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And let me remind everybody that even george w. bush who came into office five weeks after the actual election through supreme court decision, he came into office, some people felt cheated, hurt, but he got his tax packets through by june of 2001. democratic senators, knew that their constituents wanted to share in that economic prosperity and tax reduction. i hope the same is true of this senate so that people all across the land can benefit. >> sean: you touched on a lot of the promises which ...

Products here at home but those who do not, there will be a substantial border tax levied on them. he wants to reduce taxes for the middle class and businesses from anywhere to 15 to 35%. the current corporate tax rate is at 35%. thats the highest in the world. the president also repeated, though, his campaign mental that it was time to cut the red tape. >> we think we can cut regulations by 75%, maybe more, but 75%. >> a company that wants to fire all of its people in the united states and buil...

Eight months, the two sets, have been moving towards each other. trump put on the table, everybody wanted to take the corporate rate from 35 to 25, trump said lets go to 15. maria: right. >> so the republicans in the house said we can go to 20. its expensive to go to 15, but well go to 20, and well look at 15. trump did not have full expensing in his original package. it was in his second package. so the two most pro-growth parts of tax reform -- full expensing, so businesses dont have long depr...

Democrats are slow rolling some of these in particular pompeo who we need to flesh out the national security team. senator cotton said hope the jihadis take the weekend off because we have work we have to finish up with the help of democrats. that should happen on monday. >> eugene, alice makes a point not everyones in position. hes made the nominees for almost all these top positions for all of the top positions. so the chances of getting much more diversity cabinet at this point are any, arent...

>> i think this is my 11th inauguration. i think in general he showed today a solemnity we havent ordinarily associated with donald trump. it did seem as doug said earlier on it was now beginning to hit him, you know, because you cant be surrounded -- youre surround by so many soldiers. that in part gives you a sense of the enormous authority that goes with the office. but he was still donald trump today. the preposterous statement of the collective highest i kwfshgs of any cabinet in history. r...

Theyve announced, either. >> under president obama the high school graduation rate in this country hit 83%. thats the highest it has ever been in the history of this country. when president obama took office in 2009, the country was in an economic freefall, plunging into an economic abyss, unemployment hit 10%. unemployment is now at 4.7%. under president obama, we have had 82 straight months of private-sector job growth. thats the longest streak ever in the history of our country of consecutive...

The obama administration we learned the cabinet nominations for the incoming administration are now complete with at announcement that former georgia governor sonny purdue will be the choice to be the new agriculture secretary. with that announcement, we know we are about to get the first cabinet since the 1980s that doesnt have a single person in it who is latino. they have not announced a single latino for any cabinet positions. they have not announced a single latino for any subcabinet jobs t...

There doing what you wer doi four days ago. tom price. so nice. they found out, hes smart. we have a lot of smart people. i tell you what, we have, by far, the highest iq of any cabinet ever assembled. >> the highest, the best, the biggest, those kinds of words, very traditionally donald trump. not surprisingly the luncheon held at his hotel in the old post office in washington, d.c. i can tell you that, as the glare is on many of those potential cabinet people, a lot of the talk around here in ...

>> thats correct. >> so here is the challenge, we also believe we should be competitive globally because you want to grow our economy in regards to exports. its difficult to see how you can get that done within the context of just using income tax revenues because the united states among the industrial nations of the world has a relatively low part of its economy tied up in government, and yet we have marginal tax rates among the highest in the industrial world. the reason of course is that we d...

President obama leaving office with most americans viewing his presidency as a success. he ends with an 60% approval rating. that is his highest since 2009 and he ranks high among all recent predecessors getting positive marks in his final days in the west wing. only president clinton and president reagan left office with a higher number as you can see there. later today the president will hold his final press conference. lets bring back our panel these are confusing times. so president obama wh...