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Potential and current presidential candidates grows, presidenti policies like the wealth tax are taking center stage. is this a sign of things to come in 2020? joining me tiffany cross, jamal simmons, host of hill tv and jason johnson, resident skeptic. back with me he s our skeptical face. we ll go to tiffany first, my optimistic friend. let s talk about elizabeth warren interesting she s trying to get back in the conversation after being out when it was about the wall and other issues that aren t her core thing. she s come back in with the wealth tax idea. a 2% tax on households with assets above $50 million 3% on households with assets over $1 illion it would raise $2.75 trillion over ten years and draws from 75,000 families out of 326 million families that s .1% of households ....
It was good. welcome to the most mature hour on television on cable news. what i was saying is that republicans under the big tent have a renewed vigor to, you know, i am looking at greg, wondering if he is making other comments. don t worry about him. what do you think about it? someone stopped me in the street, all the scandals, are they going to have effect on obama? no, they re not going to have effect on obama but they will have effect on the 2014 mid term elections, benghazi, irs, nsa, independently wouldn t have had much effect, aggregately, you know people are going to remind, all the political commercials in 2014, do you want more of this, more of the democrats, transparency obama promised didn t happen. it will guarantee the gop the house again and it will get seats for the gop in the senate. and really, that s kind of more important than winning the white house. oh, look at our resident ....
Yedi. what s the breakdown here? we were wondering the same thing. we went to australia and sumatra coming up this season. when and when we got to australia what we found out, the way they act is the same as what we experience in north america. we got audio recordings down ther there. you actually did include you have a resident skeptic basically who kind of provides that vupt. i think we have a clip of it. she s wrong. what s the best piece of evidence for the existence of big foot outside of the patterson film? that s really difficult to say because anecdotal evidence alone doesn t hold water for me. we had anecdotal evidence for centuries for mermaids, for unicor unicorns, for all different kind of animals we know are not real. i guess what i wonder, she s expressing a few that i think a ....
They both speak with great confidence, their voices and entone nation is roughly the same and the humor is roughly the same as we saw last night. it s the same? what are you talking about, brother? i don t think so. they all have you know they have comedy writers. they re not writing those jokes, but they delivered them equally competent. maybe you disagree. i like it, michael. my co-hosts here have covered a lot of good ground on the s substance of your piece. as a resident skeptic, i have to take advantage of this opportunity. is big foot real or fake? is big foot real? show me the body. in biology, you have to have a specimen. not footprints and grainy videos and blurry photographs and stories about sthithings that g bump in the night in your tent. that s not evidence. it s possible there s a big foot running around kanld or north america, but until you show me a ....
If i m in my apartment alone and i get the thought in my head, i can t get the thought out until i check every space big enough to hold a human being. there are two closets and behind the shower and under the bed. i check that and go to sleep. adorable. it s adorable. you re adorable. as it turns out, i don t know how we managed this but we have an expert on this topic of superstitions. our resident skeptic is joining us, executive director of the skeptic society. nice to see you. hi. how common is it for humans to have superstitions? i mean, are steve and i weird for having some superstitions here? you re not weird in the general sense. superstitions are very common because our brains are wired up to find patterns. the tendency to find meaningful patterns and random noise like your example of the number 11. doesn t matter what the number is. i can tell you the number 23 and ....