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Are you going to put a ceiling on it? and, oh, by the way, what happens to the home mortgage deduction of the people whose homes floated away in texas, who will not have jobs or a home and still have the liability to pay that mortgage note? what is donald trump's government going to do with them? >> i mean trump talked a lot about creating jobs, and the one thing we know that won't create jobs is his efforts to give a huge break to corporations to bring back $3 trillion parked overseas. we've tried that, and it's used to buy back stock, for example. if you want to help create jobs, you lower p...

Shouldn't be able to just -- and you're very right, they shouldn't be able to get a benefit, you know, because if you're getting lower taxes and because you're getting depreciation because you don't use them. you shouldn't be able to take that money and go buy back stock. the buy backs are done, look, certain companies, i want to see buy backs, i don't think the company knows how to use the cash and they got too much of it. in many cases you are right, you can't blame the ceo's, right now, the ceo says, i'm going to go build a factory, and build machinery. and i'm going to have these guys comi...

You don't get investments. ceo's are afraid to invest. we talk about the question of why we don't have productivity. the answer is you don't have investment in machinery in factories, as a result, you do not have productivproductivety. what they take advantage of are now put back into buy back stock. therefore, we have that problem. >> let me ask you this, you said that wall street needs regulation, and you don't want to dismantle it, a potential treasury secretary for the house of financial services committee, he outlined priorities for congress under president trump.

Appealing those suspensions. meantime, got to go to chicago. this is the oak brooke illinois area and these crowds are growing. aerial pictures here. what this is a protest. it's a protest over wages. this is outside of mcdonald's headquarters. and it tipcontinues to grow. the chorus is getting louder. i have ryan young there somewhere. talk to me about what these people want. >> reporter: we're told the protest will happen over the next two days. of course there will be a shareholders' meeting at headquarters tomorrow. they're here today with a larger protest. if you look you can see how la...

The company halted a plan to raise its different and buy back stock because of a miscalculation in the finances. finally some encouraging news on the housing market. pending home sales rose 3.4% in march, the first gain in nine months. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. [ female announcer ] who are we?