and i have never sat next to a corporation at church. corporations do not have religious beliefs. to say otherwise defies common sense. judge gorsuch's ruling and subsequent supreme court decision in burwell v burwell vy lobby stores a dangerous step backwards for women's health. this ruling puts corporations before people and could leave women in michigan and across the country without access to essential health care services. this decision is a step backwards for women, and it is instead a step forward for the growing power that corporations growing power that corporations a step forward for the growing power of corporations have in this country. court battle they serve as a check against powerful executive ranch, they are supposed to put individuals on a level playing field against large powerful corporations.t and i am disheartened that judge gorsuch was the only 10th circuit judge to rule against a detroit cap driver who was unfairly fired or not dane and his disabled trailer after waiting hours and dangerously cold weather. in a two to one decision entrance and tracking, jud

. 54% said no, the corporation will have the advantage. when you have a 91 spread like that about whether a human being can get fair shot against a a corporation in the united states supreme court, at th a signal we have a problem. >> host: the book talks about the impact of citizens united and sees it as a turning point in the influence of money and politics. i guess i wonder how you reconcile reconcile that with the fact that we have president donald trump a defeated 17 gop candidates and then hillary clinton, both at home for much of the races were much better funded by tax and interest groups barron trump? similarly you at the tea party which disrupted congress before trump came along and the chamber of commerce and the koch brothers are sorting out friends of the tea party. i just wonder how you reconcile your sense that citizens united sort of has brought this upon us with these counter realities. how do you reconcile those things? >> guest: i don't think they need all that much reconciling. it's a longer conversation that we should

america and corporate money. so don't lose faith in the system if you don't feel that you are heard. figure out why it is the system isn't hearing you. i think if you read the book and take a look around you will come to the conclusion that you can hold corporations out and put them into the economic role that they have been so incredibly valuable for humankind but not in a political role that if they started running our democracy again we would all feel a lot better for everybody. >> host: thank you for spending time with us to talk about the book. ..

is overall noise from corporate america and corporate money that they're really not heard. so don't lose faith in the system if you don't feel you're not heard. figure out why it is that the system is not hearing you. i think if you read the book and if you take a look around you you'll come to conclusion if you can pull corporations back out of their political role, and put them into the economic role where they've been so incredibly valuable for human kind, about but not in a political role, that if human beings started run aring our democrat again all feel a lot better for everybody. >> okay well thank you for spending time with us to talk about the book and -- >> thank you for having me on appreciate it. >> we'll watch and see how it plays out. thank you. >> we'll see. thank you. >> c-span where history tun poteds daily in 1979c c-span created by america television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> senator cory booker has a private book clb and regularly moderates a book he's reading. recently he hosted a live question and ans

he is the professor of corporate and university -- corporate law at the university of georgia and as i was in his class, looking out over the auditorium with their laptops, i said do you have any idea who you are professor is. and of them looked at me thought we probably should, but there were few individuals who the way we impact on think about ethics and compliance as larry thompson. that's why it's great to have him here with us today. larry has seen the issue of ethics and compliance from a number of perspectives. after law school, he was an attorney representing corporate clients as they were facing federal investigations and then served as u.s. attorney for the northern district of georgia. following that, he was appointed deputy attorney general of the u.s. department of justice by george bush. -- of us know you for larry left the department of justice and went into the private sector to oversee part of compliance at pepsico were he was general counsel and secretary until his retirement in 20 18. notably comedy compliance function reported to larry. until his retirement part t

i have a corporate, a corporation is an entity. and it can be punished. and when the entity misbehaves, if and then those who own it, the stockholders should not expect to be immune from suffering a loss. i do not have a real problem with that but just to say if there are corporate jet for people that have been cutting corners that placed the corporation at risk and have damaged it, they should be looked at personally to see if their personal actions amount to a violation of the law. and if so they should be prosecuted and i would expect our team to do so. >> so a number of folks in the community work for multinational organizations. one of the questions that we had been asking has to do with the enforcement over the last few years with sediments using multiple enforcement authorities and multiple countries.do you expect that to continue as well? >> well - i think it can be abusive in a situation but yes. first of all we have to work with our foreign countries. there law enforcement communities, i remember i guess still in the 90s when i was united states

citizens for tax justice corporations to amass at least $2.6 trillion overseas. when a major corporation basically shifts a lot of its profits overseas, how then do ordinary americans end up footing the bill? >> the most direct way is through large scale spending cuts, less direct spending on all the things that make the united states a good place to live-- healthcare, transportation, education, all the public services that we find most vital. >> reporter: one legal maneuver companies use to minimize their u.s. tax bill is to sell or license intangible assets, like software or drug patents, to a lower tax foreign subsidiary. when a product made with that intellectual property is sold, the foreign subsidiary records the income. and because of that, u.s. taxes can be deferred. >> we counted 10,000 tax haven subsidiaries among fortune 500 corporations. deferral creates a clear incentive for companies to shift their activities offshore, but, more damagingly, it creates a clear incentive for them to pretend they're shifting their activities offshore. >> reporter: pret

it influences corporate america. the department has a huge influence on how these programs get developed simply by the way andevaluate what an ethics compliance program is. in many ways, for practitioners in the field, it can sometimes be hard to get leadership to fully embrace the importance of the ethics and compliance program stuff but when the department of justice is willing to incentivize companies because they have great programs, it goes a very long way, that i suspect a lot of folks in the department may not have even recognized that the fact that you judge a program and give some sort of infant -- incentives for it is very valuable for stuff and to whatever extent the department is going to do that or even to extend that is really extremely valuable to us. attorney gen. sessions: you make a good point there. we don't want to dictate to companies every thing that have to do. but if a company does follow a series of proven policies that reduce abuse, fraud, and misconduct, and have a committed -- are committe

you talked about going corporate for people, but you should probably go for the people before the corporations. besides that, you mentioned offshore taxes. , getting back to what taxes are used for, remember in cuba? companies got nationalized. corporations use the power of the u.s.. they don't pay for that stuff. we never talk about how they pay for it. how we pay for the benefits they get from the u.s.. you've got to know what taxes are paid for. if you keep cutting corporate taxes, you will never have a country like we used to. we will let him respond. guest: fair enough. if i understand, this issue of people versus corporations, very important. corporations by and large really don't pay taxes. they collect taxes and they pay them out to the irs, however on the other side of the ledger they reduce worker wages and benefits in order to pay higher taxes, increasing consumer withs, so families wind up a price increase in third, they reduce shareholder value. if you lower corporate tax rates, as i said earlier -- mind you, i'm not just talking about the largest companies. the trump plan and the

the fact of the matter is corporations really were almost immune. they were a target for systemic pervasive conduct. that has changed over the years and i don't know how we deal with it but i'm very uncomfortable with a process where we basically say, we won't won't prosecute somebody should be prosecuted under the law and i'm going to sound like a law professor now but the supreme court in 1909, when they decided that the new york ctr. case they were concerned about the economic power of corporations in our country. turn-of-the-century. they were unwilling to give corporations compliant tech as it related to the wrongdoing. that's our law. >> on the issue of compliance, and fact what you said jamie, the recent effort by the criminal division particular to providing guidance and evaluate compliance programs in a more uniform way, one of the things themes of this guidance is the idea of self policing. not just prevention but compliance is a way of preventing wrongdoing, training, standards, those are all good things but then you get into discovering

corporeal ballard, police arrested one suspect t. another ran off and that's the man barricaded in that home right now in middletown. hundreds of officers paid their respect it was taken to the medical examiner's office in wilmington. >> now a live look corporeal ballard would have reported to work this morning t. governor declared the flags to be flown at half-staff in memory of corporeal ballard, an eight-year veteran of the state police force. we will have more coming up at 6:30. you can count on nbc 10 in the ongoing scandal on air and our nbc 10 app. the jury said the shooting and killing of one straight trooper. the bell atop the pike county court haase rang last night. they have been sentenced to die by lethal injection. a jury deliberated with its decision. it was the same that killed corporeal brian dixon. corporeal dixon will always remain in the heart of all members of the pennsylvania state police forever. >> every defendant i ever had, they design the trial has thought he or she had an ability to when. >> free had no rea

secretary steve mnuchin will walk through the business side and corporate tax of what the -- corporatee of what the president is doing to bring jobs back to the country to make -- to help our economy grow. at the end, we will take questions on this. you are being provided a one pager that provides the top level aspects of the plan, and both the director and the secretary will go into further detail and take questions. cohn dir. cohn: thank you, sean -- cohn. sean.ohn: thank you, this is a historic today and one we have been looking forward to for a while. a generatione in opportunity to do something really big. president trump has made tax reform a priority, and we have a republican congress that wants to get it done. quites something that honestly i hope the democrats would support too, because it's good for the american people. to seizedent is going this opportunity by leading the most significant tax reform legislation since 1986. and one of the biggest tax cuts in the american history. we have been working on this for a long time. we've had great meetings, we had a great meeting la

this is a corporation that needs to be handled between the corporation and the passenger.ike one caller said, maybe give him some perks to smooth this thing over the next time around. host: the term, the customer is always right. is it different for airline passengers? considering the security concerns surrounding airlines? is that not necessarily true in the case of airlines? caller: i don't know. i have been through airports just like anybody else. i try to follow the guidelines that are there. if the customer is always right -- i just think at the end of .he day, airlines are busy everybody else has busy lives. i just think if it were me, and this was the case, instead of making a big brouhaha out of it, i would've gotten out and said, can i get on another plane? just go from there. that is my opinion. congress has a lot of things on its plate. i don't think this is something they should get involved in. there's a lot of things in chicago -- there's a lot more going on sick -- going on in chicago than this one incident. host: mike is in richmond, virginia. republicans.

corporations do not. we established corporate personhood so companies could raise capital and contracts, but nobody ever thought that this term that was used, personhood,w actually meant that corporations were people. they are not. they don't eat, sleep, they don't worry about their children or elderly parents, they don't get sick. they don't retire, and they don't have complex motivations. in fact, under the law they only have one motivation which is to any maximize profit. any logical person knows corporations are not people, bur in judge gorsuch america they are. there is no doubt he is a very smart person, but he had a hand in creating the theory that corporations have the samebe rights as human beings. but they arthey are in fact peoe are supposed pretend that this premise is not insane, but it is crazy and it's hurting our democracy for the past several decades we have increasingly limited people's rights in favor of corporate rights and now republicans want us to confirm a judge who says corporatio

the fact of the matter is corporations really were almost immune. they were a target for systemic pervasive conduct. that has changed over the years and i don't know how we deal with it but i'm very uncomfortable with a process where we basically say, we won't won't prosecute somebody should be prosecuted under the law and i'm going to sound like a law professor now but the supreme court in 1909, when they decided that the new york ctr. case they were concerned about the economic power of corporations in our country. turn-of-the-century. they were unwilling to give corporations compliant tech as it related to the wrongdoing. that's our law. >> on the issue of compliance, and fact what you said jamie, the recent effort by the criminal division particular to providing guidance and evaluate compliance programs in a more uniform way, one of the things themes of this guidance is the idea of self policing. not just prevention but compliance is a way of preventing wrongdoing, training, standards, those are all good things but then you get into discovering

specifically about corporate tax, i many would be willing to meet him on corporate taxes but not all taxes so that is what he has to play with. charles: it has to be corporate taxes, tax reform and repatriation. 15% is out. >> it depends. to your point, they get healthcare done, 15% to 20%. where will that money come from? >> if they get healthcare done. this is what i am hearing and they are saying and they are going to do it if they get healthcare. if they don't get healthcare done, orbits are off. andrea: where do you think the rate could go as far as getting something done in washington dc? >> as far as i am concerned, the lowest rate should be 0 but the top 1% i don't see any reason the rates should go up a lot. of people are rich they can afford to pay taxes. charles: on the corporate side. >> the corporate side should be 0. >> three out of four is not bad was the security council failing to pass. gas attack and that has some asking if they can't even agree that is wrong can we all agree? >> the white house combining military pressure with tougher economic sections on north kor

corporate tax cut?first thing you will see is a finish to health care because we're very close to finishing that. stuart: so health care first. >> and then i think while we go through the process of tax reform up, getting it ready to go to the floor, getting it out of committee, going through regular order, seeing it advance, then of course. the house is going to do that. we're going to gladly, cheerfully, gleefully send it to the senate and encourage them to do their job and get it to's desk. stuart: they want to see something done. they want it done. >> of course they do. stuart: and you're telling me that the first thing, you've got to go back to health care. can you assure me that you've got an agreement with the freedom caucus? >> we are working through getting that agreement. we are very close. it may not be this week, but it might be next week. we are getting ready to finish up, stuart. 200 -- i know you have. and we are close. are allergies holding you back? break through your allergies. try new

and i have never sat next to a corporation at church. corporations do not have religious beliefs. to say otherwise defies common sense. judge gorsuch's ruling and subsequent supreme court decision in burwell v burwell vy lobby stores a dangerous step backwards for women's health. this ruling puts corporations before people and could leave women in michigan and across the country without access to essential health care services. this decision is a step backwards for women, and it is instead a step forward for the growing power that corporations have in this country. courts not only serve as a check against powerful executive branch, they are supposed to put individuals on a level playing field against large, powerful corporations. and i am disheartened that judge gorsuch was the only tenth circuit judge to rule against a detroit truck driver who was unfairly fired for not staying in his disabled trailer while after waiting hours in dangerously cold western. in a 2-1 decision in trans am trucking v. d.o.l., judge gorsuch ruled that trans am trucking was in the right when they fired

there is no such thing as a corporation. the corporation has shareholders. the shareholders are paying corporate income taxes effectively, and capital gains taxes. so the question is what is the best way that lets companies make smart decisions but levy the same amounts of tax on shareholders. that's something i would encourage government to think through based on this athat is. ultimately the voters' job is to hold government accountable for the deef significances it makes. maria: stay with us steve ballmer. we have a lot more to discuss on "wall street week." >> announcer: microsoft legend steve ballmer was an industry leader for 30 years. would he do it any different today? >> when i joined we were at $5 million revenue, when i left it was roughly $80 billion. when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum -tum -tum -tum smoothies! only from tums thithis is the new new york.e? think again. we are building new airports all across the state.

this is not just about large corporations. small and medium sized businesses will be eligible for the business rate as well. him and as gary said, we have had very productive meetings with the house and senate, working weekly to get this done. we will continue to do that, we are determined to move this as fast as we can and get this done this year. i would also just comment that we will hold listening sessions. one thing this president has done very well is listen. we've had hundreds of business leaders here from all different types of areas. manufacturers, retail, airlines, community banks, big banks. we are listening and we have been taking feedback. finally, i would just add the president's objective is creating economic growth. and as we've said before, we believe we can get back to 3% or higher g.d.p. that is sustainable in this country. the overall economic plan consists of massive tax cuts and tax reform. regulatory relief. and renegotiating trade deals. with that we will unlock the economic growth that's been held back

talking about lowering the corporate tax rate. but what about all of the corporations i read about who do not pay taxes at all? and the president's texas wishon. -- taxes situation. host: you want to hear more about cutting off the loopholes? caller: right and publishes taxes. he said he does not pay any taxes. and that is ridiculous. are there any specific tax breaks you would like to see taken out of the tax codes? not really. i have not really delved into it enough to come up with anything that would really make sense to be -- makes sense. host: ron is up next. michigan, democrat. caller.first time i was told yesterday by the news reform,art of this tax and they want to start taxing 401(k) contributions. i would like to hear is that is part of the deal, stick it to the little guy again and give the rich and the big tax break. thank you. host: looking for more details on the white house today and as we said from treasury secretary steve mnuchin, 1:30 p.m. expected on camera briefing and we will look for more details. some of the

if you talk to most corporations , not all but most corporations in silicon valley and elsewhere they would rather not have to hire lobbyists. they would rather not have to make campaign contributions. they feel like they need to any sense because because it's more like extortion then it is rivalry. politicians are creating a demand for their services by creating laws or circumstances that in a sense force corporations to make campaign contributions and hire lobbyists. my reform is not a silver bullet in and it doesn't fix everything but i think it would disrupt this influence marker place in washington d.c. and change the dynamics in a positive way. john: i suspect one government is that big people would ban family members. people would get divorced just so they could go back to lobbying. you pointed out something called tax extenders and a good example of how the system works. >> a great example is the tax deduction or tax credit the corporations get for investing in research and development. this is a good thing and encourage his innatio by american corporations. it's been on the b

it is predicated on the corporate tax cut. that is placed into many stocks. >> you are getting all of these stocks coming in this week. it is the fact that they are getting the corporate tax rate benefit and revenues and obviously they're gonna go directly to the bottom line. the secretary came out. during the press conference as an hour ago and said the tax plan would pay for itself with growth. i always say don't let the headlines get ahead of you. this is not new. trump has been talking about this for long time. the timing is new. when we are talking to as they still a lot of people are telling their lobbyists they still don't know exactly what donald trump will say on wednesday. he's talking about the corporate tax rate cut and it might be nothing but broad outlines. they're worried that the president is getting ahead of themselves. and then you can deliver on 15% of corporate tax rates. as fast as the market goes up it's going to come down. he's been taken at 20%. he's been telling people were going big. the question is t

there is no such thing as a corporation. the corporation has shareholders. th shareholders are paying corporatencom taxes effectively, and capital gains taxes. so the question is what is the best way that lets companies make smart decisions but levy the same amounts of tax on shareholders. that's something i would encourage government to think through based on this athat is. ultimately the voters' job is to hold government accountable for the deef significances it makes. maria: stay with us steve ballmer. we have a lot more to discuss on "wall street week." >> announcer: microsoft legend steve ballmer was an industry leader for 30 years. would he do it any different today? >> when i joined we were at $5 million revenue, when i left it was roughly $80 billion. maria: we are back with technology titan steve ballmer. you are like a founder of microsoft. i know you weren't the co-for under. but when you got there what were there, 30 employees? steve: 30. maria: you oversaw this growth of microsoft. you were there 35 years. ceo for 13 years. how has microsoft gro

the issue in corporate america is not are corporations profitable.ge issue the disparity between workers d ceos get paid, has never been greater. why do you think mar-a-lago and even though it's been taken down as promoted on the state department's website, why vice president mike pence continues to call it the white house of the south while he's touring asia? >> it is inappropriate for it to be on the state department website and i would think that the government ethics office would be looking at this and that they would render a decision. >> why do you think it would be put up in the first place? >> i had no idea. >> i have no idea. >> all right. congressman, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. >> sure. >>> up next, president trump's approval ratings are at historic lows, but how do his supporters think he's doing? we'll take you to michigan a blue state turned red to get their thoughts on the first 100 days of president trump. but before we go, i got to share this for your water cooler today. it seems like ages ago but faye dunawa

is the central bank doing enough to reform corporate governance?ingapore. that is a lot to cover, rico! is the central bank doing enough to reform corporate governance? it is a bit messy. yes, it is a bit messy. that has been one of the pillars of prime minister shinzo abe and he is abenomics reform programme. that looks at this point like there is not enough political will to push through with clear corporate governance in japan —— through with clear corporate governance injapan —— his. that will be a key point to be discussed in the bank ofjapan meetings over the next two days and they will also tackle the economy and monetary policy. the bank ofjapan, aaron, is basically, maybe, upgrading growth projections for the new financial year but they are also expected to lower inflation projections owing to the rebound in global trade. japan has seen a marked increase in exports, employment growth and industrial production and the imf has raised gdp growth outlook for the year in the latest world economic outlook report. monetary policy won't likely see

related to agents acting on behalf of the corporation. that is our law. mr. mcnulty: on the issue of compliance, and back to something you said, jamie, and recent effort by the criminal division to provide guidance and to evaluate compliance programs in a more uniform way, and one of the themes of this guidance is the idea of self policing. in other words, not just prevention. compliance as a way of preventing wrongdoing. middle, training, standards, those are all good things, but then you get into discovering wrongdoing, finding wrongdoing, investigating it, so there is ait, real emphasis on the self policing part, and i think howyone will appreciate that is a necessary component of an effective compliance program, but that brings us back to the idea of, again, self-disclosure, investigations that lead to some type of enforcement effort, so we are seeing that trend, i think, in the last couple of years, especially including this ,dea of rigorous self policing otherwise referred to as a paper program. mr. ogden: it is an important insight

>> the economist also figure that out, but by lowering the corporate tax, it's stifling our corporate tax. we have the largest corporate tax in the entire world at 38%. many of our companies invest overseas because of the profits they make over there. they get taxed at that country's corporate tax, not at america's. so lowering that corporate tax will stimulate jobs, making the individual tax forms easier, simpler, fairer, lowering the brackets of which people fall into, because their income. the theory is it will put more money into american's pockets. and allowing corporate -- look at how excited the markets have been since some of these proposals have been leaked out to the white house. the market is going through the roof. that shows confidence that the economy is going to get better and grow with these proposals that the president is putting forth and speaker ryan. >> even with the rosiest economic projections, you cut corporate tax rates, even if you cut them to 15%, which most folks don't suspect that will happen ultimately, 5%, 6% gdp growth is what it would take to make this

and you have a result, a flood of information and bad economic times which really crippled corporate media and took a lot of journalists out of the industry whether willingly or not. >> so media smacked down really traces the evolution of newspapers in particular from a partisan press to a nominally objective press, in fact that's part of arguably becoming a partisan press. so the book in the introduction we talk about if there is a far left press, and a near left press, there's a far right press, there is a conservative right press but the book points out there's a huge loss in the middle of people who are not being reached by any of those things and that's lost is the problem, people who are drawn to political ideology tend to gravitate toward those particular outlets. but you have a bunch of people in the middle who need something from both sides, and want something from either so gravitating toward one or the other because of political ideology heavily. and so you end up with at this point in time we had a nation where people can tune into things they already believe, things that

and paying a separate corporate tax. i think it be a mistake to extend corporate tax reductions to pastors. in fact, if are going to solve the deficit problem by raising any revenue, at some point, will have to raise individual taxes on those who make the most money. i think we endanger tax reform if we try to extend it to the individual. unless were going to cut individual tax preferences and deductions. >> my understanding was that there would be some discussion or evolution of the pass-through that would deal with distribution. the intent would be you have to have the money retained in the pass-through entities and also some control around the compensation levels so there'd be a reasonable confrontation. if you're the owner, you can give yourself a salary that would be extraordinary and then avoid the true conference. i of your distributions. >> slightly different, but one of the things that concerns me about all of this as a topic area is for the quote populist president or movement. it's hard to understand how you d

state police say they tracked the man who they believe shot corporal ballard to the 500 block of saintichael's drive in middletown's brick mill farms development. now, this played out at several scenes from day into name our reporters have been covering all of it dave kinchen was at the hospital when we got word of the trooper's passing. we begin tonight with dave schratwieser as close as he can get to the scene where state troopertroop troopers say the mn killed one of their own. dave, what's happening right now? >> reporter: lucy, the state police just briefed all the residents who have been locked out of their neighborhood because that suspect remains barricaded in his home. police say did use an explosive charge around 8:30 to blast open the front door but they have not entered that home at this hour. the residents are being told they can be staying at the odessa fire company until this gets resolved. police still negotiating witness suspect trying to get him to surrender. >> it is very scary. >> reporter: tensions mounted as the hours ticked away wednesday night in middletown. nei

corporate tax cuts a priority.uess who is with us, david mcintosh, club for growth, a man who i disagreed with on other issues, but-- >> today we're in total agreement. stuart: tax cuts, i think that the republicans are zeroing in on what is doable and that is a corporate rate tax cut. are you with me? >> i agree. i think they've got to also make sure they call them pass through to small businesses that run on the individual tax forms, get the same tax cut. but when we cut both of those rates dramatically, we will see tremendous economic growth. stuart: i think they're talking about just cutting corporate tax rates. they're going to leave personal income tax cuts aside for the moment. >> i think in the end they'll need subchapter s and llc's. stuart: you can do that? not a big deal to include that in there? >> no, what it leaves out border adjustment taxes that are divisive. i think they'll put that aside and focus on the tax cuts. the president promised those, the central piece of his tax plan and they'll get it d

we have had rise of corporate ownership starting in 1946. we had the rise of the world wide web chat changed everything for allowed individuals to participate. then we had have the global collapse and rise of smartphones, social media, and apps. you have huge corporate ownership of the media and you have as a result a flood of information and bad economic times which really crippled with the corporate media and took a lot of journalists out of the industry whether willingly or not. "media smackdown" traces the press back foobecoming partisan priss. we talk about there is a far left press, near left paresis, far right press, conservative left plus but there is a huge group in the middle not be reached by many of those and that swath is the problem. people who are drawn to political ideology are drown to outlets and that tends to shift politically ideology heavily. you end up with, at this point in time, we have a nation where people can tune into thinks they already believe, things that interest them, things that have already interested them

he's sided with corporations over workers, corporations over consumers, and corporations over women's health. a study published in the minnesota law review found that the roberts court, the most procorporate supreme court since world war ii and if the senate confirms him, judge gorsuch guarantees more of the same from the roberts court. and i don't believe that's a court that our country can continue to afford. so i oppose judge gorsuch's nomination. i urge my colleagues to take a close look at his record of siding with powerful corporate interests over average americans and consider carefully how he stands to impact the court and to reject his nomination. thank you, mr. president. and i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. murphy: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. murphy: i'd ask that we dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. murphy: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, confirming a supreme court justice, it'

35 is the current corporate tax rate.ayment if you're a corporation, you're supposed to be paying a 35% rate. not all of them do. that's another matter. but 35% is the rate now. the white house wants to bring that back to 15%. this could be a tough political sales job. you heard the democrats saying why do you want to cut taxes for big corporations? why do you want to cut taxes for the rich? you're supposed to be the populist candidate. we have some polling this if i can possibly show it. who know a men. this has never done this before. their going on feed it through because it broke again. so corporate taxes. look on the surface. be a high priority with people. 41% think it should be raised. 22% say lower. 32% say keep at this time same. here's the they know among trump voters. people who voted for trump, not a lot of enthusiasm. and a bunch say keep it the same of on the surface, this is a tough political sales job for the administration. but here is the one source of hope for them. this is what you can expect them to b

corporal ballard was a father, a husband.lice say the 32-year-old 8 1/2 year veteran with state police was gunned down at a wawa parking lot after he approached a suspicious vehicle. >> reporter: the woman who we spoke with afterwards, she was one of several people who went and tried to administer cpr to that fallen officer. hundreds of fellow officers lined the way as corporal ballard's body left the hospital. they were joined by citizens who also stopped there to pay their respects. our thoughts and prayers certainly going out to corporal ballard and his fellow police officers who are still in harm's way as that shooter was firing shots as recent as 4:00 this morning at police. reporting live in glasgow, i'm pamela osborne, nbc 10 news. >> pamela, thank you. >>> a woman is in jail after causing a tense situation on a metro train. metro transit police said a woman had a knife and was on some kind of illegal substance when she started to argue with another passenger. this happened last night around 9:00. she was arrested at t

for it body has to pay and small corporations have been corporations,e big multi national corporations, the outsourcing corporations tax for quite sometime, ma'am. you have a great day. host: you, too. a republican. caller: thanks for taking my greta, the only comment i had, i listen to the democrats nd i listened to the republicans and i don't understand why we're in such a division. host: over? everything.r the raises, the politics, people so terribly angry and it seems like, i wonder why they're that, why the people in power want us to be fighting with each other. not mad at juan, or mariah, democrats or anybody. i don't know why they want to know against, i don't what their reason behind doing that. host: okay. forward to tomorrow and what is happen nothing washington, washington times this morning, the president, will be the mp first president to address the national rifle association since reagan. he'll be doing that at the annual convention happening in tomorrow.n then there is this happening in new york, this secretary of be in rex tillerson will the chair when the un security

corporations do not. we established corporate personhood so the companies could raise capital and enter into contracts but nobody ever thought that this term that was used, personhood, actually meant that corporations were people. they are not. it's not complicated. corporations don't eat. they don't sleep. they don't worry about their children or their elderly parents. they don't get sick. they don't retire. and they don't have complex motivations. in fact, under the law, they only have one motivation which is to max pliez profits -- to maximize profits. any logical person knows corporations are not people, but in judge gorsuch's america they are. now, there's no doubt that he's a very smart person, but he actually had a hand in creating this theory that corporations have the same rights as human beings, that they are in fact people, and we're supposed to pretend that this premise isn't insane but it is crazy and it's hurting our democracy. for the past several decades we've increasingly limited people's

should lowerthey the corporate rate to 15% because all of these other countries have a lower corporateate. i think they should raise the individual. let's not forget, we are borrowing $.40 of every dollar to run this government and donald trump should go back to school and steve mnuchin must have missed a class on balancing a budget. income as ar business. i'm a business owner. never cut your income before you pay your outstanding debt. you've got to have some way to look at paying it off. if you go back to george h w bush, his tax increases caused a surplus under the clinton administration. so, i think that you want to get david stockman on your program. you know, let's have an alternative point of view. i kind of agree with "the ," i think we are headed for chaos and all of these bills come due and i think that they should keep the net neutrality for the internet. right, richard. jim, lansing, good morning. good morning. i think that the proposed plan doesutting taxes actually what the republicans were fearful of, to pick winners and losers. that's what the plan is doing. what it is