talking about bipartisanship, that we can t get republicans to have the united states live up to its word and pay our debt, debt that was accumulated many previous administrations. but the house democrats are not going to let our country default. we will do whatever it takes. and i trust speaker pelosi and senator schumer to come up with that framework. congressman kana, thank you very much for being with me this morning. i appreciate your time. jose, always a pleasure. thanks. following breaking news this morning, three more of the christian missionaries kidnapped in haiti by an infamous gang have been released. christian aid ministries released the statement saying, quote, we are thankful to god that three more hostages were released last night. those who were released are safe and seem to be in good spirits. the group provided no other adults. 17 missionaries were abducted in october, including five children. two other hostages were released in november. 12 of the missionari
largely benefits both the rich and corporations. congressman kana joins me. do you think they ll have success as the withholdings get recalculated in the spring and there are some expectations that people have such low opinion of this bill they re actually underestimating the number of people that will get a tax cut, people will see a little bit more money in their paycheck? i think people get it. they know that this is largely a corporate tax cut. you know, president obama in 2009 actually passed a bigger middle class tax cut. i was in the administration and people didn t notice that and that was about $1,000 more than this. so this is temporary. they know the vast majority of benefit goes to shareholders, going to go into stock buy backs and it doesn t help working families.
their very unpopular tax bill. the koch brothers are coming to the rescue. funded by wealthy gop donors have already invested $20 million to push for its passage. they will launch a multi-million dollar campaign to try to convince middle class americans to support a tax cut that largely benefits both the rich and corporations. congressman kana joins me. do you think they ll have success as the withholdings get recalculated in the spring and there are some expectations that people have such low opinion of this bill they re actually underestimating the number of people that will get a tax cut, people will see a little bit more money in their paycheck? i think people get it. they know that this is largely a corporate tax cut. you know, president obama in 2009 actually passed a bigger middle class tax cut. i was in the administration and people didn t notice that and that was about $1,000 more than