Case. Well tell youco what that i. He says his side of the story tonight on this program. Im going to ask him what about those troubling allegations. Lets begin with thexd gop x bill and what it could mean to you. Xde1e1 here with me. Good the toe1 see you, gene, heres the president talking about thee1 tax plan today and then well talk. We are days away fromt passg historicq tax cuts for American Families and businesses. It will be the biggest tax cut in the history of our country. Youe reaction . We problems we have people worried about the middle class, economi inequality, insecurity, theres so much we could have done with 1. 5 trillion. We could have done something on infrastructure. Cut taxes just for workingnr pressed. [kzlls, Free Community college. And instead, were goingxd to ge the major bulk of thisxd to the largest companies, to foreign investors, to the most well off investors in pass through, such as real nrestate, thec trump family. Theres going to be no conditions, its not going to b1 tied to job creations you call it a wasted opportunity . It is a wasted opportunity. If we are going tosv4 do someth major on tax reform, heres an idea if youre going tojf spend 1. 5 trillion, why not give it all to the working families that need it most. This is a bill that puts working families so last that it sunsets so by 2027, the last year of the plan,t 82 of the benefit goeso the top 1 and everybody under 90,000 is goingw3 to get a tax increase. I want to go tofa waynp this bill, it was rushed through both houses of congress at lightning speed. What kind of xdunintended consequences do you think might be hiding in the bill . Two things. Ai] narrative from people who havent been paying attention for the last five years. If the press has not coveredc what ran through the entire House Program and worked out many of these issues, the hearings the house and senate had and all these discussionse1 over the paste1 years. The press in the last couple weeks has gone theres a tax bill and havent paid attention to whats in it. E1t down,e1 discussed and put in legislative language let me stop you there. Is that thexd same bill that ca out of conference . The Administration Just started talking about this bill, republicans just started talking aboutq this bill, most people have not had a chance to readxd the bill and im talking about lawmakers. Xd you have two bills. Theres a house bill and a senate bill. These have been in the works for, fjpt r, more than five years. 4jsnthe camp bill which these ideas come out of us put forward in thexd house and went through the committee procezc a couple years ago, this is another it 2 ;rjz of that. The idea this is rushed through or secret is people that dont choose to look at it a lot ofxd bills have parts other bils, it doesnt make it the same bill. Lets just be honest pcuu this bill is a new bille1 from both e congress and the senate and from this administration. Just as this is a new administration. This isnt a bill that came from this o01administration. Q youre talking about the camp bill. Thats from a timexdc gone e1by. Okay. Thats camp is two years ago, okay, three years now. This was the Republican Congress. Thee1 republicans had the congrs and the senate for quite some t. U and theyve been working on these issues. And i work with them on it, so its not a surprise to me because i Pay Attention to what the ideae1 we have a 35 corpore income tax and the reste1 of the europe e1yens are downxd in 20s, china is downfa at 25, we at 35. Even obama ti;uu this was ae1e1 problem. Talked about bringinge1 the rat down, he said 28. e didnt think that was a give away to anybody. Thee1 idea letting soutk keep money they earned is giving it to them strikes me as an odde1 understanding of who owns your life. When you walk by the street and a mugger passes by,xd youe1 did give him youre1 wallet gene keeps talking about other bills. This is the bill that is going to become the law of the land, that people are going to live by, be punished by. Its beenni rushed through. E1 this president talked about he 9q going to come in and drain the swamp. When these bills come nre1throu its only the swamp that knows whats in it. You dont know what the lastminute changes are. Groover is part ofok one thing, was part of president obamas team, we thought you could bring down the corporate rateseg. bu were going to do it in a wayxd that it wasnt going to costq taxpayers, affect the deficit. So tot bring a bill thats goi to explode the deficit by as much as 2 trillion,5a that brs a tax cut a tax reform plan by its tenth year,fa with thing scribbled on the side,nr virtuay no hearings, the process is terrible. Its again, the only people are it before anybody else does. Thats exactly the opposite of what President Trump talked e[upthatsjf going to disappoin workers. It doesnt help working jf families. I want groover to respond. You talk about the other bill the lastminute change in the planeipa specifically benefits real estate businesses as e1w3w. That wasnt in the camp bill was kd8 no, it was in the house b. Theres a house version of how you deal with pass throughs and a Senate Version. Lp accepted the house version dealing with real estate and then the Senate Version. And thennr theyt i] say some se snuck it snin,e1 which was a li. The idea that somehow corkernr switq9q his vote,e1 corkers bn for the bill since the beginning. He came up withe1 a 1. 5c bajt how much taxxd reduction were going to do in tonyears. I spoke to him for half an hour he ended up voting against it because they wouldnt let his idea in, not the republicans they were happy to do that. Of course, hes going to vote for it, hes a republican, hes a reagan republican. So when you talk about the senate and the house get together and the Senate Version or house version gets picked there aret dozens of decisions that go into it. I] we take the business taxes down for companies which even the democrats agreed ought to be w3 done. We also dook it for subni chapt, this iseq u e 28 million pass through companmk Small Businesses generally, every timk you raiseq the rate were running out of time. I have to get gene to respond, quickly if you can. The truth is thisw3 taxw3 cu jju hc national corporations. Theres a difference because it is a giveaway it doesnt ask them to give up tax expenditures, it just increases the deficit. money they spent on corporations and pass throughs that areg come at the expense of middle class families not getting a ant tax cut and comes at the expense when republicanse1 t medicare, medicaid, and Social Security i am out of time. Thank you inr appreciate it. President trump makinge1 . ; appearance at disney world today. Oke1co disney world revealing theirfaq lifetime versionlp of donald trp today. From the beginning america a natione1 defined byxds people. Joining his predecessors in the famous halle1lp of presiden1 exhibit. E1 disney world suggested thatni h hadnt recorded his dialogue, which is why it didnt open in june. President trump said he wont fire special counsel mueller but thats not causing his allies to trye1 to discredi robert mueller. [vo] quickbooks introduces rodney. He has a new business teaching lessons. Rodney wanted to know how his business was doing. So he got quickbooks. It organizes all his accounts, so he can see his bottom line. Ahhh. Thats a profit. Know where you stand instantly. Visit quickbooksdotcom. E1 cnn coexclusive. The president thinks hell get a letter of exoneration in the russia investigation. Letslp discussok that now. Good evening to alyo three of you. John, you first, President Trump was asked yesterday if he is planninge1 toxd firing robert mueller, his answer was no, im not. For the white house, theyre discredited mueller and his team even better than is that even better than firing him . I think its of the same thing. I think if trump was allowed to be trump hec would have fired hm ages ago and i think thats always a possibility. I think they convinced him byco attacking mueller ine1 any way they can, maybe theyll diminish his effectiveness or make him go away. How can you attack him and expect to be exonerat ÷ were talking about mr. Trump. Problems. Look at the letter they did with the gsa. They sent it on a saturday so its on the sunday talkw3 shows and they dont go to court and complain about it. You know, all of it ise1 pretty transparent. They ask t to have thefa judiciary committ p attorney general to thn investiga i thinkfa its allfa a policy o obstruction. Its more subtle than flatout firing someone but i think the option is always there. E1 if they cant tie trump to a wall he will firefa mueller. I listen to everything and watch everything from left to cu rightwing media has been trying to i]discredit mueller for mont. I want you to watch qthis. This is janw. Fa piero on her f show. Theres a core groupxd of aid grant, corrupt and lawless individuals that felt they and not we should decide a presi÷e7q election. E1 and when they failed they conspired to create the falsee1 narrative to notq just muddy ou choice for president butxd to bring down his presidency and his family as lpwell. The only thing that remains is whether we have the fortitude to notlp just fire these people out. Diately but to takexd them judge, right . Its probably a good thinge1 shs not practicing anymore. But listen, her show is saide1 shes even visited the president at the white house. How dangerous are comments like this . Dangerous for a couple of q reasons. One, if she wants to be an objective journalist and offer opinions you would think she would want to hold theni presidt himselfw3 at a littleok more a< arms length. But as you said and was reported they chitchat offline and talk to each other and compare notes, at least thats what the reporting said. You just played pip know that wasnt the entire thing, but at least in that clip she doesnt specify any situation or any fact she says the Mueller Investigation hasnr gotten wron or any procedure they havent followed. Shes talking in this5aco swir the president s enemies are out to get him. If thats really the case, if breached where someonenr didnt follow protocol, why flynns plea dealfazv is wrong or e1mas indictment is wrong. Im not sure that mueller isp, going to be fired if for no was fired is when the publics attention wasfa focussed on the russia investigation. You have to think the white house staffq is saying if we fie mueller this turns up the heat on this thing all over again. But this campaign youre seeing in certainfa Media Outlets and from some people in the governments and some of the trump teams lawyers to lp discredit or throw the mueller teame1xd off, has whereat chrat past couple weeks. Im sure thefani words soundd to the president and the viewers. Instead of saying what is actually theres noe1 specifics. Thats what i xdmeea f there no specifics and there are no facts there. Fa which is very, very interesting. Go ahead. The prize q 8 you get to go o ha lovese1 this. This is his night life tot repy her. Shes as much an ego maniace1 a he is. Its not a personal attack, im just noting i think its a personal attack. You can see it all working, t viewer loves to hear it, the president loves to hear it and qe1 attention and th1 accolade. Tion and th1 trump transition lawyers sayw. nc that muellers teamouunlawfully obtained thousands of emails from thee1 transition a5team. U in a rare moment, muellers team pushed back saying we haveqq accident occurred the accou secured the account owners consent or appropriate criminal process. These emails are on a government server and there were contracts signed by the Transition Team saying there is noxd expectation oft privacy te emails. That ends this from ancbyu ez amendment perspective. If you dont have an expectation of privley no one needs a warrant. E1 its like for example when youre using your employers computer, for example, you know when youre usingzlcnns computer, don, youre1 employer n go throughfa it. Here they were using the transition was using a government computer. They signed documents saying there was no expectation of privacy, that ends it. They wrote a letter, if youre a lawyer and read it, they essentially admit that. They write the letter, i think as john mentioned a moment, on a saturday to congress and not to a court. Theres really nothing there. Its more trying to undermine muller. I thinkq instead of making a decision to fire muller, what the trump team has decided its in their beste1 interest to kee mueller around,tp sqpau for now and try to qskrept credi credi its led to the rhetoric we just heard, very dangerous rhetoric. Thats where its leading. How significant is it quick answer if you can how significant is it that mueller wasxd forced to defend himself here . I think hes feeling the pressure. And i wouldnt be surprised iff we see an indictment before the end of the year to signal this is very serious. I was surprised by that. Ould have said if yu had anything you would have tried to take me toxd court or written to me personally. They talk about oklawyer, what lawyer . He wasnt yet the executive, so what executive xdprivilege. 8 intendedxd o make, we were talking about the sound bite there, most of the people on thee1 Transition Team these are people appointed by the president of the United States or republicans or career people who were in there. So how is it that there is some sort of coup or something thats happeninc[ from people david tt the president appointed himself. If you recall, don, when mueller was first appointed in may this was only 7 or 8 months ago. You had republicans on the hill, you had republican notables like former speaker newt gingrich, speaking about how mueller was a man of the highest and we gri5a fi, they thought it was a good pick, he would get to the bottom of things and now the investigation has dragged out and bogged the administration down, now youre seeing a situation where more supporters him. I would point out real quick, shoe is going to drop and the administration is going to crumble, i think theyre going to be waiting a long time for that. Similar for the president sfa supporters the president himself who thinks this is going to wrap up neatly in a fewi] wes well wipe our hands, move on, nothing to see here,o[ . Heither side is going to have that. Mueller is going about it in a methodical way,w3 not talking t the press, we will find out how things develop as we have ov the past several months. That was the smartest thing that was said here. I agree with you one1 your enti point you said, david, its not side. When we come back, cbs has dropped tavis xdsmileys show after whats being callednr troubling allegations against him. Tonight he is fighting back. Im going to talk to him. Thats next 37. Thats next 37 you wont see these folks they have businesses to run. They have passions to pursue. How do they avoid trips to the post office . Stamps. Com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. Get a 4 week trial, plus 100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. Go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again. Wifiso if you cant live without it. T it. Why arent you using this guy . It makes your wifi awesomely fast. No. Still nope. Now were talking it gets you wifi here, here, and here. It even lets you take a time out. No no yes yes, indeed. Amazing speed, coverage and control. All with an xfi gateway. Find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. Prosperity at home cannot protect its interests abroad. A nation that is not prepared to win a war is a nation not capable of preventing a war. A nation that is not proud of its history cannot be confident in its future. And a nation that is not certain of its values cannot summon the will to defend them. Theres a lot to discuss this. Angela, lets take the last line where he said a nation that is not proud of its history cannot be confident in its future. What do you think he means by that . I have no idea. I can tell you what is most concerning to me is i have no real clue about whether or not donald trump understands what our true history is. I dont think that theres a requirement that we have to be proud of everything in americas past to be able to move forward, right . I think thats actually assign. There are a number of things we should not be proud of. And i think the most important thing we can do to take a step forward and ensure that the country is putting its best foot forward is recognize the many challenges in our history. The facts he talks about borders, a lot of the ideas are circular and ridiculous. I think even the America First ideology is ridiculous. Donald trump has demonstrated that selfpreservation is most important to him, even if it means scapegoating people on his team. I hardly think that Foreign Policy and National Security agendas will work. A lot of folks have been talking about this. This is donald trump jr. Posted this picture of himself and senator ted cruz with a cookie that appears to show the face of barack obama. The capacity says with friends like these some good friends decided that while my birthday is not for two weeks they would get me an early 40th birthday cake. And what birthday is complete without an obama cake . I figured it was so good that i would have to share it with ted. Im proud to sooe see the evolution of the cruz relationship with the trumps. Weve gone from President Trumptoaccusing his dad of anas nating jfk. So if it did one thing, it brought cruz and the trumps together. Good for them. The cake looked more like tavis smiley. That does not look like barack obama. Sorry. Did you see it, don . I saw it. Roll it back. Maybe grant hill. Looked like grant hill. Oh, well. You all are crazy. You give up. Youre like forget about it. Who is that on the cake . I cant see why junior would make that face and send it out. Thats another issue. Are you some sort of cake boss cake artist i dont know about . Its difficult to draw a picture on a piece of paper, let alone a cake. Are you really fighting it like its a big deal, number one . Were laughing at it, its not that serious. Because its red, white and blue doesnt make it barack obama. We are going to have our cake and eat it, too. I didnt know what else to say. Bye, yall. Good night. Thats it for us. Ill see you back here tomorrow. S at the post office. They have businesses to run. They have passions to pursue. 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