reform, whose mission statement is, the government s power to control one s life derives from its power to tax. we believe that that power should be minimized. there are some republicans who have thought that, perhaps, perhaps, maybe, we should have raised taxes to pay for the iraq and afghanistan wars, or at least partially pay for them, but they would not dare say so, because that would violate a written pledge they had made to grover norquist. who presents every republican running for the house, the senate, or the white house with a pledge to sign, saying that he or she will never, ever support raising taxes in any way. including by cutting loopholes out of the tax code that might then force an individual or corporation to pay a higher tax bill. something closer to their actual rate that they re supposed to pay. david gregory pointed out
while republican mississippi governor haley barbour announced in a written statement today that he will not be candidate for president next year, nbc s biggest embarrassment, donald trump, did something unprecedented in the history of network television last night. he actually used his nbc entertainment platform to openly solicit support for his campaign for president. everybody s saying i should run for president. let me ask you a question. meat loaf, should i run for president? absolutely. meat loaf, should i run for president? what you just saw was a gross violation of network standards and practices as we have known them throughout most of the history of television. it put an explicit nbc endorsement on a trump campaign for president, except it didn t. because nbc executives know that
donald trump s presidential posturing is completely fraudulent. they know that on may 16th they are going to announce that donald trump will be returning for another season in nbc s employ, pretending to fire people on tv. so don t worry. nbc has not fallen to the point where it is endorsing a presidential campaign of one of their performers who constantly spews lies and hatred of barack obama. nbc would never do that. as to why nbc would participate in the fraud of donald trump pretending to think about running for president, we should all remember, most of what nbc presents in its prime-time scheduling is fiction, both in comedy and drama, and virtually everything about donald trump is fiction. but trump got some surprising support yesterday from a man who
answering your questions and maybe you could give me some advice. i would advise you i would advise you, if a reporter asks you, who are you going to support for president, you say, i don t want discuss that. that s how to do it. well, first of all, if he s vetted and he s a nomination for the party, i certainly would be interested in him. there s a long way to go and i haven t endorsed him. and i m not going to endorse any candidate. but i find he s got some interesting things to say, and you have to say to yourself, sometimes, you know, maybe a guy like this is right for our country. we need somebody with a lot of business experience to get us out of the mess that the republicans and the democrats have got us into. so, yes, we need some help, but more importantly, we need god s help in this whole process. we need god to give us a leader who can take this nation and put it back on the road a leader who will, i believe, who will take this nation back to the road of integrity an
you ve seen the paul ryan abolish medicare and cut taxes republican budget and you ve heard the president s description of his counterproposal. so which one do you like? if your answer is neither, you might want to consider the people s budget, introduced by the congressional progressive caucus, a group of 76 democrats. joining me now for a guided tour of the people s budget is ezra klein, columnist for the washington post. thanks for joining me, ezra. happy to serve. ezra, i know rachel has done some coverage of the people s budget, but it has otherwise within been largely ignored. take us through the highlights of the people s budget and what its selling points are. sure. the people s budget is looking at how you would balance the budget if you were going to do it largely through tax increases and mostly through taxes on the wealthy. it lets most of the bush cuts expire. it creates new millionaire tax