speech and i just don't want to be a prop in that. instead i'm going to fly back home and i'm going to sit with 40 or 50 small business men and women, the job creators in this country and find out what washington should be doing. martha: let me ask you this, because when you look at it, it's a $400 billion plan that is supposed to stimulate job growth this this country. val lee skwraeret, adviser to president obama, suggested this morning that -- this morning that basically it's going to come from tax reform, that if -- that if you eliminate the loopholes like ge and many others have enjoyed and force them to pay the taxes they need to pay in this country you're going to bring in new revenues and that's where the revenue growth would come from. do you have any problem with that idea? >> look, a lot of the republicans have talked about simplifying the tax code for years. and again, martha, i will respond to anything the president puts in writing. but based on a lot of what we've seen so far, again,