delivered and this terrorist leader is no more. people around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. al zawahiri, the second in command to osama bin laden during the 9/11 attacks as well as the attack on u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998 and the uss cole in 2000, killing 17 service members, took over the terrorist organization after bin laden s death in 2011 and was killed on the balcony of a taliban-linked safehouse in kabul, afghanistan. to those around the world who continue to seek to harm the united states, hear me now. we will always remain vigilant and we will act and we will always do what is necessary to ensure the safety and security of americans at home and around the globe. i ll be joined this hour by white house homeland security adviser elizabeth sherwood randall and intelligence committee chairman senator mark warner for more on this major national security development and the future of al qaeda and the taliban. a
pay at least 15% to this great country. now, if you re opposed to these corporations paying a fair share at 15% when everyone else is still paying 21%, then you re not going to be supportive of this bill. but trying to malign it by saying oh, by doing this you re going to raise taxes, i m sorry, i guarantee you the people that are making 100, 200, 300 whatever they may be making. they re paying their fair share. they would like for the corporations, the largest of the country, to do the same. that s so wrong, that analogy. and all these other things. there were 17 nobel laureates back in a year ago, andrea, when i said that inflation is real, it s here to stay and it s going to hurt us tremendously, they said oh, no. the 17 brilliant people said oh, no, it s going to be transitory. well, it was not transitory and it s very harmful. let s fight inflation. and this is the bill that fights inflation. and we took $3.5 trillion of
yeah, i m paying 21%, everyone i know in corporate world is paying 21, how come they get away with not? that s all we ve done. so we re not taxing anybody. we re just saying closing the loophole and pay your fair share at 15%. and the rate s at 21. let me ask you to expand on something you were discussing with chuck todd on meet the press on sunday where you said you did not say whether you would back democrats in the midterms. you said you would decide based on individual candidates i think. would you support joe biden in he s on the ticket in 2024 as the democratic president seeking re-election? let me make it very, very clear. this is the most one of the most important pieces of legislation in my lifetime that we ve ever done, to have energy security, to fight inflation, to help our geopolitical and you ve worked with a democratic white house on it. that s exactly i m working with them on it. i m very appreciative. but for me to bring the politics
talk about how much inflation it would bring down and whether or not it would actually raise taxes on the middle class, which some analysis say would happen because those corporations would pass on their tax increases to middle-class consumers. andrea, let s make sure that everyone understands that the joint tax committee, it s made up of democrat and a democrat staff and republican and republican. when it s a joint statement, they both agree on everything. this statement and this evaluation was only put out by the republican side. these are my friends. i know them. but i understand this is a political dialogue that s happening and it came from one side. so don t give it credibility that it came from the joint tax committee by both sides agreeing. that didn t happen. so let s be honest with what we have. how in the world can you say we re raising taxes when we re not raising one iota of taxes anywhere? anywhere. except we re making people, corporations of a billion dollars of revenue
into it, oh, this is a democrat bill, this is a republican bill, this is not. i m not talking about the 2022 election and 2024. i have no control over those elections. and i m not going to talk about them that will skew one of the greatest pieces of legislation, and i m very appreciative that the president has seen it, he s approved it, he supports it. god bless him for that. it s great for america. can t we do something for our country without having to bring politics into it? that s all i want to talk about. you re a democratic senator. i m not going to talk about it. whether you re going to support the leader of your own party. i m supporting this bill, andrea. it s the american bill. it s the red, white and blue american bill. it s the bill that we need to fight inflation, to have more energy to do the job we were sent here to do. every time you talk about politics it gets people fired up. i m not going to go down that path. i m not fired up, senator. but i appreciate the