is breaking news, the senate voting on the buffet rule and failing tonight. mostly along party lines. senate democrats called for a vote on the so-called buffett rule today. it is one of the president s election year priorities. it calls for people who earn a million dollars in adjusted gross income to pay a minimum tax rate of 30%. now, the left-leaning group moveon.org was quick to jump into the debate. target number one for them, mitt romney. when the wealthiest 1% pay a fair tax rate like the rest of us, it keeps the american dream alive for everyone. so tell mitt romney, kittens are cute. 1% fat cats who won t pay their fair share? not so much. okay. we did the math, though, and the buffett rule doesn t add up to keeping the american dream alive. at least when it comes to raising the deficit. it would raise about $4.7 billion a year in revenue. one half of one percent of $901 billion. that s the president s forecasted budget deficit for 2013. already those who earn o
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from the pig i mean, they ll eat anything. the watch dog groups citizens against government waste. what are those dirty spots? something about them is endearing but not endearing about lawmakers. we got the numbers for fiscal year 2012 so we brought some of these friends along from the farm. probably better than a lot of things they usually eat. the good news first, pork is down. since the big push to ban ear marks we have seen a big improvement on capitol hill. some good news. earmark spending down 80% from two years ago. that year there were more than 9,000 earmarks which cost $16.5 milli milli billion. the buffet tax would have raised only $4.7 billion a year. the taxpayers that means you are shoveling out $255 million to upgrade these tanks. the pentagon doesn t want the upgrades and the pentagon is upset about the cuts they are facing. if they say they don t need this they probably don t need it. lawmakers from both parties thought otherwise. pork is bipartisan. $48.5
sunset shooter. a real life gunman unloading on a driver. hear what the gunman told the man videotaping the shooting. abuse of authority. new sex abuse allegations. this time the head of the organize is accused and where so? the war on religion and christmas? people first of all are so afraid to be political correct. t.d. jakes speak out on that, politics and his fellow pastor s divorce and sex misconduct allegations. paying tribute. remembering families who celebrate the holidays without their loved ones who died in combat. our fallen heroes. it s all right here right now on cnn. tonight los angeles police are trying to figure out why a gunman started to shoot at passing cars in hollywood. oh, my god. this is at sunset and vine. one of the well most intersections in los angeles. police shot and killed the gunman. he s identified at 25-year-old tyler greene. during the rampage people on the street scrambled for cover. he was shooting pap car drove by and he shot i
tell us what america is doing to get him back and the bottom line on that top secret classified drone seized by iran earlier this week. despite the way iran s ambassador to the u.n. reacted to our question last night, they might be sharing america s top technology with china. let s go out front. i m erin burnett. out front tonight top secret american technology in the hands of a sworn adversary. at this hour iran has the cia s rq-170 drone. last night the ambassador said iran captured the drone intact and judging by the images of iranian state tv, that seems to be true. sources at the pentagon say that this does look like america s top stealth drone. the rq-170. our question tonight. what is iran doing with this drone? the big fear is they might be sharing its most important technology, the ability to fly undetected by radar, with china. experts today saying the flights between beijing and tehran likely were booked up this week to see the drone. it might be a case of he w