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Tax policy? >> well, chris, here is the thing. you need to have faster economic growth. our economic growth over the last couple of decades has been anemic. and that means people cannot get work. it means that we do not have growth and opportunity in all of the things that people want. i favor a tax bill. the corporate taxes are too high. we cannot compete as effectively and some companies hightailed out of america because of it. i do think we need a tax bill. when it comes to how to pay for it, i think in that case, having to believe that entitlements have to be reviewed. and it may be separa...

Tax policy? >> well, chris, here is the thing. you need to have faster economic growth. our economic growth over the last couple of decades has been anemic. and that means people cannot get work. it means that we do not have growth and opportunity in all of the things that people want. i favor a tax bill. the corporate taxes are too high. we cannot compete as effectively and some companies hightailed out of america because of it. i do think we need a tax bill. when it comes to how to pay for it, i think in that case, having to believe that entitlements have to be reviewed. and it may be separa...

Tax policy? >> well, chris, here is the thing. you need to have faster economic growth. our economic growth over the last couple of decades has been anemic. and that means people cannot get work. it means that we do not have growth and opportunity in all of the things that people want. i favor a tax bill. the corporate taxes are too high. we cannot compete as effectively and some companies hightailed out of america because of it. i do think we need a tax bill. when it comes to how to pay for it, i think in that case, having to believe that entitlements have to be reviewed. and it may be separa...

Just since 2000. i hope you don't mind, andrea, but, you know, i wanted to give you a couple of stats here. because i looked it up. you hear a lot of veterans angry about the fact that the protesters are using and flying the flags of the confederacy and nazi germany. during the civil war, 364,000 people died on the union side. about 300,000 or so on the confederate side. in 1860, there were 4 million slaves. more slaves lived here in this city than white people in 1860. let me give you another stat. 490,000 americans died in world war ii fighting the japanese and the germans. and now we are se...

Military, people like leon panetta, who was defense secretary, are really concerned right now. this is not a joke. it's not a game. >> right. >> real people can -- you know, in 1994 when we almost went to war with north korea, president clinton had the casualty figures put together, what would actually happen. 59,000 american dead. 490,000 korean dead in 90 days. >> yeah. we don't even have an ambassador to south korea to sort of sit him down. >> it wouldn't be nuclear. this is conventional war. this is the real deal. >> let me read you what senator ben sasse had to say. he said, no, congress ...