The senate says kushner withheld emails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. And House Republicans pass the trump tax plan. I dont benefit. New Analysis Finds that the plan saves trumps family over 1 billion. I pay as little as possible. I fight like hell to pay as little as possible. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The same president who has weighed in on everything from Meryl Streeps acting to Social Media Policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his partys nominee for u. S. Senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. Reporte reporters today his Press Secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the
white house refusing to take a stand on roy moore is the same white house that claims that every single one of those women, every single one of the president s accusers, is lying. Obviously, Sexual Harassment has been in the news, at
it s just a big pay back for the major donors. this return on investment concept is useful when you talk about major donors. these are the gop heirs. and donors that stand to gain from this. my favorite is sheldon miriam adelson, contributed $82.5 million in 2016 alone to republicans. that s a lot of money. but they re looking at an estate tax cut of almost $15 billion. that is an incredible turn on investment, and it goes on and on and on. you can understand why the donor class is so motivated by this. they re not only motivated right now, but look at over the next 30 years. the really rich billionaire and semi billionaire baby boomers are going to be transferring about $30 trillion to their children. i mean, you re going to have the biggest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history. and if they can eliminate the estate tax and if they can actually wrangle things so there is no capital gains tax, we are creating a dynastic class in america as fast as we possibly can.
they re not only motivated right now, but look at over the next 30 years. the really rich billionaire and semi billionaire baby boomers are going to be transferring about $30 trillion to their children. i mean, you re going to have the biggest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history. and if they can eliminate the estate tax and if they can actually wangel things so there is no capital gains tax, we are creating a dine at particular class in america as fast as we possibly can. it shouldn t be called the estate tax, not the death tax. we should call it the dynastic tax. on the loser side of the ledger, and i thought you would have something to say about this, because you re an academic, you ve worked in academia, you teach at berkeley. grad students i mean, so here you have billionaire donors the adelsons stand to gain about $15 billion. meanwhile, grad students who are not living high on the hog, if