Duke. that last comment about the president s, you know, the president has been tweeting for the last few days about the debt problems that puerto rico was in and the infrastructure problems they had before hurricane irma hit. elaine duke saying we will deal with that later. right now they need some help. breaking news out of saudi arabia. the king has announced an end to its long standing ban against women driving. women in the kingdom have been protesting the ban by posting videos and pictures of them driving. a dangerous thing. the decree won t immediately go into effect. the kingdom says it needs time. a spokesman for the u.s. state department responded just a few minutes ago. we are hope. we are happy. we are certainly happy the hear that. if saudi women are now able to drive certainly here in the united states we would certainly welcome that. so it is a great step in the
Of the answer to the question, is there a connection between russian government, people tied to the kremlin, and the campaign? here you have the campaign chairman, days and weeks before donald trump is the gop nominee saying, you know, i would really like to find a way to get paid and fix my debt problems that relate to this billionaire in russia who has a connection to the kremlin and vladimir putin, the president. that s a vulnerable place to be if you re head of a presidential campaign in the u.s. talking about trading on that role with a foreign official with connection to a foreign government. and when he talks about how can i use new status to make us whole, there s this dramatic fragment of a phrase we ve got from that e-mail, is it clear
To the kremlin, and the campaign? here you have the campaign chairman, days and weeks before donald trump is the gop nominee saying, you know, i would really like to find a way to get paid and fix my debt problems that relate to this billionaire in russia who has a connection to the kremlin and vladimir putin, the president. that s a vulnerable place to be if you re head of a presidential campaign in the u.s. talking about trading on that role with a foreign official with connection to a foreign government. and when he talks about how can i use new status to make us whole, there s this dramatic fragment of a phrase we ve got from that e-mail, is it clear he s talking about recovering money he believes he s owed
Years. it seems now with this president, no conditions have been added to it. that s for a discussion of another day. the way to solve our debt problems are to deal with higher economic growth and entitlements. today i think the focus needs to be on how can people be kept safe for this massive storm heading our way. neil: you re right. i m going to indulge that politics one more time. you re free to ignore me. you can t help yourself. neil: lying is a sin. i was curious about the logic for it behind the president s thinking and some of his supporters says this clears the deck for the tax cut when it comes to fruition and getting it passed. that would be time wasting as well because it would have to be done by december 8, right? it s essential that we get the tax cut done for high sustained economic growth. i think a lot of the divisions in our country would go away if feel felt like their future would be bright. one way to make that happen is
Make sure we debt the deficit under control, then we can see it raised but where at least i m not going to support a clean debt ceiling increase because we have to get our debt and debt problems at least on a pathway with are we can see light at the erptsth tunnel. right now keep piling it up. that s not the way the republicans should govern. when we do a increase it should have significant reforms built in. how do you make sense of trump s tweet where he said i suggested that they tie it into the popular va bill, which just passed for easy approval. they didn t do it. so now we have a big problem with dem s holding them up as usual on debt ceiling approval. could have been so easy, now a mess. the but you didn t want them to tie it to the va bill. no. it s not procedure. we tie bills that have something to do with each other together in order to force people to mang
What does that tell you? well, i think it once again reminds us of how polarized the country is right now. it could help explain why a number of politicians were not calling the president out by name. in fact, only a few did, when they spoke out about what happened in charlottesville. and obviously condemning neo-nazis about what took place there, but not necessarily calling the president out by the comments that he made. but that number has declined overall, his support among republicans, among his base, according to other polls, has declined. and i think going forward, especially into the crucial month of september when you have a potential budget battle looming and the debt ceiling as well, that may actually put us in severe debt problems and debt woes if it s not raised. then you re going to have a president who is facing an uphill battle within his own party. and i think you could continue to see that number decline. you know, caitlyn, in this new poll, when asked, the
chris: but michael, even with the bare-bones outline, isn t it clear that this plan will add trillions of dollars it to thewh national debt, contrary to what candidate trump has said and a tax break. will we do not have a ballooning national debt because our tax rate is well above that the only way we are going to get out of the debt problems were going to have is entitlement reform. we need to grow the economy.. that s why so exciting for what he has done in the first 100 days he has come out with this tax reform plan and he has come out with a great plan in action and rollback.ll chris: but this plan could add trillions to the national debt. there s a trillions added tou the national debt because we re spending.
What president trump said and would mean substantial tax break for the upper-income people? we don t tax enough. the tax rates, percentage of the economy is well above the historic norm and the only way we are going to get out of the debt problems is first we need to do entitlement reform. chris: the president is not doing yet. direction of maybe doing so and we need to grow the economy. he s come out with this big tax reform plan and two, he s put out with a great plan and real action to roll back to regulate oirs. chris: wouldn t you agree that this plan would add trillions to the national debt? there s trillions added to the national debt because we are spending way too much. chris: you re not answering my question. i m not saying you could argue that he needs spending cuts as well, would you agree that this cut with all the cuts in revenue will add trillions to the debt? it would move revenues to where they are today approaching 20% gdp, 18.5%, i love the
What president trump said and would mean substantial tax break for the upper-income people? we don t tax enough. the tax rates, percentage of the economy is well above the historic norm and the only way we are going to get out of the debt problems is first we need to do entitlement reform. chris: the president is not doing yet. direction of maybe doing so and we need to grow the economy. he s come out with this big tax reform plan and two, he s put out with a great plan and real action to roll back to regulate oirs. chris: wouldn t you agree that this plan would add trillions to the national debt? there s trillions added to the national debt because we are spending way too much. chris: you re not answering my question. i m not saying you could argue that he needs spending cuts as well, would you agree that this cut with all the cuts in revenue will add trillions to the debt? it would move revenues to where they are today approaching
Because a nonpartisan committee for a responsible federal budget estimates trump s plan could reduce tax revenue by $3 trillion to $7 trillion over a decade. but in order to do that, the economy would actually need the grow at a rate of 4.5%. some economists say that is simply impossible. in other words, that would just greaten our deficit by the billions. well, so here s the deal, we know we re never going to solve our debt problems if the economy s growing at 1%, 1.5%, 2% like we ve seen in the last eight years. so you have to facilitate economic growth. and i d also say there s nothing preventing congress people say, oh, is it going to cause more debt. it only causes more debt if congress continues to spend. there s nothing preventing us from paring some of the mayor tax major tax deductions with spending discipline.