code should be as fair to working americans as it is to rich americans. it should reward hard work as much as it award people who are wealthy. heather: hard work and middle another poll, only 33% in the midwest think the party they champion the middle class. among rural voters it is only 31% and among white men with less college education, 25%. that sounds an awful light lote the voters who turned out for president trump. if you look at the election result, about 650 counties that president obama won twice, donald trump won a turn of thif those counties. donald trump hillary clinton won six of those. there is zero crossover. what i think the movement has to face up to is the fact that donald trump has a lot more
times. the time reports that mr. putin is standing beside him. he accused two news organizations with ties to russia as acting as rather than true outlets. president is meeting with president putin followed president trump s insult tour of europe in which he complained about rich americans and how they are ruining america with their addiction to german cars, which he blamed entirely on germany. joining us now wendy sherman, former under secretary of state. first of all, your reaction to the president s meetings in europe and what he had to say about germany, germany trade and the total effect of his visit there. i think for the united states american security, the most important thing is the trance atlantic alliance, our relationship with europe.
free world and in the press conference following their meeting. the president maintained a sometimes confrontational tone, according to the new york times. the time reports that mr. putin is standing beside him. he accused two news organizations with ties to russia as acting as rather than true outlets. president is meeting with president putin followed president trump s insult tour of europe in which he complained about rich americans and how they are ruining america with their addiction to german cars, which he blamed entirely on germany. joining us now wendy sherman, former under secretary of state. first of all, your reaction to the president s meetings in europe and what he had to say about germany, germany trade and the total effect of his visit there.
trumpcare gave overwhelming tax cuts to the rich. if the majority of tax cuts go to rich americans, they ll lose again. what are your thoughts on that, because those are a couple of points he made on lack of comp teps, you can t intimidate people and he accused the president of appealing to the really hard right wealthy. here s the problem that chuck schumer has with the modern democratic party, it s moved so far to the left, it shrunk into the biggest cities, it wasn t a national party as it once was, this is a they spent ag years defending all of his mistakes, bill clinton who doesn t have too run for office said it was crazy, he was able to spooerk the truth about obamacare, which the insurance companies lobbed when they wrote it.
maybe he didn t, we need to know the details here before we kind of see whether he took advantage of what the new york times reported. you know, a tax break that he got that would have helped hum him for the next 18 years. we don t know much other than the bottom line figures here. the daily beast , which has seen the document. uh-huh. has reported just to your point that about 5%, he paid about $5 million on his regular federal income tax returns and the rest was alternative minimum. which he wants to get rid of. he wants to get rid of it. but i must say these returns are tantalizing, but i don t think they re explosive. from what we ve seen so far, $38 million, as jeffrey and i were talking about, in the lives of rich americans, the tax code is often skewed in their favor.