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Overlapping. the messaging here, we talked about all of the domestic issues, we talked about tax reform and we talked about the mueller investigation and obviously the charge that is were brought this week that were made public and the plea deals. im sort of curious as to how agresestive white house will be this week when we see this united front come out. i mean, there was ivanka trump had warm reception which she was in tokyo and that seemed to be a very successful event for her and like you s...

Something thats been lotted but what else can be done at this point to sort of promote this united front and i dont think that that will -- i think the president will be unrelenting when it comes to those issues and we will see it throughout the entirety of 12-day trip and what response we could see from north korea is what, i think, a lot of people are sort of curious about. leland: we saw members of the administration, secretary mnuchin specifically sort of telegraph the possibility of a decla...

Parked overseas, those companies are legally gaming the system. theyre not committing fraud. theyre not committing a crime. in order for them to keep their dollars here, it costst them a lot more money. >> they generate this money overseas, by the way. they sell things. they have subsidiaries, things like that. >> but placing it in places like ireland is just cheaper for them to do. if they didnt have to go through those efforts to do that, if they have those dollars here in theory you think it ...

Russia. the senate committee is also going on its full track. so i think we will still see those continue, regardless of what happens on monday. >> errol, lets talk about tax reform. the big deadline coming for the introduction of some legislation on wednesday. obviously, just a few days away. they want to get something done by thanksgiving. senate has got 14 working days on the calendar. the house has even fewer than that. and there are still some major disagreements about this legislation that...

There. >> there are some who believe that. >> i was just -- just a couple conspiracy theories that you threw out there. go ahead, curious,kirsten, what want to say to that? >> oh, yeah, i mean, jack, you are really just throwing something out there that i dont think theres any real -- theres anything to back up what you just said. you know, theres no reason to believe that hes rushing anything. i think hes known as a professional. hes well respected. hes somebody who has been, you know, i think ...

May end up being a witness in part of this investigation. maybe that has something to do with him stepping down today. do you have any thoughts on that matter? >> i dont know if it is true that hell be a witness. i talked to someone today who said they talked to dana as recently as several days ago. all they could talk about was how eager he was. hes been the attorney general, to be confirmed so co-retake his job in the eastern district of virginia. what that says to me is, he did not just decid...

But the timing has been, i think, a little curious with the sudden departure of the department. >> to underscore what you said, that was a conversation that he had a couple days ago in which he did not express any desire, in fact, expressed enthusiasm about continuing in the eastern district of virginia. and then today, mysteriously, at least, surprisingly, he resigned. >> exactly. i think you can draw that wasnt a resignation completely of his own volition. >> fascinating. doj spokesperson. tha...

Is pro trump, but i dont believe he has a lock on the republican party. it will be interesting to see if this spreads, even among some people who may want to fight it out in their primaries next year. but generally, politicians are political pragmatists and donald trump does have a huge chunk of the republican primary electorate that is on his side, even though sometimes not on conservative issues. so somebody like flake can get in trouble in a primary and be forced not to run. but whats curious...

Corporate tax rate? they said no. some democrats supported bills that schumer talked about that actually lowered the corporate tax rate. president obama talked about lowering the corporate tax rate. >> dana: you think no democrats would be able to get on board? if they add a fourth tax bracket and add taxes called a millionaires tax, who wouldnt be able to support that on the democratic side? thats what they said they wanted? >> any and all, as long as there are components in the legislation tha...

Because he actually today he himself acknowledged on the air he had settled himself three cases during his time at fox news. theres three others that we know about. so i dont know how he can make the argument that these deals were reached. certainly the fox news legal department, human resources department knew about some of them. and but what he takes the perspective of, theres never been a formal complaint filed against him. it seems to me a distinction without a difference and thats his respo...