Joining us. let s get right to it. john, 49% of americans disagreeing with the decision to send that letter. how badly do you think this could hurt the republican party? look i think there has been significant blow back. one way you can tell is in the wake of benjamin netanyahu s speech to congress the conversation the focus was was this a good deal? what s the status of negotiation? is president obama and his negotiators being naive in deeg dealing with iran? it s all about this letter and the unprecedented nature and people throwing around the words like traitor which is far too extreme. but it s taking the eye off the ball. they re dismittsing they re dismissing it as a stunt. the people who did the right thing are the 7 republican senators who declined to sign it because they realized it would make it more difficult for the administration and congress. it wasn t necessarily that they didn t agree, they didn t
Deductions and other deductions are taken. if a couple makes $300,000 and they take $30,000 worth of deductions, their taxable income is $270 and they would be paying higher rate only on $20,000. those dollars above $1250,000. i m so happy to have the opportunity to come on national tv and say this. no. i m glad you did. you absolutely say it even better than i did. it is important people use that quarter of a million threshold, you added up can take your deductions, deeg duct them and what s remaining of that, it is an even smaller amount people will have their this new tax would go into or the lack of extension of bush tax cuts would affect that amount of money. the numbers on extending the tax cuts overall 5shgs 2% of voters say they want all of the tax cuts extended, 43% want them extended for the incomes under $250,000. what s your take on that? do they not understand? are people saying between can t put any more of our cash into
Yes, it s going to take a lot of money. but the question is, have we stopped to ask, is it worth it? we ll have many more deaths in afghanistan. part has to do with the fact that we made a pledge to the afghan people, a pledge made much more difficult by our actions in 2002, 2003, 2004, getting out of afghanistan, but are we going to take that pledge seriously? this is about who we are as americans as much as it is by what s going on in afghanistan. a couple of questions raised, is it worth it? i don t think this was an engagement this president started it was deeg dealing with what he was haned. but what makes this breaking news that karzai is crazy? what makes this breaking news that he may not be exactly who we want to deal with? is the difference we have 100,000 troops there as opposed to 30,000? first of all, i have to unwind a couple of things you said. you said barack obama inherited this problem. he did. just like he inherited the
Amendment is as you say a relic of the 18th century. outdated,ed a misunderstood. stevens clearly trying to gain momentum from the large anti-gun march for our lives rallies last weekend, all around the country that, were led by survive0s of the stone man douglas tragedy in florida and other students around the country. the retired justice imploring the young people to take advantage of the crowds, they may scare members of congress to accept much more drastic change n an op ed, stevens wrote, that support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons increase the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 and establishing background checks on all purchases of firearms. but the demonstrators should seek more effective and last deeg form, demand a repeeflt second amendment mpt steveens joins a monthsly crew suggesting the second amendment should reeb
Now, claiming the second amendment is as you say a relic of the 18th century. outdated,ed a misunderstood. stevens clearly trying to gain momentum from the large anti-gun march for our lives rallies last weekend, all around the country that, were led by survive0s of the stone man douglas tragedy in florida and other students around the country. the retired justice imploring the young people to take advantage of the crowds, they may scare members of congress to accept much more drastic change n an op ed, stevens wrote, that support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons increase the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 and establishing background checks on all purchases of firearms. but the demonstrators should seek more effective and last deeg form, demand a repeeflt second amendment mpt steveens joins a monthsly crew suggesting