back, second of all, i thought it was very interesting that it was referred to as a way to alleviate this tax on the poor, who apparently now fall under $250,000 a year for families. so now you have absolutely no middle class? because we re told everybody over 250 is rich, right, so now anybody under 250 doesn t have to pay this tax. you re right, it s income redistribution, wr-fplt rit large, it is a bureaucratic nightmare, and it s a highly politicized tax. what it actually works out f. we ever get this thing, who will get the rebate? that will depend upon your political masters. martha: we re going to get much more into this. thank you so much for setting this foundation for all of that for us this morning, stuart varney, always good to see you, sir, and we ll see you at varney & company at the business channel. gregg: breaking news on the u.s. economy, the weekly jobless claim number just came out moments ago, 450,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits. that s s
americans kind of unease with intelligence work and i think this is sort of a recent development in our history. truth is, a spy frankly saved the american republic, a spy by the name of hercules mull began during a revolutionary war was a spy for general washington and a tailor in new york city and made uniforms for british officers and uncovered a plot to assassinate general washington and imagine how different america would be if that plot succeeded. in the civil war, we had allen pinkerton who worked for president lynn lincoln and world war ii, the office of strategic services under the legendary william j. donovan. we know how to do this but i often feel that much like the military has lived in the shadow of vietnam since the 1970s, so too our intelligence community has lived in the shadow of the scandals of the 1970s and the church and pike committees which did damage to the intelligence community that it s never really recovered from. martha: your points are well taken, sir.
to revenues, from concession sales, parking, to the tune of $58 million a year. we will have much more on le bron and how he is move markets in these cities. he s got the sports world and even folks who don t care about basketball are hanging on every word in this story. gregg: do you care to offer your guess? martha: i think he s going to go to new york. i heard he was down in the west village looking at brownstones, i heard he was looking at billy joel s old brownstone, apparently it has very high ceilings, which is good for him. he dissed new jersey a little bit, he said maybe there was some talk about well maybe, the nets, if they moved to brooklyn but i don t want to play in new jersey. there was talk he said something like that, i don t know if he did, but personally i find that offensive, why wouldn t you want to play in new jersey of all places. i think he s going to pick new york. gregg: i think he s going to stay in cleveland. martha: no way. tkpwrao eg tkpwrao eg gregg
political heat. this thing just is a ton irk that they can take these type of cheap shots and that s coming from our own governors and the governors down south. our own governors got the latitude, they can get away witness, mexico is in no position to be self-righteous and point fingers. i went down into mexico a couple weeks ago i was stopped six times for a mexican to talk about our pores, and i understand. bret: we re going to have to leave it at that. congressman brian bilbray thank you so much for being with us. any time thank you. martha: this is coming in from foxnews.com, it s an interesting development in the arizona immigration lawsuit. foxnews.com is reporting that the attorney for the justice department who will lead this arizona case is tony west, tony west is part of what has been guild the gitmo 9. it s a group of attorneys within our justice department who has represented terror suspects. he represented john walker lynn
site. governor perry was more noncommit al. he basically said he was disappointed. he would be willing to talk about it. just because they didn t have the conference this year doesn t mean they won t have one next year. martha: thank you very much, william la jeunesse. was canceling that conference the right move or wrong move and what does it mean for the relationships between these border governors. the chairman bill bray is going to weigh in on this moments from now. bret: leaping from the sports page the front page, lebron james announcing his future nba plans tonight. he is among the most sought after players in league history and the drama surrounding his decision, one for the record books.