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Be the new normal. >> brian:n: senator, name thehe company in south carolina that is respondingca to the tax refom and how?ndç >> a pharmaceutical company, 5%e wageas increase to all of their employees, specifically because of the tax cut. the average personç makes $70,0 a year, 5-cent pay raise is real money, and you look at the tax cut was the pay raise, plus the increase in the 401(k) plan, this is beenúh very good presidency for people who are working out there. president trump tax cuts...

Earth. russia is headed by a more canny than usual leader. >> one thing i wanted to mention, brian, in the context of what we dealt with with russia that was tlul actually on my plate. people dont realize russia over the last three years closed every american center in the russian federation. dozens and dozens of them, including the last american center in moscow. these are libraries that have mark twain and earnest hemmingway that russian people can come in and use. and that russians just effic...

Scenario on table here is that there was some kind of collaboration between the trump campaign and the kremlin that helped trump defeat hillary clinton and that there was a payoff on side for the russians, which was that there would be an easing of american policy towards russia, and that would fund lee involve the lifting of sanctions. brian, i also just want to point out here -- so, i mean its remarkable there was this push to move so quickly on that front but trump did publicly campaign on th...

Views its role in the world. secondarily, this is a huge fight within the business community. there is evident and push toward renewable energy and taking a leadership role in that business -- in that industry. this is something now the united states, it seems as though, it is not a priority, and it will -- you know, we are sort of vacating the field in a business sense as well to other countries. >> heidi on twitter we heard from elon musk. we heard from the ceo of g.e. the reaction is still co...

On travelers from six muslim majority nations after it was blocked by lower courts that found it was discriminatory. your reaction? >> well, you know, this guy doesnt give up, brian. you know, maybe we are going to talk about the climate deal, the paris acard in the next segment. i think part of what was appealing to trump about pulling out of that paris accord was it was something he could unilaterally. trump is the chief executive. your jaws are all on the floor. just watch me because i did it...

Striking even after everything that happened in the last couple of months, michael flynns departure and the stories about jared kushner and the meetings with kislyak, trump still seems determined to push ahead with a better relation with russia. to me the amazing thing although the story is wonderful and revealing its the fact that we are talking about these diplomatic compounds that trump is going to meet with putin in july, that the statements from if white house after sergey lavrov came to th...

Doesnt give up, brian. you know, maybe we are going to talk about the climate deal, the paris acard in the next segment. i think part of what was appealing to trump about pulling out of that paris accord was it was something he could unilaterally. trump is the chief executive. your jaws are all on the floor. just watch me because i did it. as opposed to health care reform, tax reform, where he has to go through the congress. its boring, there are people challenging him and making it complicated....

>> right, brian. the followthrough that it suggests of national policy takes it to that next level. you know, the most damning scenario on table here is that there was some kind of collaboration between the trump campaign and the kremlin that helped trump defeat hillary clinton and that there was a payoff on side for the russians, which was that there would be an easing of american policy towards russia, and that would fund lee involve the lifting of sanctions. brian, i also just want to point o...

Things russia and all things putin has been especially maddening to you as you and i have talked for months about it now, given your history. do you feel, in light of the investigations we know that are going on, that it has a finite time left? do you feel we are nearing the end? or has this moved -- has this normalized public opinion in some way? >> i actually dont know the answer to that, brian. i mean, the survey data shows that a lot of people, more people distrust the russians and putin tha...

People felt very, very strongly about, and that russia had violated the sovereignty of another nation, one of the first times since world war ii and we really needed to do something very, very serious. the giving back of these compounds is also very peculiar. the way diplomacy works is through reciprocity. the russians are the kind of reciprocity kings. >> countries expect it from each other. >> countries expect it. in a sense you are giving this back without getting anything for it. donald trum...