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Issues having to do with tax reform and north korea sanctions, et cetera, and wehle get to that in a second. but i want to get your reaction to this. president trump seems to be calling for a boycott to the nfl. and also calling for players who take a knee to be fired or suspended. whats your reaction to what were seeing at wembley stadium in london right now? >> good morning and great to be here with you. the nfl has all different types of rules. you can havent stickers on your helmet, you have...

To decide what they want to do and disrespect the united states flag. >> well, to play devils advocate here, first of all, these players dont think theyre disrespecting the united states flag, they think they are engaging in peaceful protest, of what they say of racial oppression and inequities. and as you know, roger goodell, the head ofl n the nfl and a wh host of team owners, including robert kraft, who is a friend of president trump, have issued statements supporting their players right to d...

Aspects of obamacare. but if they want to come to the table and fix it, were about fixing obamacare. its broken and its requiring people to do a lot of things that they just shouldnt be forced to do. >> the president is expected to roll out a tax plan on wednesday and actually reporting that the plan would cut the tax rate for the wealthest american from 45 -- when you were selected as treasury secretary, you made a very specific problem, it was very quickly dubbed the mnuchin rule. >> any reduc...

The president would always listen to. were about fixing obamacare. its broken and it requires people to do lots of things that they just shouldnt be forced to do. >> lets turn to the presidents tax agenda. the president expected to roll out a tax plan on wednesday. axios is reporting that the plan would cut the tax rate paid by the wealthy neramericans from almost 40 act to 35% as well as making dramatic reductions on taxes to big businesses and small businesses. when you were elected as treasur...

Massive tax cuts and massive tax reform and simplifying the system is what we are going to do. chris: senator the government just announce that had in the first quarter of this year the economy gdp grew by 7 tenths of 1%, the slowest rate in over 3 years. doesnt this economy need some more growth? >> yeah, it needs growth but does not need to give the wealthiest people in america a huge tax break. mnuchin said himself a few months ago, the mnuchin rule, that the very wealthy would be taxed neutr...

Economic growth and thats what massive tax cuts and massive tax reform and simplifying the system is what we are going to do. chris: senator the government just announce that had in the first quarter of this year the economy gdp grew by 7 tenths of 1%, the slowest rate in over 3 years. doesnt this economy need some more growth? >> yeah, it needs growth but does not need to give the wealthiest people in america a huge tax break. mnuchin said himself a few months ago, the mnuchin rule, that the ve...