Virginia Lieutenant Governor ralph northam. Democratic candidate for governor. Well be watching next week to see how you do. Thank you for joining us, sir. Thanks so much, katy. That wraps things up for me this hour. Ali velshi, my friend it is friday. Are you done . The president is overseas. Right. I think were going to have a quiet weekend. I dont know. Just say it. Might have a quiet weekend. Theres always one. I have property to sell you in florida. Katy have a great afternoon and i hope you do have a quiet weekend. I hope we all do. Im ali val shi, as katy alluded to, President Trump will arrive in hawaii, the one stop before he kicks off his highstakes visit to asia. The longer overseas trip of any president since 1991, but the president is traveling with some hefty political baggage as the russia investigation looms. Mr. President , do you remember George Papadopolos during that march meeting i dont remember much about that meeting. It was a very unimportant meeting that took p
a confiscate everything over the problem with the all miv minimum tax. 100%? not that it existed, but it kept grabbing lower and lower income americans? no. it s deliberately expanded when people want to do it. you suggest it only affects the people that pay it. the largest lobby in washington, d.c., i m in washington, d.c., i look out the window and see the life insurance company is lobbyists. who has killed and weakened every effort to get rid of the death tax? the life insurance lobby. why? because the kennedys insure around the death tax. if you buy hundreds of millions of dollars of life insurance, and you die, you get the $100 on the other side tax-free. who gets rich? life insurance companies. you won t argue about the lobbyist about to sink their teeth in this bim and go everywhere? we don t agree on a ton on taxes but agree on that. a lot of the nonsense in the tax code is because of lobbyists. that said no. but many, many people are
of course. from the beginning trump decided to conflict terrorism with immigration. back to december 2015, when he first unveiled that horrific muslim ban, remember, wanted to ban all muslims. now we re lucky. only wants to ban six islamic countries. that was after san bernardino, one of the two attackers was an american-born, native-born american citizen. and indicted in the u.s. over the last, two, three years are american citizens. 60% are native born american citizens, not immigrants of any kind and, in fact, 51% are recent converts to islam. probably aren t even brown skin to begin with. to make this a brown immigrant foreign problem is absurd. saipov is an exception to the rule and comes from uzbekistan. going on about iran, syria and
live in connecticut, live in california. the highest income 5%, which are, are you now making that the middle class? they itemize and have to take more than the $24,000 in deductions. the 94% of americans the conversation doesn t apply that we re having. it s actually not just $10,000, you re able to deduct for your property taxes, just not not a property owner that doesn t apply to you. right. rich people all own property. right? no. this is, this is an argument you made getting rid of the deductibility of property taxes and income taxes would be a problem for middle income people. i pointed out to you i ve giving you i get that. cool. thank you. that s why the this measure will pass the house and the senate without a problem. because people are looking at their actual districts and who lives in them and finding overall this is a significant tax reduction for their
citizens. you know a lot of new jersey and new york politicians are not going with that. right? their republicans in these two states not agreeing to support this bill. watch when they vote, in the house. the reason why the 10,000 was added was to make sure that people in upstate new york and in the suburbs of connecticut and new jersey, that we will get their vote. we have every single republican vote in california because they knew that was coming already. the challenge, the problem you re trying to spin out is actually been solved already. because the republicans are actually working to get this bill passed. working to. a work in progress. we ll see where it goes. grover, good to see you, thanks for joining me. president of americans for tax reform, perhaps most prominent fear s and loved tax advocate the country. thank you. and up next, former dnc donna brazill s book bringing a largely feud into the public s