you mentioned grover norquist. i'll speak it him next. we described him as powerful unelected man. >> he's so powerful. 85% of the republicans in the senate, nothing is done in the republican caucus unless norquist approved it. he's been called the most powerful man in washington. everyone agrees that for grover norquist to sign off on a policy, it can get done. if he doesn't give the okay, forget about it >>> you would think what happened in kansas is approve to economics don't work. i'll put it to grover norquist, coming up after this. >> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >> tuesday. did the police fail misty upham? >> if somebody did something to my girl, i need to know that. >> was is a case of discrimination? >> we had no help from the police. >> a family pleads for answers. "stolen sisters", an "america tonight" special report. tuesday, 10:00 eastern. only on

you mentioned grover norquist. i'll speak it him next. we described him as powerful unelected man. >> he's so powerful. 85% of the republicans in the senate, nothing is done in the republican caucus unless norquist approved it. he's been called the most powerful man in washington. everyone agrees that for grover norquist to sign off on a policy, it can get done. if he doesn't give the okay, forget about it >>> you would think what happened in kansas is approve to economics don't work. i'll put it to grover norquist, coming up after this. >> next, the parents of captured american reporter austin tice. >> austin went missing in syria. >> campaigning for his release and maintaining hope. >> austin tice is alive. >> find him and get him home. >> a special "talk to al jazeera". coming up next. only on al jazeera america. joop as we saw in david shuster's story, kansas has been dealing with budget short falls ever since governor brownback began the march to zero income taxes. he insists the state will be on course, but proposed a massive increas

thank you. >> now, grover norquist. >> thanks. we're right and they're wrong. we know that.ur job is to make more of us and fewer of them. we have to figure out how to speak to undecideds and convince them to join our team rather than their team. now, in washington, d.c. this is going to be difficult over the next two years, the reason is, the republicans have the votes to pass good stuff and obama can veto it. obama has the capacity to promote icky stuff and we won't have it. how do we communicate to our base, who already agrees to us the voters would like to agree with us while this is going on. we have to have bifocal vision, we have to see and speak to where we're going we're going to california, we're going to the promised land, all that way, we're going to pass the ryan budget plan get rid of the income tax about the direction of where we want to go needs to be clear. but we also need with bifocal vision to look at our feet so we don't trip or walk into traffic. so that we focus on today in making little gains today, the slices of the bread that heather was talking abo

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after saying read my lips i'll never raise taxes. >> interesting he won't be settling down to grover norquistential 2016 candidate. it's the vice president we want to talk about now. there are official lyly draft joe biden super pacs on the move. take a listen. >> our plan mainly focuses around the summertime. there have been numerous media accounts from the vice president on making his intentions known in the summertime. we're focusing on iowa new hampshire. >> early primary states there is their focus. is there more speculation or less speculation of the prominence of a biden run? >> i'd say it has been shrinking day by day. now, joe biden has been teasing the possibility of a presidential run for years, really. you know he's always been taking care to show up in some of those early states that always invite 2016 scrutiny whenever any candidate appears there. but there just hasn't been a ground swell of support. to the extent this draft joe biden effort exists a lot of it seems to have as much to do with general anxiety about hillary clinton getting a free pass as it does about joe biden's

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grover norquist.et as you can see it there, if my dad threw away a perfectly good presidency i would honor him -- my way of honoring him would be by learning to avoid that mistake. grover norquist joins us at the site of this caucus. that is harsh, isn't it? >> no, look, the modern republican party has explained itself and said we're the party that won't raise your taxes. but when come to a problem we're going to reform government, not raise taxes to paper over problems in the past. we're going to reform government like the ryan budget plan and other entitlement reform and all of the other candidates 95% of republicans in the house and senate made that commitment to the american people. and jeb bush has said he'll raise taxes on the american people if he feels like it. >> that's not exactly what he is saying. that's not exactly fair. he's not saying i'll raise it if i feel like. most people that refuse to sign this say i'm not going to box myself into a corner and make promises when i don't know what

tax reform president author of a new book coming out next month, end the irs before it ends us, grover norquists here. >> thank you. gerri: i'm not sure, i read in the intro it is limited to corporate taxes but i'm not sure with we're talking about here. i think it could be open season. where do you think the president will go with this idea? >> josh earnest, his press secretary said the president may do it himself. you asked the question can he do it really? -- really. my favorite cartoon in the world is far sidecar toon where two cavalry men watching flaming arrows coming at for the. one says the indians are lighting their arrows on fire. can they do that? the answer, the president can do a lot of things may not be legal but take you years to unravel that. companies and individuals, you want to argue with the irs today never get refund and pay the tax and sue later? if you think suing city hall is tough, imagine suing the federal government. gerri: so, can i just read you something? this may sound familiar to you. >> sure. gerri: important to note tonight, all bills for raising revenue shall,

vikram: i was interested in the comparison you did between stephen king and grover norquist.owa primary is more important than making people happy in washington. stephen: here is steve king somebody who will be courted by a lot of these candidates especially the ones who need iowa to win. there's a whole group of them that if they don't perform in iowa, they will have a hard chance to go much further. we saw this with his cattle call in january when he had his iowa freedom summit. everyone came running and they came on stage and gave their performances. he is not as followed as some people on twitter. he's got a pretty good following. olivia: i always think that talk radio is the literal mouthpiece of they conservatives of the republican party. should it be twitter? steven: conservative media on twitter is just as strong as anything. you can look at sean hannity and laura ingram. olivia: but is it the media of choice for republicans? steven: this year. brendan: it's important the person running the fee. aaron shock got into trouble for what he put instagram. steven: with poss

by advocacy groups across the spectrum and the has been endorsed by conservative leaders like grover norquist and the americans for tax reform eli lehrer and the "r" street institute, pat naley former president of justice fellowship mark levin of the texas public policy institute and freedom works. it is supported by law enforcement leaders, including the major cities chiefs association and the association of prosecuting attorneys which represents many of the largest district attorney offices in the country big cities. they represent county, federal state and local prosecutors prosecutors at every level. the bill is supported by the council of prison locals which represents more than 28,000 correctional workers themselves who work in federal bureau of prisons. the bill is also supported by crime victims themselves including the national task force to end sexual and domestic violence a coalition of more than a thousand organizations that advocate on behalf of victims of domestic violence dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. as they explained mandatory minimum drug sentences are draini

joining us right now is the founder of americans for tax reform, the end irs before it ends us, grover norquistower end of the economic totem pole need a lot of pep right now because there are 20 new taxes involved with obamacare and those are the people who are benefiting from it. they need help yet they turned off this program why. >> that's a good question. they are shutting down a government program and handing the money over to groups that have worked with the administration politically. it looks like politically connected groups like a.c.o.r.n. but groups like that. a lot of names you don't recognize. there have been studies of some of these groups and they had 49% failure in terms much getting irs material correct when they try to help people. the program was supposed to help people making less than $50,000 a year. you're quite right. new tax burdens on middle income people from obamacare. the administration is being completely unhelpful to lower income people and then handing contracts out to friends. >> you know what it sounds like, grover. it sounds like the president and his people a

audit the pentagon coalition, the group that has several advocates, including ralph nader and grover norquistand a story from "the washington times" yesterday, a piece and a warning to congress about the impact of sequestration. now congress is debating. should they lift the caps on sequestration and put more money in the pot for the pentagon? michael in tucson, arizona democrat. what do you think? caller: credit, good morning to you. i don't think they should -- greta, good morning to you. i don't think they should lift those caps at all. the reason is, for one, they are not auditing any. and number two where is this military spending going anyway? i think they should live look sequestration on everything else, -- lift the sechrist on everything else, but as far as the military goes, leave it there. and the caller about three dollars ago, he kept talking about how the jews got us into the war in iraq. he is correct. it was benjamin netanyahu who came to congress in 2003 and commence the congress to go along with the bush administration about weapons of mass destruction and being collected --