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With the 35% tax in terms of bringing money back here to america and investing it. but if you were to lower the tax, 10%, 15%, 20%, whatever it winds up being, there will be whole bunch of money pouring into the united states and lead to economic growth. watch. >> we think there will be a hundreds of billions if not trolls of dollars that will come back. that will create infrastructure and create johnson. >> it makes no sense on one level but makes a lot of sense on another level because you hav...

Privacy, right? youve heard those tech companies come out and say theyre worried about protecting users privacy. thats a legal issue, too. laurie segall is with me now. this happened on friday. it was a big deal because sort of the washington folk went out to silicon valley for this and there has been a tension, if you will, between some in washington and silicon valley. you just got off the phone from someone who was at the meeting. what happened? >> yeah, its funny because one of the first thi...

Populous tea party parts, but this is a good bernie sanders crowd. >> very interesting. do you think you will see tax reform in the next 18 months or next president? >> easier said than done. ill believe it when i see it. >> thank you, greg. you know, interesting he said it polls well, but how realistic is the tax plan? >> you have to deal with congress. >> the little thing. chinas president is in the united states. he has been hanging without with some tech executives and the white house. t...

Things to the forward. what this shows is people dont agree with discrimination. they dont agree with bigotry. i have no problem -- >> is this the way to bring her along? >> i have no problem with people expressing religious freedom. however, its time we stop using religion as a weapon of discrimination. >> this is what they say they say the religious freedom is to be against gay marriage, to serve gays in the pizzeria, befriend gays in the public square, but not to cater a wedding they dont agr...

Things to the forward. what this shows is people dont agree with discrimination. they dont agree with bigotry. i have no problem -- >> is this the way to bring her along? >> i have no problem with people expressing religious freedom. however, its time we stop using religion as a weapon of discrimination. >> this is what they say they say the religious freedom is to be against gay marriage, to serve gays in the pizzeria, befriend gays in the public square, but not to cater a wedding they dont agr...

Things to the forward. what this shows is people dont agree with discrimination. they dont agree with bigotry. i have no problem -- >> is this the way to bring her along? >> i have no problem with people expressing religious freedom. however, its time we stop using religion as a weapon of discrimination. >> this is what they say they say the religious freedom is to be against gay marriage, to serve gays in the pizzeria, befriend gays in the public square, but not to cater a wedding they dont agr...

Silicon valley money. jeb bush has been meeting with tech executives. its not clear who will capture this new and growing source of wealth for elections supposed to cost over $1 billion on each side. one thing is for sure, well see lots of candidates and staffers making trips down the 101. >> the states on the west coast are huge. long before covering politics i was covering federal aid workers. friday night they issued 47 pages of instructions on how to shut down the department. and buried de...

Look what happened in jackson hole, wyoming. you had top candidates to president go there not knowing entirely who would be in that room except for a handful of big donors. the reason they went there was business when somebody like a paul singer says its time to come make the pitch, these candidates do not hesitate for a second. they have their top staffers fly to jackson hole. its a new era. >> someone put their better staffers on the super pacs, too. lisa? >> also on the money front, john, i s...

Mcdermott with us as well. she says people should be afraid of google spying on them and not the government. this brings us to the meeting this week and the tech executives at the white house. they know too much about you. im talking about the tech companies and the white house. why should we be afraid of google? >> they see everything you search for. they see everything you are looking at and people share a lot of information online. they are not aware of the fact information isnt just disappea...

Momentum seems to be with people on pat leahys side of the argument and you have the panel recommending changes and you had the federal judge this week and calling the changes unconstitutional and the meeting at the whois with tech executives and that meeting went twice as long as it was supposed to. so does that change the equation? >> slightly. i think a lot of the pressure from congress for the moment is diverted to some other matters under the year and one of the reasons that i say this is t...