Somebody disrespects our flag . To say, get that son of a off the field. I have a daughter. I do whatever i have to do to make sure she can look at her dad and be, like, hey, he tried to make a change. It was divisive. For him to use this platform to divide us more is not something i can stand for. If youre a multimillionaire who feels oppressed, you need a therapist, not a publicity stunt. They can do the free speech on their own time. He should apologize. Theyre not sobs. Theyre thoughtful, smart guys. The latest push to overhaul obamacare may be in Critical Condition again. Can only afford to lose two, and they already have. It is difficult for me to envision a scenario where i would end up voting for this bill. Republicans are attempting to sweeten the deal, offering a lastminute change to shift money in the bill to alaska and
maine. Politico reported that kushner has been in the white house and used a personal email account. There were fewer than 100 emails sent to this personal a
Fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. Now, let me tell you what else they want to do. They want to nearly double the standard deduction. 12,000 for individuals. 24,000 for married couples. Thats the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10 to 12 that a whole lot of people arent actually going to pay for. The plan also calls for the elimination of the socalled marriage penalty. Raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. And look for a new 500 tax credit for nonchild dependents. That replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim nonchild dependents. In addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. What a lot of republicans call the death tax. This benefits generally speaking the wealthy. It also repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax. At lot of you might say i pay the Alternative Minimum Tax. Heres the problem. It was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. Wasnt indexed to inflation so a
number of people i
Alert the day care staff. He recently called the white house an adult day care center. I didnt make any of this up. Kasie hunt joins us live now. So the president is heading to capitol hill in the next hour for what is supposed to be a, quote, unity lunch with gop senators focusing on the tax cut plan. How awkward might this get . Reporter i have to tell you, ali, ive been roaming the halls of capitol hill for some years now. I havent seen anything like this before where you have the powerful head of a very Important Committee at a time when not only do we have americans deployed overseas but are potentially face iing at th least the possibility of war with north korea and you have the president and head of that Committee Trading Insults back and forth on twitter and of course for the tv cameras. Those words that Senator Corker
Senator Corker gave voice to a lot of peoples expectations that this will be more of a photo op than anything for the president of the United States. Because i
the boston marathon bombing. today i want to join many others in wishing him a speedy recovery of his own. get well soon. he is currently in stable condition in the dominican republic. thank you for watching this hour of velshi & rhule . i ll see you back at 3:00 p.m. eastern, talking to ken hubbard, now running the business school of columbia. and i m also going to be back at 8:00 p.m., hosting. you re getting a whole lot of she velshi today. you should check out his piece on the death of the business suit. tomorrow i ll see you here at 9:00 a.m. eastern, and velshi rhule. thank you for the promo. i loved it. velshi all day today, it sounds like. ali, see you in an hour. good afternoon to all of you. i am kasie hunt in for katy tur.
simply a phenomenon of the stimulus from the tax cut in 2017 and some of the run up of the stock markets that we had earlier, before that. but in terms of the long-term structural impact of the rules of the game and enhancing opportunity for people, especially in trump country who have been closed out of the old manufacturing middle class prosperity, we have not seen evidence yet. john, good to see you. thank you for the reporting. john harwood, editor at large at cnbc. ahead, an update on the condition of david ortiz after he was shot in the dominican republic. you are watching velshi & rhule live on msnbc. & rhule live on msnbc my insurance rates are probably gonna double.