i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin." with a great john voight. great to see you. >> pleasure to see you. >> it's a pleasure to see you. unfortunately, your friend burt reynolds passed away. >> yes. i remember both of you in this unbelievable movie, "deliverance." what was he like? >> what can i say about this passionate fellow, my friend burt reynolds. burt was a dynamo. he was dangerous to me, and when i was making "deliverance," i was a little afraid if had to get in the car with him because he was a stunt man, and always took us right to the edge, and some ways he lived life like that. he was a wonderful guy to be around. he was such a joy, and i'm just going to talk to him a second. burt, you know, i know you were such a wonderful, a true artist in every way. you have the greatest love for your craft, for your fellow peers, and, you know, you and i had a wonderful relationship. we had the greatest times. very good talks. and we're going to miss your handsome face around, and i know you're with your buddies, you're with sammy davis, you're wit

i'm harvey levin.xas girl who transformed herself from a goody two-shoes ballet dancer into one of the most popular angels in the universe. - charlie: good morning, angels. - morning, charlie. harvey: jaclyn smith lived a sheltered life growing up, but her big break on "charlie's angels" put her way outside her comfort home. so, do you consider yourself a sex symbol? no. you know people disagree with you. harvey: and that legendary role opened the door that would transform her

i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin." we have two great guests, bradley smith, how are you my friend? great to see you, gregg jarrett, good to see you. >> good to be here. mark: briefly, everybody knows who you guys are, we're going to do this anyway, just in case. you were commissioner at the federal election commission, starting in 2000. you were chairman at one point. you graduated from harvard law school, and you were confirmed to the fec in 2000. prior to your appointment, you were professor of law at capitol university in columbus, ohio. you taught election law, you spent your whole life studying, teaching and around election law, is that correct? >> yes. mark: writeings on campaign finance, other election issues, and this is important that we get your background in here. they've appeared in the yale law journal, university of pennsylvania law review, georgetown law journal, the harvard journal of legislation, cornelle journal of law and public policy and other academic journals. have you founded the institute for f

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is u ♪ mark: hello america, i am mark levin this is "life, liberty and levin," i have a great guest,ow are you, sir. >> i am good. mark: a great honor. >> thank you. mark: i have been a fan of yours for years and years, first time we're meeting. >> it mutual. mark: thank you. you are know author, columnist. you have done documentary films, a senior fellow at stan ford institution, you specialize institute of race relation, you were born in chicago. january 1st, 1946, your father of a truck triecher drivt your mother while working for congress of racial equality. you hole hold a ma in social ge latest book a great book, shame, how america's past sins have polarized our country, you are i courageous man in my view, you write things beautifully, your logic is outstanding. >> well, thank you. mark: and yet, some people consider controversial, i consider is common sense, you wrote a few months ago in "wall street journal." on this so-called protest with the football players taking the knee during the national anthem. >> mm-hmm. mark: among other things you said, not surprising then. that

i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin." a special edition. we're going to go through the 30-year history of the democrat party's effort to destroy the judicial confirmation process and address its latest victim. i said victim. judge brett kavanaugh. so we're going to start right away. it started in 1987 on the floor of the united states senate by ted kennedy. go. >> mr. bork, subsequently retracted, the most neanderthal of these views on the civil rights and first amendment. his mind-set is no less ominous today. robert bork's america is linda in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens's doors in midnight rage, and school children could not be taught about revolution. and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is and is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy. america is a better and freer nation than robert bork thinks. in the current

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levine? >> my name is allen levine, an executive chairman of ballot health a health delivery system serving 29 counties in southwest virginia and northeast tennessee. i formally served as secretary of health for the state louisiana and florida. i'm pleased to provide this oral testimony to supplement the written testimony i've submitted. tennessee has made many contributions to america. i had the opportunity to visit one such gift, the std jude children's research hospital. a place where research and precision medicines are createsing cures for children's cancer. it occurred to mow that more man an hour away in a small, rural community in tennessee a local hospital was closing. that very day. and people were losing their jobs. this was the ninth such closing in tennessee since 2010. what a vivid picture that was of the increasing distance between our urban and rural communities and one memphis we have research and progress led by a world renowned institution, and in a rural community more tha

i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin." we have two great guests. katie pavlich, how are you? >> nice to see you, mark. mark: candace owens, how are you? >> very good to see you. >> two of the very great, young, smart, intellectual conservatives i wanted on the frm. katie pavlich you earned your bachelor of arts degree from journalism from the university of arizona. after completing your degree in 2010 you moved to washington, d.c. became news editor for townhall.com, contributing editor town hall magazine. fox news channel contributor and alternate co-host for "the five." you are ubiquitous, as are you candace. candace, you're known for your commentary. you are the director of urban engagement at the conservative advocacy group turning point usa. pursuing undergraduate degree of journalism at the university of rhode island. you left school, you said that's enough. you launched social autopsy.com in 2016, a website, where you were exposing bullies and so forth. now, this is very interesting to me, you really come from different backgrounds. your bot

levine? >> yes, plus i would look at funding additional residency slots that are based in rural communities. >> good. >> i would absolutely favor that. >> o.k. i don't go to a lot of these hearings because there's something disingenuous that takes place. everybody here and every senator and panelist is concerned about, in this case, rural health care. but many of my colleagues voted to cut a trillion dollars in funding over a ten-year period to medicaid and $500 billion to medicare. mr. glause, just out of curiosity, if the president's budget or the republican budget were approved which cut a trillion dollars in funding for medicaid over a ten-year period, what do you think that would do to -- what impact would that have on rural wyomingsome. .. we have not expanded medicaid in wyoming as you all know. i don't think that we would see the substantial impact of cut medicaid that we would of the programs. >> apologize again. mr. reed? >> frankly i'm really focus on whether not in qatar you prese

levine laid out. we are happy to have him in virginia. 90 rural hospital closures in the last 8 years, and another batch that are at risk. we are within a few months of being the first example of reopening a hospital that has been closed for a long time in rural america. this is in lee county, virginia, in the coalfields of appalachia. it will be opening by year and. mr. levine talked about repurposing hospitals. it will not reopen in its exact configuration of what was closed. we have been working with these folks for a long time. they have had to go through 1 million hoops and hurdles to figure out how to get it done. if there are 670 that are in jeopardy of closing, might be able to bring one back after they are up and running, so they can offer their ideas about how they did it. >> i hope we might do that. the reopening is scheduled in december. i did want to comment, you used uva as an example, the opioid bill that we just passed, and sent to the conference included a directive that came out of t

levin: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: mr. speaker, this is the first of four bills that came out of the ways and means committee. they came out without much controversy. the only one that really had any is this first bill. i'm not sure we'll have on our side any speakers, and i'll say a few words about this bill in a few minutes, but i first want to talk a bit about bipartisanship. hese four bills do have some bipartisanship. unfortunately, what isn't ipartisan is the basic dispute about health care and about the continuation of the reform that we, on the democratic side, tarted some years ago with our president. it has turned out to be an important piece of legislation. i think historic. and the more people look at it and the more they are covered by it, the greater is the support for it. unfortunately, unlike the bipartisanship in these four bills, a.c.a. continues to be hit by the worst kind of partisanship, and continued efforts to undermine and destroy

that means adam levine.in frazier is in new york. >> nancy that's the news that has everyone buzzing. we learned maroon five is in for the big game. ♪ >> it's a dream come true for adam. a source tells "e.t." maroon five has always wanted to play the super bowl halftime. in fact we're told it's one of adam levine's biggest goals. >> i think the band would be thrilled to do it. >> adam campaigned for the gig on howard stern in 2015 when the band was rumored to be in the running. >> we're probably on a short list. we actively want to play the super bowl. >> nancy sat down with the band. >> the red tail blues tour, what can we expect? >> we don't like to over do it. keep the band on stage and kick as much ass as we can. >> the timing works . the band has a big gap in its schedule in february leaving it wide open to perform at halftime. ♪ >> of course we've all come to expect halftime collaboration and the band can deliver. they've recently worked with cardi b. making this all the more interesting is that this s

levine? >> yes, sir.i think that one of the things that's a problem here, the differentiation, there used to be a great differentiation between medicaid and insurance. in the last five or six years, we've seen a major shift with even private insurance, where even if a child or an adult has private health insurance, because of all the high deductibles, many of them are not able to pay. and what's happening to us is our biggest increase in bad debt and uncollectible revenue isn't the uninsured. it's people who have insurance. >> that's very common, right? >> it's one of the biggest single problems we have. >> i hear about that a lot. i was in a county right next door to my neighbor state the other day, in northern colorado. that's the size of delaware geographically, but it's 1300 people live there as opposed to 1 million people in delaware. as we had this conversation it became clear in the room that of everybody in the room, there are only three people that had insurance. one was the school principal. who

that's not the reason adam levine and kelly clarkson are in the news.aroon 5 is playing the super bowl and kelly's talk show just became official ♪ what doesn't kill you makes you stronger ♪ >> you know you're sitting next to the potential oprah winfrey? >> going fort oprah crown. >> don't let oprah find out. she will crush you. >> nbc just announced "the kelly clarkson show" will debut a year from now. >> if adam as you were you potential guest, what's the one question you would ask him? >> did you love touring with me? >> yes. >> i love touring together. ♪ >> kelly toured with maroon 5 and the band just booked a major gig. multiple sources tell "e.t." maroon 5 is scheduled to do to halftime show at the super bowl in february. as for adam and kelly, they join j-hud and blake on "the voice" on nbc. if i have to turn my coach, there's no contest. >> avril lavine is my celebrity crush. >> awkward! >> it's not awkward. >> i'm not kidding completely ♪ shoot for the stars >> i don't know what it's like. i'm like, okay, shut up. it's adam levine. >> it's the

levin? mr. levin, yes. mr. lewis yes. mr. dag gat? yes. mr. thompson. >> yes. >> mr. larson? >> yes. >> mr. blumenauer? eye. mr. kind? mr. kind aye. mr. pascrell? mr. pascrell yes. mr. crowley? mr. crowley aye. dr. davis? aye. ms. sanchez aye. plchlt higgins? mr. higgins aye. ms. sewell? mr. del benet? aye. >> dr. chu? aye. mr. smith of nebraska? mr. smith no. mr. marchant? mr. marchant no. mr. renacci, mr. holding, mr. rice. ms. sewell? chairman brady. chairman brady no. . >> chairman brady? >> the clerk will report the vote? >> 15 yays, 21 nos. >> the agreement is not agreed to. are there any amendments? >> ms. sanchez? >> i have an amendment at the desk. >> mr. buchanan? >> point of order. >> point of order has been reserved. i ask the gentle lady to suspend while the clerk distributes. >> the j lady from california is recognized to speak. >> my amendment is straightforward and logical. the medical expense deduction provides a lifeline to millions of working senior families and seniors. my amendment simply makes permanent the republican instituted lower adjusted gross inco

levin? mr. levin, yes. mr. lewis yes. mr. dag gat? yes. mr. thompson. >> yes. >> mr. larson? >> yes. >> mr. blumenauer? eye. mr. kind? mr. kind aye. mr. pascrell? mr. pascrell yes. mr. crowley? mr. crowley aye. dr. davis? aye. ms. sanchez aye. plchlt higgins? mr. higgins aye. ms. sewell? mr. del benet? aye. >> dr. chu? aye. mr. smith of nebraska? mr. smith no. mr. marchant? mr. marchant no. mr. renacci, mr. holding, mr. rice. ms. sewell? chairman brady. chairman brady no. . >> chairman brady? >> the clerk will report the vote? >> 15 yays, 21 nos. >> the agreement is not agreed to. are there any amendments? >> ms. sanchez? >> i have an amendment at the desk. >> mr. buchanan? >> point of order. >> point of order has been reserved. i ask the gentle lady to suspend while the clerk distributes. >> the j lady from california is recognized to speak. >> my amendment is straightforward and logical. the medical expense deduction provides a lifeline to millions of working senior families and seniors. my amendment simply makes permanent the republican instituted lower adjusted gross inco

principal jon levin: one of the more important things you can have in a school are kids who are fed,t getting rest and they're not well-fed, you can't teach them. soledad: how did new york city do it? the first big step came when the federal government scrapped the complicated application process for qualifying for free meals. now, students automatically eat for free if they already receive medicaid, food stamps, or emergency housing. jill bennett, parent coordinator: so, it was a very labor-intensive process. and i think the fact that that part of it has gone away has saved a lot of man hours that can be used more productively. principal jon levin: getting school lunch and just tracking it, some kids would just skip lunch because they didn't want the hassle. and that's another piece in the school, that kids don't eat lunch. you don't really know that theyrewh they fall apart. soledad: then in 2010, the federal "community eligibility provision" gave schools extra money for food, if data showed at least 40% of the district students qualified for a free meal. crystal fitzsimons is with

levin? mr. levin, yes. mr. lewis? mr. lewis, yes. mr. doggett? mr. doggett, yes. mr. thompson? >> yes. >> mr. thompson, yes. mr. larson? >> yes. >> mr. larson, yes. mr. blumenauer? >> aye. >> mr. blumenauer, aye. mr. pascrell? mr. pascrell, yes. mr. crowley? >> aye. >> mr. crowley, aye. dr. davis? dr. davis, yes. miss sanchez? mr. higgins? mr. higgins, yes. miss delbene? miss delbene, aye. dr. chu? dr. chu, aye. mr. roskam? mr. roskam, no. mr. reed? mr. reed, no. mr. renacci. mr. holding. mr. rice. miss sanchez? miss sewell? chairman brady? chairman brady, no. >> clerk will report the vote. >> 14 ayes. 21 nays. >> the amendment is not agreed to. are there additional amendments to the amendment in nature of substitute? if there are none, the questions on the adoption amendment, nature of substitute, all those in favor signify by saying aye. those opposed no. opinion, the ayes have it. agreed to. i'll recognize mr. johnson for the purpose of offering a mot n motion. >> mr. chairman, i move the committee favorably report hr 5767 as amendment ed to the hou representatives. >> as am

levin, you are recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the chairman has said that this bill would lock in tax cuts for middle class families. so i want to ask you, about the distribution and i won't ask you to comment on that comment of description of the chairman. just to talk about the facts. okay. you have over the last year and recently provided distribution tables and i want everyone here and everybody in the country to understand them. so, here are the questions. is it correct that the republican tax law that was enacted last year would provide those earning over one million dollars a year, an average aggregate tax cut of over $64,000 in 2019? >> mr. levin, i believe you are referring to an analysis that my colleagues provided to the members last december in the distribution analysis of jcx 6817. and your calculation which seems to be accurate is based on the total change in federal taxes projected near calendar year, divided by the roughlyly divided by the roughlyl 600,000 taxpayers that will have incomes over $1 million. >> the an

we need to stand up to this. >> sean: mark levin, thank you.ou imagine that, ten parties, boys lining up and drugging women, no one ever said anything and it happened been more weekends? unbelievable. we will have more of this when we continue. mark's show right here on the fox news channel. when we come back, ed henry, congressman jim jordan and congressman mark meadows and the latest on all this and much more. also, russia's take on the events of today. straight ahead. ♪ squaring off against whatever comes next. they defied the law of gravity and went faster and farther than any one of them had ever imagined. they learned what it takes to power a dream. someone before them had discovered america, but they discovered what it means to be an american. and the thing about discovery, it has a beginning but no end. the next era belongs to those who discover again, what it means to be an american. those who have the resourcefulness, the ingenuity and the grit to ensure the next energy to power our dreams will be american energy. the trail until you

levin, for five minutes. mr. levin: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. i rise : mr. speaker, once again to speak about the unspeakable suffering of the rohingya people. two recent developments have accentuated the vital need for the house to formally and clearly about this human disaster. first, last month a fact-finding mission of the united nations spelled out what is undeniable. that burma's rohingya muslim population has been subjected to, and i quote, systemic oppression, end of quotes. culminating in so-called clearance operations that, in quotes, targeted and terrorized the entire rohingya population. u.n. report calls for burma, its military leaders, to be investigated and prosecuted on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes related to the aprosities committed against the rohingya. let me quote directly from the u.n. report on the violence and brutality inflicted on the rohingya by operations conducted by the burmese and i y last year, quote, the clearance operations constituted a

plus -- >> adam levine super bowl bound.hat we know about maroon 5 rocking the halftime show and new interview with kelly clarkson. >> it's like what. >> what. >> what to expect from kelly's new talk show. >> going for the oprah crowd. >> then -- >> it's jessica simpson. >> what jessica told us about her little girl on the way. and carrie underwood's secret heartbreak. >> why do i keep getting pregnant if i can't have a kid. >> her three miscarriages. >>> why cher isn't a fan of cher. >> oh, no. >> and why kevin hart and wild animals don't mix. >> tarantulas, snakes. oh! everything the black people don't like was there. >> this is "entertainment tonight." >>> hello, thanks for joining us. >> the latest hollywood news. >> the shocking arrest of america's got talent fan favorite. michael keterer won the hearts of america and simon cowell with his doctor of adopting five boys from foster care. now he's feistingacing a seriou allegation. he was arrested on a domestic violence allegation thursday at 3:45 p.m. and booked on a felo

professor levine adds the decline of unions.ab >> keeping costs low is part of a corporate strategy to keep overall costs low. breaking unions has certainly been part of that. the decline of unionization in this state since the early 1970s has been extraordinary. where you once had 35% of workers unionized, today it's 10%. >> reporter: there's no sign that unions are coming back. j but maybt maybe, a tight labor market is finally nudging up wages. at least erik anderson is raising them. three years ago, new hires made $9 an hour here. this fall he plans tarraise their ng wage to $15. .nd within a year they'll make in the upper tee for the pbs newshour, this is economics correspondent paul solman in southern wisconsin. >> woodruff:inally tonight, remembering actor and screen star burt reynolds who died today. as jeffrey brown tls us, reynolds was one of the top box office draws worldwide for a number of years. >> brown: with his trademark grin, a signature mustache and a kind of macho swagger, burt reynolds became one of the biggest stars in hollywoodn the late 1970s and early '80s, app

. >> reporter: in cash, says economist marc levine. >> because wisconsin manufacturers do not pay taxes, the tax credit will be converted into cash payment. >> wisconsin will give. >> give them a check, right. >> reporter: meanwhile, says levine, there are more than enough unemployed wisconsinites the money could have been used to retrain, victims of the deindustrialization that's been going on since the 1980s. >> in milwaukee almost 50% of african-american males employed in the, through the 1970s into the 1980s were emplod in manufacturing. compared to about 32% of white males.n >> reporter: wose jobs vanished, so did the pipeline for middle class inner city jobs. >> the african american male prime age employment rate in milwaukee today is a little over 63%. a>> reporter: and many otre underemployed, working part-ti at best. one problem, says levine, living in inner cities, they simply can't get to jobs at machine shops an hour or more >> all the net job growth in milwaukee over the last 30 years has occurred in the surbs. suburbs that are not connected effectively to the central city

levin's family of four is owed about $23,000. i think the largest point here is that this is a cheap trick, this is fraud being perpetrated against the american people. this is a moral horror of debt being imposed on a generation without representation. ms. sanchez said that, you know, we were born recently, but not last night. well, the people that were born last night, will be forced to deal with the debt that's being imposed on them today. this is reckless, it is irresponsible. i yield back the balance of my time. >> ms. jenkins, you're recognized to take the last word. >> it i yield to the gentleman from tennessee. >> since my name was used by my good friend from california, i would just like to ask possibly the gentlelady from california a question, the first question is when she indicates that her constituents are going to see a tax liability increase of $8,000 because of the interaction of the state and local tax deduction, how she concludes that number of $8,000? the gentlelady from california would to response? i would b

i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin."th, how are you my friend? great to see you, gregg jarrett, good to see you. >> good to be here. mark: briefly, everybody knows who you guys are, we're going to do this anyway, just in case. you were commissioner at the federal election commission, starting in 2000. you were chairman at one point. you graduated from harvard law school, and you were confirmed to the fec in

i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin." with a great john voight.at to see you. >> pleasure to see you. >> it's a pleasure to see you. unfortunately, your friend burt reynolds passed away. >> yes. i remember both of you in this unbelievable movie, "deliverance." what was he like? >> what can i say about this passionate fellow, my friend burt reynolds. burt was

i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin." a special edition. through the 30-year history of the democrat party's effort to destroy the judicial confirmation process and address its latest victim. i said victim. judge brett kavanaugh. so we're going to start right away. it started in 1987 on the floor of the united states senate by ted kennedy. go. >> mr. bork, subsequently retracted, the most

joining us this morning is david levine, college law professor. let's get right to it. when you ask people about these hearings a lot of it you can tell the response by where they stand on the idea of choice/abortion. >> is the supreme court going to repeal? >> not right away. if we assume that judg kavanaugh or somebody on that list who people think is a reliable vote to overturn choice over abortion. what will happen. you still need five votes. you can't just have one or two people saying we think this is right. here this is why we talk about roberts becoming the swing vote. kennedy having left. he was in the middle. >> is there any -- is it set up to be repealed? i hear conflicting things on the. >> it set up in a couple senses. number one the supreme court has to have a case. there has to be a case. they can't just decide you know what we had coffee this morning we think we will overturn and then go play tennis. that's not how it works. you have to have a case. there has to be cases that are bubbled up from lower courts. those cases are actually happening. state leg

is u ♪ mark: hello america, i am mark levin this is "life, liberty and levin," i have a great guest,ank you. mark: i have been a fan of yours for years and years, first time we're meeting. >> it mutual. mark: thank you. you are know author, columnist. you have done documentary films, a senior fellow at stan ford institution, you specialize institute of race relation, you were born in

adam levine's band will take the field february third at the mercedes-benz stadium in atlanta, georgiajaggeraccording to levine the band has been on the nfl's radar since two-thousand-fifteen,when howard stern questioned him about a possible performance. adam: i know that we are like probably on a short list. howard: how do you know that? adam: i talked to my manager about it and by the way we very actively want to play the super bowl.earlier this year, we sat down with adam who told us all about the band's big live show.we have this luxury of having become more succesful over time/pu so every tour that comes around we think to ourselves ok cant do the same thing, we're gonna have to step it up/puthat's just kind of our plan. (nischelle)maroon 5 have wins, the first as best new we'll have much more on nischelle turner, back to you! ( marty ) monterey county is honoring a hometown swimming sensation who could be michael phelps in the making. the county officially declared september 18-th "superman clark kent apuada day." ten-year-old apuada - who happens to share his name with the chara

all about optics they want to assure that they don't offend anyone they don't want to be seen as a levin or twelve all white men walking asking this woman questions and beating this woman down so instead they bring another female prosecutor ask questions what's notable about this lawyer is that seven of the eleven g.o.p. members on that side are lawyers former prosecutors city attorneys many of them so the fact that they are afraid to ask these questions isn't suggested that they can't do it it simply says they don't want to do it. back in nineteen ninety eight while we're going for independent counsel ken starr brett kavanaugh wrote that he was strongly opposed to giving president clinton any break in questioning regarding the details of the lewinsky matter he said it was their job to make clinton's tatarinov revolting behavior clear tease by painful piece should all supreme court nominees appointed for a lifetime be held to that standard how can they not be held that standard later that they sit in judgment for every man and woman in the united states for the rest of their life it's a

. >>> legal analyst david levine joins us to talk about this. walk us through the process. what is going to be happening over the next couple of days? >> there is a formal track, the senate will start going through the steps to enable them to have a vote. it will be on a slower schedule then senator mcconnell had been hoping for. he told the senate that he expected them to be working all weekend to get this done as quickly as possible. that is obviously going to be slow down. meanwhile, the fbi will be doing its best to follow any leads that are available at least for the credible accusations. we are not sure which ones will be counted for that. the fbi will probe a number of agencies. it will not take that much time. it is not that can -- complicated. >> i know this is kind of unknown because we have not reached next week, the president wants this investigation to be limited in scope. if the fbi delves into the past and ask questions, do you think it's possible that the vote could get delayed even further? >> it could. it is not what the president wants. it is what the sen

i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin." with a great john voight.see you. >> it's a pleasure to see you. unfortunately, your friend burt reynolds passed away. >> yes. i remember both of you in this unbelievable movie, "deliverance." what was he like? >> what can i say about this passionate fellow, my friend burt reynolds. burt was a

levin. mr. higgins. chairman brady. >> no. >> chairman brady no. >> the clerk will report the vote. >> 14 nayes and 20 nays. >> the committee will stand in recessreconvene immediately after votes. >>> the house ways and means committee have been talking about tax reform proposals. a number of bills would nak perm nnt tax cuts that congress approved last year. while the committee is in this break, we're going to show you some of the opening statements as the committee got underway this morning. >> the tax cuts and jobs acts change the trajectory of our economy for the better. since president trump signed the new tax code into law, we have seen an economic turn around, more jobs, bigger paychecks and historic record setting main street optimism. this meant real change for real people with nearly 1.7 million jobs since the beginning of the year and wages rising at their fastest rate in almost a decade. so many more americans are hopeful again about their financial future. i saw this on the courthouse square

if true, adam levine follows in footsteps of justin timberlake and lady gaga.y 3rd in lunatlanta. >>> this gator had nothing on judy cochran. she had been hunting this beast for three years and managed to kill it with a single shot. >> one shot in the head. he just went under. typically they do a death roll and roll over and over. this one didn't. >> she is not bragging, but she went after the gator after she believes it ate one of her mini horses. >>> all right. a big time reminder that spelling counts. take a look at the hong kong based cathay pacific. it was spelled paciic. it was a genuine and costly mistake. they joked about it saying oops. this special won't last long. she is going back to the shop. >> everybody needs a good copy editor. it was the daily news which had a great headline. they don't give a flying f. >>> let's get a check of cnn money. the u.s. is embroiled in trade war with china, but wall street with record highs. dow and s&p less than 1% from records. banks were big winners. jumping 2% as the ten-year treasury yield hit the highest since

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levin? mr. levin, yes. mr. voting. >> rollcall vote. [inaudible conversations] chairman brady. >> the clerk will report to the vote 15 yes 201 knows. i have amendment at the desk. i resume -- reserve of point of order. the clerk will distribute the amendment. please suspend where the clerk disputes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the general lady from california as instructed to speak on her amendment. my amendment is straightforward and logical. it is a lifeline to millions of working families and seniors. one bit of bad luck or carid accident should not ruin a person's entire financial future. and makes permanent the lower adjusted gross income floor to claim the medical expense deduction. millions of middle-class families and seniors ace high medical costs including those that need to seek life-saving treatment outside of their plan or those with health needs that are not covered by medicare.ng this is especially important for for fee patients and families struggling to manage on the cys

of law david levine. it is one thing to have one person accused you, now we have a second woman coming forward . will that be a game changer here. it could this be the beginning of the end for judge kavanaugh? >> could be a game changer because judge kavanaugh denial last week was so unequivocal and he repeated it again today in a letter. he says no way, know how did this happen either with dr. ford or anybody else. if a second woman comes forward and she proved to be credible, it is really tough for judge kavanaugh. >> what you think about the second woman that is come forward? there are reports that there are is no record writing evidence. that her story is very said. your thoughts on all today. >> we her store and they certai worked hard putting it together and those are very fine reporters. you have to think they have something there. we need to play it out. this is why you need investigations. there are some leads that are there. ms. ramirez need to be questioned under oath and other people need to b