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CSPAN Representative Kevin Brady Discusses Tax Policy December 4, 2016

Them. Mr. Goldberg do you feel it is running adequately faster would you like to speed up the process . Sec. Kerry i will not make that judgment because there was not a nominee for the secretary of state. The first thing you need is the nominee for secretary of state. I think it will be guided somewhat by that automatically. I will not find fault without it. I do think there is a value theously on having at least recommendations. Whether you choose to follow or not is a different issue, but i think it is valuable to ask people who work the desk and work it for a long time their input on what is the current state. Is there some particular issue at the moment . I think it is valuable and i certainly would recommend it. Obviously that is not happened in a few cases. On the issue of Prime Minister netanyahu and his perception and we have had long arguments about this and long discussions about it. I dont agree with him that the settlements are not an obstacle to peace. Does that mean i want to go back to what i said earlier. They are not the cause of the conflict. If he says the settlements are not the causes of the conflict, i agree. They are not the cause. But as i said earlier, if you have a whole bunch of people who are specifically, strategically locating outposts and settlements in areas that they could make it impossible to have a contiguous palestinian state, they are doing it for the specific purpose of not having a peace. That affects the peace. There is no way 20,000 additional people moved in in the last period of time does not provide you with a bunch of splotches of islands that dont have to be dealt with in the context of where do they go. What law will apply to them . Who will protect them . Where will they go to school . Who is responsible for the services . That greatly complicates the whole topic of peace. You cant just wipe it away by saying it doesnt have an impact. It has an impact. How you resolve it will depend on the negotiation. If you dont have a negotiation, it is obviously not going to get resolved. Then the intensity grows. There have been increasing numbers if i show you a map that shows all the sectors of where the violence has been in territories, the you will see it is with the settlements are. That is where most of the violence is. There are other incidences that come in a tel aviv and jerusalem and other places, but there is a huge amount of violence. Some of it has been settler on palestinian, palestinian on settler. Having anusly is impact on peoples perception of peace. Mr. Goldberg before i go to the last question, you have six weeks or so left. There is a lot of talk about laying down new parameters. Possibly action of the security council. Can you give us any insight about where your thinking is on that, or has the election of donald trump changed it so radically we will not see any further action on this from the Obama Administration . Sec. Kerry let me make it clear at the outset. Anyave always stood against imposition of a final status solution. And against any resolution that is unfair, biased against israel and we will continue. We dont support that. No decision made about any kind of step that may or may not be taken in that regard. There are however other people out there who, because of this building frustration, need to know they are any other number of countries talking about resolutions to the united nations. Unfairs a bias, resolution calculated and he legitimizes israel delegitimizes israel, we will oppose it. There was a building sense of what ive been saying today, with some people can shake their heads and say it is unfair. There are real imperfections and problems inside that. We all know that. Adamant the palestinians about incitement and adamant to the palestinians about their need to deal with their Education System and change things kids are taught examplery to lead by with respect to the nonviolence and so forth. All of that needs to happen. I am not suggesting we are dealing with this easy place. I will tell you what i do know. I have spent a lot of time looking at this thing. My first trip to israel was in 1986 and i have probably been more times in any secretary of state. I have been and where everywhere in israel. I love israel. Ive had great engagements with so many friends there. Israel, because of decisions being made on a daily basis, quietly and without a lot of people seeing them or fully processing the consequences, is heading to replace of danger. Saying the things ive said is to say there is, i think, a better path to pursue. I think over time this small little city state which is what effectively the west bank would be demilitarized as it would be with the proper input and guidance over x number of years to be defined by the parties and by the way, you can define performance. D on which sets up standards that have to be met that provide for security. These are the kind of things we talked about with john allen and the idf and the israeli leadership. Nobody is thinking all of a sudden, boom, there is this thing and its called the state like gaza. That is not what anybody is talking about. I think there is a very different, longterm perspectives that can be defined here that allows israel to defend itself for itself. That respects israels security needs and respects all the other needs that would constitute ultimately trying to find peace. You cant do it if youre not talking and you certainly cant do it if all you are doing is building up your presence in what people think will be there state while they are seeing homes demolished and people moved out. That is not a winning equation. Mr. Goldberg diane. Mr. Secretary, this is the case of the patients being wiser than the doctors. The people are wiser perhaps than the leaders. Asked, areer openly you afraid in terms of political survival and that is why you were not willing to go ahead and stand up to the occasion and try to promote historic compromise . The other question i have given that you know where the problems are and given you have invested so much time and effort and Political Capital in this conflict, is there anything you wouldve done differently . Mr. Goldberg you would have done differently . Do you think sec. Kerry there are a few things. I will not discuss them now, i might write about them in the future. Inevitably we all make a mistake here or there. By and large i think we did the right thing and i think we approached it effectively. We had very, very difficult dynamics that were developing. You asked about libya, yemen, egypt, there is a lot of turmoil. Turmoil is frightening and unsettling. There are a lot of reasons for people to feel, whoa, this is so uncertain. Plays as any fear effective Political Tool sometimes. There is been a lot of fear in the way of people being able to feel comfortable moving forward with other kinds of choices. I do believe what i said before. I am not sitting here pessimistic about the longterm we theregion providing United States and the developed world make the decisions we need moment to address this that exists in southcentral asia, the middle east, north africa and elsewhere. Unparalleled is an a number of different factors simultaneously that are different from anything any other generation dealt with. Thenology, communications, rise of very young populations. 60 and 65 of many populations in the region are 30 years or younger. 50 under the age of 21. They dont have jobs. There are 1. 5 billion kids in the world under the age of 15. 400 million of whom will not go to school. If many of those are in these countries and they are right for the picking of extremists ripe for the picking of extremists and lying to people about their future and what happens and life on earth versus dying, exploding yourself and taking a lot of people with you, we will have a problem. An enormous problem. We had a Marshall Plan after 13d war ii which put billion into the redevelopment of countries we fought against. We are redeveloping developed countries, specifically japan and germany and europe. Our challenge now, and it has a bad name out there in the public. People dont like the idea of why would we spend a dime over there . It is all about our security and about the alliances we have with the security of our allies. If we dont face this, there is no over there anymore. It is everywhere is here. Here is everywhere. If you dont realize that, you are missing the biggest change. Runningbunch of people around with smartphones who can see what everybody else in the world has, which means they can see what they dont have. If those folks i will tell you a story quickly. Foreign minister of a country in north africa which is a fairly large muslim population, not a majority, i asked how do you deal with this . You were trying to develop and create opportunities for people. He said we are scared. He said the extremists will spend money grabbing 13, 14, 15yearold kids. After they have won them over they dont have to pay them anything. They send them out as the next wave of recruiters. They go out and bring in the next wave of young people. He said these guys have a 35 year plan. We dont even have a fiveyear plan. Now we do. With what we have begun to do with daish, what we are doing in libya. We make progress in somalia. We thought that fought back against boko haram. We have done the same with daish in libya. In yemen if we can quiet it down. We are trying to deal with the proxy aspects of that war which are complicated. Syria is even more complicated. There are about six wars in syria. Saudi arabia in iran. You have israel and has a look. Hezbollah. Kk, suni,us kerd, p shia, oppositionists against assad. It is extraordinarily complicated in the proxy is him. Proxyism. Differences between egypt and the emirates versus saudi, emerate and turk. It is hard to declare we will go in and bomb and do this or that. In beingbelieve strong. I believe it is important for us. I know the cost. The cost of the president s decision when he decided not to enforce the redline through the bombing. But that is greatly misinterpreted. It had an impact. People have interpreted it as his decision not to, when in fact he never made a decision not to bomb. He did make the decision to bomb. Recently decided he had to go to congress because tony blair not tony blair, David Cameron lost the vote in the parliament on a thursday and on friday president obama felt hearing from congress he has to go to them to get the decision. The decision was not forthcoming and in the meantime i have to deal to get all the chemical weapons out of the country. We got a better results out of not doing it, but it was the threat of doing it that brought about the result and the lack of doing it perception wise cost us significantly in the region and i know that. And so does the president. As much as we think it is a misinterpretation, it does not matter. It costs. Perception often beats the reality. I think we are on the right course. I think we will stem the tide providing we do not retreat from the region, not just militarily with our presence in our potential use of force, but more importantly right now our ability to try to deal with these countries governance and their ability to address these young people and the possibilities of the future. If we dont do that, we will be inviting a lot of other problems as a consequence. Mr. Goldberg mr. Secretary, it has been a real pleasure for me to cover you these past years. I dont know if it was a pleasure for you, but i want to say thank you and we thank you for your [applause] [indiscernible chatter] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] gentlemen, this we invite 2016 you to join us. Thank you. [indistinct chatter] you can see this again tonight at 12 40 a. M. Eastern right here on cspan. On thursday, the Kennedy School institute of politics hosted a forum on the 2016 president al campaign with kelly anann conway. 6 30ll say that today at and 9 40 p. M. Eastern right here on cspan. Former cia director david the trias was on the sunday talk shows this morning. Politico reports his appearance amounts to a test of how he would handle money concerns about his perspective nomination to be secretary of state, especially about questions concerning his mishandling of National Security reapers. The general pled guilty to a misdemeanor for sharing papers with a woman he was having an affair with. On abcs this week, general petraeus says he made a mistake. What i wouldeus say is what i acknowledge for a couple of years. I made a serious mistake. I8 knowledged it, apologized for it, paid a heavy price for it and i have learned from it. They will have to factor that in an obviously 38. 5 years of otherwise fairly, in some cases unique service to our country in years inand some four the Business Community in which i have continued to travel the world. Nearly 40 countries in that time. You are pressed on if you made false statements to the director of the fbi. You would knowledged that in your plea agreement, get you told the Washington Post this week he sadly forgot about the journal. I you challenging the directors conclusion . General petraeus no. Obviously i made a false statement. At the time i did not think it was false and frankly i think they might have pursued that more. I would like to add something you left out, which is that the fbi in the agreement acknowledged that nothing that was in my journals i shared, certainly improperly, ended up in the biography or made it out to the public. I think that is a fairly significant point. The book was read by a kernel at the time colonel at the time. I made a mistake. I have a knowledged it. Folks will have to factor that in and determine if that is disqualifying or not. Phonesidentelect trumps call with the president of taiwan was on the shows this morning. Mike pence said it was nothing more than a Courtesy Call. I think thise conversation was a Courtesy Call. She reached out to the president elect. He took the call for the democratic elected leader of taiwan. It is one of more than 50 phone calls the president elect has taken from an may 2 World Leaders in the midst of made to World Leaders in the midst of building a legislative agenda. Even traveling the country and setting 1000 jobs in the state of indiana. It is a reflection of the committees energy. It is a kind of approach you will see him bring the challengers at home and abroad. Have you with the team reached out to the Chinese Government since this bold up . Governor pence not to my knowledge. Should we expect a call to calm the waters . Governor pence i would not expect so. The waters here seem like a little bit of a tempest in a teapot. It is striking to me to president obama would reach out to a murdering dictator in cuba and be hailed as a hero. President elect donald trump takes a Courtesy Call from the democratically elected president of taiwan and it becomes something of a thing in the media. I think most americans and most leaders around the world note this for what it was. In ank you will see President Donald Trump a willingness to engage the world, but engage the world on americas term. I decided to spend more time on the young grant. Pointt a week at west trying to understand how this make it finished 21st out of 39 at west point. Sometimes viewed by these biographers as a historical intellectual lightweight. Yet he said himself, i must apologize, i spent all my time reading novels. Whiteight on q a, ronald talks about the life and career of the 18th u. S. President in his latest book, american ulysses a life of ulysses s grant. He could be at a meeting of African American leaders and the white house. He said i look forward to the day when you can ride on a railroad car, he in a restaurant along with every other person regardless of their race. That they must come. It took 90 years for that day to come. Grant was the last american president to hold those kind of views. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspans q1 day. Now, house ways and Means Committee chair kevin brady of texas on the republican plant december 5 the tax code and reduce the size of the irs. From the Heritage Foundation, this is about one hour and 45 minutes. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] good morning everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation at the Freedom Center here in washington right across from the capital. All of those joining us today via cspan and streaming heritage members welcome. It is my pleasure today to introduce to you one of my great friends and maybe more importantly great friend of the american taxpayer kevin brady chairman of the ways and Means Committee. He was first elected to the house in 1996 two years before i got to the house so he was a Senior Member when i got there. He represented the people of texas eighth Congressional District near houston and continues to represent them today. Last june as part of speaker ryans better way he released a blueprint of a major tax reform initiative. This proposal is a key part of the conservative agenda thats going to restore prosperity in the United States and improve the well being of american families. His plan would reduce individual tax rates, the double taxation of Capital Gains and dividends would be reduced dramatically, and it would increase the standard deduction and the child tax credit. The u. S. Corporate tax rate, now the highest in the industrialized world, would be reduced from 35 to 20 . We would also move to a territorial system similar to that of most of our Major Trading partners. This would make the u. S. A more attractive place to headquarter a business and produce goods. The plan would move more toward a border adjusted destination, principal system that would treat u. S. Produced goods the s

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