fascinating book. it s a read at our story, the american story. conversations with master historians and their reflections on history. david reubenstein and i have something in common. i was an intern for jimmy carter. he was a big wig there during the carter administration. i don t know what came of him since but he s run with the carlisle group, a multibillionaire, did some stuff on bloomberg, yada, yada i d rather have my own show on fox. how are you? thanks for inviting me and thanks for reading the book. neil: i love history and i know you re a lover of history and preserving it, too. you spent a good deal of your fortune trying to produce of course, anything connected with our great past and even documents. you bought copies of the constitution, the declaration of independence. what is crazy about you, you
well, what happened in the last few hours is a metaphor for what is going on here about health care. democrats held pictures of working families who would be hurt by trumpcare. republicans were in their lunch with steve wynn, a multibillionaire who would have benefitted with a huge tax cut. we re talking about average american working people. they re talking about multibillionaires. that s why they re in such trouble. that is why they re in such trouble. because their bill is aimed at helping the very wealthy, whereas we are trying to hurt to help american families. we know the fight is not over. that is for sure. we re not resting on any laurels, nor do we feel any sense yet of accomplishment
works as it is today, where every single human being in the united states has the opportunity to go to college. i do not believe it is a right and i do not believe that i should be expected to pay for not only my education and my children s but somebody else s as well. but mary, when we are losing at least $100 billion every single year because large multinational corporations stash their money in the cayman islands and other tax havens. that s not you who is going to be asked for more taxes. we have massive income inequality. donald trump, a multibillionaire, proudly told us he doesn t pay a nickel in federal taxes. then why was barack obama [cheers and applause ] then why was geoffrey i am mault, ceo of ge, who proudly declared he paid zero percent incorporate taxes, why did barack obama name him as chief
equal right to get a college education or should that only benefit the wealthy or upper middle class? i believe the united states works as it is today, where every single human being in the united states has the opportunity to go to college. i do not believe it is a right and i do not believe that i should be expected to pay for not only my education and my children s but somebody else s as well. but mary, when we are losing at least $100 billion every single year because large multinational corporations stash their money in the cayman islands and other tax havens. that s not you who is going to be asked for more taxes. we have massive income inequality. donald trump, a multibillionaire, proudly told us he doesn t pay a nickel in federal taxes. then why was barack obama [cheers and applause ] then why was geoffrey i am
much income and wealth inequality. nobody here, i suspect, thinks it is appropriate that the top one-tenth of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. anybody think that makes much sense? no. anybody think that it makes sense that 52% of all new income is going to the top 1%? no. i don t think people do. and they are sitting there and they are saying we don t want more of the same ole same ole. trump comes along and says i m a multibillionaire, i don t pay any taxes, i have companies in turkey and china and mexico but i m going to stand up to the economic establishment, the political establishment, i m going to take them on all and a lot of people responded, okay, we re going to give this guy a shot. there s folks we re going to bring out in a little bit, folks who voted for donald trump. one thing they talked about is how much they liked the way he communicated. obviously he said things that