Live Breaking News & Updates on In Totality|Page 5
Stay updated with breaking news from In totality. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
You look at this in totality, none of this is moving the needle for the american people. you can look at real clear politics, the average of several polls, look at the fox news po poll. it seems to sit around 50% of people wanting the president impeached and removed at about 46 to 47% depending on what you look at they don t want that process. if none of this moves the needle, if you took off any partisan hat, what are we watching and what are we looking for specifically? we talked about this a little bit yesterday on outnumbered. you are right, they are not moving. the tracking poll, the averages, they are sort of stuck. i think what you see is the american people have a very clear understanding of who president donald trump is. they have a clear understanding of the direction that he wants to take this country, whether it ....
That the president has every right to be frustrated. that these things are leaking out. what was in his national security briefings are leaking out to the press. no doubt about it. as a president you deserve to have people around you that you can trust. we re starting to see, the mattises, the mcmasters, those people there maybe not necessary troy serve donald trump but to protect the country from donald trump, are growing frustrated with his inability to follow simple instructions. do not congratulate. i m pretty sure it was in bold loers a document provided to you by individuals who know better. if you look at this in totality, look at the simple fact he agreed and announced he would meet with kim jong-un without even notifying his secretary of state at the time. i mean, he has this propensity to go off script. to do things and we know that he does not have the intellectual today pass toy engage these individuals the way he should. so yes. he has every right to be ....
Of two ways to get the owner of the account s consent or to follow a proper criminal process, which could be a subpoena or other effort to legally obtain the e-mails. i don t think there s any reason to think there s anything unlawful that happened here. ultimately, this is about casting a shadow on the investigation. what do you think it s about, richard? the suggestion is it s more politics as opposed to legally. i had several people on the broadcast who said this letter they point out was sent to congress, not robert mueller s team. it didn t have a lot of legal discussion of charges that were going to be brought against mueller s team. as you look at this in totality, what is this all about? what s going on here is the members of congress want to carry president trump in ....
And what we ve tried to do in this bill is come up with a compromise and that as you pointed out earlier there s two current deductions in the tax code as it relates to state and local taxes. one is presumably income tax and sales taxes and others and the other is property taxes, so what i fought for and we were successful in including is to separate out, keep the property tax deduction, cap it at $10,000 , but property taxes are different in that they re not related in your capacity to pay. you get a property tax bill whether or not you can pay that bill or not. there s no relationship to pay and if someone were to evaluate this tax plan and say that is the only thing that s happening, that is the elimination of a state and local deduction then the criticism would be right, but look, you ve got to look at this in totality. these rates are coming down, the brackets are being extended, it s the elimination of the alternative minimum tax and i know in my constituency that hits 30,000 hou ....
Deduction is probably not as valuable for a person wyoming as it would be in new york. it s really important when people look at this in totality, by doubling the standard deduction, letting people write off $10,000 of the property taxes, lowering their tax rates, you are seeing benefits across the board for all families across the income scale. martha: corporations get to keep the state and local tax deductions, right? speaker ryan: corporations are taxed differently. martha: in some cases they get to. martha: they go from 35% down to 25% and they have full expensing. you don t write off that, corporations write off their plant and equipment investment. when they buy a factory or equipment, that they can write off. martha: one more quick then, in terms of spending cuts, that isn t on the table at all right now. you are finding ways to pay for the tax cut, and a lot of people want to know what one of those ways to pay for it isn t to cut spending here in washington. speaker ....