Do that is slap a 35% tax on goods from u.s. companies that move productions overseas. but the lawyers say if the president-elect does decide to side-step congress on this matter, he could face years of legal battles. the fox business network blake berman is live in d.c. hi, shepard. you probably saw the president-elect reiterate to chris wallace that he ll try to, quote, impose a major tax on company that is leave the country and sell back to the united states. mr. trump has said that number could be as high as 35%. however, experts we have spoken to, like derek scissors of the american enterprise institute, says the president can enact this but can t cite specific companies. that is why we re getting him to talk about carrier and visiting and negotiating with
Congress and close the prison facility. the race for the white house. hillary clinton feeling the bern as bernie sanders takes lead in the new hampshire poll. ted cruz continues to defend his citizenship. with exactly 3 weeks to go until the iowa caucus big developments in the democratic race. hillary clinton and bernie sanders neck in neck in new hampshire and iowa. what s happening in iowa is something new. a new wall street journal poll shows clinton and sanders 3 points apart 48 to 45 well within the margin of error. she down-played the importance of the polls and bernie sanders calls the rise in the polls incredible. we are doing much better with independents.
Today bernie sanders took a break from campaigning in iowa and new hampshire to deliver a message to wall street addressing finance workers directly, he promised in elected president, he will break up the big banks within his first year. here is a new year s resolution that i will keep if elected president and that is, if wall street does not end its greed, we will end it for them. hours after he delivered the speech, i pressed for the details of his plan. legislation that we have, and i think there s a lot we can do through executive power but essentially ask the treasury department to give us a list of banks that are too big to fail and our job is to break them up. i look forward to working with congress to make that happen. you know as well as anyone the power of the banks.
Response coming from republicans today to president obama s attempt to side step congress on xwun safety measures appears to suggest it s an act of aggression on the second amendment. for example, house speaker paul ryan released a statement that reads in part no matter what president obama says, his word does not trump the second amendment. candidate jeb bush appeared to echo those comments righting obama s declaration he will impose his gun control agenda by executive order shows an utter disregard for the constitutionful process of making loss in the nation. his speech, obama appeared to hint at the silliness of these complaints. i believe in the second amendment, it s there written on the paper. it guarantees a right to bear arms. no matter how many times people try to twist my words around, i
Capitol? certainly a discussion we can have. although texas is now an open carry state, it was one of the few states that did not have an open carry provision and i mean that goes back really to the time of reconstruction is it appropriate that texas has moved forward with this? i think so. i m curious personally, you go to work in that building every day. would you congressman michael burgess feel safer if they got rid of the metal detectors and let people carry side arps in congress. i don t know that it would make a material difference to me. when i go into any public event, you don t know what you re getting into. so you would support that? in general do i feel safe when i go the into public venues where there are not metal detecters, of course i do. you would support people bringing weapons into the capitol? it can all be part of the direction. if that s the direction people want to go, i think it s something that needs deserves to be heard. but the bigger question