to 20 year range. harris: i m looking at 18 counts. five counts of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. five counts filing false individual income tax returns. your thoughts on what he is facing? ultimately, if he is sentenced, there will be a calculation the amount of loss both tax loss to the government and what he defrauded the banks of that will calculate essentially a score the judge will use to assess the penalty and here, given the law as they testified about, you are talking about a 10-year police plus sentence. harris: alex, why didn t the definition in your estimates call a single witness to the stand. these cases are hard because you have a loft documents you have to explain. any witness you put up there is confronted with hundreds and hundreds of documents. manafort would have had if he had testified explained some of the emails that his defense attorney rather the jury not think about as they go into deliberations. harris: you say you don t ever like to predict a jur
crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on is so pathetic. melissa: that was nancy pelosi trashing bonuses resulting from the g.o.p. tax loss, crumbs. i don t know if she was schmoozing properly there but whatever. her comments don t square with what you said about the obama era payroll tax cut back in december of 2011 tweeting today s agreement is for a victory for the american people. they spoke out clearly and $40 each paycheck will make a difference grade jessica? jessica: shocked that you went to me first here. from the start, hearing the crumbs, it was a mistake. i don t agree with the i think it s a mistake. i think paul ryan certainly was off in that dollar 50 tweed as well. i think politicians should stay away from numbers like that. if your paycheck is going up,
friday. the real deadlines that occur friday are our men and women in uniform and children s health insurance in many states it will run out of money. if god forbid there s a shutdown, it will fall on the majority leader s shoulders and the president s shoulders. we know what the president has said. he wants a shutdown. chairman of the house armed services committee says defense spending is being held hostage at a critical time. they can t train for what s coming. they can only do the training for what s been. so it hurts the military every single day. sources suggest it will be hard for democrats on the ballot this year to vote against the children s health insurance extension. bret: mike emanuel, thanks. apple is citing the new tax loss is one of the reasons behind its decision to commit another $350 billion to the u.s. economy over the next five years. that includes a new corporate campus, the hiring of 20,000
oh, yeah, the one for the for the hedge funds, yes. this is something that donald trump campaigned on closing. lo and behold, the tax plan, you know, arrives and that continues to exist. i was at a breakfast with gary cohn this morning and we asked him about that. and he said up until monday, the president was still trying to debt it closed. s and gary cohn, the president s chief economic adviser pointed the finger to republicans in the house from new york as the i know. because although they got hit with the state and local tax loss, it ll keep the donors happy. it s about the donors. that s right. chris, you and i have talked about the issue of president trump personally interviewing u.s. attorney candidates, particularly in new york and school district district of columbia. a group of reporters sat down with senator rubio earlier today and i asked him, do you know if he had interviewed candidates for the southern district of
reform, which really does have to be the goal, because we need to grow the economy. we re struggling with growth that s not as high as we d like because we re a population that s aging. if you want to grow the economy, you have to get rid of some of these tax breaks. keep in mind there are 1$1.2 trillion of tax loss every year because of deductions. people love them, but if we want to figure out how to bring the rates down, we will be able to grow the economy. the hard part is this has been sold aseasy. oh, we re going to give you low rates and here s the things we promise not to touch. until we have world leaders who talk about how we re going to pay for this, we risk being incredibly fiscally irresponsible. if it does add to the debt we already have, that s a slow growth at a time we need to increase growth, and hopefully the political leaders are going to insist on figuring out ways to make this real reform. this morning on morning joe, kevin brady heading the