-You know, one of the things we've seen happen,
sort of the last month or so, is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
has proposed this 70% marginal tax rate.
So, you know, and then, you know, people --
So it's the money you make over $10 million gets taxed.
-Yeah, you get to have your first $10 million
taxed like normal people. -Yeah.
-After that, you got to pay a little more.
And 70% of the country says now, in a Fox News poll, by the way,
that they support her plan to tax at the 70% rate
those over $10 million.
-And what do you think that shift has been?
'Cause I don't think it would have been 70%
even five years ago.
Is it the stories you were just talking about?
Is it that people see their infrastructures crumbling
and people are also buying homes for $200-plus-million?
-It's all of that, but it's also that people realize
that this myth that we were raised on,
the Horatio Alger story that anybody can make it in America.
Anybody could be a millionaire.
Anybody could be president of the United States.
Well, we already -- well, we know that one's true.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Yeah, that one -- that's definitely true now, yeah.
-But I think people now know that, no,
because everybody is living from paycheck to paycheck.
Half of the country does not have enough money
in their bank account tonight if a loved one passed away,
they don't have the money to fly across the country
to go to the funeral.
The majority of Americans have $400 or less available to them.
That is -- That's the majority of our country.
So if they have an emergency or something happens,
people can't afford it.
That has to change.
And I'll tell you, the rich,
the Howard Schultzes and the Michael Bloombergs,
they better get a clue because they are tone deaf
to the fact that people have had it.
And I think people -- that's why they support taxing the rich.
They support -- They see other countries have free healthcare
and we are still paying through the nose
and going through all this rigmarole.
This has to stop.
And I hope -- Look, we've got good candidates who are running.
Some of them are running on this, you know.
I would also add, again, if I were running --
And I'm saying if 'cause I heard the other night,
you said on the air no one has announced.
-Right.
-I'm not announcing tonight.
-Thank you. I would love you to save that for another show.
Thank you. -Yes.
But it should happen here. -Yeah, thank you.
-Just out of courtesy to you. [ Laughter ]
And a vast appreciation that the American public has for you
and what you do every night on this show.
-Very kind of you. Thank you.
-So thank you for that.
No, no, no. It's true. [ Cheers and applause ]
But I would -- Yesterday, they reported the U.S. Postal Service
lost $4 billion last year.
They're talking about eliminating the postal service.
No, if I were president, I would keep the postal service.
I would give the mailwomen and mailmen a job every --
at least every Friday,
they would deliver two joints to every mailbox in America.
-Oh, wow. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Compliments of your federal government.
-Yeah.
-And you know -- and just two. We're not talking just --
-Right.
-Country won't work if everybody is completely stoned.
But just two.
And it gives the postal service a job.
I would try to think of things like that to do.
-I think that's a good platform.
I want to talk -- Last time you were here
was right before the midterms. -Yes.
-And I'll admit, there was a little pessimism.
-Yeah.
-You were fairly critical of Nancy Pelosi,
particularly her optimism going into the midterms.
So not only was her optimism borne out,
but how do you feel about her
and the handling of the shutdown?
-I feel the same way everybody feels.
She kicked his ass. [ Cheers and applause ]
It was amazing.
You know, many of us -- what is she, 78?
Many of us have had a 78-year-old grandmother.
If you have one that's really feisty
and really that puts her [bleep] kicking boots on...
[ Laughter ]
-I don't know if I can say that, but...
No, listen, she -- I was very skeptical, as I am of anybody,
any politician, anybody in a leadership position.
But since the election, she has --
I mean, look what she --
she put Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib,
our first Palestinian-American in Congress, from Detroit.
She put them on the government oversight committee
that's going to be one of the impeachment committees.
-Yeah.
-She put them on the impeachment committees.
That's -- I thought, "Wow, okay."
She got the message of the November election.
She's doing what she should be doing.
I think it's very powerful.
The thing with Rashida, too, to put her on --
Remember on election night, she went to that party
and somebody filmed her with an iPhone saying, you know...
-Go for it. Just tell them in case they missed it.
-She just went up to the microphone and says,
"We're gonna impeach the mother[bleep]"
[ Cheers and applause ]
And everybody -- everybody was like,
"Oh, my gosh, why did she say that?
Now she won't get put on any committees."
And then what does Pelosi do?
She puts her on the impeachment committee.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh! I'm not dreaming, right?
-No. -I'm awake. I'm with you.
-There's a lot to keep our eye on, obviously,
in the coming months, and please come back soon.
It's always just such a pleasure to have you.
-Thank you very much.