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pulitzer prize-winning journalist david k. johnson joins us tonight.hor of "divided -- thegr inequality." how much money are we talk about here? and how much money are we going to end up losing? >> over time, the erosion will be significant and it will be tens of balls of dollars a year. and what's really going on fundamentally, ed, is a lot of these companies have decided they want to continue to enjoy all the benefits of operating here in the united states, the richest market in the world, but they want you and i and the listeners to bear the murder of supporting the united states that makes their profits possible. they don't want to share in the burden. they only want to enjoy the benefits. >> and how much resource do these companies put into tax avoid dance? they get like an army of accountants together? they have whole departments to figure this stuff out? >> general electric parentally has 800 tax lawyers working on their staff. this is an enormous waste of intellectual fire pow fer we put it into research manufacturing, we've got people in caree

. >> david k. johnson, we'll follow up on that effort that you've got going. thanks so up many. that's "the ed shultz." "politics nation" starts right now. and you wonderful viewers have a great memorial day weekend. >> have a great weekend, ed. thank you. and thank you for tuning in. president obama confronts the broken gop. for years, the republicans have resorted to a do-nothing, block-everything strategy. bringing congress to historic levels of gridlock. in a desperate bid to undermine this president's agenda. and now the president is calling themg out for it. say, quote, when you hear a false equivalence that somehow congress is just broken, it's not true. what's broken right now is a republican party that repeatedly says no. it's a message meant to cut through the noise and reach the gop people. it's a party swallowed up by the tea party. but don't take my word for it. take speaker boehner's. >> i'm not going to into enter into this dissension between the tea party and the republicans. because it's a distinction you're going to have a hard time finding. >> by the speaker's