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The invite. it's an honor to be here today. >> that was president trump touting the tax cuts which passed six months ago and running through a greatest hits list of what he sees as his biggest accomplishments. i want to bring back my panel including chris matthews and andrea mitchell. what did you make of what you heard? the president really getting into campaign mode. >> he's not just the quarterback, he's the chief cheerleader. b.t. barnum has nothing on this guy. the tax cut didn't work their way down to the workers. the numbers show that most of the money that came into the tax cut has gon...

Permanent, not so for individuals. i know you want to address that. there's been frustration. a lot of companies are using money to buy back stock. nothing wrong with that. but there's some companies that shared the loot with their workers, bonuses, some bought equipment, capital spending went up. but was it's to the degree you hoped for? >> yes. every one of those actions, investing in the work force, buying equipment, to raise wages, bringing dollars back from overseas, announcing new investments in america and going forward, the reason i say the best is yet to come, because so much of this ...

Opportunities for the longer term investor -- >> neil: let me ask you, normally in every downdraft of the market -- i'm not saying this is like an 87 experience. that was the dow losing a quarter of its value. it was cut in half. leaving that aside, normally you wait to see big brave names come in or companies buying back stock. ibm was buyer back then. warren buffet a buyer back then. then you go fast war to 9-11 when airline stocks were pummeled. warren buffet and the other big names dove in to buy them. george sorros among others. we don't get reports on that yet. would that be a re-assurin...

Spread like trump saying this is the biggest tax cut upper and of course that's not true. >> dana: if this had happened under president obama, like if you done the tax cut like he wanted, and these companies were giving bonuses, you have to wonder what the right would be saying. they would be saying it's not enough. >> juan: is not enough. okay. check my thought is, will make a run street. wall street is saying this is less than 1% of the workers in the country getting anything and most of the money is going to be used either to buy back stock for the companies, increased dividends for shareho...

And equipment and expenditures like that. but even if the companies -- let's say -- let's say, for example, that we bring a trillion dollars back to the united states from all these other countries and say that they use the money to pay out differe dividends to their shareholders or buy back stock, dividends get paid to the shareholders, that gets flowed through the economy, but ultimately we want to see these tax cuts lead to not just more jobs. look i'm in miami right now and this economy is booming. what you want to see is good, high-paying jobs, so those kind of trump voters who didn't fee...