vaporized. some of those we talk about what a mess the tax code is these days. yeah. i think part of the popularity of the tax code is the hatred of the irs and all of that. those deductions at the same time are popular when it comes time to paying your taxes. that s true steve. you talk about the mortgage deduction and charitable deduction. by the way, some of these plans would retain some of those really popular deductions like the charitable and mortgage deduction. i favor getting rid of all of them and making it as uncomplicated as possible. but bravo for mentions that jerry brown ran on the flat tax what was that 24 years ago? and by the way, i would mention one other thing. in 1986 we had not a flat tax but reagan had tax reform where they got rid of all of the darn deductions for windmills and nascar racetracks and all of that stuff. and they all came back.
base in the democratic party frank don t you think you guys have a tough argument other than i m going to have to cut you barack obama lanny she s four more years of barack obama. we already saw in this election that was only six weeks ago lanny timing looks pretty this is a record number of state legislators who are republican. a record number of governors who are republican. one seat away from the record number of senators who are republican. the highest republican majority in the house since 1928. lanny, get your numbers straight. this was the biggest rejection of the democratic party in 84 years. hold hold on. i beg your pardon, i beg your pardon, let me get steve hayes in here for a second. excuse me for a excuse me for a moment here. isn t it true steve, nominating hillary clinton would run contrary to all we know about democrat sns they don t want somebody experienced.
frank don t you think you guys have a tough argument other than i m going to have to cut you barack obama lanny she s four more years of barack obama. we already saw in this election that was only six weeks ago lanny timing looks pretty this is a record number of state legislators who are republican. a record number of governors who are republican. one seat away from the record number of senators who are republican. the highest republican majority in the house since 1928. lanny, get your numbers straight. this was the biggest rejection of the democratic party in 84 years. hold hold on. i beg your pardon, i beg your pardon, let me get steve hayes in here for a second. excuse me for a excuse me for a moment here. isn t it true steve, nominating hillary clinton would run contrary to all we know about democrat sns they don t want somebody experienced.
cars, has your ticket to the l.a. auto show and the inside scoop on these never before seen hot cars. we re so excited to see them. good morning. hi, good morning. yeah. the cars are actually 2015. out heck could we have 2015 cars? i haven t had turkey yet? let s get out of the way. let s show you something new. steve, elisabeth, it is trending, you guys are going to want this. it s lincoln! lincoln is cool for people even under 70. who knew? this is just the second of four new lincolns that we ll see this year. this is the mkc. 2.3-liter, gets phenomenal gas mileage, 275 horsepower. if you re in manhattan and you have to park it, it not only will self-park in, but it will self-park out. it s true. it can take itself out of a parking space! which is why this doesn t have dings or dents in it. all right.
canned, they say, due to the production time the show required. why do we need a reality show? the expenses were killing them because apparently they had a bar. absolutely. he denied there was a bar there. it is now 23 minutes before the top of the hour. it s wednesday. you know what that means? it s time for science trivia with the former science teacher, maria molina. good morning, steve, elisabeth and brian. are you ready for today s science trivia question? no. all right. so here is today s question. today s question is: is the moon moving away from the earth? and if so, by a rate of how much each year? the answer choices are a, it s not moving away. b, by two centimeters. c, it s moving away by four centimeters or d, it s moving away by six