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Impact on the deficit, you start to factor those things in and it can get more kpliktd to achieve democratic support. but at least in a middle class zone there are democrats who would support it. so the president has said this is something where hes got to again lean on those in congress to do something they have not been able to do so far is bring him something that he would identify as a win. so the president would have liked a different corporate rate, but he can handle it, he says, at 20%men...

Groups or families move their tax rate down from the 35% rate to a 25% rate. we are spending time on that. the tax writers at both the house and senate are acutely aware of this issue. weve got language on it. you will see the language as we deliver more of the details. >> if its today, though, im -- >> the specific is were acutely aware of that. guys like myself should not be allowed to put their assets into a partnership and reduce our tax liability by 10%. >> what do you -- >> two things abou...

This morning, i should say, if this plan is going to lower taxes definitively for the middle class, no exceptions. take a listen. >> you cant guarantee that no milled class family will get a tax increase. there will be middle class families who get a tax increase under your plan, correct? >> george, theres an exception to every rule. >> so thats a yes. >> look, i cant guarantee anything. >> is this going to be problematic, amber? >> yeah. absolutely. you said it best, katy. they dont have a bill...

Efforts. and then ill come up for more general if you guys are insistent and have other topics you want to cover. thanks. >> thanks, sarah. i was going to make some opening remarks and i think i wont because you covered a few of them. a couple things i will say is like the president has made his goals very clear what he wants to achieve here with tax reform and cutting taxes in the united states. i think you know where we are in the process. the group of six has been working really well together...

They both work full time in the shop and employ three additional people. as robin zroo ibz it, her family is living the american dream. however, robin feels small businesses in our country have been neglected and in her words put on the back burner. but shes now excited about what the president and congressional leaders are proposing. she believes this tax cut will be a boone not just for her small business but also for her customers. robin relies on small businesses to take risks and make inves...

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Conversations before, and i think some of these folks, my heavens, i wish i could engage them in more time in a debate. its easy to say well, theres this, this and this. but this is good for people. this is good for the middle class. its good for people who struggle day to day, paycheck to paycheck. >> how are you going to pay for these cuts? >> i think the primary means, this is so important and you do this and you get such meaningful economic growth and thats the way were going to pay for it. ...

Dollars. so, again, this is another example of the fact that it is about rich people. and finally, the alternative minimum taxment as you know, we dont have much information on donald trumps personal taxes, but we did get one year of information. and if you eliminate the alternative minimum tax, it largely has an impact on people earning $2 hundred,000 to a million dollars a year. again, $2 hundred,000, theres still some people you might consider middle class for a household in high cost parts o...

Well see. katy. >> so theyre on the defensive or even the offensive with the tax plan, but theyre also on the defensive when it comes to the presidents response to puerto rico. kelly, how is the white house trying to fix that today? >> well, they are talking about some of the resources that have gone to the area there, some already on the ground in puerto rico and others that are moving in terms of like the comfort vessel of the united states navy that many people asked why wasnt it already on i...

Now at one of the biggest shippers in puerto rico. the trucks are unloading it, but theres nowhere left to put these containers. theyre at the very last bit of space, way over capacity in part they say because theres no diesel that can get the semi truck drivers in here to pick up the containers and move them along. the port is running on generator power to run the operations here to keep those generators running that keep the refrigerated units doled. and that is the case all over the island. f...