, her proposal would double it, double the top rate paid by those high earners. she tugged it would kick in at above $10 million, but there s not a lot of money left. i mean, you know, to my point that. necessarily understand economics, high earners have the ability to adjust how they are paid. it s not necessarily salaried income that they re making. they make this money in terms of dividends or investments that you make and so you raise these taxes and people shift their investments to avoid higher taxes, and so what she would
the rolling stones were on, and we were on a helicopter. paul looked down, he said, wow, it looks like somebody s getting killed down there. he was right. they were. remember what the door mouse said, feed your head feed your head in california, five members of a so-called religious cult, including charles manson, the guru or high priest, have been indicted in the murder of sharon tate and six others. all of the elements are present for one of the most sensational murder trials in american history. seven people brutally murdered in a glare of hollywood history. the involvement of a mystical hippie clan, which despises straight, affluent society.