Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling of texas coming up and then an emotional scene on capitol hill this past week. House majority Steve Scalise returning to congress for the First Time Since being shot in june at a baseball practice game. What was the mood like inside that chamber . Ill talk with his fellow congressman as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. And republicans are making their push on tax reform after the latest healthcare failure the stakes are high. This new plan tries to simplify our complicated tax code. Consolidated the number of tax brackets from seven down to three, sitting individual tax rates at 12 , 25 and 35 . The president describing it as a rocket fuel for the economy saying it will de live a middle class miracle. Joining me right now is President Trumps chief Economic Advisor and director of the National Economic council gary cohn. Director good to see you. Maria great to be here. Maria youve got a lot on your plate i know that and this
Started to Pay Attention to russia so i am happy they are paying attention to russia now, i am happy the American People are paying attention to russia. There are russia hawks now, i think there are more russia hawks in congress than there are congressmen and senators, and so we are happy to expand this investigation. I welcome it. However, we are not going to go on witch hunts against the america people, against american citizens. And, you know, basically putting names of people in newspaper outlets, that is not real credible evidence that an american citizen has done something wrong, but if there are american citizens, from any Political Party that are communicating with russia, russian agents, i want to know about it. Bring it to the committee, because we would like to investigate. Dickerson and you are referring to the stories that the white house said have no merit to them, which is citizen whose are involved in the Trump Campaign had any contact with the russians, is that what yo
Plus maryland democrat Elijah Cummings and there is, as always we will have analysis on all of the news, coming up on face the nation. Dickerson good morning and welcome to face the nation. I am john dickerson. It has been another bracing week in washington and we talked about it earlier with President Trumps chief of staff Reince Priebus. Mr. Priebus, welcome. I want to start with a little business before we get to the substance of things. There has been a debate about when to take the president seriously. He recently tweeted that the press was the enemy of the American People. Should we take that seriously from him . Well, i think you should take it seriously. I think the problem we have got is that we are talking about bogus stories like the one in the New York Times that we have had Constant Contact with russian officials, the next day the wall street journal had a story that the Intel Community was not giving the president a full intelligence briefing, both stories grossly inaccur
Cummings and there is, as always we will have analysis on all of the news, coming up on face the nation. Dickerson good morning and welcome to face the nation. I am john dickerson. It has been another bracing week in washington and we talked about it earlier with President Trumps chief of staff Reince Priebus. Mr. Priebus, welcome. I want to start with a little business before we get to the substance of things. There has been a debate about when to take the president seriously. He recently tweeted that the press was the enemy of the American People. Should we take that seriously from him . Well, i think you should take it seriously. I think the problem we have got is that we are talking about bogus stories like the one in the New York Times that we have had Constant Contact with russian officials, the next day the wall street journal had a story that the Intel Community was not giving the president a full intelligence briefing, both stories grossly inaccurate, overstated, over blown, a
What day and who believes what. Some people might say it would be better if we could wrap it in but democracy is the ability to no matter where you are or were you come from to run for president. The social media are as fizzling are facilitating that. Mr. Volpe i just believe a couple of things. Think it has to be that way. I know for a fact if some candidate said im going to use twitter tonight to say i will host a Community Meeting to talk about what is working in the city, you would have 100 if not 1000 new people show up to have a conversation about that. That is the use of social media in the best way. I can care you t i can guarantee you that in that room you have an 18yearold, an 80yearold and a lot of people in between who want to participate in solving problems. Now that is the first step in , Building Trust within the system. Theyre connected with somebody who actually cares. They were all of that person, and that is the way for social media to save politics. But for whatever