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  • >> WHEN YOU HAVE HALF A MILLION

  • AMERICANS SLEEPING OUT ON THE

  • STREET TODAY, AND THEN YOU ALSO

  • HAVE THREE PEOPLE OWNING MORE

  • WEALTH THAN THE BOTTOM HALF OF

  • AMERICAN SOCIETY, THAT IS A

  • MORAL AND ECONOMIC OUTRAGE.

  • SO IF YOU'RE ASKING ME, DO I

  • THINK WE SHOULD DEMAND THAT THE

  • WEALTHY START PAYING THE,

  • WEALTHIEST TOP .1 OF 1%, START

  • PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE OF

  • TAXES, YES, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT

  • I BELIEVE.

  • >> TAXING INCOME IS NOT GOING TO

  • GET YOU WHERE YOU NEED TO BE TO

  • WHERE TAXING WEALTH DOES.

  • WE NEED A WEALTH TAX TO MAKE

  • INVESTMENTS IN THE NEXT

  • GENERATION.

  • BRIAN: THAT IS ONE WAY TO PAY

  • FOR IT.

  • MIKE ROWE, TV HOST, AUTHOR OF A

  • BRAND NEW BOOK, CALLED, THE WAY

  • I HEARD IT, JOINS US LIVE RIGHT

  • NOW.

  • MIKE, YOU WERE TRAVELING,

  • PROMOTING YOUR BRAND NEW BOOK.

  • >> TERRIBLY BUSY.

  • STEVE: ON HIS RADIO SHOW.

  • >> NOT THAT BUSY.

  • STEVE: BERNIE WANT AS 97% TAX

  • RATE ON THE 400 RICHEST

  • AMERICANS.

  • HE HAS BIG PLANS WITH A BIG

  • PRICE TAG.

  • >> OKAY.

  • YEAH, FREE COUNTRY, IDEAS, FLOAT

  • THEM, FLY THEM, RUN UP THE OLD

  • FLAGPOLE, SEE WHO SALUTES.

  • IN THE END MILLIONAIRES ARGUING

  • WITH MILLIONAIRES OVER WHO HATES

  • THE MILLIONAIRES THE MOST.

  • STEVE: RIGHT.

  • >> I GUESS IT'S A CONVERSATION

  • WE'LL HAVE BUT, I REMEMBER A

  • COUPLE YEARS AGO I TOOK MY, MY

  • MEAGER STAFF OVER TO THE REAGAN

  • RANCH.

  • IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN --

  • STEVE: BEAUTIFUL.

  • >> IT IS TERRIFIC, ONE OF THE

  • STORIES THEY TELL IS THE TIME

  • WHEN RONALD REAGAN JUST FINALLY

  • DECIDED HE WAS DONE DOING

  • MOVIES.

  • HE WAS JUST DONE BECAUSE HE WAS

  • PAYING 92% OF EVERY DOLLAR HE

  • MADE ON FILMS.

  • IT WAS JUST MATH.

  • HE WASN'T DONE ACTING, IT WAS

  • MATH.

  • DID BASIC CALCULUS.

  • MAKES NO SENSE TO DO THIS.

  • AINSLEY: WEALTHIEST PEOPLE WILL

  • SAY I'M NOT WORKING ANYMORE?

  • >> I LIVE IN CALIFORNIA.

  • I JUST READ A REPORT THAT SAID

  • THE, THE EXODUS THIS YEAR AS A

  • RESULT OF 13 1/2% STATE TAX AND

  • SOME OTHER TWEAKS TO THE SYSTEM

  • IS UNLIKE ANYTHING THEY HAVE

  • EVER SEEN BEFORE.

  • I KNOW ITS CONVENIENT.

  • IT IS FUN TO HATE THE RICH AND

  • ALL, IN THE END, THEY'RE JUST

  • PEOPLE.

  • THEY ARE GOING TO DO THE MATH,

  • THEY WILL GO WHERE THE MATH IS

  • BETTER.

  • BRIAN: THIS IS WHAT I THOUGHT

  • ABOUT YOU DURING THE DEBATE,

  • GUARANTEED INCOME.

  • TWO OR THREE CANDIDATES SAYING

  • GET $1000, AUTOMATION IS HERE.

  • YOU'RE NOT GETTING A JOB.

  • GIVE PEOPLE $1000.

  • >> WHY NOT MORE?

  • BRIAN: YOU HANG OUT WITH PEOPLE

  • THAT WORK FOR A LIVING, YOU FIND

  • OUT ABOUT THEIR JOBS, DIRTY JOBS

  • IS WHEN YOU REALLY EMERGED, WHEN

  • YOU SEE PEOPLE GIVE MONEY AWAY,

  • WHAT DOES IT DO TO THE

  • SELF-ESTEEM WHEN YOU GET

  • SOMETHING FOR FREE?

  • >> YOU CAN'T IGNORE THE HUMAN

  • CONDITION CONDITION.

  • WE'RE FUNDAMENTALLY LAZY PEOPLE.

  • WE HAVE TO BE TAUGHT, I THINK

  • NOT TO BE LAZY.

  • BRIAN: DON'T CALL AINSLEY THAT.

  • I DON'T MIND IF YOU CALL ME

  • THAT.

  • >> I'M CALLING YOU FUNDAMENTAL.

  • BRIAN: THAT IS WORSE.

  • >> IF YOU GIVE ME A CHOICE, I

  • DON'T SEE MYSELF AS LAZY, IF YOU

  • GIVE ME A CHOICE OF THE EASY WAY

  • OR THE HARD WAY.

  • I CAN'T HELP IT, I WILL DEFAULT

  • TO THE EASY WAY.

  • STEVE: FREE MONEY?

  • I WANT IT.

  • >> MY ONLY CONCERN, NOT ONLY

  • CONCERN, THAT KIND OF ARGUING WE

  • DISCUSSED YESTERDAY AND JUST

  • NOW.

  • ONCE YOU SAY OKAY, FREE MONEY,

  • THE NEXT QUESTION HAS TO BE, WHY

  • NOT MORE?

  • AND THAT'S THE BEEF WITH THE

  • 5,000-DOLLAR SURGE IN THE MIDDLE

  • CLASS RIGHT NOW.

  • HOW DO YOU ARGUE AGAINST THAT?

  • YOU SIMPLY SAY IT IS NOT BIG

  • ENOUGH.

  • WHY NOT 10.

  • STEVE: INCOMES OF THE MIDDLE

  • CLASS HAVE GONE UP $5,000 PER

  • FAMILY DURING THE TRUMP YEARS.

  • >> NOT ENOUGH, SORRY.

  • AINSLEY: HOW WILL THAT FARE

  • ELECTION TIME?

  • THE ECONOMY IS GREAT, PEOPLE

  • HAVE 5000 MORE EACH YEAR?

  • >> IF I LEARNED ANYTHING FROM

  • 2016, I DON'T KNOW AND, LOOKING

  • AT POLLS TODAY, BUT YOU GUYS

  • TELL ME, I FLICK AROUND ALL OVER

  • THE PLACE AND I STILL SEE PEOPLE

  • LOOKING AT POLLS SAYING BASED ON

  • THE POLLS, DOT, DOT.

  • STEVE: EVERY DAY.

  • >> WHY WOULD ANYBODY LOOK AT ANY

  • POLL ANYWHERE CONCLUDE ANYTHING

  • EVER?

  • BRIAN: I AGREE.

  • ONE THING WILL HELP YOU, IF YOU

  • GO BACK TO "DIRTY JOBS."

  • TRADE DEALS BRING BACK

  • MANUFACTURING TO THIS COUNTRY

  • AND I DON'T THINK THE DEMOCRAT

  • ARE PUSHING BACK.

  • LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR BOOK, I

  • KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO DISCUSS

  • IT.

  • THE BOOK IS NUMBER SIX ON AMAZON

  • BUT YOU'RE NOT ABOUT NUMBERS.

  • >> NO.

  • WHY TRUST THE POLLS.

  • CLEARLY IT IS NUMBER OF ONE.

  • THIS IS FAKE NEWS.

  • AINSLEY: WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

  • >> THE BOOK IS, WELL, IT STARTED

  • AS A COLLECTION OF STORIES I

  • WRITE FOR MY PODCAST, WHICH IS

  • CALLED THE WAY I HEARD IT.

  • MY MOTHER READ THEM.

  • THESE ARE VERY NICE, BUT A

  • RATHER LAZY APPROACH TO WRITING

  • DON'T YOU THINK, PUBLISHING

  • SOMETHING YOU ALREADY READ.

  • OKAY, I SAID SURE, IN BETWEEN A

  • STORY ABOUT A FAMOUS PERSON I

  • NEVER MET, I'M INTRIGUED BY, I

  • TELL A STORY OF MY OWN MISSPENT

  • YOUTH.

  • THE BOOK GOES BETWEEN BIOGRAPHY

  • AND AUTO BIOGRAPHY.

  • MEMOIR INTERRUPTED BY FAMOUS

  • PEOPLE I WISH I KNEW BETTER.

  • BRIAN: ONE GREAT STORY ABOUT MEL

  • BROOKS.

  • >> THERE ARE MANY GREAT STORIES.

  • BRIAN: ARE HAVE YOU SEEN TALK

  • SHOWS BEFORE?

  • >> SPOILER ALERT.

  • BRIAN: I TOLD YOU THE END.

  • I APOLOGIZE.

  • >> HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A SHOW

  • LIKE THIS?

  • UNBELIEVABLE.

  • STEVE: GOING BACK TO THE

  • FUNDAMENTALS.

  • >> LET'S MAKE IT FUNDAMENTAL,

  • YOU REMEMBER PAUL HARVEY, THE

  • REST OF THE STORY?

  • I RIPPED OFF THAT IDEA, WITH

  • PERMISSION FROM HIS SON.

  • THE WAY I HEARD IT, IS MY

  • VERSION OF PAUL HARVEY'S OLD

  • RADIO SHOW.

  • WHERE YOU LEARN ABOUT HISTORY

  • AND YOU LEARN ABOUT BIOGRAPHY

  • THROUGH MYSTERY.

  • SO THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE SPINE

  • OF THE BOOK.

  • THOSE ARE THE TILES IN THE

  • MOSAIC.

  • STEVE: 35 MYSTERIES.

  • >> 35 MYSTERIESES JUXTAPOSED

  • GROWING UP WITH TWO OF THE MOST

  • INTERESTING PEOPLE IN THE WORLD,

  • WHICH WERE MY MOM AND DAD.

  • BRIAN: ONE OF THE STORIES ENDS

  • WITH MEL BROOKS.

  • >> WOULD YOU STOP WITH THE MEL

  • BROOKS?

  • BRIAN: IT'S A GREAT STORY.

  • >> HIS NAME WAS CORPORAL

  • KAMINSKY, DURING SECOND WORLD

  • WAR, DURING THE CLIMBED A

  • UTILITY POLL, CHANGING THE

  • PROPAGANDA PLAYED BY THE GERMANS

  • TO AL JOLSON'S TOOT CITY.

  • IT WAS UNOF THE GREAT THINGS

  • ABOUT THE WAR AND IT FRAMED HIS

  • CAREER.

  • THINK ABOUT SPRINGTIME FOR

  • HITLER AND ALL THOSE CRAZY

  • THINGS, DURING THE BATTLE OF

  • BULGE HE PLAYED A GREAT JEWISH

  • SONG TO A FOREST FILLED WITH

  • NAZIS, IF THAT SOUNDS

  • INTERESTING, I DON'T KNOW WHICH

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