the strength to win. martha: so he s on the ground in crucial battlegrounds next week. iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. we have all the angles covered this hour. lara trump is here and chris coons is here, the national co chain for president biden s campaign and a panel of gop voters to respond. first, our presidential politics panel up top for their fresh reaction to this. salina, columnist from the washington examiner and mike huckabee, former presidential candidate and ken cuccinelli, a former dhs official under trump but now he s the founder of the never back down pac supporting ron desantis. so ken, let s start with you. a lot of reaction today. a couple of different ways that people are looking at this. some are saying it was a missed opportunity and a glitch. others saying they re impressed by the number of people trying to get on to twitter. do you wish you did this differently? in the super pac, we don t get to describe that. the breaking of twitter, as
choices. americans make the kind of decisions across the country that you just mentioned, whether it s their business or home finances. they want to understand why congress can t make those tough choices? that s what everyone is elected to do. isn t it incumbent upon you to figure out a way to cut some spending? clearly there s way waste in government spending. there s two ways to balance a budget. there s revenue and spending. our challenge is that the house republican majority is determined to make the trump tax cuts permanent. that s at a cost of $3.5 trillion in additional lost revenue over a decade. president biden has continued to try to put on the table different proposals, ways we can close tax loop holes or ensure that those that owe taxes are paying them martha: that s on the tax side.
road molly: i want one last big question. how will this be paid for? the republicans drop a controversial idea, the boarder adjustment tax. that was supposed to bring in a ton. how will this get paid for? part of it will be through economic growth, part will be looking at tax loop holes that can be closed. in fact, one thing we can look at is closing the deduction that people get on state and local taxes, which only encourages big spending democratic states to keep spending as opposed to putting on fiscal restraint. two points on this. most of the people that benefit from the state income tax deductions are middle class. those individuals have less disposable income to begin with. number 2, you re asking the right questions. how do the republicans plan on paying for this. in history, there s never been a tax cut that paid for itself.
mnuchin failed to disclose $95 million in real estate assets. mnuchin said he didn t initially understand the questionnaire. said he wasn t trying to hide anything. democratic senators said if he used a cayman islands entity to avoid paying taxes. as i said, the cayman entity was set up to accommodate nonprofit and pension funds that want to invest through offshore in a certain and you helped others avoid paying taxes. again, i m not going to make again, they didn t devoid. they followed the law. and mnuchin said he looks forward to working with the irs to close the tax loop holes. shep? shepard: thanks, mike emanuel live on capitol hill. so much news ahead on this day. we ve been truncating our schedule to bring you the live events without commercial intervention. but neil cavuto will kickoff at the top of the hour in a couple minutes when the clock strikes
her presidential agenda, tackling college debt. this afternoon in new hampshire she ll lay out a plan to do just that. the campaign released a short video setting up today s announcement. i believe our success isn t measured by how much the wealthiest americans have, but by how many young people go to college without drowning in debt. msnbc s alex wallace is in new hampshire where hillary clinton will be speaking later today. good morning. good morning, jose. talk to me about the details of this plan. this is a $350 billion plan over ten years to be financed by closing tax loop holes on the wealthy. the main goal is to not take out any loans and community college would be freebie taking half of that $350 billion, giving it to states to colleges and subsidize