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Talking before the election would you make adjustment in the raising rates on steve moore? [laughter] paul: would he do? >> i don't believe he would. he understands that top 1% are business owners. you have to cut the corporate rate. he would say, yeah, i kept that, what are we going to do, that's why we cut the highest rate and that's the tax that the small business -- paul: signs of a slowdown. business investment is a shaky right now. what's going on? >> well, look, i'm not -- i'm still pretty bullish, i think we will get 2 and a half percent.

The press conference recently, well, if you want that middle-tax class cuts you are talking before the election would you make adjustment in the raising rates on steve moore? [laughter] paul: would he do? >> i don't believe he would. he understands that top 1% are business owners. you have to cut the corporate rate. he would say, yeah, i kept that, what are we going to do, that's why we cut the highest rate and that's the tax that the small business -- paul: signs of a slowdown. business investment is a shaky right now. what's going on? >> well, look, i'm not -- i'm still pretty bullish, i thi...

>> the tax plan that was passed is going to create $2 trillion in additional debt at a 2% interest rate. that's 40 billion dollar a year in additional interest costs. to put that into perspective we could have provided a free college education to half the 18-year-olds in america. i'd rather put my money on our kids than on the top 1%. >> there is a ten-point voter registration advantage for republicans there. so you must have had some republicans flipping to vote for you. indeed we saw this in a number of traditional republican strongholds like here in virginia. do you think that this is a rea...

Middle class families, working families, and rollback the top 1 %. the richest people in this country got 83% of the tax cuts. maria: so you want to raise taxes on the top 1%? is that what you're saying? i'm trying to understand what you're saying congressman. do you want to raise taxes on the top 1% then or raise the corporate rate? >> no, i want to make sure that we have a tax code who provides a tax cut to middle class families and if that means in order to finance that you have to rollback what you gave to the richest people in this country then that's perfectly fine to me maria: so yes yo...

Compromises. i hope we can find common ground and move forward. the american people gave democrats the house because they expect us to get things done that will improve their lives. >> martha: they don't expect their taxes to go up so we'll see what happens. >> that taxes won't go up, were good have a middle-class tax cuts, it's a top 1% that may have to give some of that back. >> martha: thank you very much much. president trump's midterm victory lap coming during a wildly contentious news conference, an emboldened press and a divided congress the new reality of what that president will be fa...