levin, has 2 1/2 minutes. mr. levin: thank you. i just want to read the facts why this bill essentially says china first. i want everybody to understand this isn't rhetoric. this is reality. the republicans upped this bill $14.3 trillion in debt. of that $2.7 trillion in social security and $11.6 trillion in public debt. of that public debt, $5.6 trillion is foreign. so when you come up and talk about all of the american public, you're not talking about what is in this bill. of that foreign debt, the largest debtor, the largest creditor is china with over $1 trillion. so it's absolutely true that will essentially what you're saying is pay the largest of the reign creditors instead of american troops, veterans, physicians, school lunch programs, universities doing medical research, taxpayers doing refunds, and other federal trust funds holding treasury bonds, medicare, these are americans, deposit insurance, highway trust funds, etc., etc. . that's the fact. now, there's some effort here to say, oh, we're not defaulting. yes, you ar

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adam levine hates america.ah, you said you don't understand what levine was apologizing for and you can't see what you are supposed to be angry about. maybe the question is why do you hate america? >> clearly i am the one at fault here. my fake outrage button is not working. >> i think you owe an apology to every american who served this great country and even those who haven't, but are still patriotic. >> especially those. >> what are you doing, sherrod? >> nothing. >> i told you not to touch me there. >> i am a professional television personality. >> yes, you are. chris, you said fellow right wing outrage is like feax left wing outrage. i argue with the feax. >> there is more of it. >> andy, here is the thing. it started before the feax right wing outrage. so they are -- it is like a bell curve. it takes time to catch up. i say it is four or five years. >> i think it is caught up. >> we will get there. we always do. >> we have to get rid of the feau. let's have outrage. it is i am told quite lucrative to be o

i can't help but wonder if by using apple as the poster child, smart levin and others think that the issue is going to get more traction. >> well, absolutely, scott. the senators here think that they would like to see tax reform done in this country and they'd like to see something done about what they call these loopholes here. and i should say that apple has said it doesn't use tax gimmicks. what levin was talking about when he said the holy grail of tax avoidance is this question of subsidiaries of apple that are not tax residence in any jurisdiction around the world. they may be legally registered in ireland, but they're not official tax residents of the country, also not of the united states or any country anywhere around the world. that is the thing that the committee is saying has never been seen before by them. and a lot of tax experts they say they spoke to expressed

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

levin: mr. pascrell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for two minutes. mr. pascrell: i rise in opposition to this bill, the patients' rights repeal act. madam chair, we've gone through this for many times. we've attempted in committee, subcommittee, to try to undercut the patients' rights to health care, and it wasn't successful. the e way, i.r.s. is not individual agency that is the operative of health care. where in god's name did you get that from? there hasn't been much truth spoken today on the floor over there. whether in town halls or small group meetings, i asked this question when we talk about health care. i ask individuals to raise their hands if they're against, number one, you ought to raise your hands, too, closing the medicare doughnut hole for seniors. are you for that or are you against it? allowing children to stay on a family's health plan until they are 26 years of age, are you or that or are you against it? ensuring patients are not denied insurance

that's partly what carl levin's point is here.wants to reform the tax code and is holding these things up as examples in order to show how weird the tax code can be. how is it possible apple can create three companies that are not tax resident in any country anywhere in the world? levin thinks that's weird and something ought to be done about it. rand paul is objecting to the tone, saying the committee is vilifying apple and doesn't like that. >> eamon, the testimony has resumed. we're going to go back to that live. >> i can describe it on a broad level, senator. the cost of capital today is at an all-time low as you know. and so our weighted average cost for the borrowing that we just did was less than 2%. and we were faced with a decision to go that way or to pay 35% to repatriate. and so as we looked at that analysis, we felt strongly that it was in the best interest of our shareholder for us to secure the debt. >> okay. let's assume that we simplify this. ireland gave you a 2% rate which was negotiated for your company, correc

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levin to take a minute. what do you want done here? i personally want to see the bad apples thrown out of the barrel and i'm not going to be satisfied watching as typical person, if you've got a big problem, there's got to be a big solution. two people isn't enough. the american people aren't going to believe if they've got the same people there, the same problem there. charlie rangel said there's a cancer here, you've got to remove it. do you agree with mr. rangel? >> i think there has to be action. i was the first democrat to say that mr. miller should be relieved of his responsibilities, and so mitch learner -- i said that a few days ago. i believe we need to get to the bottom of it. just don't throw apples at the top if you have no evidence to support it. and in the hearing today, there was no such evidence. we should have a nonpartisan hearing, not look for political points. >> okay. thank you very much. >>> coming up, the scandal that wasn't benghazi. thomas pickering handles the investigation. this afternoon he learned he's been

levin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: i want to start by thanking senator whitehouse who has shown such strong leadership on the issues that we're going to be discussing this afternoon, which is how do we get out of the sequestration box that we are now in. i also want to thank him for joining with me in sponsoring the cut unjustified tax loopholes act, which could do so much to address the problems which we're going to be discussiodiscussing here today,g the need to move forward on the solutions to our budget deficit and end ting sequestration. and i would -- and to ending sequestration. and i would ask unanimous consent, mr. president, following my remarks, that the senator from rhode island, be recognized for his remarks on the subject. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. levin: mr. president, at the beginning of march, when congrescongress's failure to rea compromise to reach a compromise -- sequestration will take place, and i'm excited

levin, is recognized. mr. levin: i yield myself 10 seconds.bill not only contemplates default, it plans for it. default, is default, is default. i now yield a minute and a half to the distinguished former chairman of our committee, mr. rangel of new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. rangel: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. . rangel: i heard the last speaker, but there's no question in my mind that when they -- the person from the other side said that the republican party's first priority is not the salvation of our country but to stop barack obama, i didn't take him too seriously after the election, i see the campaign continues. and as a little veteran i understand that. -- as a political veteran, i understand that. let me make it clear what we are doing today. i had a friend that was deeply in debt. he owed so much money that he just knew he couldn't pay all of his creditors. now, it was nowhere near $14 trillion, but it was a lot.

levin who has phoned lindsay telling her to get to philadelphia immediately.y hours to get this done. >> the phone rang, what did he say? >> there is a donor ready for you. and i think my mom and i both jaws dropped. >> reporter: there was a lot of prepping to do in a hurry. but lindsay and her mother paused for a moment. >> the first thing that we did was we prayed for the family who lost their young daughter. >> reporter: and then it begins. >> bye. >> love you. >> reporter: for the next 11 1/2 hours the surgery proceeds. >> separate skin at this point in time. >> reporter: two teams one dedicated to the left hand and one work on the right. an operation so cutting edge, surgeries have only attempted it 70 or so times in the past 15 years. when we come back, the long struggle to relearn what hands can do. [ stewart ] this is the kind of food i love to cook. i'm very excited about making the shrimp and lobster pot pie. we've never cooked anything like this before. [ male announcer ] introducing red lobster's seaside mix & match. combine any 2 of 7 exciting cho

says yes he can as the hunger strike hit three months levin sent a letter to the white house reminding the president he had a way to bypass congress on closing gitmo more than a year ago levin writes i successfully fought for a national security waiver that provides a clear route for the transfer of detainees to third countries in appropriate cases this is the president's first option using this national security waiver senator levin included the waiver in that same defense authorization bill allowing for the transfer of any prisoner out of give mo if quote the transfer is in the national security interests of the united states and the president did specifically say that go. toronto is against our national security interests and that keeping it open it serves as a recruitment tool for extremists yet in more than a year since this law was passed in this waiver created the president has not once used it to release a single prisoner from guantanamo even while four prisoners have died there since he took office u.s. army captain and give mo turn to jason right questions whether these men s

producer bob english who is staunchly approach to increasing taxes on small businesses and mark levine who believes in leveling the playing field with sales tax fairness between online and traditional retailers so mark can you please tell me why you think this though is good for american because first of all this is not a new tax consumers are already required to pay sales. axes are what they call use taxes on the things they buy the question is whether people should be able to cheat and avoid these taxes and people have been cheating and avoiding these taxes house really for about twenty years because even though you are required to pay them most people don't pay them they don't know they're supposed to pay them they don't fill it out on their tax returns what this does is says that best buy and target don't have to get punished because of amazon or e.-bay or an online retailer it exempts small retailers those that have revenue under a million dollars and they give states sorely needed aid just from the tax cheats what's the problem how do you think people are really keeping your taxe

institute i've next i'll be hosting a debate between prime interest producer bob english and mark levine at the inside scoop on the marketplace fairness act that passed the senate last night discussion online retailers charge state sales tax then in the daily cold bob inglis and i will talk about what their best point should be regulated or not let me write that . israel's massive attack near damascus days ago why do serious raging civil war then there's the issue of chemical weapons should western support of assad's enemies be patrolling if it is proven that the rebels are using them against their own people . well. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future are covered. it is easy it's. easy he. says. last night the marketplace fairness act passed the senate sixty nine to twenty seven this bill would require online retailers to collect and calculate sales and local taxes on online sales that cross state lines now currently online retailers are only required to collect sales tax and states that have a physical presence i have with me now our t.v. produ

levin, that mr.er provided to this country -- >> okay. >> -- as to why and how this criteria was applied. >> mr. reichartreichart, you di job here. what do you want done here? i personally want to see the bad apples thrown out of the barrel. i'm not going to be satisfied watching this. as a typical person, if you have a big problem, there has to be ç big solution. two people walking isn't enough. the american people are still going to believe, if they see the same people there, they've got the same problem there. only, as charlie rangel said today, mr. rangel said there's a cancer here, you got to remove it. do you agree with mr. rangel? >> i think there has to be action. look, i was the first democrat to say that mr. miller should be relieved of his responsibilities and so miss lerner. i said that a few days ago. i believe absolutely we need to get to the bottom of it. just don't throw apples at the top if you have no evidence to support it. and in the hearing today, there was no such evidence. we s

. >> forgive me, i'm going to send it over to senator levin who is speaking regarding this issue. we're going to take that live. listen in. >> companies shift huge amounts of their profits to offshore tax havens to avoid paying u.s. taxes. apple does the profit shifting by transferring some of its intellectual property to subsidiaries in ireland. in this case to the irish subsidiaries the right to sell apple products anywhere in the world other than north and south america. apple retained those rights. 95% of apple's research and development takes place in the united states. the secret to apple's business success isn't in the aluminum and steel and glass of an iphone, it's the genius, the genius is the ideas that bring those elements together in an elegant package. that intangible genius is intellectual property, it is nurtured and developed here in the united states. and yet it ends up that most of the profits are shifted to a tax haven, ireland. now apple will say they don't shift profits overseas. but that's a distinction without a difference. but they shift the intellectual pr

why isn't levin grilling g.e.?>> i think it may be something to do with jeffrey immelt. >> bill: wasn't jobs a big obama guy in the beginning. >> no, he wasn't. >> bill: not in the beginning in. >> not in the beginning, particular there was a lot of, well, ego clash if you will. guys like you and me couldn't imagine there being an ego clash. >> bill: what's ego clash? >> they didn't understand. >> bill: the president and jobs didn't get along personally. >> no. ultimately they did. >> bill: okay. provide people to invest. that's all good. they want them to pay. they don't want them to dodge. you know? that's what levin is implying. dodging responsibility to the country. >> we have to be careful with this. carl levin guy. because what we are watching may be a political production. that is temp cook appears before him to drive the discussion of lowering corporate taxes. the effect of corporate tax rate in this country, folks is not 35%. it's 17%. this looks like a gam bit to me. these folks are trying to game us and

. >>> and love, hate, and adam levine. "the voice" sparks a fire storm when he's caught on a hot mike saying he hates america. this morning, his explanation. good morning. i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. thursday, may 30th. welcome to "starting point." we begin to what is turning into one wild spring across the entire country. if you weren't dodging hail and thunderstorms last night, you may be today. if you're in the northeast, it's going to be really, really, really hot. meteorologist peterson is here with a look at that. >> unbelievable. storms have hit the country hard this weekend. it looks like there's going to be much more still on the way. >> reporter: this video was shot in corinth, texas. look at the hail bouncing off of the ground. the diamondbacks and rangers game postponed wednesday night when the heavy rain and lightning moved in very quickly. the ground crew struggled to gain control as heavy winds ripped the tarp right out of their hands. in amarillo, texas, heavy wind gusts were blamed for blowin

alexandra levine: the transmission rate for h.i.v. in the united states from mother to infant is about 25 to 30%. we can lower it to 8% risk by use of anti-h.i.v. medicines given to the mother during pregnancy, given to the mother by vein during the entire time of the delivery, and then given to the infant for the first week of life or the first month of life. progress against the disease in many other parts of the world, is not as promising. it's decimating populations in parts of central africa, in parts of southeast asia, in parts of the indian subcontinent, and it's affecting whole generations of individuals. we know, for example, that there are probably about 25 to 30 million people in the world infected with h.i.v. this year, and that that number will continue to increase quite rapidly in the next few years, especially in those parts of the world where prevention efforts and treatment are very minimal. david bennett: the impact of h.i.v./aids in africa has been incredible. to lose the young people who are really the productive s

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levin, that mr. miller provided to this country -- >> okay. >> -- as to why and how this criteria was applied. >> mr. reichart, you did a good job here. what do you want done here? i personally want to see the bad apples thrown out of the barrel. i'm not going to be satisfied watching this. as a typical person, if you have a big problem, there has to be a big solution. two people walking isn't enough. the american people are still going to believe, if they see the same people there, they've got the same problem there. only, as charlie rangel said today, mr. rangel said there's a cancer here, you got to remove it. do you agree with mr. rangel? >> i think there has to be action. look, i was the first democrat to say that mr. miller should be relieved of his responsibilities and so miss lerner. i said that a few days ago. i believe absolutely we need to get to the bottom of it. just don't throw apples at the top if you have no evidence to support it. and in the hearing today, there was no such evidence.

senator levin is questioning apple's ceo, tim cook. >> senator carl levin: you point out, and accurately so, mr. cook, that 95% of the creativity that goes into those products is in california. but two-thirds of the profits are in ireland. and you've made a decision, which you have a right to do, not to bring that money home. >> tim cook: senator, we're proud that all of our r&d, or the vast majority of it is in the united states. >> senator carl levin: i know. but the profits that result from it are sitting in ireland in corporations that you control that don't pay taxes. >> tim cook: all of -- >> senator carl levin: you ought to be proud -- >> tim cook: all of the profits from all of the products we sell in the united states -- >> senator carl levin: i know that. >> tim cook: -- pay taxes in the united states. >> senator carl levin: oh i know that. >> bill moyers: so what is wrong with all of that money sitting in ireland? >> gretchen morgenson: if we're not receiving the tax revenues that this company, you know, hypothetically should be paying, then that's an opportunity loss for the

i mean, senator levin accused apple of using ghost companies. >> it -- apple took advantage of loopholes that exist in our tax system and every tax system. for instance, the united states says that a company should be taxed where it's based. for instance, if you have a subsidiary in ireland than ireland should collect taxes on your revenue. ireland, on the other hand, says is company should be taxed based on where it's controlled out of. so if it's run by people in california, then united states should tax you. apple was able to take advantage of these conflicting philosophies and say "we've got a company that's technically incorporated in ireland, it's run by people out of california and so there's no taxing authority." and as a result, many of its -- many of its subsidiaries don't pay any taxes on tens of billions of dollars of revenue and, in fact, don't even file tax returns to anyone on earth because they slip through these cracks. >> warner: now the atmosphere at that hearing with one exception was pretty much very critical of apple. what was happen's defense, tim cook's defense ot

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

there was a dispute here between senator rand paul of kentucky and senator carl levin, the chairman of this committee. senator paul didn't believe this hearing should be held in the first place. take a listen. >> frankly, i'm offended by the tone and tenor of this hearing. i'm offended by a $4 trillion bullying, berating, and badgering one of america's greatest success stories. if anyone should be on trial here, it should be congress. i frankly think the committee should apologize to apple. i think that the congress should be on trial here for creating a bizarre and byzantine tax code. >> you can apologize to anyone you want. this subcommittee is not going to apologize to apple. we did not drag them in front of this subcommittee. >> carl levin not in the mood to apologize to apple and did not and instead drilled down on very specific and at times uncomfortable questions for the apple executives that were there, including tim cook. take a listen to that. >> you point out, and accurately so, mr. cook, that 95% of the creativity that goes into those products is in california. but two-thir

question the entire purpose and function of this hearing, really getting under the skin of senator carl levin, the chairman of the committee, who called the hearing in the first place. take a look at this exchange. >> frankly, i'm offended by the tone and tenor of this hearing. i'm offended by a $4 trillion government bullying, berating, and badgering one of the america tease greatest success stories. if anyone should be on trial here, it should be congress. i frankly think the committee

. >> moments ago congressman levin issued a statement saying that the change at the sirs a vital first step, shep. >> shepard: mike emanuel on the hill, thanks. mike bussey the assistant editor of the "wall street journal" which is owned by the parent company of this network. it just keeps coming. >> it does. look, there is a reason by president obama decides to come out and speak to the nation to the press, to the nation on this particular issue. there is a lot else going on in washington. it's the irs. it touches all of us. this was abusive by the irs that singled out conservative groups at a time when they were becoming more and more influential in a run-up to a midterm election. this is really kind of problematic from a lot of different perspectives. and i think that the president wanted to make really clear that he understood that. that this is kind of bipartisan condemnation of the irs. heed intoed to get out in front of this. whether or not he has remains to be seen.

i think i hate maroon 5 as much as adam levine hates america says one. and another read, adam levine just said i hate this country on tv. not a smart move, dude. not smart at all. leveen quickly turned to twitter himself to apologize. >> people were calling for him to be fired from the show, deported which i don't think is a possible thing, but he tweeted in response, the dictionary definitions of joke and misunderstanding. and it was kind of very cheeky about it. >> reporter: like the maroon 5 frontman, many viewers shocked when one-time front-runner judith hill booted from the competition. ♪ >> "the voice" made hill a standout. she came close to stardom prior to the show. hired as a backup singer for michael jackson. the show canceled when jackson died in 2009. ♪ i just can't stop loving you >> reporter: of the remaining contestants are country singers, asking the question who is watching who is voting? >> you get the people more geared toward country music, i think that tends to be more of a -- a safer option, a more kin of comfortable option for a lo

levin: mr. president, it is agreeable to me.my statement will probably be about seven or eight minutes. i think -- i don't know how long senator menendez -- was he the fourth senator who i think is glgoing to participate -- how lg his statement will be, i think 40 minutes will be enough. mr. mccain: i thank my colleagues and i want to thank my dear friend from south carolina whose efforts on another issue -- that of benghazi -- has brought the attention of the american people to a tragic situation that happened there and we need to place responsibility for it. and if it were not for his tenacity on this issue, i do not believe it would have been brought to the attention of the american people yesterday. so i'd like to thank him for his usual and unusual continuation of efforts on behalf of the families of those who were killed. but today, mr. president, i and my colleagues are here concerning syria. the strategic and humanitarian costs of this conflict continuing to devastating, not just for the people of syria but for vital ame