[ all ] shh! why tell the trees what ain t so? [ male announcer ] dow solutions use vibration reduction technology to help reduce track noise so trains move quieter through urban areas all over the world. together, the elements of science and the human element can solve anything. [ all ] shh! [ male announcer ] solutionism. the new optimism. nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel is here in america, here in new york. he has just returned from syria, which is not something that very many people in the world can say right now. we are lucky to have richard here because he s almost never here. for the last decade he has
Republican budget chairman who worked with president clinton. raisingtachs. and said we need to have honest deficit reductions. fair enough. good discussion. 19th hole. i like it. keith boykin, great to have you with us. john fugelsang. we ll continue in the green room. coming up, the disgrace of paying police officers and firefighters minimum wage? fun it can happen in scranton, pennsylvania, don t you think it can happen anywhere? that s coming up. stay with us. why do you whisper, green grass? [ all ] shh! why tell the trees what ain t so? [ male announcer ] dow solutions use vibration reduction technology to help reduce track noise so trains move quieter through urban areas all over the world. together, the elements of science and the human element can solve anything. [ all ] shh! [ male announcer ] solutionism. the new optimism.
a family spending new years rounding the volcanic wide island off new zealand s coast. january 1, 2010. this girl, then 15, decided to spend the morning alone in her cabin. and the trip of a lifetime turned to terror as her locked door to cabin 3073 suddenly clicked. i didn t hear the card key go in, but i did, hear, like the door open, and, like, the lock like yeah. and i thought it was my brother or sister at first. and then when i saw the guy come in, i didn t recognize the bartender uniform. i just it was someone working on the ship so i thought it was a room attendant that was going to clean my room because i didn t put the sign like, oh, don t disturb or whatever. reporter: it wasn t a room attendant. it was a crew member. in a bartender uniform. threatening the girl not to say a word as he forced the teen to perform oral sex. at her family s request, we are not showing her face. you were 15. yeah. reporter: scared. you didn t tell you family. no. i at the
president obama today called for a one-year extension of the bush tax cuts for families who make up to $250,000. for those families who make $250,000 or more, taxes would go up in january. i believe our prosperity has always come from an economy that s built on a strong and growing middle class. so my message to congress is this, pass a bill extending the tax cuts for the middle class. i will sign it tomorrow. pass it next week, i ll sign it next week. pass it next well, you get the idea. but how much would extending the tax cuts for the family s making under $250,000 help our economy? bear with me if you will. i want to start by showing you something that the president and most democrats and republicans agree on, and that is that letting all the tax cuts expire would hurt the economy. so if we let all the bush tax cuts expire, the rates go up for everybody as they are set to do by law on december 31st. we would increase tax revenue by $221 billion in a single year. tha
the tax cuts for the middle class. plus, hollywood s most gripping blockbuster settle their divorce just 11 days after she filed. what may be going on behind the scenes. and what role, if any, did scientology play in that split? i ll talk to a woman who was a member of that church and the counselor who says he helped countless ex-scientologists. i ll ask hollywood heavyweight rob reiner if the obama campaign s in trouble. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight. the battle for the heart and soul of this country s middle class. judging by the amount of talk today about tax, both sides believe this will be the big issue that decides the election. president obama earlier. in many ways, the fate of the tax cut for the wealthiest americans will be decided by the outcome of the next election. my opponent will fight to keep them in place. i will fight to end them. but that argument shouldn t threaten you. it shouldn t threaten the 98% of americans wh