superficial cosmopolitan, urban world that hates me and, you know, benefit in a way from the anti-elitism from the class warfa warfare, you know, in many ways it s a little bit like trump reminding people of the urban elites who hate him. of the media who hates him, of political correctness. are you falling into that trap? my burden is my past as a tv star, but, you know, past cannot be a life sentence. i made my lessons and i m a different person. i m a political journalist for more than ten years in russia, but of course, in totalitarian regime, only one person, a brave person can try to break the system with a little tools or with some burdens. it s unfortunately the realistic picture of what we have, and realize that, but still, i want to use it to the end and being underestimated is something a
comments that the gop colleagues said on the senate floor. for the past 3 1/2 years the president and the democrats here in the senate have failed to provide the leadership that america needs. we ve learned again a lesson we ve learned time and time again in america, you can t tax, regulate your way to prosperity. the president has put class warfa warfare and his own political future ahead of the immediate and long-term interests of our economy. sir, is this just the state of the things on capitol hill, just mud, everybody standing still and nothing productive getting done? i think we re hearing sound bites. obviously the president has made progress during this four-year period with very little help from the republicans. we ve got to continue to make that progress. the republicans have chosen, let s wait until after november 6 to do more business. they control the house of representatives and they can effectively stop because of the 60-vote threshold in the senate. i think th
know, they are going to start the attacks of this is class warfa warfare, this is divisive. how does the president connect tonight to the american public what this is really all about in terms of fairness? this is not anti-rich that we don t like people that are successful. this is about fairness. i don t have anything against rich people they make money they make money what is the class war fair is the attack on wall street, main street cleveland, main street dayton, that has been the class warfare, that a small number of people have don t richer and rich, while more people s homes are foreclosed on, more auto workers lost their jobs, more shop keepers and hardware store dealers lost their jobs because of what wall street did to this country. all we are doing is pointing out the class war fare that they committed and i think the public totally get s ths that the publ
indicator than when he was elected pch if he believes in what he has done, he will sound like you and he will articulate that. i think he will engage in class warfa warfare. he s going to run against the producers, takers and wealthy. i don t think the country will put up with that. you keep saying he s flogging old and tired policies. here is a question for you which isn t old and tired. do you support newt gingrich s plan for revising the tax code in the united states? i don t specifically, martin, know what the particulars of his plan are. i do know that for the last three, four years beyond, republicans have been advocating simplifying the code; getting rid of loopholes and all of the like. that s something we have all been on the record on. i love the notion of a small,
from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your cnn sunday morning for october 9. 6:00 a.m. in atlanta. i m t.j. holmes. as always, we want to say a special good morning to our service men and women watching us right now, the american forces network. thank you for being here, and thank you for what you do. let s talk about the president first and the jobs bill. this is going to be an important week. in just a couple of days, the president s jobs bill will get an important test. the senate is expected to vote on his $447 billion package. the congressional budget office says the plan s tax on millionaires would raise an estimated $453 billion. still, republican leaders, they don t like that tax. the president this weekend, we heard from him. he s pushing ahead anyway. some see this as class warfare. i see it as a simple choice. we can either keep taxes exactly as they are for millionaires and approximatelynair and billionaires, or we can ask them to pay at least the