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Thank you very much again for being here. Thank you, gary for joining us. Bright and early. The topic is taxes, taxes, taxes. Well start off with alabama. Original. We had a lot of discussion about taxes with your colleague last night chl well go over that ground and more detail. And ask more some of the more longer term questions. Let me start off with something i did ask secretary last night. See how you answer it. Why is now a good time to be cutting taxes to be increasing the deficit signifi...

In the Senate Subway and the doors are closed and youre trapped taking questions from me. Well take questions from Facebook Live and the New York Times. Lets get into it. So we kind of take it as an article of faith that bipartisanship is good. Polling says we want people to work across the aisle. This is a good thing. We like bipartisan bills. But when we get into the nittygritty of governing, thats not really always the case, even though it has a positive connotation. I know that when democrat...

Lets get into it. So we kind of take it as an article of faith that bipartisanship is good. Polling says we want people to work across the aisle. This is a good thing. We like bipartisan bills. But when we get into the nittygritty of governing, thats not really always the case, even though it has a positive connotation. I know that when democrats were in charge, republicans would say, we dont want to give them any victories, its too close to election year. And then when the tables turned, republ...

Be ironed out. Behind closed doors, negotiations are underway to get to 50 votes. For more on the latest, we are joined from washington. Welcome back to the program. Give us a sense of what is going on right now. We heard over the weekend that senator collins of maine was expressing concerns. The real action is going on behind closed doors. A lot of the debates you see to they as it relates tax bill is mostly theater. The real negotiations are between Republican Leaders in the house need to keep...

Please welcome them. [ applause ] good morning, thank you very much for being here. Thank you for joining us. So the topic of this session is taxes, taxes, taxes so well start off talking about alabama. Original, original, original. We had a lot of discussion about taxes with your colleague the treasury secretary but i want to get in more detail and ask you some of the more detail. Let me start off with something i said with s. E. C. Theecretary. This is a one and a half trillion dollar Immediat...

Faith that bipartisanship is good we like bipartisan bills. But when we get into the nittygritty of governing, thats not really always the case, even though it has a positive connotation. I know that when democrats were in charge, republicans would say, we dont want to give them any victories, its too close to election year. And then when the tables turned, republicans were in charge and they dont want to help each other. Even pass simple things, simple bills together. We have to start by asking...

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Axios is here to make you first faster and smarter to bring brevity into the world of business tech. It makes these conversations possible and to my colleagues somebody who has been my governor and senator the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee and senator mark warner [applause]. You are a morning person. We are down until four days of christmas. Any event that i come to in december with the 12 days of christmas. So the tax cut the biggest since 1986 so those corporate rates have...

Welcome to this addition and i hope you enjoyed the hot chocolate bar. And the Christmas Music as well. And then into the world of media and politics and these conversations are possible but then with the vice chairman of the senateth Intelligence Committee senator warner [applause]. I am not sure i fit in those categories. You are a morning person. Not the case. We are down at four days of christmas. In any event i am well known for leading groups in the 12 days of christmas. I guess that is no...

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