jon: now the president on tax reform. good morning, i m honored to welcome republican and democrat members of the house and ways and means committee to the white house. we ve been beating long and hard, we ve been meeting for quite some time. it s been very interesting and we re going to have a big announcement tomorrow. i d like to think committee chairman kevin brady, thank you, kevin. and ranking member nature richal for being here today. i ve asked both bodies to join us today to talk abut the framework for tax cuts and tax reform before it s released tomorrow. it will be a very, very powerful document. our plan is based on four very crucial principles. first we must make our tax code simple and fair.