welcome back. tonight i m obsessed with a sad story thatppeared in the wall street journal today. at can happen to people in washington when they fly too close to the sun or in this case too close to power and money. and we hope a lot of people read this story that are in washington that are close to power. it s a story of a smart, creative, ambitious young man. by the time he was 27, he was a top lobbyist for one of the world s biggest pharmaceutical companies. morris was a game changer, figured out better ways to get members of congress to give them what they wanted. company made billions and morris got rich too. as brodie who wrote this story and reporteden to detail noted today, he traded in his mazda for a porsche. morris indulged himself with 2,000 dlargs bottle of wine. brought a $3 million vacation
islamic militants, but no group has claimed responsibility for this attack. and this time we had a shark scare in california. a great white shark nearly 6 feet long bumped a huntington beach surfer yesterday but did not attack. the incident did prompt lifeguards to temporarily keep people out of the water as a precaution. outrage over a michigan doctor who, of course, got rich by tweeting hundreds of patients with cancer medications. even though some of them didn t even have the disease. plus, the fbi admits that dylann roof should not have been allowed to purchase guns tragically used to kill nine people in south carolina. we ll look at how the system failed here. when you re living with diabetes, steady is exciting.
chairman, that he resigns from the house to plot his run for the presidency from the comfort of the only private sector job he has known working in the ryan family business, a business that has made him rich, the same way paris hilton got rich, through inheritance. some of the same pundits who were foolish enough to think that sarah palin was a front-runner for president this time will surely take ryan s presidential candidacy seriously, but he will do no better than dan quayle, joe lieberman, and john edwards did when they ran for president after being losing vice presidential candidates. and he will watch the republican presidential nomination next time go to one of the lucky ones, one of the lucky republicans, who was not selected by mitt romney to be the next losing vice presidential candidate,, who will never be president. joining me now, karen finney, former dnc communications director and msnbc political
president in 2016, or he might reasonably find the power of a junior member so dispiriting, after having had the power of a chairman, that he resigns from the house to plot his run for the presidency from the comfort of the only private sector job he has known working in the ryan family business, a business that has made him rich, the same way paris hilton got rich, through inheritance. some of the same pundits who were foolish enough to think that sarah palin was a front-runner for president this time will surely take ryan s presidential candidacy seriously, but he will do no better than dan quayle, joe lieberman, and john edwards did when they ran for president after being losing vice presidential candidates. and he will watch the republican presidential nomination next time go to one of the lucky ones, one of the lucky republicans, who was not selected by mitt romney to be
more and has a lot less wealth. i don t know about that. i don t think we understand where the wealth came from. ten kennedy had as much wealth as anybody and refused to ever release any tax returns. you asked what obama-loney means. it means the romney campaign is seeing the same polls i have seen and other people have seen that shows in swing states, his tax plan is not landing. in swing states, people actually do believe that $250,000 is a lot of money and they want to see those people pay more in taxes. and more importantly, romney is running in part on a plan to tax americans in a way that we understand what helped him in his own social class and that s why it s relevant and we understand how ronald reagan got rich, he was in the movies. he worked for it. you got them paying 38% of the tax. what tax do you think they should pay? i think a lot of people in the 1% would disagree. what do you think they should pay? go back to the old rates at 39.6% where we create