that 7-year-old boy, dominic, along with his mom jacqueline and dad brian. welcome. thank you all for being here. dominic, i bet you had no idea this many people would react to your generosity. why did you do it? what made you say i ll give up my piggybank to other people? because they need it more than i do. pete: but i bet you still want that scooter and that corvette, right? yeah. pete: it s amazing to see that kind of perspective and general roycety from a 7-year-old. mom, did it surprise you when you turned on the camera? it really did and, you know, it all started with a conversation wednesday morning on the way to drop the kids off at school. dominic asked a lot of questions, why i was so upset and what a hurricane was, and i kind of knew where his little mind was going when we got back home. he came to me with the piggybank, i started recording to show my husband because he was at work, and it all kind of stemmed from there. i literally posted that video on
trump doing things outside of the norm, not the cookie cutter type response or activities. but those things yielded results. russia did not invade anywhere under donald trump, and nato is stronger, and countries have paid more into that organization. look, you understand that people around the world knew that they could count on the united states to be the piggybank for the world, in essence, and howard: no, i think it was [inaudible conversations] nato wasn t going to go away. look, i ve got a minute left, let me ask you this. you started out by saying everyone knows now vladimir putin is evil. and yet the former president initially called him a genius for the way he maneuvered in ukraine. he has criticized the invasion but hasn t really criticized vladimir putin personally. why not? he s called this thing a holocaust, he said it s a travesty. donald trump understands who putin is. he had to work with him every single day howard: he also said he was a
is going to go to the nhs anyway, rather than to social care, because the government thinks there is catching up to do because of the backlog of cases brought about by covid, where only covid patients were really being seen in hospital. simon, we have got this rather unusual situation where we have got a conservative government in favour of tax increases and a labour opposition who don t want to see them because, as polly alluded to there, they don t regard them as being fair, they re being regressive, so what s the alternative? well, the phrase that is doing the rounds at the moment is, i good politics, bad policy, i in the sense that the politics of it is that by increasing - national insurance, which uk viewers will know hasi a mythology about it, which is that it s some kindl of piggybank you put money in and that means you ll be looked after in your- retirement and beyond. in fact it s just another tax and therefore politically. raising that is much easier, less problematic than -
brought about by covid, where only covid patients were really being seen in hospital. simon, we ve got this rather unusual situation where we have got a conservative government in favour of tax increases and a labour opposition who don t want to see them because, as polly alluded to there, they don t regard them as being fair, they re being regressive, so what s the alternative? well, the phrase that s doing| the rounds at the moment is, good politics, bad policy, | in the sense that the politics of it is that by increasing national insurance, which uk viewers - will know has a mythology about it which is that it s some kind - of piggybank you put money - in and that means you will be looked after in your retirement and beyond. in fact it isjust another tax, i and therefore politically raising that is much easier, i less problematic than raising income tax. the other part of the problem i with the policy is it is generally being seen as a tax on the young, working population to pay- |