the talk isn t as free as it is about a preemptive or surgical military strike. greg: i get it, fire and fury sounds extreme. like a sequel starring vin diesel. but it s what i call the be crazier than the crazy guy trick. whenever there is a nutcase on the subway, that are aligned, i talk to myself. i appear nuttier than the knot. he usually moves on because i am nott worth the risk and frankly, i smell. we know north korea does crazy better than anybody but so does donald trump, which is good. let s look at north korea, now let s zoom out. that s 25 million people living in a dark hole. existing like a raccoon under your house for decades. that raccoon isn t nuts but acts that way to keep you from trying to kill it. it lives in the dark as the resu of the world rolls merrily on. the question is, has this raccoon gone batty or is it simply displaying strategic irrationality? snarling to keep everyone at
for you. it also empowers law enforcement, allowing them to hack into devices. sounds extreme, it is. it will give the government vast powers to essentially spy on it s circumstances by their online activities. the u.s. whistle blower and fugitive edward snowden describes it as the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. it goes further than many autocracies. such a law had no place in a modern democracy having it undermines our fundamental rights online. and the corporate world has weighed in with tech giants like apple, facebook, google, all highly critical. the bill has been rushed without proper scrutiny and includes vague measures that could be used by the government to force
the investigatory power built and ratified by royal assent on tuesday. it is a sweeper piece of legislation that forces telecom companies to store everybody s data. your calls, texts, location data and web activity for a year. it also empowers law enforcement allowing them to legally hack into people s devices without them knowing. sounds extreme? it is. the law at the beginning of 2017 will give the government fast powers to essentially spy on its citizens by their online activities. the u.s. whistleblower edward snowden describe it as the most surveillance in the history of western democracy. it goes further than many ought talkeracies. the inventor of the worldwide web told the bbc that such a law had no place in a modern democracy adding it undermines
it s only going to cover about 5 million. so they re going to do all this massive change for a very small return on it for individuals, and they did this massive shift of taxes and put the burden on irs, and we ve said from the very beginning this is the wrong way to do it. the more things unfold, the more we see this is the wrong way to do it which is why we continue to push for repeal. gregg: let me get a quick answer because i m out of time, senator ted cruz says let s reform the tax code, make it simple and a small, small agency will do the collection. good idea? it is a good idea to be able to do it. you re not ever going to abolish the irs, and i know that sounds extreme. you have to have some mechanism to be able to collect gregg: well, a new agency, a smaller agency. but we have to have a more fair way to do this. people shouldn t worry about being audited because of what they believe. that s absurd. gregg: congressman lankford, thank you. thank you. uma: the white hous
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