cartoon in question was politically incorrect or not pc, no matter that the character was the late david levine, perhaps the leading practitioner and no matter that his caricature was of powerful work of art indeed. that was the problem. it all started with a phone call from david who i had known as a former contributor to monocle which was mentioned in the introduction which we call the leisurely court of politically satire, a came out twice a year and i found as a student at yale law school in the late 1950s. by now david was known to his followers as one of the great unfashionable realist painters, he was known to the immediate and the intellectual community as the genius responsible for the artfully witty but wicked cross hatch caricatures that helped define the look of the prestigious new york review of books since its founding in 1963. david called because he a delmack caricature of henry kissinger on assignment for the review which his editor felt was too strong, the magazine said it would publish the caricature later, david was not so sure about that and anyone wanted to publish it righ

no matter that the character was the late david levine perhaps the leading practitioner and no matter that his character was a powerful work of art in deed that was the problem. it all started with a phone call from david, whom i had known as a former contributor to monocle which cecilia mengin and her great introduction, which we call the leisurely quarterly of the satire that meant it came out twice a year. and i had founded a student at the yale law school in the 1950's. by now, david was known to his followers as one of the great fashionable realist painters. he was known to the media and the intellectual community as the genius responsible for the artfully witty but wicked characters that helped define the look of the prestigious new york review of books since its founding in 1963. david called because he had done a caricature of henry kissinger on assignment for "the review," which the editors felt was too strong and they would publish the character leader to be david wasn't so sure of that and wanted to publish it right away. the cartoon as he told me showed kissinger in bed on

. >> the one i want you to talk about is henry kissinger by david levine, screwing the world i believeexually dominating a female body with a globe on it, so he is having his way with the world. office politics around this, i don't want to talk about that. i want to talk about why you love this so much aesthetically. she seems to be enjoying. it was the world enjoying kissinger having his way with it. >> it's interesting you say that. we have a debate in the office about it after it appeared as you suggest. the young woman who was most articulate about it, who was our assistant circulation manager said the nation is supposed to be fighting against stereotypes and this cartoon shows the stereotype of sex as something an active male on top does to a woman on bottom. of course, kissinger's case, it was under an american flag. christopher hitchens who worked for us at the time said, to me it's not an act of rape, it's not a sex of act, it's an act of rape. the young woman said if you look at his hand on the mattress, seems to me the grip of passion. christopher wore a white suit and played

david levine, ceo and founder, america's sustainable business council. he says they apply the nomination of gene mccarthy. we believe ms. mccarthy can provide the strong leadership, including working collaboratively with the business community. so i say to my republican friends, get out of the fringe lane and join the mainstream of business in this country. it goes on and on. stephen harper, global director of environment of energy policy at intel. we haven't always agreed with every action taken under mccarthy's watch that we always respected her rocksolid dedication to protecting the environment and a commitment to finding solutions that protect our nation's economy. it goes on. chairman and president of the southern company has beautiful things to say. william, partner at -- represents have beautiful things to say. and i ask unanimous consent, there's no one here, to put the rest of these into the record. it goes on and on. it's business. it's organizations. it's respected individuals in our communities. how about this? for republican governors, inclu

david levin, ceo and founder, american sustainable business council. he says: we applaud the nomination of gina mccarthy. we believe second provide a strong leadership needed at epa, working working collaboratively with the business community. so i say to my republican 'colleagues-get out of the fringe lane and join the mainstream of business in this country. it goes on and on. steven harper, global director of environmental policy at intel. we haven't auld agreed with everybody action by mccar if the but we always respected her commitment to finding solutions that protect our nation's economy. it goes on: chairman and president company had beautiful things to say, the partner at baker llp, had beautiful things to say. and i ask unanimous consent, and since there's nobody here -- to put the rest of these into the record. it goes on and on. it's business. it's organizations. it's respected individuals. in our communities. how about this? served four republican governors, including the republican governor of connecticut. she says, gina's leadership is na

david elyashar of horwitz coleman levin is here now with a break-down on how to calculate taxes you owe the goverment when you sell stocks. good to have you back on the show david. - good morning. - so let's talk about some options here. one option is first in, first out. how does that work? - first in first out, also called fifo, that's the default method for selling stocks. essentially with this method, you are treated to have sold your earliest acquired shares of stock first. - what are some other options? - you do have the option to designate which shares of stock you specifically want to sell, but you need to be careful, because you need to pre-arrange this with your broker beforehand. - you are a cpa. you do this day in and day out. i am guessing there is some strategy to help people save money and not have to give their money to uncle sam when selling stocks. would do you do? - people are going to want to be strategic when selling stocks. for example, in a rising market, using the fifo method may be less advantageous because you'd essentially be selling your cheapest stocks first

david elyashar of horwich- coleman-levin joins us on set this morning. good to have you back here. is tim cook correct? do we need a better tax code for corporations? - certainly tim is correct in that companies like apple are disincentivized from bringing back foreign earnings back to the united states, because the corporate tax rate is so high at 35%. - and when tim cook tells the senators that apple does pay its taxes - for instance, he said that apple paid $60 billion last year - is he being truthful, or is apple evading the tax laws here? - what tim is saying is that domestically in the united states, they are paying their fair share of tax. but certainly they have opened up foreign subsidiaries abroad to fund operations and manage them, and it's their prerogative to open up foreign operations in the lower tax jurisdictions abroad. - right. so one of those places happened to be ireland, which the senators uncovered. but do you think that there will be fall-out for other corporations? do you think just having these senate hearings will maybe put pressure on corporate america? -

david levine, ceo and founder, american sustainable business council. he says, they applaud the nomination of gina mccarthy. we believe ms. mccarthy can provide the strong leadership needed at the epa, including working collaboratively with the business community. i say to my republican friends, get out of the fringe lane and join the mainstream of business in this country. it goes on and on. stephen harper, global director of environment and energy policy at intel. we have not always agreed with every action taken under mccarthy's watch, but we have always respected her rocksolid dedication to protecting the environment and commitment to finding solutions that protect our nation's economy. it goes on. chairman and president southern company has beautiful things to say. i ask unanimous consent. -- consent to put the rest of these into the record. it goes on and on. it is business, organizations, respected individuals in our communities. how about this? republican governors, including jodi rail, republican governor of connecticut. he says that cheetos vi

. >> sean: there was an issue, airman issa, a bipartisan letter signed by chairman david camp, and sandra levinf the ways and means committee, and they requested from the white house that documents and information be sent over to them by yesterday. they've apparently decided they're not going to send it over, at least not in a timely fashion. how troublesome is that to you? do you think this is part of a delay tactic? >> three things that are troublesome. first off, this white house's attitude is they don't have to give us unless it serves their spin. secondly, everyone up and down the line, if you're a political appointee, seems to have amnesia. i think it's obama amnesia. mr. shulman was a good example. he must have said, "i don't remember" enough times, if i had a nickel for each time, i could pay often the national debt. the last one, the most troubling one, is people seem to think they don't know. we heard management up and down claiming they didn't know, even if they were briefed they didn't remember or it wasn't in enough detail for them to know. this pattern of irresponsibility, lack of

is this a case, david where it's like senator levin has been in the senate since 1979. he's had plenty of time to change the tax code. is this a situation where congress basic lip served up the ingredient and now ticked off that apple made the meal? >> very well said. i think a lot of the individuals who are response gourdian knot and get their rapacious hands on apple's money, they would probably slap them with a retained earnings penalty, which is the most in -- >> maybe we should be blaming prohibitive tax code, and maybe we need to change it. even tim cook said i would be happy to pay more u.s. tax if indeed you reformed the prohibitive tax code? >> i think we have to be very careful. even though there are some distinguishes in the code, on the whole it works. the problem with these fast solutions -- ivlts wait, it's not working if we're not seeing the moving -- >> i understand that part, but what i'm saying a fast solution to a complex problem usually creates some unpleasant unintended consequences. i'm a big believer in granting whether you call it a federal tax h

david schulz specializes in first amendment issues and is a partner at levine sullivan koch and schulz. we invited the department of justice to appear on the program but officials declined our offer. dave schulz, welcome to the newshour. first of all, why does the associated press consider this a violation of their constitutional right? >> well, judy, this is a serious issue because without sources there isn't the news. reporters need sources to figure out what's going on in the government and this was really a very large-scale intrusion-g itg activities. the subpoena sought, as you mentioned, 20 phone lines in a number of bureaus around the country where 100 or more reporters -- 100 or more different reporters work so it was extremely broad and the impact on that is really devastating because it gives the government kind of an ability to see what the a.p. was doing, how it goes about its business, who it was talking to not on any particular story but on every story covered during that period of time and it's just overreaching in a fundamental way that has an adverse impact on the pres

senator sherrod brown and david vitter recently introduced a bill that would impose higher capital acquirement on the largest of bangs i asked mark levine if he believes this bill would mitigate systemic risk. absolutely absolutely frankly this is what doug frank attempted to do it was going in that direction and then a certain set of scott brown of massachusetts in that brief interim between kennedy and elizabeth warren insisted on exempting all kinds of insurance companies and trust of small banks and basically he a hundred loopholes into the fold out of regularity nine thousand pages long we still needed this in oh i don't actually want to go like about brown bidders it's simple it's eight percent if you're a small bank fifteen percent if you're a large bank capital requirements that's a very clear and precise rule it's the kind of thing that i wish. frankly dodd frank has been allowed to keep before scott brown ruined it i guess is the way to. go and i would disagree on whether i think scott brown is to blame i think. a lot of problems and i think it's a real testament to brown vitter that actually repeal is one of the most offensiv

to get the other sherrod brown and david vitter recently introduced a bill that would impose higher capital quire ments on the largest of banks i asked mark levine if he believes this bill would mitigate systemic risk. absolutely absolutely frankly this is what does break attempted to do it was go in that direction and there's certain scott brown of massachusetts in that brief interim between kennedy and elizabeth warren insisted on exempting all kinds of insurance companies and trust of small banks and basically he drilled holes into the vault and breaking various nine thousand pages i knew we still needed this actually it wasn't like a simple it's a person if you're a small bank fifty percent if you're a large big capital requirement that's a very clear and precise rule it's the kind of thing that i wish frankly dodd frank had been allowed to keep before scott brown ruined it. and i would disagree on whether i think scott brown is to blame i think i think it was a lot of problems and i think it's a real testament to brown vigor that actually repeals one of the most offensive provisions of dodd frank which is to extend it to clearing houses bro

. >> well, the house ways and means cramer david camp put it the way the irs failed the american people. a ranking democrat san sander levintook assertion that it is rooted in the obama administration in the warning we must seek truth not political gain. that's his quote. dana baschuck is live on capitol hill. this is one of those day, where committee hearings can be really boring or electric. i think this is the latter. give me the headlines from what you have been watching. >> i think the first question the people want to know, did we learn anything new about why this happened? the answers that the acting commissioner is giving, steven miller, is he insists it's because they got flooded with letters for tax exempt status, they doubled, allowing some of these groups to engage if political activity. they used a shortcut. he said over and over, it was fought targeting tease conservative groups, but they used a shortcut they shouldn't have done. but as you can imagine, that's one issue that members of congress are not satisfied with. most importantly, that i are not satisfied with the fact that congress had been investigatin

levin. >> thank you again, everyone for coming. david i look forward to working with you so we can move the nomination forward. >> can i just -- . >> i want to thank and the chair. and our staff. your staff for the way you let us -- lead us on not an easy issue. i think it was a great moment for the senate. thank you. >> thank you. all right. stand adjourned. displncht on the next washington journal, we'll discuss the irs targeted of conservative groups with republican representative from louisiana, chairman of the ways and means oversight subcommittee. we'll be joined by representative lewis, a california democrat to take your questions about implementation of the affordable care act later this year, and thursday's house vote to repeal it. washington journal is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >>> thursday senator ron wyden and lisa murkowski spoke? favor of president obama's nominee to be the next energy secretary. their remarking from the senate floor are twenty minutes. my friend and colleague is here. we will take a sh

levine. it's so much fun having you back on the show. >> thank you, larry. >> i want to read you something from david axelrod, quote, quote, part of being president is there is so much beneath you that you can't know because government is so vast. okay. that's from david axelrod. now, i think government is too fast. i agree with the tea party. i think the biggest problem is it's too vast for president obama and his team t. vastest of the vast is the irs scandal, my friends. >> in the case of the ir sr s scandal what did we have? worse management. a complex irs code. remember, it's congress that has been cutting budgets for the irs. you had a bunch of underpaid employees that didn't know what they were doing with regard to a complex section of the code around 100 years. it's about a social welfare program, not about campaigns. >> this was about the targeting of conservative and tea party groups. this is not about some rogue office in estate having too much files on their desk. >> have you lead the inspector general's report? why do you think -- >> why did lois lerner take the fifth? if it was not political, and it was not a troublesome i

levine store. >> the shooting is all caught on a courthouse surveillance camera. arroyo on the right guns down ex-wife marabella strada and one of their sons, 23-year-old david arroyojr. a massive gun battle erupts between arroyo and officers at the courthouse entrance. >> we're getting shot at. >> we're on the way. >> deputy sherman dollison filling in as a bailiff moves outside to confront arroyo as he opens fire. >> when you watch the video, you see the officers are doing exactly what they're taught to do, that's run into the gunfire to try to stop the perpetrator. >> where is he now? >> he's outside the back door. >> the bailiff is outside the back door? >> i think he went out. he's been shot. they're going to need an ambulance. >> dollison is shot multiple times and falls to the ground outside the courthouse, critically injured. other officers are shooting arroyo but he's not going down. unknown to them at the time, he's wearing protective body armor. still, the officers keep coming. >> one was critically injured with numerous gunshots in front of the courthouse. he kept shooting. even when he was shoot numerous times, he still rolls up and tries to shoot. >>

and mccain and levin are suggesting let's go ahead and reform this right now. it's a loophole and should be stopped. >>> joining us is david it is. the fact that use the word avoidance tells me it's not illegal. evasion is illegal. avoidance is not. we need to recognize the modern world. we need to go to a terrible form of taxation with minimum international tax. we need to be able to beef up enforcement because there are legitimate issues here. but it's the congress's job. the congress and the president need to get together to be able to reform our tax system, corporate, and to eventually be able to do it with regard to individual. most are not taxed as c corp.s. it's the multinationals we are dealing with. >> it seems like a situation that smacks of unfairness when you consider they wouldn't be paying taxes anywhere. i do understand this isn't a reason you go after the entire tax code. my guess is they are not the only example. >> they're absolutely not. it's one of the reasons you may want to think about moving to a streamlined broader based lower rate for corporations, as well as individuals. you want to go to territor

, it's pretty phenomenal david to watch this hearing take place and the homeland security and governmental affairs committee is the one that's over this subcommittee. carl leviness can agree on. rand paul, however, as part of this hearing called out, congress should apologize for hauling apple out and apple hasn't broken any rules here and it's their 102 billion in cash that apple now has overseas. that's growing. the balance of nearly $150 billion total that apple has that is in the u.s. take a look at what's happened to apple's stock today thus far. it looks to be down a bit perhaps on this where the overall market is about flat. apple operations international is the name of this -- this sub group that apple created, incorporated in ireland and said, it's not managed in ireland, therefore it doesn't need to be taxed in ireland. hey, united states because it's not incorporated in the united states you can't tax us either. it will be interested to see what tim cook has to say about that. that seems to be the kind of thing that your average american who pays taxes might have some questions about and apple, of course, very protective of its image, plus there's