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I find it extraordinary theyve introductioned this health care proposal at this point in time. when they already went through a debacle twice on this. that left them very battered. left the reputation in disarray. theyre trying to prove they can get policy through. and the tax program should have been something they turn to and tried to nail down. and yet -- >> theyre not going to get tax done in a few days and they have a chance of getting something done here. if youre a republican, you absolut...

Were here for the middle working class of america because theyre the ones that are suffering the most with this tax code. >> all right. so i want our viewers -- really, guys, we cant tell you how much we appreciate you coming on having this discussion with us. i want our viewers to get into this and tell us what you do and dont want to know and what you do and dont understand about this tax proposal. congressman gottheimer, ive got to ask you about this, how do you end up selling to your constit...

Modern times historic norm down around 20% or lower. right now its almost 21%, as high as 24% gdp in the obama years. ill vote for and increase, the debt hit 20 trillion today. how can you raise the money on the credit card borrow as much as you want without repercussion, how can you do it when you have a $20 trillion. revenue neutral is an idea with the tax burden stays the same. were going to shift around who pays what. under that scenario, and joe knows that. under that scenario what always h...

Something changed in the trump white house and administration or are we going to be talking about the same kind of stories? >> no the president is not going to change that would require the mayhem to calm down in the white house. thats not going to happen. steve bannon is a story, it will probably be a story down the road when he attacks the president or people within the white house. until the president decides that he really wants to have a real agenda and move forward, the more he wants to go...

Dianne feinstein said the same thing. this is -- lets wait for the investigation, which i encourage, by the way, but wait until the investigation comes out before we start demonizing people. >> so, howard, what is the proof? theres a lot of smoke, but no one seems to have found the fire. >> thats where theres an investigation, because theres a lot of smoke. its true, until theres proof, theres not going to be any impeachment proceedings or anything of that sort at all. one of the problems for tr...

Claim its always to benefit the rich. thats not true. it will benefit just about everybody in our society if we get a tax program will actually work and will not be tearing the country apart. i think actually, we can. its hard to do any tax program without the benefits to almost everybody. >> jon: what about the deficit? are you concerned that the tax cuts, as proposed by the president would blow a hole in the budget? >> thats always a concern. but keep in mind, if we dont, the economy will neve...

That is all the president is trying to do. >> you heard the argument. if you cut funding, it hurts police forces to do their job. they need to work with the immigrant community. even the illegal immigrant community. >> whatever we have to do, we have to stop this. we cannot have felons killing u.s. citizens. that city would have turned them over to federal authorities. alisyn, you and i are called every day to obey the law. i applaud the president for trying to rein this in. this should have bee...

To go out and talk to businesses about her tax program and i wouldnt do it because she wouldnt commit to reduced corporate taxes, i think thats critical. should they be 15%? no. 20, 25% somewhere in that range, absolutely. >> and individual taxes as well? youre all right with lowering those? >> im all right with lowering individual taxes im okay with the tax rate i have. i think people in my tax bracket, theres no reason to cut our taxes, but for those making 2, $300,000, $400,000, yes, a lot of...

Growth. that means jobs for people. it means jobs for all people. it means getting a sort of spirit going again in the country. thats his first task. hes made a good start going after the regulations. hell make another start tonight with the tax program. thats his big, big task. and if he does that, hell have a lot of the country behind him. much more. >> you make an interesting point saying presidents are judged in two ways on these speeches. they are judged in terms of the public perception, w...

Over half the kids drop out. thats an amazing turn around, 6,000 lives that otherwise would have been changed if they hadnt gotten that opportunity. we have seen this with our charter school movement. over almost half the kids in d.c. public schools are in charter schools and hernandez the outgoing chancellor said that helped incentivize change so that he have increased enrollment for the first time in years. in florida, the same thing. 100,000 kids and the tax program there and studies have sho...