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Agenda and it continues notwithstanding what's happening in the daily news cycle with respect to the president and a special prosecutor. spill in the house and senate investigations, the intelligence committees are going to continue their investigations on what went on vis-a-vis michael flynn and the russian contacts. >> they are. the senate intelligence many is well underway. they were working on this for several months as is the house. that continues, but it will be relegated. in the congress, we have lots of different committees that deal with different issues. our agenda is very focused. h...

Worried, senator, that it ain't happening this year, that it's getting pushed back, unlikely? >> i still believe we need to do it this year. i hope we find the votes to do that. the president will have to get very engaged, neil. if this pushes to 2018, it's harder. i'm confident moving forward that we can deal with tax reform before the end of the year. i certainly think in terms of the economy could do a lot to get us out of this 1.5% growth pattern. >> neil: were you surprised by mitch mcconnell's interest in keeping whatever you do on taxes revenue neutral? that bothered a lot of conservati...

That would be great. but underlying this growth pattern is slow growth in the labor force, population changes, and pretty slow productivity gains. but we are seeing improvements in wages. the latest employment cost index showed a stronger number. so, in terms of the recovery, from the crisis, things look pretty good, generally speaking. and i'd have to say, if you told me three, four years ago that we'd be where we are today, i would have been pretty happy to hear it. >> so what do you make of, then, donald trump's recipe for the situation we're in, which seems to me to be a pretty massive tax...

That would be great. but underlying this growth pattern is slow growth in the labor force, population changes, and pretty slow productivity gains. but we are seeing improvements in wages. the latest employment cost index showed a stronger number. so, in terms of the recovery, from the crisis, things look pretty good, generally speaking. and i'd have to say, if you told me three, four years ago that we'd be where we are today, i would have been pretty happy to hear it. >> so what do you make of, then, donald trump's recipe for the situation we're in, which seems to me to be a pretty massive tax...

We're down to 4.5% of unemployment. 16 million jobs created since 2009. inflation is low in stable, gas prices low, stock market's up. a lot of things are positive, growth could be faster that would be great. but underlying this growth pattern is slow growth in the economic force. we are seeing improvements in wages, the latest employment cost index showed a stronger number. so in terms of the recovery from the crises things are looked pretty good generally speaking. i'd have to say that if you told me three or four years ago we'd be where we are today i would have happy to hear it. >> you can...