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Ukraine into assisting the president's re-election efforts in 2020. in the report from your inspector general, the memo sent to yourks it says on july 18, the office of management and budget official informed the departments and agencies that the president earlier that month had issued instructions to suspend all u.s. security assistance to ukraine, neither omb nor the nsc staff knew why this instruction had been issued. during interagency meetings on the 23rd of july and the 26th of july, omb officials again stated explicitly the instruction to suspend this assistance had come directly from t...

Would affect reaproportionment and all kinds of stuff. it's not clear that he has a consistent policy rationale for wanting to do this. the way that he talks about it is effective because it sounds like a common sense kind of thing. for the section of voters he's trying to reach, i think he's tapping into a real feeling. but if you just look at the calendar and the way things work, it seems very unlikely this is going to change the dynamic, at least for the 2020 census. if he were to successful and they were to rebuild a case and rationale for doing this, it could in effect affect the 2030 cen...

It could undermine the ability to the actually get everyone top participate. >> so that's the policy rationale. if you ask this question, you'll get a less accurate count. the whole point is to the accurately count how many people there are. the legal issue is separate from saying it's illegal. in a tweet immediately after this came out, you said it's illegal. what's your case on that? >> because the constitution requires the federal government to get an actually count of all the people in this country, citizen and noncitizen. we've been doing that since 1790. it doesn't say get a count of the...

Representatives in the house of representatives that they should have. so chris, it's crucial and the reason we haven't seen this census question in four or five decades is because we know that it could undermine the ability to the actually get everyone top participate. >> so that's the policy rationale. if you ask this question, you'll get a less accurate count. the whole point is to the accurately count how many people there are. the legal issue is separate from saying it's illegal. in a tweet immediately after this came out, you said it's illegal. what's your case on that? >> because the co...

39.6. where they have agreed on at 37%. for the highest individual rate. i asked the house ways and means chairman kevin brady, one of the co-authors of the bill, sherpas of the process, why do that? take a listen. >> those incomes are high in california and new york and new jersey, illinois. they need relief because we are -- we're going to allow state and local deductions, property and income and sales, up to $10,000, and so the -- lowering that rate was important for those high tax states which democrats have complained about as well, and so this really is a solution they've been asking for...