something to talk about. plus, more of my exclusive interview today with congressman benny thompson who s the chair of the january six committee. we ll give you more the hunter before we talk about everything from where the country goes now to the direct line he sees from january 6 to 4 for president trump. and, southwest airlines is finally getting their travel troubles under control. after leaving thousands of passengers stranded for days. we are talking to the vice president of the southwest flight attendants union, about how this debacle might have been avoided. i am simone sanders townsend and i have something to say. . we after years of legal wrangling, americans are finally getting a look at former president donald trump s financial records from before and even during his time as president, now, donald trump infamously bugged nearly 50 years of tradition by refusing to just close this financial records to the public. and, this is a problem because nearly every presiden
not at the level of over a billion dollars that made those loophole closures were aimed at. we have to go, very quickly, the irs as opposed to audits a president while they are president. it is something that happened. it is a formality. something it happens to every president. they didn t an audit donald trump. the reason they re getting is because we, too many pastors? does that stand up to muster. the reason they are giving us that there weren t enough resources. and it just really, there is a report from an irs agent basically saying that the pastors are part of it. in order to understand what underlies all of these claims, you have to go investigate all of. them we it seems unthinkable to me that irs, with tens of thousands of people working there, it didn t have the ability to do that if donald trump s administration had wanted donald trump s taxes looked out, they would like to. i think it seems unthinkable to me, i was. well maybe some folks that. home john allen, thank y
if the left gets its way. it s got its way on asylum reform, stopping at making it more difficult to deport bad actors out of the united states. of course just this week with the department of justice and dhs jointly issued a new asylum regulation and if it holds up, it will make a big difference. to your point, laura, congress holds the main keys here and not much of this is very complicated. this doesn t have to be a big deal. we could pass two loophole closures that even president obama supported and i can fit them all on one page. it can be bipartisan and everything else. were not seeing that out of the house. senator graham in the senate is working on some of this. no one in the house. they are waiting to go on vacation. you are right about this group of really vicious ms-13 murderers. i will tell you when i was a
more difficult to deport bad actors out of the united states. of course just this week with the department of justice and dhs jointly issued a new asylum regulation and if it holds up it will make a big difference. to your point, laura, congress holds the main keys here and not much of this is very complicated. this doesn t have to be a big deal. we could pass two loophole closures that even president obama supported and i can fit them all on one page.ol it can be bipartisan and everything else. we re not seeing that out of the house. senator graham in the senate is working on some of this. no one in the house. they are waiting to go on vacation. you are right about this group of really vicious ms-13 murderers. i will tell you when i was a state attorney general in
will have them pay 25% maximum, trump 20% and rand paul with his flat tax, 14.5. how does it work, though, mort? well, i guess it works. the whole idea is supply side. that was kemp s specialty. that means lowering rates. the key thing, though, that s missing from trump s analysis is what loopholes are you going to close? you ve got to close a lot of loopholes to make up the money that he s going to give in tax cuts. and we ve yet to see what the loophole closures are. supply side economics doesn t always work. sometimes there has to be revenue. there does. you do get when you cut the rates, particularly the top rate, which stirs investment, stirs growth, creates jobs, you get feedback effects. the tax cuts may not pay for themselves immediately although the kennedy tax cuts in the 60s