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>> that's a great point. by the way, they voted for trump because their wages haven't moved and they've lost so many jobs and it wasn't a strong expansion. go for business tax cuts. here's the key one, i've been saying this all year, early last year, this is for large companies, but it's also for small businesses. llcs, proprior or itship. this will be the first business tax cut for small businesses in i don't know how long. and, according to work done by the aei and others, the biggest beneficiary of across the board business tax cuts, large and small, the biggest beneficiary, are the middle ...

Julian assange or the intelligence officials? >> i wouldn't listen to julian assange. i think i is quite a ne'er do well. >> so you would listen to the cia over julian assange? >> i don't have to pick just the cia analysts. i mentioned the author of the article in the wall street journal today. neither is he julian assange, nor is he somebody who works for the cia. >> but you'd lien to somebody from aei over the cia analysts? >> i would listen to someone who i think is making a coe gent point, and doing it with good evidence. i don't start from the proposition of i'll listen to x, pau because ...

Boot straps. the invisible hand. cut taxes for corporations. that ain't doing anything. it's for people dying in michigan or pennsylvania who have seen their jobs go away and keep falling behind. we have been blind to those people. >> that's right. we don't tell our stories well. the human heart is conditioned to hear stories. and when we don't tell the story, the left and the -- my friends on the left, democrats tell story wonderful. telephone shows. >> we quote aei, talking points, and heritage foundation talking points. and ana, people are like, what? they're saying in scranton, pennsylvani...

What, my only point is this. republicans need to speak to the disenfranchised. that looked like a bernie sanders ad. as jeff greenfield said, it looked like a bernie sanders or elizabeth warren ad. i pissed off a lot of people at the "wall street journal" as well saying republicans need to start talking like that. but the conservative populism is something that wins states like michigan or pennsylvania. >> yeah, but maybe not for the reason. look, it can't be a reflection of reaction every time. if people know your record, they shouldn't be saying that you're anti-semitic. we should base our o...

Say this. how do we have fusion of aei and hard populism on trade? horde populism on tax policy? a lot came in in '94 that were a mix. i don't know why hedge funders pay 14% tax rate. that's offensive to me. i have a feeling if i'm feeling that as a small government conservative, probably 80% of americans of feeling that. >> let me answer the question by saying if only someone with a populist world view and had good sensibilities about policy and super savvy in media and great head of hair ran for president, is there anybody out there like that? >> willie geist? i don't know willie's politics....