can. if our republican friends block it, we re going to put our heads together and figure out the best way to go. everything is on the table. it s plain and simple. there s estimates a infrastructure package that could have a price tag of $4 to 5 trillion. the republican leader offered this are prediction. i think the trojan horse will be called infrastructure. but inside the trojan horse will be all the tax increases that senator scott and others have been talking about. my suspicion is they re going to jam everything that they can in to that bill and call it a infrastructure bill like they tried to call the bill a couple weeks ago a covid bill. how democrats expect to get it done was revealed in a hot microphone moment. ben cardin and pete buttigieg talk about going alone to using senate rules to pass it with 51 votes. ultimately it s going to be put together similar to how the rescue plan was put together. most likely reconciliation. infrastructure was thought to
you look at the fact that we ve seen bipartisan cooperation before, even gingrich worked with bill clinton. let me quote him. the impact will be some pain to a lot of people. but, in fact, we ve survived the 90s paying clinton-level taxes. i m just saying. clinton level taxes meant that the people at the top had to pay their share. and they were not getting tax cuts. yeah, i mean, reverend, consider this. you mentioned reverend norquist. he said it s okay. you can go with this boehner plan because we won t consider it a tax increase. he s given them a blessing. and even then, you have a significant number of conservatives willing to ball k at this. it s really not clear who s in charge, if anybody is in charge
dysfunction as well as the obama administration. instead he yoked himself to ryan who is the architect of a radical and fprofane agenda in the house. he s tied to washington in an unpu unpopular agenda. during an interview after collecting paul ryan, governor romney said he s running on his budget and not congressman ryan s. let me play that. i have my budget plan, as you know, that i put out. that s the budget plan we re going to run on. you heard mitt romney there, so is it fair to assume he will follow paul ryan s blueprint? his senior adviser ed gillespie said if his budget reached his desk, he would have signed it. reverend norquist said the real leadership in the republican party is not located the in the oval office but in congress, and
when anyone, not least a member of congress launches specious and denigrating attacks on fellow americans on nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance for what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation and we all grow poorer because of it. this never happens, a sitting member of congress publicly scolding other sitting members let alone members of their own party. as we ve been reporting, they want the inspectors general of five security agencies to look into what bachmann calls the possible deep penetration, her words, of the muslim extremists in the u.s. government. but they re not talking about a general conspiracy, they re actually pointing fingers at a particular person, this woman, hillary clinton s deputy cheep of staff, implying she may be somehow work on behalf of the muslim brotherhood and questioning how she even got a security clearance. again, senator mccain today. to say the accusations made in both documents are not substantiated by t
toast, bacon, ham, sausage, chicken sausage, wheat or rye toast, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, no substitutions. rollout out. take you out to your car and put you on a treadmill. this morning i m going to stick with the tater tots because they re easy to eat to anchor a show. hello, everybody. cnn s political analyst roland martin is with us this morning. it s a bad start if i can t get through roland s name. david frum is back with us. nice to have you in person. chatting by satellite. and also this morning, norquist is joining us, president of americans for tax reform. you re going to be our tax expert this morning as we sort through mitt romney s taxes. it s nice to have you. thanks for being with us. mitt romney we know now officially released his tax returns. we re expecting that in about 90 minutes. but there is a preview. the preview is roughly 550 pages long. romney made $21.6 million in 2010. paid over $3 million in taxes. and tesktive tax rate as we mentioned is 1