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Thank you very much again for being here. Thank you, gary for joining us. Bright and early. The topic is taxes, taxes, taxes. Well start off with alabama. Original. We had a lot of discussion about taxes with your colleague last night chl well go over that ground and more detail. And ask more some of the more longer term questions. Let me start off with something i did ask secretary last night. See how you answer it. Why is now a good time to be cutting taxes to be increasing the deficit significantly. Know estimates vary. This is a 1. 5 this will Immediate Tax cut. 78 of gdp. Total revenue is...

In the Senate Subway and the doors are closed and youre trapped taking questions from me. Well take questions from Facebook Live and the New York Times. Lets get into it. So we kind of take it as an article of faith that bipartisanship is good. Polling says we want people to work across the aisle. This is a good thing. We like bipartisan bills. But when we get into the nittygritty of governing, thats not really always the case, even though it has a positive connotation. I know that when democrats were in charge, republicans would say, we dont want to give them any victories, its too close to e...

Lets get into it. So we kind of take it as an article of faith that bipartisanship is good. Polling says we want people to work across the aisle. This is a good thing. We like bipartisan bills. But when we get into the nittygritty of governing, thats not really always the case, even though it has a positive connotation. I know that when democrats were in charge, republicans would say, we dont want to give them any victories, its too close to election year. And then when the tables turned, republicans were in charge and they dont want to help each other. Even pass simple things, simple bills to...

Be ironed out. Behind closed doors, negotiations are underway to get to 50 votes. For more on the latest, we are joined from washington. Welcome back to the program. Give us a sense of what is going on right now. We heard over the weekend that senator collins of maine was expressing concerns. The real action is going on behind closed doors. A lot of the debates you see to they as it relates tax bill is mostly theater. The real negotiations are between Republican Leaders in the house need to keep 218 votes. In the sen. S the senate need to have 51 votes. That didnt work when they try to repeal ...

Please welcome them. [ applause ] good morning, thank you very much for being here. Thank you for joining us. So the topic of this session is taxes, taxes, taxes so well start off talking about alabama. Original, original, original. We had a lot of discussion about taxes with your colleague the treasury secretary but i want to get in more detail and ask you some of the more detail. Let me start off with something i said with s. E. C. Theecretary. This is a one and a half trillion dollar Immediate Tax cut. Federal debt is already at 78 of gdp total federal revenues is at 17 , quite low by histo...