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States. >> it's kind of a half acid citizenship. can't vote for president. >> nor congress. >> or congress. you don't have really much voice in your own destiny. >> exactly. you can only go to war. that's the only thing that you can do with rights. >> right. but puerto rico owes, what, $75 billion right now? >> 72, yeah. >> 72. i don't see statehood -- i don't see congress ever taking on a $72 billion debt load. >> exactly. >> especially for a loft people who speak spanish. what's the way out of this? >> oh, my god. >> what about tourism? >> it's an industry of services. >> exactly. >> so serv...

Local taxes, the property taxes, but there are other deductions that are going away here, there's the credits for elderly and disabled, adoptions, student loans, tax preparation, medical expenses, alimony, moving expenses, the medical savings accounts, the unreimbursed business expense, educator expenses, meanwhile, you bought the to super rich. they're going to save $172 billion on estate taxes, 696 billion on alternative minimum taxes, $847 billion on corporate taxes. >> yeah, that's exactly the right way to think about this. in other words with retakic away from a bunch of folks who itemize...

Why we're being so deliberate about how we're going about tax reform and tax relief for the american worker. i think republicans are being very careful and they are considering things that are small sticking points like the 401(k) aspect. president trump has led and stood up on twitter and said he wouldn't allow us to tax the pretax amount on the 401(k) contributions by americans. why should we make it harder for americans to save for retirement? at the same time, bigger states are throwing up their hands in new york and new jersey over eliminating the salt deduction, which would allow america...

While reflecting on the island's recovery. >> now, i hate to tell you, puerto rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack, because we've spent a lot of money on puerto rico, and that's fine. we've saved a lot of lives. >> after surveying damaged areas in the capital and distributing supplies to hurricane victims, president trump again addressed the nation's $72 billion of debt. >> they owe a lot of money for your friends on wall street, and we're going to have to wipe that out. that's going to have be -- you can say good-bye to that. i don't know if it's goldman sachs, but whoever...

That, of course, no one should believe the president's words. no one should believe what the president actually said. >> i wouldn't take it word for word. at least $72 billion in debt. 120 going by other accounts before the storm. we are not going to deal right now with those fundamental difficulties that puerto rico had before the storm. >> i wouldn't take it word for word. we'll have more on the president's trips to puerto rico and las vegas this week. we'll be joined by daniel dale, a white house correspondent who got blocked on twitter by the president of the united states for the offense ...