brand-new reporting this morning about a fiery exchange between the acting defense secretary and senator lindsey graham over the president s plan to withdraw united states troops from syria. and off to the races. just hours after throwing his hat into the 2020 ring, bernie sanders raises more than 4 million bucks surpassing his closest rivals in fund-raising intensifying a battle among democratic contenders. $4 million. too much money is in politics. the president s scorched earth strategy to combat the numerous investigations looking into all aspects of his public and private life. new reporting shows just how far mr. trump has gone to undermine those efforts. i have a great team to break down all of it. but first, i want to give you a snapshot of exactly where we stand because it is easy to get lost. as we get closer to the end of the special counsel s inquiry, we must remember that the
no noncommunist is going to say amazon has not hired people and spent a lot of money in the economy. does the issue remain what a complicated tax structure we have? as long as corporate america or rich people have their own tax attorneys or tax departments a tax attorney s job is to find loopholes and minimize what a company or a wealthy individual pays. frank rhule is still doing his taxes on his dining room table. while that will paradigm still exists, the average american is never going to be in an even playing field as the rich guy. absolutely. corporations are experts at making sure that taxes are, their profits are held in local tax jurisdictions. they never need to pay tax. if there s a way of minimizing or cutting their taxes by billions can of dollars can, they re going to be able to find it because they have the most expensive tax advice and normal people do not. buybacks and stock based compensation are one very, very common way that corporations
order groceries, bank online. sometimes they can t help it. sometimes it s easier just to do it. but maybe it s rich people who do. and facebook and google have a bad wrap. this would be one thing they could collaborate on and make it better. i understand it and agree. but even if you even if somebody takes money out of your bank fraudulently, you can get that back. you can t get your vote back. we have to do something about the ads. they re horrible. voting is an insanely personal the only way it works is if you get the business sector, the private sector, and the public sector to come together. it can be done. somebody taking my money? that s also personal. it is, but you can get it back. some might say more personal. okay. i m going to leave it there. we re going to take a quick break. you re watching msnbc. g msnbc. moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. like how humira has been prescribed to over 300,000 patients.
apart? here to weigh in, basil smikle former executive director of the new york state democratic party and my friend republican strategist and author of branding america. i have to say this first. $4 million for bernie sanders, $1.5 million for kamala harris for the 2020 election. imagine if that $5.5 million or the total raised so far all the potential candidates and president trump s 2020 re-election, imagine if that money went to our public school system. wouldn t that be glorious? okeydoke. the average donation was only 27 bucks. does the first day of fund-raising speak to the excitement that s still around for sanders or listen, he already had the framework in place and knew he was running and all he had to do was hit go. i think the latter. the framework and infrastructure was already there. i don t think there s excitement
the only way we will win this election and create a government and an economy that works for all is with a grassroots movement the likes of which has never been seen in american history. it appears that grassroots movements are off to a strong start. senator bernie sanders campaign says it raised more than $4 million in the first 12 hours after announcing his 2020 bid. the campaign says the money came from nearly 150,000 individual donors from all 50 states and surpassed the previous record set by senator kamala harris who raised $1.5 million in her first 24 hours as a 2020 contender. in a large field with a number of other candidates that are taking a page from his progressive platform, will sanders be able to set himself