The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Reporter well, poppy, probably the headline at this point is, out of the earshot of the jury this morning, judge t. S. Ellis who is a veteran of these sometimes complex and controversial criminal cases in Eastern Virginia advised attorneys on both sides in an attempt obviously to avoid any prejudicial inferences being drawn by the jury, told attorneys on both sides to avoid, if they can, the use of the word oligarch. And thats important because some of the bosses and people in power in ukraine have been referred to as oligarchs. Obviously the meaning of oligarch is a member of a Power Structure in which the power rests with the few, as opposed to suggestion or inference that an oligarch might be a criminal. This case is the Defense Strategy and the Defense Strategy here, susan, is my client, Paul Manafort, knew nothing, did nothing wrong, hands are clean. It was all his deputy, rick gates. Thats a bold move,
fed s delay. so we re in a serious inflationary environment in this country right now, martha and the american families are paying for it. not the rich american families. they pay more but it s the poor, low income, hard-working american families in america america that will pay the price for this. you doug in to the penn wharton budget model where they dig in to inflation and spell out the true cost for the american family of this spiking inflation. they re estimating that inflation in 2021 will require the average u.s. household to spend $3,500 more to achief the same level of consumption as they did in the previous two years. a shocking number. martha: a huge number. tells you why the polls show this kind of thing. this is 69% of americans
be quite damning and i think the american people will have to face that evidence. i have a similar concern to doug, actually, that i think real you shall use are being obscured by this food night that the president s creating. we just learned yesterday the president s administration is trying to go around congress to cut taxes even more for millionaires. congress should be apoplectic about that but the republicans seem to just be taking that lying down, conceding their power and constitution to the president here. it is just incredible! we are not talking about it. we had a whole segment in the last hour. my fault, i went long with senator ed markey in my interview. we didn t get that in. with you doug, the administration and treasury department has said it is looking at ways to change indexing. it is very complicated but basically how investment would be taxed when it is sold. this would disproportionately help the wealthy. bush administration looked into doing it and said, no, you
take young healthy people out of the system who get the subsidies. insurance may go up for everyone else. the trickle down effect. to you doug. is howard university setting the bar too low? the new incentive program is creating a buzz. the schools will pay for half of the students s final semester if they graduate on time. that is a $6000 savings and more if the student graduates early. think before you snap a selfie. the smithsonian is banning selfie sticks. it is meant to protect displays and serve as a precaution when the museum is crowded. it s just the latest in a string of museums to ban a selfie stick like the museum of modern art