ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
PRESIDENT BIDEN’S PLAN TO TAX
AMERICA’S WEALTHIEST CAN BE
DEATH ON ARRIVAL.
SENATOR JOE MANCHIN TELLING THE
HILL HE DOES NOT SUPPORT IT
SAYING, QUOTE, EVERYBODY HAS TO
PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE BUT
UNREALIZED GAINS IS NOT THE WAY
TO DO IT.
BIDEN’S PITCH TO PAY
$5.8 TRILLION AGENDA INCLUDES
LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY.
BOB, GOOD TO SEE YOU.
YOU SAY THIS IS A MAJOR TALKING
POINTS FOR DEMOCRATS THIS YEAR?
>> WELL, DEMOCRATS HAVE TO RUN
ON SOMETHING AND WHAT ARE THEY
GOING TO POINT TO?
LEGISLATIVELY YOU HAVE TO HAVE
THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE
BILL A LOT OF THE MONEY WILL NOT
BE SPENT FOR YEARS, THE COVID
BILL PASSED ALONG PARTY LINES
BUT WERE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE PANDEMIC, SO WHAT DID
DEMOCRATS TALK ABOUT?
I THINK THINK TALK ABOUT THE
BILLIONAIRE TAX PLAN, HOWEVER,
OF COURSE, REPUBLICANS CAN
COUNTER, THEY COULD SAY, HEY,
LISTEN, YOU COULD HAVE PASSED
WHATEVER YOU WANTED IF YOU
UNITED AND YOU DIDN’T LAST YEAR
AND NOT THIS YEAR EITHER, SO YOU
REALLY HAVEN’T HAD ANYTHING
SIGNIFICANT SO I THINK THIS IS A
CAMPAIGN TALKING POINT, YOU ARE
GOING TO SEE A LOT OF AND
OBVIOUSLY JOE BIDEN NOT A FAN OF
IT, THOUGH.
MARIA: WHERE DO YOU THINK THIS
GOES, CONGRESSWOMAN ALEXANDRIA
OCASIO-CORTEZ TOLD DEMOCRATS
THAT THEY NEED TO DIG IN
FURTHER.
THEY NEED TO GO FURTHER LEFT IF
THEY STAND A CHANCE IN MIDTERMS,
SHE TOLD NEW YORK MAGAZINE, WE
NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IS
NOT JUST MIDDLE OF THE ROAD,
THIS IS ABOUT THE COLLAPSE OF
SUPPORT AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE,
AMONG THE DEMOCRAT BASE, BOB,
WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE’S TALKING
ABOUT HERE AND DO YOU THINK
MODERATES ARE GOING TO LISTEN?
>> WELL, I AGREE WITH AOC IN
THIS RESPECT IN THAT DEMOCRATS
ARE IN TROUBLE AND THAT’S WHAT
SHE SAID IN THE INTERVIEW
BECAUSE THE LEFT IS NOT LIKING
THAT THE WHITE HOUSE IS SAYING,
NO, WE SHOULD FUND THE POLICE,
THEY HAVE IN THEIR NEW BUDGET
THIS WEEK THEY ARE PROPOSING
INCREASES, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES
IN DEFENSE SPENDING PROBABLY
BECAUSE OF UKRAINE.
SO THE DEMOCRATS ARE DIVIDED.
THE LEFT IS NOT HAPPY, THAT
MOANS THEY MAY NOT SHOW UP COME
NOVEMBER AND THE MODERATES ARE
SCARED THEY ARE GOING TO LOSE
THEIR ELECTIONS IN CONGRESS.
SO THIS IS THE REAL PROBLEM.
THE ENTHUSIASM GAP BETWEEN
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
DEPENDING ON THE POLL, ALMOST
ALL POLLS HAVE DOUBLE-DIGIT
LEADS FOR REPUBLICANS SO OVERALL
THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING RIGHT
NOW, LONG WAY TO GO BUT
DEMOCRATS HAVE THEIR NOT UNITED
AND THEY DON’T HAVE A LOT TO
POINT TO LEGISLATIVELY EVEN
THOUGH THEY CONTROL EVERYTHING.
MARIA: YEAH, DAGEN MCDOWELL.
DAGEN: ISN’T AOC’S PROBLEM,
DOESN’T IT EXEMPLIFY WHAT IS
GOING ON IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
AND SHOULD BIDEN ISSUE MORE
ORDERS OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE SO
SHE’S ESSENTIALLY SPITTING ON ON
THE ROLE OF CONGRESS IN ALL OF
THIS.
THAT TO ME IS A SIGN OF
DESPERATION.
>> SURE, AND A LOT DEMOCRATS
COMPLAINED WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP
ISSUED EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND WE
HAVE SEEN FROM PRESIDENTS GOING
AROUND CONGRESS AND JOE BIDEN, I
GUESS, IN SOME WAYS HE DOESN’T
HAVE MUCH OF A CHOICE BECAUSE HE
HAD SUCH SLIM MAJORITIES, HAS
NOT BEEN ABLE TO PASS BUILD BACK
BETTER.
THEY REALLY HAVEN’T PASSED
ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT ON HEALTH
CARE AS FAR AS PRESCRIPTION DRUG
PRICES WHICH THEY PROMISED SO
THERE HAD BEEN PROMISES MADE BUT
YET NOT A LOT OF PROMISES KEPT
AND THAT’S WHY EVERYBODY ON THE
DEMOCRATIC SIDE IS UNHAPPY
ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THE
PRESIDENT’S POLL NUMBERS ARE IN
HIGH 30’s, MAYBE RECENTLY LOW
4’S, THAT’S NOT GOING TO CUT IT
FOR DEMOCRATS WHO ARE IN TOUGH
RACES.
>> YEAH, IN FACT, IF THE 2024
ELECTION WAS HELD TODAY A NEW
POLL FINDS THAT DONALD TRUMP
WOULD BEAT BOTH BIDEN AND KAMALA
HARRIS 47% OF PEOPLE SAID THAT
THEY WOULD SUPPORT TRUMP WHILE
41% SAID THEY WOULD SUPPORT
BIDEN ACCORDING TO RECENT
HARVARD HARRIS POLL, BOB, HOW DO
YOU SEE IT?
>> PRETTY CONSISTENT RECENTLY
THAT TRUMP IS WINNING.
AND I TALKED TO TRUMP WHO CALLED
ME A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND,
YOU KNOW, HE CERTAINLY DID NOT
-- DID NOT SAY THAT HE’S NOT
GOING TO RUN.
HE WAS CERTAINLY IMPLYING THAT
HE’S GOING TO RUN AS HE HAS SAID
PUBLICLY.
LISTEN, HE’S BEATING BIDEN BY
ABOUT 6 POINTS AND HARRIS BY --
DEPENDING ON THE POLLS IN THE
RANGE OF 10.
THAT’S A PROBLEM FOR 2024 MUCH
LESS 2022.
MARIA: ALL RIGHT, BOB, GREAT TO