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Bob corker. the dog catcher tweet. this day couldn't get weirder. number one what does it mean for tax reform? bob corker is still in the senate. he is still worth a very valuable vote on tax reform. i think a lot of this despite started because of tax reform. the president came out the other morning and tweeted about 401ks and he interjected himself into what is supposed to be a congressional activity of drafting legislation. that bothered bob corker. bob corker continues to say leave it to the professors, whether it's north korea or tax reform, leave it to the professionals to deal with. the...

Differences easing. >> i mean, ultimately the president has said that he's flexible. he's laid out a frame work for both tax reform and healthcare reform. for bills that he's willing to sign that are compatible with his platform that he ran for in 2016. so the president is probably one of the more flexible political players in washington. ultimately he cannot hold their hand on the hill as they're writing this legislation or rather not writing this legislation. so i mean, unless he wants -- they want to invite the president down to capitol hill to start drafting legislation, let's start having...

Violence? >> listen. there's an easy answer to that. if you look in the wake of sandy hook, i joined with iowa's own chuck grassley in drafting legislation, the grassley/cruz legislation, and it focused on what obama should go, tar getting the bad guys. 2013, there were 54,000 fugitive who tried to buy guns. do you know how many the obama administration prosecuted? 44? 44 out of 15,000. the grassley/cruz legislation created a task force so if a fugitive tries to buy a gun, we prosecute them. you know one of the shocking things the justice department has done? significantly decrease the prosecu...

Answer for that. if you look it the wake of sandy hook. i joined with iowa's own chuck grassley in drafting legislation. it was the grassley-cruz legislation and it focused on where obama should have gone, on targeting the bad guys. so, for example, in the recent years, 2013, there were 54,000 felons and fugitives who tried to illegally buy a firearm. do you know how many of those the obama administration prosecuted? 44. 44 out of 54,000. that is utterly unacceptable. you asked about first graders. do you know that the obama administration slashed the funding for school safety by roughly $300 ...

And in fact, you have drafted real legislation, you have history in your experience and background of drafting legislation. and you've done this. you've drafted legislation that you think could be precedent setting in terms of how parents need to be responsible not only if they're bullying but also if they're children are going to be bullied. can you give me a synopsis? >> through a nonprofit we have we've done basically a bill that first identifies and defines what bullying is and cyberbullying. we are trying to make it illegal. we will address an issue called revenge porn which is out in cal...