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fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. now, let me tell you what else they want to do. they want to nearly double the standard deduction. $12,000 for individuals. $24,000 for married couples. that s the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10% to 12% that a whole lot of people aren t actually going to pay for. the plan also calls for the elimination of the so-called marriage penalty. raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. and look for a new $500 tax credit for non-child dependents. that replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim non-child dependents. in addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. what a lot of republicans call the death tax. this benefits generally speaking the wealthy. it also repeals the alternative minimum tax. at lot of you might say i pay the alternative minimum tax. here s the problem. it was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. wasn t indexed to inflation so a< ....
here. and the real problem is donald trump is not the closer. he can t call these people up and say, hey, i ve done so much for you, you need to vote for this for me. this is not going to sway senate republicans. darlene, a lot of the opposition in the bill isn t something that the sweeteners will necessarily be able to fix. a lit more money here or there to alaska or maine. the critique is more fundamental from susan collins. so how does senator graham and cassidy get over the hurdle? that s a good question. you mentioned susan collins and rand paul who is always for repeal and his opposition to this bill now is based on the fact that it does not entirely repeal obamacare. so i don t know how you flip him on that basis. and can president trump close the deal? that remains to be seen. this is one of several headlines moving forward throughout the day here. what is happening on the health with health, happening on the he s a spokesman for the league. and i asked him s ....
what he says in private conversations. he thinks this is an unfair attack against his presidency. but that these probes have expanded, mushroomed to different veins, different associates of him. there hasn t been any wrongdoing proven, of course, so far, but it s kind of gotten hotter and hotter over the past few months and that frustrated the president. he also gets frustrated when these senators are trying to take some of his autonomy away. he wanted to determine the bill on russian sanctions and exactly what would happen. he wants to be able to fire mueller if he chooses to do so. he says he doesn t want to, but he says if i have that option, i might want to take it. and he says he doesn t like being backed in a corner. so you see him really getting frustrated by these different measures. the latter point about mueller, there s a sanctions argument, we ll get to sanctions in a moment. the latter point about mueller, the president said he s not going to fire mueller and there ....
country? i hope he did write those letters. i hope he does call those family members in the coming days. he was wrong to try to make up this just awful lie that president obama didn t do that. but my concern is more about what it says about future decisions he ll make about putting soldiers in harm s way. or point of fact, current kinetic military taifd by this nation in places like niger were frankly, senator, i bet if he polled a thousand americans, 999 couldn t have told you that the u.s. had members of the armed service there s in harm s way in niger. what is going on there? what is striking to me, four americans were killed there, and what do we know about why we re there, what the strategy is, what the u.s. government is doing? well, listen, to be fair to president trump, this counterterrorism strategy of pushing special forces out wherever al qaeda was gaining president talked about at length today, and i want to ask you, because i have you here and you ve been very ....
this is so far looking at the re-elect, they seem to have a rule about who has the legal fees paid for by campaign donors. you have to be named donald trump. did good thing for the trump family is they have two of those guys. two people. junior and senior. ivanka needs anything, uh-huh. kushner, do you get any money? exactly. poor mike pence, next week, is going to be raising money for the trump re-election fund. he s raised money for his own pac and donated that money to the trump re-election fund paying for junior s legal fees and mike pence pays for his own. the funniest part is he then has to sell the plasma to help jared and the other non donald trump family members pay their legal fees. running out of blood. yeah. you know that the president s going to volunteer him. tap mike. he s healthy. the paler he looks, the more he s pumping into the trump family legal fees. thank you. have a great weekend. thank you. you too. all right. i m in for launs o donne ....