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Was confidential. >> you just read that he suggested that he did not tellitel tell cohen to do any of this or make this request in the proceeding. someone must have asked cohen. if you read the original findings, they made this request that this client had to stay private. >> does fox news see this as a problem at all? >> fox news does see this as a problem. they don't have anieswers. i have been asking the past 24 hours, does hannity's bosses know anything about this or will there be any disciplinary action and fox is not saying anything. >> cohen has been on his program at least as much as -...

>> does fox news see this as a problem at all? he's a power unto himself there. >> fox news does see this as a problem. they don't have answers. i have been asking the past 24 hours, does hannity's bosses know anything about this or will there be any disciplinary action and fox is not saying anything. >> cohen has been on his program at least as much as -- 16 times that we found since president trump announced that he was. >> right sometimes of campaigns and things like that. another thing we can judge hannity based on 101 -- he goes back and forth and tries to have it both ways. he's an enter...

If and when there is a speaker race, i have colleagues encouraged me to look at it. the big focus is much more important on who the speaker is next year and what the republicans do this year. we won't be in the majority. let's get focused on what we are doing and what they sent us here to do and what they told us to do. >> you are that concerned about the midterms? >> i am concerned of the midterms, yes. >> if we don't do what we are sent to do and deal with border security board and make the tax cuts permanent. the policies that we are elected to do, if we don't get focused on that, then we c...

Minimum wage which is kicking in today. will it mean more pay for fewer jobs? allie stuckey thinks so. daniel disagrees. allie, what has you so concerned here? >> you know, i'm not an economist. i'm a millennial, which means high school wasn't that long ago for me. so i remember econ 101 pretty well. what i learned is that when the price of something goes up, people buy less of it. so when the price of labor goes up, employers will buy less labor. we saw this to be true with wendy's and target the past couple years. wendy's has raised wages in 2016 and 2017. as a result, they had to slash hour...

What were those numbers like? i'm just wondering how long will it take to offset that and when are we going to see the spending cuts? >> david: is a different picture now with the corporate tax cut. if we bring that down and if we do things like remove the amt from corporate taxes. >> harris: which doesn't help anybody under a certain income level. speaker where it does help into your point earlier about who really pays the taxes in this country coming up to look at economic activity. corporations and businesses even at a $250 million cap according to the irs deliver a lot of the income, the e...