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It seems theres a lot of explaining to do across the board and folks and voters thinking a pox on all their houses and pay attention to something else with the president hopes will be tax code reform. >> the leadership of the justice department is not political, theres an entrenched bureaucrat, appointees from the previous administration that are distinct animal from rank-and-file law enforcement. there is a disconnect between the two. the president is an ally of street agent to do the work of l...

Tax code reform. why do this at all unless it is to undermine any conclusion the special investigator may find. kelly: as you know, we are in an environment that is politically toxic right now. talk about swamp thing, we have something going on that is a mess and people trying to sort it out and the american people watching this throwing their hands up and saying what is going on with our country? this thing about collusion, no proof of collusion, this thing about the special counsel, should the...

When it comes to policy. >> saturday was a moment where it was easy for a republican to break with the president, ted cruz, marco rubio, on and on and on over charlottesville. the question will be do they come back around to him as they have previously. there have been moments not just during his presidency but during his campaign where they said im out, after the access hollywood tape. then they walk back toward him. is this a guy they need to get their jaagenda through? >> he has to sign legis...

In november. is so you get -- so you get a different mix of voters that turn out. we also saw some impact from the things happening in washington. we could tell lots of enthusiasm -- or a decline after the health care bill had to be pulled back and reworked because, you know, people centre palins up there, they wanted to see things accomplished whether its health care, replacing obamacare, up winding regulations or getting tax code reform. i think its hard to compare the two because theyre reall...

How we move into fiscal 2014. we have this temporary spending bill, but they need to come up with a deal that will last through 2014 and that will deal with remember the sequester that is the automatic budget cuts that come down every year. it is $110 billion automatically on january 15th. they want to stop that a from happening on the democratic side. on the republican side they want to shuffle the cuts around so they are more targeted to the things they favor. so the two sides will be focusing...

Billionaire class -- >> thats true. thats true. it is not -- it isnt a fair tax code. the way to get a fair tax code is to lower rates and get rid of deductions so people dont have to avoid their taxes. but i will say, in googles defense, the corporate income tax in our country is 35%. in canada, its 15%. in bermuda, i think its 9%. across europe, alternates in the 20s. money goes to where its welcome, money is not welcome in the united states. what the presidents trying to do is make it worse s...

I want to thank the president and tim geithner for reuniting and reenergizing the republican caucus because that offer, they must think john boehner is santa claus because thats a christmas wish list. were going to have a discussion. i dont think we need to put a formal proposal on the table. the speakers already said revenue is on the table. he has an idea how to get there in terms of not raising rates but finding it in other ways through tax code reform. i think that makes sense and thats a do...

Would provide large tax cuts to high-income households and increase the tax burdens on middle and/or lower-income taxpayers. and yet, mitt romney is still steering the conversation towards taxes. he was in colorado talking about tax code reform. >> our tax code is extraordinarily complicated. i understand that there are seven times as many pages in the tax code than in the bible. so i want to simplify our tax code. >> romney is walking right into the president of the united statess wheelhouse wh...

Is that a revenue-knew ral individual income tax change would provide large tax cuts to high-income households and increase the tax burdens on middle and/or lower-income taxpayers. and yet, mitt romney is still steering the conversation towards taxes. he was in colorado talking about tax code reform. >> our tax code is extraordinarily complicated. i understand that there are seven times as many pages in the tax code than in the bible. so i want to simplify our tax code. >> romney is walking righ...