whomever he may be and it will be a he it looks like will be placed in the senate before this vote thank you so much dean baker the code director for the center for economic and policy research and steve malzberg conservative t.v. and radio host thanks for joining us thanks fredricka. for nearly thirty years smoking has been banned from flights by nearly every airline but that didn't stop one oregon woman from trying to get away with it over the weekend once valerie bello was caught in the act she was approached by flight attendants and the situation escalated from there take a listen. to jail everybody on that. plane. yelled and made money. but. it was flying from portland to sacramento on a southwest flight when she went into the bathroom and tried to disable the smoke alarm in order to smoke a cigarette not only was she not cooperate in what then you heard she eventually threatened to kill everyone on board if she didn't make it to her destination after the incident the company issued a statement saying all reports from flight attendants indicate a customer violated federal laws about smoking on board an aircraft and by tampering with a smoke detector in an aircraft restr

private and public as they can for a conference congressional committee meets to work out the compromise details here discusses dean baker the co-director for the center for economic and policy research and steve mauled bird conservative t.v. and radio host gentlemen welcome you know we haven't spoken before it dean on this what do you make of the house and senate bill so far well it's kind of incredible because here it is you've had for decades would you have this massive aubert redistribution to the richest one percent of the population their share of income going from ten percent to over twenty percent and most people get very little if any of the gains of economic growth over this period and what's this tax plan to do it says let's give them even more they'll get seventy five percent of the benefits of this tax plan when it's full. phased in two thousand and twenty seven so it's hard for me to think of a worse way to go than this tax plan it's not exactly what the president had promised him a candidate a candidate trumpet promised now steve is such a consummate professional during the whole time you're talking about that he has a great smile on that that's why he's the broad beca

indeed jeff holmes with the executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research thanks for having me. u.s. senate republicans say that they have enough support to pass a controversial tax bill later on friday party leaders sounded confident after securing the backing of three republicans who've been holding out critics say the bill will add one trillion dollars to the u.s. budget deficit over the next decade president donald trump says the bill which includes a big cut in corporate tax will boost economic growth but the democrats who oppose the bill say it will have a damaging impact on working families. turkey says that it will seize the assets of a turkish iranian gold trader and those of his close relatives. is a key witness in the trial of a turkish banker he allegedly worked with to launder money for iran he pleaded guilty to those charges and is now cooperating with american prosecutors turkey's prime minister says he hopes will turn back from his mistake rhes rating ankara's belief that the trial is aimed at putting pressure on turkey and its economy so i