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Disaster in puerto rico, theres so many bigger things than dealing with allege ed crooks in d.c. if you arrest all the crooks in d.c. we wouldnt have a congress lets get something done in our country that matters to the american people. >> dagen: gary b., why doesnt this matter getting to the bottom of what jim comey said and what was the real truth? >> gary: look it does matter. i agree with every single thing that emily said but im going to put myself in the shoes of the average american. thei...

Elected on november 8, and while the dow is still up 10% for the year, investors just waiting on the presidents economic agenda which includes tax reform and a fiscal stimulus. waiting for that to get done, trish? >> trisha: thanks so much tracy. okay so whats next? here with us we have fox contributors jonas max, jessica tarla, and gary b. smith. >> good morning trish. >> trisha: gary will we get tax reform? >> i dont think so. i think well be lucky. at this point, im hopeful theres just no mor...

Lawmakers are returning home to anything but a warm welcome. take a look. >> i pay you to figure that out. >> you said you pay for me to do this? bull. i pay taxes. this is a service. >> when a majority of your constituents disagree with the republican part position, what will it take for you to vote with your constituents? >> there you have it. angry constituents slamming their representatives over healthcare. nobody is upset over tax cuts. time for republicans maybe to drop healthcare and just...

Immigration. were trying to shrink government but that is proving to be very difficult. the healthcare act was a disaster from a legislative standpoint. wont have done anything on tax reform. people are saying why did i elect this guy? hes slowly evolving, i hate to say, into hillary light, which would be the worst situation. >> gary, jillian and lisa, i have the president climbing up the gang way to get on air force one. he will take off to mar-a-largo for the -- for the weekend, i guess. i thi...

Smith and jillian nulchar. gary, you first. you saw drop healthcare reform and get on with cutting taxes. is that your point of view? >> exactly. we ran healthcare up the flagpole. nobody saluted. lets move on. maybe we circle back. the bigger issue, the bigger driver of economic growth is going to be tax reform. that includes both tax cuts and tax simplification. so ill leave you with one point. every study, stuart, over the last 15 years has shown a positive relationship between decreasing tax...

Gary b smith, john, along with denene and jessica. welcome to everybody. john, you say cut out the delay game and get working for the working-class americans. >> yeah. get working for the american people. because i dont think theyre working for the american people. theyre working for themselves. look what has gone on for the last 16 years in this country. the democrats blocking everything from president bush. and then you have the republicans blocking everything from president obama. i saw recen...

Things done. dagen: gary b. final word. >> well, i want to come back to something jessica said. she said maybe -- >> be nice, gary. be nice. >> i think, look, i know thats your opinion but weve had eight years of slowing down. donald trump for all his work showing hes in a hurry to make america great again. slow down? i want him to speed up and do more things. not slow down with the glacial pace that weve been going at. >> i understand and i think we can separate the bigger items, i dont even kn...

Look at what historical precedent and other places that have lone wolf terror attacks. places like boston, places like orlando, london, madrid, paris. those places have rebounded very quickly. and you see little to no drop in tourism. the places that get hurt are places like egypt, like tanesha, where the whole system people feel cannot prevent more terrorist outbreaks. and there you see tourism number drops significantly. as far as a lone wolf, i dont think people are going to alter their trave...

Government can do more to help protect polling places, vote tabulation, and voting machines. gary, you say that scares you more. >> exactly. its one more example of impending government overreach. just like we talked about last segment. government neither submitted own health care. neither party or the federal government. were composed of 50 states. each of the states get to do what they and want what they choose. whether its chad reading or paper punch or optical character. look, once the gover...

Not deal with them at all. cut off their source of funds, which they need the free market for. i think ted cruz is right in this case. >> very interesting, gary, an answer i didnt expect from you. jonas, you say asset seizures are questionable in the first place from a free-market country. and this may not necessarily be the whole way to go. >> this has flip-flopped into the republican -- free-market people are not supposed to be for sanctions. seeing a sovereign countrys wealth is not a free-ma...