. >> it is my pleasure to turn the program to our moderator, jeanne cummings, who served as deputy editor of bloomberg news. before joining bloomberg jeanne cummings served as assistant managing director of politico. she had a major coup in 2008 when she wrote the story of the republican national committee's unusual editorial on behalf of one candidate. well done on that. she has also reported for the wall street journal and the atlanta journal constitution and won tells awards for her work and i must say in the years i have been working this issue is a pleasure to get a call from you asking questions. i want to salute your commitment to staying with these issues as a journalist. we are pleased to have jeanne cummings with us this afternoon. the floor is yours. [applause] >> mike petrie and i were joking that charlie and mike and i got to know each other when i was at the wall street journal and mccain feingold was before the hole and now we get to start all over again. it is amazing what a circle is. when you talk about disclosure in terms of its importance, the story i did about sarah palin's out fi

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jeanne cummings, bloomberg news, i have to leave it here. our next guest, assistant democrat leader and super committee member, jim clyburn joins me now. you heard what speaker boehner would like, he would like the super committee of which you serve to tackle tax reform. are you guys ready to do that. >> thank you, chuck, so much for having me. sure we are. i think most of the members of this committee would like very much to do this in a fair and balanced way. and we don't think that we can do this thing in a fair and balanced way unless people feel that they are being treated fairly. and most people think the tax code is just unfair. and most of us know that this hodge poj of tax laws need to be reformed if we're going to create a climate within which we can have smooth growth going forward and for consumers to feel some confidence in what we're doing. >> this morning, paul ryan, republican from wisconsin was on "morning joe" he was talking about his plan and making his case, he doesn't want to see warren buffett had a tax rate of 39.5% bu

my pleasure to turn the program over to our moderator this afternoon, jeanne cummings , the deputy executive director of bloomberg news. before then he was the assistant managing editor at a political. you will note that she had a major coup in 2008 where she broke the story about the republican national committee pose unusual sartorial spending on behalf of one candidate. well done on that. she has also reported for the wall street journal and the atlanta journal constitution. she has won countless awards formw her work. it's always been a pleasure to get a call from you during the years to answer questions. you are committed as a journalist. we are pleased to have jeanne cummings with us this afternoon. the floor is yours. thank you. [applause] >> well, mike and i were joking that we all got to know which other when i was a the wall street journal. was the topicleingold and now we get to start all over again. when you talk about disclosure, in terms of its importance, the story that i did about rnc purchasing sarah palin's outfits was just that. late october i was there on october 20 clipping through these repo