Many levels as you point out. Thank you very much. It was a special day for the players that made that trip today to the white house and it was fun to see them there. We had an opportunity to watch some of that. Have a great night. We will see you back here tomorrow night for the first 100 days. Im dana perino, thanks for watching us tonight. Before we get to the other big stories of the day, we want to address the situation many of you may already be aware of. Del oreilly, who hosted this program for 20 years is leaving the fox news channel. We know that you, his very loyal viewers will have a lot of feelings about this and we will talk more about it later on in the program. But first, the Trump Administration by hearing a loud shot over the bow of iran. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson delivering forceful remarks that the state Department Today making clear the administrations tolerance their belligerence and provocation is growing thin. Iran is the worlds leading statesponsored terr
the democrats feel any pressure at all to try and meet him halfway. even a president trump or to try to reach out, weatherby democrats were willing to work with him? mark: there might or might not be, but just taking a position consistently and earnestly. i work with president clinton and newt gingrich and clinton attacked each other all day, but in the evening they negotiated. that s what the country is looking for. it s unmistakable in the polls that while there maintaining artisan splits in the election, they really want somebody to go break through the partisanship here. dana: one of the things you say that people like us 71% of people want tax reform. can we all get together on that one? mark: if that s where there s a big opportunity for the administration. we went through in the polls, the outlines of trump s plan, and fewer rates, top rate of 33%, getting rid of the amt, capping deductions. 71% favor that plan. can he make that a political
tax camp. 15% from carson depending on which day you ask him. then you go to the corporate tax rate and fairly conventional cuts for the rate with most of these guys and then you come to cruz. cruz wants to eliminate the corporate tax rate and replace it with a national sales tax. 16%. it will be paid not by business but consumers on everything they buy. it s an aggressive tax because everybody s paying the same percentage on it. it is part of why his plan doesn t cost so much. then when it comes to deductions, pretty much everybody wants to eliminate most of the deductions. carson is an outlier with none and jeb bush has a more creative plan of capping deductions. everyone else says get rid of deductions. then you come to the effects on people. here s what s surprising.
taxpayer . we want to tank the tepid housing recovery. president obama proposed a way of making those decisions by capping deductions at 28 percent. it is mortgage interest and 28 cents back. at the moment it is based on a marginal tax rate and they would get 40 cents back. you get to decide where it goes. it violates the president s long standing pledge on families making less than $250,000 a year . families making more than $223,000 a year . republicans want tax reforms to reduce the deficit and lower tax rates. the administration is happy with broadening the base. we have seen them go in other direction. tax is hard dance for them. obviously the parties
provision which is a little shot at romney. i ll say that i think the bigger thing i m not hearing that much discussion of on the tax side, it s not the romney i.r.a. rule. it s not the buffett tax. neither of those raise all that much money. it s a long time plan from the administration. they ve been pushing it since 2009. to cap itemized deductions at 28%. when richer folks take a deduction for the charitable deduction or other things like that, instead of being able to deduct it at their 39.5% tax rate they d only be able to deduct it at 28%. that raises hundreds of billions of dollars. to bring this back to mitt romney, it is very similar to a proposal romney put forward during the campaign in order to in theory pay for his tax reform plan. this idea of capping deductions in order to broaden the base and even maybe you could use some of the money to lower rates down the road, that s been something that has had a lot of support among republicans recently. the obama administration ag