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Somewhere, payroll growth, payroll increases, keeping prices at level because profitability will go up. who does that benefit? it benefits the consumer on the street. so repatriating money for overseas, cutting the taxes that employers pay is good for employees and that's what america needs. >> neil: in order -- there are deficit hawks and to your point. they make sense. they were complaining and worried about this. some have built in a plan here that calls for tax increases if it turned out they're that revenue shy. what do you think of that? >> yeah, nonsense. there's some people for whom a ...

Between an attack in egypt and a wall on the united states border. of course it's absurd but we've seen this before and the president when he talks about the opioid problem talks about the need for a border wall even though that's not the source of the problem. they're seemingly no problem that we have that cannot be cured by the border wall in his telling, so but it shows a certain willingness to exploit whatever is occurring around the world to further this domestic agenda. clearly, the democrats as you were pointing out aren't buying it, even people in his own party have basically said that...

Today. >> absolutely. we do talk so much on this program and in general about the president being a little tone deaf at times, and the gold star family controversy that we saw in recent weeks is a perfect example of that. but this was pitch perfect. >> yeah, and you know, i don't know if he's going to do more of it, but he probably should, right? >> well, there was a tinge of policy that was thrown in there as well, that was building the wall that he had also been campaigning on saying that 90% of all heroin came from south of the border. and that was one way in his view to fight the opioid pr...

>> sabrina, who are the bad guys in this opioid problem. >> pharmaceutical companies. >> are doctors giving prescriptions too freely? are the drug companies pushing this stuff? >> the drug companies who certainly have tried to make opioids more available on the market as opposed to the other way around. there's also high priced prescription naloxone which reverses an overdose. thieves can't afford that medication. really the point here is that trump, he needs to deliver more resources and instead he has backed many proposals that would slash funding. >> roundtable, stick with us. up next, thes...

Declared a health emergency to fight the opioid problem. let's bring in our panel. everybody here, i'm going to try to get to hot stuff for people to think about here. starting with you. tell me about this thing that you're working on. >> what i reported yesterday is the closest known connection between people on the inside of the trump campaign and julian assange. trump's own cia director has characterized wikileaks as a hostile foreign intelligence service and this is something that julian assange confirmed to me. trump paid $6 million to and julian assange. this is a great interest to inves...