Features this morning with a flat opening. This by about two points. Nasdaq higher by seven points. Very much fractional list this morning. European indices live up a quarter of 8 right now. The dax had half of a percent in germany and the cac carotid up half a percent. Mix that they had signed an ashamed hate composites. The nikkei average than a third of a percent. Alabama shake it up. Was moore has defeated incumbent Luther Strange in the special senate seat runoff. We can support the president. Dont let anybody in the press think that because he supported my opponent that i do not support him. I believe they can make America Great, but we must make america good. Trade do what the victory means for the party in the white house. Danger in afghanistan. Rockets land in the kabul airport after secretary of defense jim mattis arrived in the country. The new security concerns as the copilot man in isis claim responsibility for the attacks. Devastation in puerto rico this morning as the territory looked to recover President Trump says he will travel there next week. Latest on the Recovery Efforts including music superstar pit bull. Change, which wouldve plans to double down on threes. Literally. Joining me to talk about at the wall street journal Global Economics editor, Jon Hilsenrath and chairman of the American Conservative Union, match lot busier. Fox Business NetworkDagen Mcdowell in new york this morning. Maria missing you come a day again. We are getting details. What is your takeover here when you talk about this tax plan . 20 Corporate Software expect game. Pastor at 25 . What about individual breaks my friend . Dagen dsu has been reporting it looks like a malicious boil it down the higher income americans likely will not get a tax cut and could get a tax increase because it looks like as it stands now, you will not get that much of a decline in the very top tax rate. We dont know what the income breakpoint would be. The top income threshold now is the top rate is now 3926 . If you earn more than 418,400 a year, you pay that rate. We dont know whether this tax plan, where the breaking point would be. Its not going to be a tax cut for everybody. Maria especially to eliminate the deduction of state and local income tax. The tax rate from 39. 6 to 37 or 39 which is what theyre talking about in the local and state income tax, you could be looking at an increase. Have you seen it . Dagen is exactly right. Douglas in the the details. What are these pay for us, deductions they take away. In the end, all that effective tax rate. Not just the beginning tax rate. Overall, this is going to be a big, big tax rate. We would not know details of this for a while, because they are leaving it for lawmakers in the house and senate to work out what the top rate is going to be. Three brackets at the top rated 35 . Now it looks like four brackets with a top rate of undefined. Maria exactly. We are waiting on not really a nurse. I think its going to be a millionaire raid around 39. 6 and that is something that could get jacked up later on with a democrat in the white house. Maria you are absolutely right. A lot to talk about on the subject. Utah senator and Senate FinanceCommittee Chairman orrin hatch is at best. Ted cruz will join us this morning along with Washington Congresswoman and conference chair, Cathy Mcmorris rogers is here. Singersongwriter clint back country and black is here. Taken it off defeating incumbent senator luke are strange in the republican runoff yesterday. The senate seat vacated by attorney general Jeff Sessions. Roy moores victory comes despite being outspent by a margin of 101 who is backed as Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell of President Trump. Moore said the facts most often for from working with this administration. We can support the president. Dont let anyone in the press think that because he supported my president that i do not support him and support his agenda. Maria the president applauded warnes primary win treating this yesterday. Congratulations to poor is when an alabama. Both are strange started way back in ran a good race. Roy wanted what is this . When in december. Congressmen of carolina who chairs the Republican Senate committee. Thanks for joining us. Your reaction to these results. I dont think its much of a surprise. We believe this is a referendum on Mitch Mcconnell and the ability to be able to reform specifically a major items are promised American People the last few years. Somebody says what does this look like to donald trump. I dont think it stinks to the president at all. I believe its another shout, another call to action, specifically Mitch Mcconnell. Maria what do you think worry more will say when it comes to things like tax reform, health care . Every means to be seen. We live in a culture where we continue and remember the effective conservative is a huge component of this not just being conservative. If your policy never reaches the audience come you have to ask yourself what good is this policy . Together thing about alabama which is interesting as there is a little bit of a corrupt bargain with roy moore given a nice cover to the former governor who got himself in trouble. People are just done with those. Absolutely. They want someone to feel like did they say a writer whether theres much truth or not. To marias question, that remains to be seen. Can you come in and bring those values you aspire to in turn them into a way to effectively be a legislator. Congressman, i want to ask about the tax they were just were just talking about the uncertainty where the top rate is going to be. If you get yourself in your group behind a plan that doesnt lower the top rate to some level below 39 points. I think we can in here a spy. If we look at the last few months we have 980 billion of obamacare taxes that we are hoping to include in the whole reform relief package because those two things are off the table. We have to look at primary focusing on the middleclass tax relief and work her way to making sure everybody gets an opportunity, even the upper brackets. Our focus should be on the middleclass. The other component removes the main talking point from the left for my Democrat Friends who want to make the case we are only concerned about giving the rich more tax breaks. Maria you got bullied again by the left. I wouldnt put it specifically in that component, but if you prioritize come you only have so much money. It should be the middleclass. Maria we understand that. Even ive spoken a hundred times on who pays all the taxes. When you look at the highest earners, thats where the tax revenue is coming. What i said in the past as if you dont cut taxes on the highest earning, are you really cutting taxes . I want to point out half of americans in this country pay no that federal income tax then this is the right getting into the argument that somehow wealth is evil and riches are evil and that people who make north of half a Million Dollars a year dont benefit the economy and they dont deserve a tax break. And again, the redistribution of wealth, where you are going to tax the 10 chile people who make a lot of money in this country cant even more money to give people a break who already dont pay income taxes. Dagen is a rockstar. I do want to push back too much. The top 1 paid 24 of the taxes. Maria what about the top 10 . 70 . It could be that much. Weve got to continue to make sure the tax breaks go across everybody pay in taxes. If you have money without pushing things further into debt and you have to make a decision because you didnt get it as part of this because you didnt repeal the 980 billion of obamacare taxes, you have to do it in stages as opposed to out once. Maria make a good point because it comes up how are you going to pay for this. Thats where we are. Theres 1. 5 trillion that the party has to work with in the congressman says youve got to figure out how youre going to do the data. Lets talk about some of these as you say, state and local tax deduction, is that going to go away . Corporate interest rate, what will go away in this . What is the reform part of this plan . We hope to reform component manifest itself into everyday life for the middleclass, specifically more opportunities to take your family out to eat. Those are the kinds of tangible benefits we want to see. When it comes to what you talk about, state and local taxes, i dont believe well delve into component to make any impact on the state and local. This is completely from a federal. When it comes to other places to reform, we want to make sure people are deductions when it comes to higher education, mortgage interest deductions. Are you saying you dont want to dont want to get rid of state and local . Absolutely. North carolina is the benchmark was the local taxes. Her state senate has continued to reduce in the last five or six years. Some of those areas we are leading the entire country. This is a deduction. You want to keep the deduction in place . Listen, if i had to choose right now, thats too eliminated. Weve got to make sure it today will be a mini retreat. I dont want to be premature to kind of hear from kevin brady from the ways and means. What about the deficit . 1. 5 million coming out of the senate. We are not comfortable with that at all. Weve got to make sure when we put numbers in the matchup with god to make sure this breaks down with revenues not depleted to the place where robbing peter to pay paul. You dont have any deficit over 10 years. We are a balance budget balances of 10 years. You do want this revenue . Absolutely. Maria one of the most powerful lobbying group out there, the real estate lobby and carried interest. Anything being done there . Not that i know of. Today when we unveil the details with kevin brady for the first time gives us more than a framework, we will know more information. This finance not heard of that. Maria lets look at obamacare. At first repeal upon the care officially on ice after Senate Leaders conceded they would not be moving ahead with this repeal bill sponsored by republican senators Lindsey Graham and bill cassidy. The decision less than 24 hours after pivotal republican senator susan made. They are insisting the site is not over. The theater reaction. To my republican colleagues, we are going to fulfill our promise to repeal and replace. We are going to improve health care for you because at the end of the day, thats the only promise that matters. We havent given up on changing the American Health care system. We will not do that this week, but it still had us still had us and we havent given up on that. We do think it is time to turn to her twin priority reform of the tax code. Maria obamacare remains the law of the land. You believe we will see a change at some point . Whats the plan . It was interesting to listen to what Lindsey Graham used versus mitch oconnell. Mitch mcconnell the majority leader talked about improving the health care system. The position with 160 members were 17 of the 20 chairman we are committed to continue to repeal. Without going to the talking points, 94100 counties are down to only one insurance options. Premiums continue to rise. This is not something we can look the other way on. Absolutely. Not fulfilling their promise for a 7. 5 years to repeal and replace obamacare. Thats a little bit about what happened in alabama. Not for filling promises theres big trouble. Maria good to see you. Thanks for joining us this morning. Congressmen mark walker appeared a lot more to come. Stay with us live from d. C. This morning. Maria welcome back. Isis and taliban claiming they targeted defense secretary james mattis is one in afghanistan with rockets. Cheryl casone with the details on this. Cheryl yeah, maria, new information. Reports say anywhere between 40 to 45 rockets fell at the kabul airport in afghanistan hours after secretary of defense minister back in the country for talks with officials there. No word so far in casualties, but the taliban and isis both claiming responsibility for the attack. The taliban says the target was defense secretary mattis. President trump is going to visit puerto rico next week to survey the damage caused by hurricane maria. Codec to take a moment to send americas hearts and prayers to the people of puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. I have directed all relevant departments and agencies to assist in the response and recovery effort. I will be going to puerto rico on tuesday. Our nation has been tested by the district to force of Mother Nature. But we will respond to it but then even mightier for us. The resolve of the american spirit. Cheryl that help cant come fast enough. Rapper pitbull is sending his private jet to transport Cancer Patients back to the u. S. Mainland to get their treatment. Dallas mavericks owner mark cuban providing his team plane to point guard jj appropriate to deliver supplies to the u. S. Territory. He was born in puerto rico. Ceo at equifax stepping down weeks after a massive data breach. Richard smith abruptly resigned yesterday. Hes not going to receive a bonus for the year, but he could still get 18 million pension benefits. He is due to testify before Congress Next week. Perino, director boris junior come executive from an Asia Pacific Division to serve as interim ceo while they go through the crisis. Shares of equifax tumbling 5 since the Company Announced a massive data breach. The stock down 11 so far yeartodate. Maria one of those and not stop. Cheryl, thank you at a national epidemic. 100 million americans die together from opioids. How the white house plans to battle the crisis. Netflix, and the service in the air. We will tell you all about it. Back in a moment. Think again. This is the new new york. We are building new airports all across the state. New roads and bridges. New mass transit. New business friendly environment. New lower taxes. And new University Partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. Learn more at esd. Ny. Gov can i kick it . Yes you can can i kick it . Yes you can can i kick it . Yes you can well im gone they save us from gettingones . Lost, getting hungry, and getting tired of places like this. Phones changed everything shouldnt the way pay for them change too . Introducing Xfinity Mobile. Where you can pay for data by the gig, and share it across all of your lines. No one else lets you do that. 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Thats really important starting point when we consider how we offer better treat her to the thousands of patients every year. Maria how did this happen . Tell me how this became a big of a crisis as it is . Like many crises that several Companies Impacted me in my background as a surgeon come at the main factors in the overprescribing of opioid medication. Its quite interesting in this country, starts by providing an opioid painkiller for any type of pain and considering where to go next. My i would perhaps provide acetaminophen, ibuprofen and work a providing an opioid painkiller that the patients condition. Maria doctors prescribing drugs. How we in this country used to prescribing in combination with the Marketing Tactics in the past. These types of foods in the crisis. The American Conservative Union spends a lot of time looking at the impact of this addiction on families. They pleaded to the election of 2016 coming from the lays out there across america where people feel that youre hopeless. Is there more component to the drug addiction as well . They are giving up hope. If you like they dont feel positive about their life and have good economic prospects. Is difficult to know the data we have. Im sure for many people its an issue. Once we recognize addiction as a disease, there is less blame or perhaps considerations of people in through that way, we can start having proper medical treatment not just for the success weve had with the development of the narcan nasal spray, which is saving lives, but also the condition more broadly. How does it fit into this . Tell us what your role is in this crisis we are talking about. We are dedicated pharmaceutical companies. We start by developing this narcan nasal spray, which saves patients lives. Should they overdose from an opioid. When that happens, you stop breathing. The way of saving a life is too delivered as quickly as possible in the narcan nasal spray can be used by anybody. We have licenses to another Pharmaceutical Company cannot be distributed throughout the United States. Where you find in the crisis is hitting most . We are at the wall street journal writing about Rural America and the problems hitting so many rural and postmanufacturing communities. Is that where you see your business grow . We had the same question basically. While we see is plural. By proportion, yes absolutely. However, it is as much a disease as the area in Rural America and we see it more widespread than we typically have considered. With that in mind, being able to offer access to medical treatment for everyones concern is absolutely critical. Maria you said that the narcan nose spray because of what is in the nose spray, should people be worried when i nose spray . The compound and the narcan nasal sprays the locks on here that is not a big event all. It is a drug antagonist. This cannot be abused. A cataract is a fact of the opioids and we are committed to using opioid antagonist as a nasal spray or may not just overdose situation. We have a product for alcohol use disorder where patients will deliver another opiate antagonist at the time when they want to drink and it will block the rewards from alcohol they might otherwise experience and its a really compelling way of potentially combating that addiction. Maria incredible. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for joining us here from opioids. The government is set to start tracking the activities of immigrants and find the u. S. Citizens on social media. Well bring you that story. Twitter testing twice as many characters for tweets. Up next. Spend now. Whats up . Gonna pay some bills, maybe buy a new tennis racket. Hes got a killer backhand. When its time to get organized for retirement, its time to get voya. For tech advice. 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North korea slapped slapped wite sanctions the u. S. Ramping up economic pressure on the kim jong un regime as President Trump say it is use of military force is not the preferred option. Markets hovering near the plat line. Dow industrials up about 10 points, nasdaq, s p 50 also in the plus column. In europe major indices fractionally better on the session. As you see the dax index is half a percent. 60 points higher. The other majors up a fraction. The winners in congress honing and china, although the nikkei in japan down a third of a percent. Kospi flat in korea. Taking on tesla, company known for vacuums to move no electric vehicles. Bob corker planning retirement. I was ashamed of what was taking place because to me that was a very important moment. I dont think you can disrespect our country, our flag, our National Anthem. To me the nfl situation is a very important situation. I think its a very important thing for the nfl to not allow people to kneel during the playing of our National Anthem, respect our country and to respect our flag. Maria and now business is affected, direct tv giving refunds to some sunday ticket customers who were offended by the protests, they demanded their money back, they are getting it. The paintstaining cars, the lines are crooked. Amazing, we will tell you all about it. Twitter may have to finally cave to popular demand and double the amount of characters and that character limit. Tracee carrasco with the details. For many people the draw twitter has been the message, but a lot of people complained about needing more space and edit thoughts to get them under limit. 280 characters doubling current limit of 140. Reviews so far has been mixed and twitter is preparing for lack backlash on those oppose. We understand since many of you tweeting for years there may be emotional attachment to 140 characters, we tried this and saw the power of what it will do it will be tested on small portion of users but not confirm if President Trump would be part of that test group. So we will see. Maria we will see. When well we know, tracee . As far as when to take effect . Maria yeah. They will test and roll it out how it works all over the app, all over the website. It could be a while. Maria it would change the way people use twitter, dagen. You and i are tweeting all of the time. Dagen its called facebook where you dont really have to selfedit. I suspect and im guessing this is what instagram does. If your caption on Instagram Photo is too long, theres a little more link where you have to click on it to open up full comment. Twitter can do that. It could still present the tweets at 140 and then youd have to have click on like a link to read the fuller tweet. Again not to jam up the news feed, jam up twitter feed where its long comment after long comment. John i dont tweet. I want to hear what you think, does this does this hurt twitters brand about comment and what makes them relevant in the first place . Maria i like to tweet. When i tweet about who is coming on the show and i do that every day, i cant include everybody. We have a lot of guests. I like to include everybody and a lot of times i have to say, i wont be able to put that in and i wont be able to put that in. I sort of like it. It was Benjamin Franklin who said i would have made my letter to you shorter but i didnt have the time. Sometimes it takes a lot of time on twit the other collapse it and be clever. Footnotes on twitter are a big mistakes. Maria apparently the president s tweets are weighing on americans, twothirds of the americans say they disapprove, democrats overwhelming oppose the president s method of communicating with the American People. 36 republicans approve of tweets and 50 of the president supporters approve. Are you surprised fbi journals numbers, jon . I dontjon no, we were talkingt the nfl protests and how that played out this weekend. This completely depends on who you are. People who dont like trump are not going to like his tweets and people who support trump are going to like the way he goes about using twitter. And we saw that play out this weekend. I think when he was speaking out about the nfl protests, the people who support him were very much in support of this idea and people who were against him were outraged by it. Its just a very polarized world right now and thats reflected in the president. Maria well, then while even though the dems, the left says they dont like it, they are also tweeting more. Thats right. Maria picked up tweeting. I call it totus. Its here to stay and revolutionized how the president communicates. People can like it or hate it but its having massive impact. We are all talking about the National Anthem. It happened just like that. Maria the department of Homeland Security to keep tab on immigrants under new rule, the agency will begin collecting data on immigrants from social media next month that includes permanent residents and naturalized citizens. The officials records will include social media handles, aliases and search results, your thoughts on this . Well, the government is tracking us in way that is would absolutely disgust us. Maria thats true. A country and we have to have a Big Conversation about what privacy means, we are losing day by day. Maria the horse has left the station, has left the barn, dagen. Even uber is tracking us. Dagen thats the issue, how in this day and age where so many people are putting more and more of their private Information Online, show the nation do you defend yourself . You cant sit back and say, okay, we are not going to look at any of this Information Online and, by the way, this is an individual choice, how much information you put out there and all the big private companies are making money off of your most private, personal, photos and information every single day. People dont have a problem with that, but they have a problem with the government defending the nations security. I think that you have to find a middle ground somewhere. Can i just jump on in on that, dagen, the other issue is its fine that you post stuff on line everybody is going to see it. I dont think its appropriate for Companies Like google to track everything my teenage daughter is doing. They look at the barometer. I think specially with kids that have phones and online, theres information that we should be much more careful about having it become commercial. John what strikes me is the Homeland Security move to collect data on immigrants but also naturalized citizens, where is the line that they are going to draw, whether you are looking at Illegal Immigrants and tracking them versus american citizens, thats a tough question. Agree. Maria unfortunately right now as you mentioned it and dagen mentioned all of the companies are already tracking us. More than we ever imagined. Maria more than most people know. Younger generations dont care. Maybe we care, but younger people already throw it all out there. John Homeland Security, thats the state, you know, and these are people who have the means to affect your life. Maria what is google doing with that information, what is facebook doing information . Selling for ad space. Theres going to be a big political pushback on this when people realize how much of their lives are out there publicly they cant get back. Maria great back. Increasing the pressure, more sanctions of north korea ahead of Rex Tillersons trip to china to talk about the rogue nation. Details coming up next maria welcome back, we are waiting on the tax plan today. Futures are indicating a flat opening so far for the broader averages, take a look. Nasdaq up about 10 points. Fractional moves right now. A couple of names on the move. Nike certainly one to watch. Reported first fiscal firstquarter earnings. Earnings topped expectation but the retailer did see slowest Quarterly Sales growth in nearly 7 years. Nike shares down better than 3 . We know that adidas has been taking market share. Plus streaming Company Working with airline services, earnings will help carriers improve technology making it easier for passengers to stream. Shares of netflix up 90 over the last year. Pretty good return. The Treasury Department slapping north korea with more sanctions. Cheryl the United States applying more financial pressure on the rogue nation. The Trump Administration adding 8 north korean banks and 26 individuals to its sanctions list coming after the president issued a new warning. It is time for all responsible nations to join forces to isolate the north korean menace we are totally prepared for the second option, not a preferred option, but if we take that option, it will be devastating, i can tell you that, devastating for north korea. Thats called the military option, if we have to take it, we will. Cheryl meanwhile secretary Rex Tillerson is headed to china this week to discuss a way out of the crisis. Well, from vacuums to electric cars, british vacuum cleaner maker plan to go build, yeah, an electric car, the company is spending 2. 7 billion to develop the new car, about 400 earnings have been working on this project for more than two years, dyson wants to launch the car by 2020. Nearly painted lines came out as you can see on your screen nice and crooked, confusing. The problem has happened after the state tried out a new linepainting system on the highway. Yellow paint staining cars because its not drying quickly enough. Its humid in alaska right now. The Transportation Department says theyre not going repaint the lines. Yeah, the state says deal with it and good luck driving through that in alaska. Maria thats incredible that the lines are like that and they just say deal with it. In alaska im happy that they are alive. I figured they do what the heck they want. [laughter] dagen thats your government at work for you. Maria yeah, exactly. You want to government to fix everything, thats what happens. Maria and here we are talking about expectations of smaller government, but lets talk about how this administration sees it. Yeah, absolutely. The whole idea of the tax cut and the effect on the economy and everything . Maria yeah. Donald trump is the great emergency brake. He stopped the e radical move of eight years of obama to socialism, all the regulations, regulatory state and now with taxes we have a real chance to allow this economy to just take off, get the government out of the way. Thats why the basic questions on who gets the benefit of these tax cuts and how it impacts job creation and the economic prospects, everyone keeps talking is it a middletax cuts. Maria yeah. But, matt, what do are we expecting in terms of the highest rate because it seems like now its going to be as high as 37 or even 39 for highest earners or maybe thats an additional surtax on millionaires. I dont want to get my wife mad at me. Maria because she works in the administration. A plan thats been well vetted with the house and Senate Republican leadership, but lets face it. After the announcement it goes to congress, they have to fill in all the details, they will determine exactly what the rates are as dagen was talking about in the show, exactly what the income thresholds are. I hope we dont talk like that because thats not how republicans talk. Lets talk about tax cut that allows Economic Growth. If we talk like that, people will understand. More more dont call them the rich, call the job creators . It helps everybody, right. Maria nfl fans demanding their money back from direct tv after the protests during National Anthem. They are getting their money man. Peyton for senate, former profootball quarterback running for office in tennessee. Back in a minute. Can i kick it . Yes you can can i kick it . Yes you can can i kick it . Yes you can well im gone they save us from gettingones . 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When the jaguars and ravens were in london and kneeled down on foreign soil and stood up for british anthem. God save the queen. I was angry and sad. Can you imagine putting your life on the line in afghanistan and having leisure time and wanting to watch the Football Game and seeing your players, your american players disrespect the country and the flag on foreign soil, can you imagine how painful that was . Gop fundraiser sent two emails from team trump that are centered around the nfl protests and kneeling controversy. Corey stewart who is hope to go challenge tim kane to sign petition, if they kneel, we boycott. Owners, players and leftist media who push their insulting divisive identity politics attacks on tradition and honor. Temper tantrums thrown by grown men. Speaks of sports and politics, could the title senator Peyton Manning be in the future . Shortly after senator bob corker announced he will retire, suggested that Peyton Manning can be looking at senate seat of his own. Manning may be more at run if alexander decides not to run again, maria. Maria yeah, i wonder what this what becomes of this, what do you think about peyton running for senate . I love the idea of people who arent in politics to run in politics. I have counseled a lot of people who werent in politics and we wanted to become in politics. Thats tough business. Jon everybody likes him. He wont be after the campaign. Jon exactly. Hes a whole different personality. Maria what do you think, jared, whats the buzz . Jared maybe he can move to nebraska and run for mayor of omaha. One of the most popular in the history of nfl, does he want to take another step . The truth he has a long way to go and hes a strong personality. If he wants to do it, im sure he can really make great waves. Dagen you know who is more beloved than Peyton Manning in the state of tennessee, dolly parton. Jon she would shake things up. Im going to say great idea and Marsha Blackburn is my personal favorite. 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Health care on ice, latest gop effort to repeal and replace obamacare is on hold for now after Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell pulled the vote last night. Investors are watching the developments from our nations capitol at this point weve got a flat market although things have picked up a bit on positive side. Dow industrials up 15 points. In europe the indices are higher this morning as well across the board even if just fractionally, dax index half a percent. 65 points higher. Ftse up a third a percent. In asia overnight, markets closed the night mixed with nikkei average in japan down and the hang seng in hong kong up. Roy moore has defeated incumbent Luther Strange. President trump tweeted on the win saying this, spoke to roy moore of alabama last night for the first time, sounds like a really great guy who ran a fantastic race. He will help to make America Great again. Breaking ground on the border wall, prototypes are taking place. Fbi shocker. Several arrest of College Basketball coaches. Showed little regard for players wellbeing, they ignored red flags and seeing only the green. Maria massive investigation hitting hardwood head coming up. You can ride in little red wagon. How this man turned highway toy into a hot rod. Joining me to talk all about it wall street journal Jon Hilsenrath, chairman of the American Conservative Union matt schlapp is here and fox business Dagen Mcdowell. Jon i cant wait to see the red wagon story. Might be in alaska trying to go along the lines. Maria yeah, those lines. Dagen, whats your main focus this morning . I think i know. Dagen yes, looks like the republican in terms of putting together a tax reform plan or going to give in to the argument by democrats that the rich need to pay more, that we need to redistribute even more wealth in this country because it looks like the top tax rate could now based on your reporting could be anywhere between 37 and 39 . We dont know what the income break would be. Probably north of the say 418,000 it is now for the very top earners but nevertheless this as potentially republicans giving in to democratic demands and give get away something for nothing because you know one democrat, not one is going to vote for this tax reform plan. Maria yeah. Ive been saying it. They got bullied, they got bullied again and yesterday when we were giving specific details about the plan, i said whats the answer to this the biggest tax cut for the rich that weve seen because thats going to be the talking point tonight, big tax cut ifs for rich and they got bullied. Jon we have to be careful about how we describe what the wealthier are getting out of this. Its complicated. If youre a wealthy person, lets say you own Hardware Store and you registered as llc or Small Business owner, you earn passthrough income and that could be tax rate as low as 25 under the plan. Thats a big tax cut. Youre also potentially getting a estate taxes going down, Corporate Taxes going down and the a t going down. There are pieces of this that will be beneficial to higherincome households. The part isnt is if youre an executive at some company and your salary is a Million Dollars or more, in that case you dont have much to gain. Maria right, and you could actually be getting tax increase because of this surtax. Thats what i want to talk about with you today. We are talking with Senate FinanceCommittee Chairman, senator hatch is here. Texas senator ted cruz is here. House republican chair rogers is here, fox news senior judge Andrew Napolitano will join us and clint black, its a packed program this morning. Do stay with us. We are kicking it off right here with the top story. President is heading to indiana later today. In that push for tax reform. After the gop scrapped the Health Care Vote yesterday. Meanwhile Alabama SenateLuther Strange loses primary runoff against roy moore, no surprise there. He had been downgoing into it despite being backed by the president. Doug is live right now at the white house and has the latest on the president s agenda. Doug, good morning to you. Good morning, maria, focus turns to tax reform as you have been talking about this morning and do that end the president invited all members of house, ways and Means Committee to the white house yesterday, nine republicans and eight democrats to lay out a blueprint for tax reform and tax simplification. Here is the president. Under our plan, the vast majority of americans will be able to file their tax return on a single page without extra recordkeeping and all of that paperwork. So we are going to make it very, very simple, simplification. The second component that the president layed out yesterday is a substantial tax cut for the middle class, one that includes nearly doubling standard deduction that most families take on taxes and one that increases the tax child credit for families. Third, lowers of tax rate for businesses which you have been talking about, presently the highest of any Corporate Tax rate in the world and lastly he wants to bring american money from corporate, 2. 5 million in money, parked money coming to the United States. Question is can this inept Republican Senate and house manage to do that given their divisiveness . They are incapable of compromise, we are not talking about compromise with democrats but with their own caucus, here is the president again. We were disappointed by a couple of senators, republican senators. We are disappointed that they would take the attitude that they did. We dont know why they did it, you can sort of figure that. We will see what happens. The special election in alabama last night throws another potential wrench into the works. Roy march said he can work with the president and the president said he can work with roy moore even though he supported roy moores opponent. Roy, uncompromising social conservative and would he compromise with moderate republicans or more divisiveness with republican ranks, thats assuming he wins the general election come december. Maria doug joining us there. Fox business is taking us live to that event today beginning at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Meanwhile the cost for free speech on College Campuses is rising, yes, the cost of free speech, authorities try combat violent protests, schools like the university of california berkeley. According to New York Times ucberkeley budgets 200,000, this year more than 1. 5 million years just since february. This coming after conservative milo free speech week was cut short, that cost the university 800,000. Attorney general Jeff Sessions weighed in at Georgetown University yesterday. Freedom of thought and speech on american campus are under attack, the American University was once the center of academic freedom, a place of robust debate, a forum for the competition of ideas, but it is transforming in echo chamber of Political Correctness and homogenous thought. Maria joining us now harvard law professor, alan. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Maria you will be giving a lecture at Colombia University tonight addressing free speech. What are you expecting . What do you make of College Campus protestors . Im told that they would not only be protestors, protests protestors and they will shut me down and the entire event is soldout. Many students want to hear what i have to say. I have a provessor at harvard. Im not one of the extremists that comes to the campus to provoke. I hope Colombia University will provide security not only for my safety but for the safety of students and expression of my views. Freedom of speech means that you have to support the right of those who you disagree with, that means that students who are against my views have to be tolerant of me expressing my views but it also means that although i disagree, for example, with Football Players kneeling during the National Anthem, i am not going to try to deny them their right to do that, so, you know, its never going to be free speech for me but not for th ee. It has to go across both sides. Equal free for the right and left. We see universities trying to stop the right and the center from speaking and we are seeing in some efforts, in some places efforts to try to prevent protestors on the left from expressing their point of views, both have to be protected under the constitution. Jon alan, you said you were a provessor of harvard for 50 years, you have seen generations of kids coming in and out of College Campuses, is this different something about the generation youre seeing now . Theres always been protests on campus, are young people different today than they were 20, 30 years ago when you teaching . Very much so. When i was a student in 50s there was a lot of censorship by the right of the left and called mccarthyism and many who are fighting for free speeches of the 50s are fighting to deny free speech and many on the right, wait a minute, we have the right to express our views on College Campuses. Todays College Students think they know the truth. They dont have to hear an opposing point of view. Im not saying all students. Its actually a small number of sensors, but they can shut down a university and College Administrators havent been as strong as they should be in standing up to these students. Many of these students are minority students, they are gay, they are transgender, they are women, they are the specially privileged students on College Campuses today who are listened to by University Administrators under the banner, all of these groups are oppressed by the same people and the people who oppress them are americans, christians, zionists. Not only in Public Events like mine tonight but in the classroom itself. Classrooms have become propaganda vehicles where audience of students are told not how to think but what to think particularly about sensitive issues like the middle east, arabisraeli conflicts, gay rights, black lives matter, other hotbutton issues, they are told what to think and they are graded on what they think rather than how they think. Maria completely against what the university should be all about in terms of diversity, alan, right, how do you change this . Well, first of all, no radical student wants diversity. They only want superficial diversity based on identity factors, race, gender. The last thing they want diversity of ideas. The last thing they want more students who are conservatives, more faculty who are conservatives, expressing different views on campus, diversity has become a code word only certain kinds of different but not diversity of real ideas and thats what im going to be talking about colombia and middle east, im confident colombia will protect me. I hope there wont be efforts to shut me down. Remember, i come from brooklyn, im not easily shouted down. Maria i come from brooklyn. Brooklyn is in the house. Real quick, alan, former nfl star o. J. Simpson could get out of jail in prison, 9 to 33year sentence, you were simpsons lawyer when he was acquitted in 1995 for the murder of exwife and friend, nevadas parole board did not consider 1989 conviction more misdemeanor spousal abuse, whats your reaction of him getting out this weekend . I hope he goes away and doesnt show his face in public again. The American Public does not want to hear from o. J. Simpson. He should have done that after the acquittal in the california case, but instead he got on television and he got in trouble again. Look, his sentence was way excessive for what he was convicted of, he was actually being punished for what people thought he got away with in california. So i hope he will live out his life quietly in peace and dignity and leave us alone. We, the American Public, we dont want to hear from you. When i won case, get out of the country, nobody wants to see you, he move today great britain, he hasnt been heard from since, hes been living a wonderful life taking care of grandchildren and family, thats what o. J. Simpson ought to do. Maria good to see you. Raising the roof for brooklyn. Thank you. Live from washington. Stay with us maria we have breaking news right now from President Trump. The president just tweeted this. Spoke to jerry jones of the dallas cowboys. Players will stand for country. The president continues to talk about this nfl and hes doubling down matt sclapp. He has instinct on where American People are on cultural flash points. Its amazing he changed the whole conversation around the nfl and the flag and hes taking on the elites, its patriotism and standing up for armed forces but taking on elites, owners, people who have lost touch. Maria jerry jones, jerry jones said we are going to make sure everybody stands. Breaking news out of afghanistan. The taliban is claiming a targeted defense secretary james mattis with a rocket attack in kabul this morning. Cheryl casone has that story. Obviously troubling, cheryl. Cheryl it really, is maria, we are trying to get more details but now isis has claimed responsibility for the attack, anywhere from 40 to 45 rockets and rocketpropelled grenades landed right after mattis and secretary arrived. The visit was unannounced. Mattis left the airport when the rockets hit at 7 30 a. M. Local time. Mattis spoke about the attack at a press conference in kabul. An attack on International Airport anywhere in the world is a criminal act by terrorists, its designed to go after generally innocent people, to make some sort of statement and this is a classic definition of what the taliban are up to right now. Cherp cherp this is secretary mattis first trip to afghanistan after President Trump announced a new strategy for the country. The announcement was last month. No more than 45,000ry 45,000 refugees. President trump had cap of 10,000 refugees. But President Trump lowered that number to 50,000 after he took office. White house expected to announce the new refugee limit very soon. Well, work began yesterday on prototypes of u. S. Mexico border wall. Six companies stripped land. The prototypes are going to be anywhere from 30 feet long to 18 to 18 to 30 feet tall. Itll be interesting what they look like, maria. Thats underway in san diego. Take a look at this finally, curtis hutchison, he never had a radio flyer wagon when he was a child, now he has an awesome one. He built one that goes 0 to 90 in 90 seconds. He drives it everywhere. His wife wont let him take it to church but otherwise hes become a viral sensation on the internet, maria. Maria all right, cheryl, thank you. When we come back, corruption kick back and federal charges four ncaa coaches, judge Andrew Napolitano weighs in next. Tend of the driving ban in saudi arabia, big news there. Details on the new decree which allows women to obtain their drivers license in saudi arabia , coming up i can do more to lower my a1c. And i can do it with whats already within me. Because my body can still make its own insulin. And onceweekly trulicity activates my body to release it. Trulicity is not insulin. It comes in a onceweekly, truly easytouse pen. It works 24 7, and you dont have to see or handle a needle. 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Attorney for the Southern District of new york yesterday announcing big College Basketball bribery bust implicated in the bust, four assistant coaches at ncaa programs, former nba star chuck and Global Marketing executive adidas among prominent names in the incident. Joins us judge Andrew Napolitano, judge, thanks for joining us on this. Lay out the case. Well, the government argues that cash from adidas made its way into the hands of High School Basketball players to steer them towards certain colleges and some of that money also made its way into the hands of the College Coaches, the four that you just showed on the screen. So this is not a case of throwing a game in order to benefit gamblers, this is a case of adidas paying for someone to become a super star and then years later endorse adidas and College Coaches obviously are apparently because theres some issue about louisville as to whether the administration knew about it, apparently without knowledge and consent of the administration facilitating all of this. Ive not heard of a crime of this nature. Typically when you see Something Like this and you say bribery in college sports, you think, well, someone was bribed to do something to affect the outcome of a game so that somebody else could bid on it and win money, thats not the case here. This is this is Corporate Cash getting into a pipeline that ends up in the pockets of High School Students becoming College Students and their coaches. Maria yeah, dagen, obviously not something that anybody expected here. Dagen no, from a business perspective you to watch the stock of adidas. We have talked about it on the program about resurgent brand in the United States really taking on nike in a way it hasnt before and this could tarnish the brand, most certainly. I think the stock was down 2 and a half percent in most recent trading in germany. You want an editorial, maria . The government should have Better Things to do. This should be lawful and out in the open. Hey, we are princeton, we paid somebody to come here instead of going to yale because the free market should prevail not to victorians and not attitudes in lower manhattan. That would agray vait i will speak with orrin hatch about the framework, nothing happens unless the Senate FinanceCommittee Weighs in. Thats next. [vo] quickbooks introduces rodney. He has a new business teaching lessons. Rodney wanted to know how his business was doing. So he got quickbooks. It organizes all his accounts, so he can see his bottom line. Ahhh. Thats a profit. Know where you stand instantly. Visit quickbooksdotcom. Maria good once a wednesday morning welcome back everyone. It is wednesday september 27. Your top stories right now 7 30 a. M. On the east coast. We are in washington with special coverage tax reform is on the table. Present is set unveil his overhaul. It will include lowering the corporate rate to 20 and making pastor rate for Small Business. In the individual rate could be 12 to 25 25 and as high as 37 to 37 percent. His plan will allow companies to become more competitive and create more jobs. With a noncompetitive tax structure right now. We will create millions of new jobs for our people and bring millions of businesses back to our shores. We will become a competitive nation again. Its time for both parties to come together and do whats right for the American People and the nation that we all love. I will set down with them to talk about that. Ted cruz. The foxBusiness Network is having full live coverage of the president s speech. Dow industrial is not the high level of the morning. These are the highs. Thats a quarter of a higher on the nasdaq. The major indices look like this. In asia overnight the eight major markets closed mix. President trump just tweeted this on the nfl. Jerry is a winner who knows how to get things done. The players will stand for the country. Standing up while stepping down. He said that was it. He quit. This top story. President trump will travel to indiana this afternoon to let the framework for tax reform. It will be a very brave powerful document our plan is based on for very crucial transpose. Plus we much bigger tax code simple and fair is too complicated people cant do it. They waste 6 billion hours every year complying with the tax code under our plan. The vast majority will be able to file their tax reform on a single page. To attend the event as well. The democrat from indiana joining me right now. As a chairman of the Senate Finance committee. Nothing happened on tax reform without the Senate Finance community. Can you get this done. I think we can but have some democrat help. I think we have to put a size of the the differences and start working together. You are part of the socalled big six we are hearing the corporate rate of 20 . Individual rates of 12, 12 and 37 percent. When you vote yes to actually raising rates. Frankly i would like to get those rates down because i think by doing that we give more added incentives to the economy. There is those two viewpoints. Weve been doing that for so long its unbelievable. As i can be that. We would almost consider in uniform about cutting the rates and getting them down lower. Lets face it. We are way too high. And frankly is debilitating and making it much more difficult for us to increase our economy in the way would like to see it done. I would like to bring those rates down for everybody including businesses as well. It is going to be tough to do. We are so equally divided that it will be almost impossible to do without some democratic help. Democratic help. Was so difficult . They pay all of the tax. If youre not actually giving them relief these are the job creators. Are you really cutting taxes. Its really unbelievable. How we havent over balance. They arent seen anything at this particular point. And all depends on how you depart interpret things. I would like to bring the rates down so people can feel good about it. It always happens when we bring the rates down. Inevitably and then we have this argument that we have to tax more so we can spend more. What about the idea that everybody should have a stake in the ground. They dont pay any income tax. Even if they were to pay a dollar whatever it is. Shouldnt everybody have should everybody have a stake in this. I think everybody i do have some desire to help this country pull have. We are neck and a charge of people who are in the lowest brackets. Im not against that. It would be good for everybody to realize we all had to pull together. And keep our country the strongest country in the world. We can do that. We knew the talking point would be that this is a tax cut for the rich. We are always getting them. They know it and the bad thing is that they are unwilling to come together and do something good about it. Im chairman of the finance committee. And frankly i know how to do it. And its i think its time to come together and help this old senator come together. Everybody knows that you have passed more bills than most. Today republicans are asking themselves how is it possible that the republicans have the majority in the house and yet were not seen the number of bills passed. We cant get anything done. We see network. Its pretty pathetic when you look at the way the country is going. They want help the other party. Hopefully they will grow up and start working with us. I think we can do that. And how that is going to move the needle. Have to get your comment on. With one yes vote in hospital. Mccain is out we have the Health Care Vote but not till friday. We will have the vote for Health Care Healthcare but not for the reconciliation deadline after which we need 60. Get rid of the filibuster rule. This country is gone. We wouldve moved to the early start on my tenure. As a rule of freedom. The minority cannot be trampled on. A few of us were able to take them on and do whats right. You have your strongest supporter and hes totally opposed to that type of thinking. And when youre not the majority at the majority you might get rolled over. And frankly, this country would have been done a long time ago. Have the rule not been in power. He has a vote. Do you think he has the votes on healthcare. I think you should. You should have the votes. And frankly anybody who is interested in helping this country move ahead. Should be voting to support the president on this. 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We cannot get at that low. Do you think the members will agree as well. I hope we well. And i think its time to have us come together. We need democratic votes to get it across the finish line. Theres so much debate you end up getting up and going. I hope we dont need democratic votes but i hope we get them. Thats a really good thing for our country. Hopefully one or two republicans wont cause us to lose. Where is the debate centered around the corporate around 20. Its both. We want to work on all of those issues and try to get this. We need to do that. Im for continuing to do whatever we can. So that we can really compete with the rest of the world. Where the only country in the world that can really bring a stabilization. And you see that theyre getting a 13 rate in ireland. They already are packing up and moving down. Give to make sure that they will bring the rates down. We make it so that its almost impossible for American Companies to keep their financial business in the United States. Why would you want to pay in excess of 30 tax rate when you can get one for 12 and had over an island. A lot of companies have taken the position they dont want to leave the United States. There is considerable companies that had to think it over. You have to start thinking of the shareholders. When we get rise and bring wise and bring those rates down. What is the plan for that. Its estimated that we head about two and half trillion dollars overseas that could be brought back gradually and if we can do that. This will accept the 10 rate. The one time rate. We still have the repatriation thinkers again. We are so stupid. I understand dont understand why we cannot get that done. They come down hard. We want this done. Were tired of this. We want to do are businesses in the United States of america and you guys hold the key. What is so tough about that. The real estate lobbyists lobbyist out there are pretty powerful. I dont think there is any movement on that. Youre right. I think it just makes good sense. Thats good. Im happy to hear you say that. On individual rates do you feel you will fight for lower taxes even on the highest earners. How does that debate play out this afternoon. It is the middle class and the average worker that we want to bring those rates down. So that we have a chance of really achieving success in the society. Is just awful. Friendliness inefficient stupid federal government. If it was been better work or something. And really doing the job that should be done for america maybe i could go along with that. They are just blowing that money. More more federal programs dont work. With the wise up and went to get more people in congress that actually believe that. And then start cutting back on the some of these crazy programs that are eating us alive. As idea of revenue neutral off the table at this point. I dont think that should be a rigid rule that stops us from doing what might be the best thing to do for the next five or ten years. I think we would be a lot smarter. I think we have to watch us very carefully and hopefully we can get more people have this old gentleman. The idea of going all the way back to 17 doesnt make sense if youre to come out with a plan and get this done. This will be beginning in 200018. I think thats a fair statement. And youre right on that. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be watching the developments. A busy day ahead. The president will be in indiana. It all starts at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. We will be right back. Can i kick it . Yes you can can i kick it . Yes you can can i kick it . Yes you can well im gone maria set up for nearly 30 years eric nick a shark who shirt who worked at the stadium where the Buffalo Bills play. With the protest in buffalo and throughout the National Football league during the National Anthem. As the former new era stadium worker. Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate you joining us here. Tell me what made you say enough is enough. What pushed me over the edge was one i felt in my heart the disrespect for the military veterans and the First Responders in this nation. Im kneeling during the National Anthem. And did you voice your concern did anyone say to you luck, be quiet. What happened when you started to voice your upset with it. I didnt voice it for very long. I have the hat in my hand i threw to the ground and i walked out. As i was leaving. I just kinda left. And its tail around much longer after i had had enough. We still have the pittsburg steelers. I was a houston oilers fan. And people that were not much that different than the people that were playing on the field. It has really changed. The idea that a town like buffalo that has seen so much Economic Hardship and when they see people on the field who dont want to stand up to what has made America Great theyre going to take a heckuva hit with people buying tickets. And the people trying to shop to these games. The other employees that work there that depend on that money. They dont take too much of a hit because it will negatively impact them. They only way out for them is susceptible that you cannot kneel during the National Anthem. And yet youre not allowed to kneel and pray on the field either. They need to throw flag on this. I think that as a point that the president is trying to make the in a game that is throwing the flags for every reason why not for not sitting at standing up for the National Anthem. Will your colleagues fall you out the door. I dont know. I did this for myself. Welcome back good wednesday morning everybody. I think you so much for joining us. It is wednesday september 27. For coming to you live in from washington dc this morning was with special covert as the white house prepares to unveil the tax reform plan. 8 00 a. M. On the east coast. A historic tax cut coming. Is it ministration prepares to release the major reform plants plans later today. Orin hatch weighed in with me in the last hour. They wanted a 15 . We cant get at that low. But if we can get it down to the low 20s we will be doing a very good job. The commander in chief will travel to indiana later today. We are taking you live to indiana. We are breaking down all of the numbers of the tax plan this morning. Investors are watching in the development from our nations capital. The futures indicating a higher open for the broader averages. In europe there is a firmer tone there and as well. And there up half of percent. In asia overnight markets closed mixed as you see here with the winners in hong kong and in china. Rising tensions meanwhile with north korea. Cnn is reporting that the regime has moved a number of fighter jets in missiles to a base on the eastern coast. It comes after President Trump warned any military response would be devastating for north korea. A change in alabama. What in the wind means for the party in the white house coming up. And devastation in puerto rico. As a territory looks recover President Trump said he will travel there next week the very latest on recovery act for its plus, hashtag change. Twitter is planning to double down on tweets literally. And then fixerupper fans all of the stories coming up this morning and here to break it all down for you. Global economic editor. Good to see everybody. At that we made some news there. For sure. We will get into that. Texas sender ted cruz is here for us this morning. The Washington Congress woman. Country music star clint black is with us. A big show i have. Do see with us this morning. And we kick it up right here being dead. Next on the agenda will be tax reform. This is President Trump is set to roll out some of the details in indiana today. Blake burman with the very latest right now at the white house. President trump well had to indiana this afternoon to unveil the first batch of tax reform details. According to people who i had spoken with outside of the white house who have been briefed on the framework and the details you can expect the Corporate Tax rate of 20 a Small Business rate of up to 25 and on the individual side brackets of 1225 and 35 percent. They are backing the bill and trying to make the point here. Essentially twofold on the one hand they say this is all about making businesses competitive for the rest of the world. While also they say they want to provide and focus on middleclass tax relief. We will cut taxes tremendously for the middle class. Not just a little bit but tremendously. And increasing the child tax credit. Families really want and have been talking about it for a long time. As the president hits the road to indiana. The chances for Health Care Reform this might have hit the road as well. The grand cassidy grant cassidy bill does not have a vote in the senate. And now they have pulled that bill from there. Just a little while ago. President trump insisted though at some point here in the future there will be a vote on healthcare. There was a loss of a different kind. Politically at least for this president that happened last in alabama as the primary senate race there. Lost two roy moore. He was backed by the president in Mitch Mcconnell as well. Moore has run that primary and out goes off to face doug jones in december. Back to you. Blake, i think you back to you. Try to meet right now is House Republican conference chair. Good to see. Thank you so much for joining us. The tax framework is leaving. You guys canceled all votes today. See you can go and take a look at all of the details of this plan and talk it out. What are you expecting to do today. To spend some time. Getting the details of the tax plan. They will be walking us through all of the details. The ways and Means Committee has been spending hours, days working through this in preparation for the release. But now we want the members to be able to ask all those detailed questions because its been the big six that have been negotiating it. Notice time for the members to be brought up this bead. As it becomes a public. The as a platform. Where they can get all of the details. The gap as they can put as much as they possibly can there. And that can help spread the great news and weigh in. This is a very different catch that youre taking. Now you have a detail and a plan. And youre all going to weigh in on monday so that you dont have to say that. We learned some painful lessons. And we are elected here to do big things. As you think about tax reform and bringing down tax rates. That is the best thing we can do to get our economy growing and give people more opportunities and jobs. And more takehome pay. I want to ask about whether the debate will be there. The president just tweeted this. With one yes vote in hospital and very positive signs from alaska to others. We have the healthcare vote. We will have the vote for health care but not for the reconciliation deadline of friday. Be careful what you wish for. When you are the minority you can get rolled over. Do you think you have the healthcare vote. We need the senate to act. We continue to hear that the premiums are going up. Their deductibles and copays are so high 5,000 deductibles. You might as well not have health insurance. Its too costly to go see the dr. Even when i need to go see the dr. Absolutely because its too important. Its never over. We know that. They didnt have the votes to pass. The fight is far from over. Watch this we have to get your action. To my republican colleagues we are going to fulfill our promise to repeal and replace to the American People we are going to improve Health Healthcare for you because at the end of the day the only promise that matters. When i could to be able to do that this week. Its time to turn to our twin priority. Your party has campaigned for seven years. We have to repeal and replace obama care. I think the house has always said we would do a tax reform in the fall. Congress we can do more than one thing at a time. I believe the Senate Continues to work on healthcare. They must continue to work on healthcare. But we are going all in on tax reform right now. Down the tax rates. Improving takehome pay. The house and the senate and the white house have this outline that has been put together. And now is the time to focus on tax reform. I said to your colleague. Are you getting bullied again. Because here we have once again the situation if you eliminate the deduction that you actually get to see higher taxes for the highest earners. Its been if you say its just tax rates for the rich. One show. This is about tax reform. We had have the lowest Work Force Participation rate since 1979. A job is what gives you opportunity. Dont get caught up in that tired narrative. Lookout will impact your life as an opportunity to get a job. You can stay for college. How much pressure do you feel to get this done. A lot of people are saying if you cant get this done after what weve seen in healthcare you will lose the majority next year. We were elected to do the big things. Thats why i ran for office. There is a sense of urgency. Weve not gotten enough on that president s desk. We need to get this done. Absolutely. We need people to get jobs and opportunities that everybody has. Tell us your role specifically. We have weve a video put together. My role is this retreat today getting our members informed. Youre going to be going there in about an hour. How long will you be there. Is this an all day thing. We will spend the morning going through the details. Mike pence is coming to be our luncheon speaker. More of a press conference. You want to make sure that america knows the details also. We will all be stayed tuned with the president addresses the country at 3 00 p. M. Today. This really is an effort to make sure that we are on the same page so that we can celebrate where we are. Judgment day is here. Here we go. Its good to see. We will be watching. FoxBusiness Network is taking it live it to the president s speech today. Join us and stay with foxBusiness Network. To hear the president s comments direct. An alert in afghanistan. The new security concerns there. This is the new new york. We are building new airports all across the state. New roads and bridges. New mass transit. New business friendly environment. New lower taxes. And new University Partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. Learn more at esd. Ny. Gov can i kick it . Yes you can can i kick it . Yes you can can i kick it . Yes you can well im gone when we love someone, we want to do right by them. What is this . chuckling but habits are hard to break. Honey, where are the habaneros . And then there are things we cant control, like snoring. loud snoring now the answer is right under your nose. Introducing theravent antisnore strips, clinically shown to reduce snoring with the power of your own breathing. Nice try there are always things that are hard to let go of. Now snoring isnt one of them. Theravent. The answer is right under your nose. Maria defense secretary james mattis of the the target of a terrorist rocket attempt. Less than two hours after he arrived 40 to 45 rockets luckily he have artie left on already left on a helicopter to attend a meeting with the president. 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There is always a concern about his talk of the sanctions sanctions going to be enough. I think the likelier question or at least the factor that would be most helpful when it comes to changing his conduct is what the chinese are up to. They are in fact starting to step up their game that is a very good sign. Thats why i think he saw President Trump their specifically calling out and taking the chinese for making this pivot because it seems like he has the Prime Minister over there who has been very concerned. His is speaking out very strongly. Then you have another Regional Power almost a superpower in china really slapping harder and north korea that is potentially a game changer. Rex tillerson is headed to beijing tomorrow. Twelve guys point. Unless it hits chinese companies. The North Koreans have become very sophisticated in making these regimes as well. Thats why its very important. The other thing i say which doesnt relate to sanctions why are we hearing more about missile defense. The koreans are shooting missiles over japan. Why are they shooting these things out why down why they are going over their borders. Israel has this thing called iron dome. Which knockdown Something Like 90 of these missiles coming in for the palestinian territory. It seems to me that the United States and its allies should be pouring all of the research is and the the resources of the can. He wonder if it will impact the u. S. Economy in terms of the sanctions if we were to see essentially a chinese bank for example. Your thoughts on all of this. To johns point that japan for example in terms of a different offense so the major increase. I thought it was a hundred 60 milliondollar and record budget request for a longer range missiles it was the double digit increase there. So you are seen action on that front in addition test taking action against china in terms of sanctions we really need the world to come together and do something knowing that the ultimate success in raining and north korea will be through sanctions on china. Thats what works with iran. You have them going in with sanctions. Let me switch gears does very quickly. We will talk with ted cruz on the other side of the break coming up. What he wanted from him. Generally a strong commitment that theyre actually going to accomplish this. I think they are a little spooked about what happened with healthcare and they dont want to get out over their skis but i hope the entire party recognizes that having failed at Health Healthcare and broken that promise so far if they punt or blow it on tax reform as well politically they are enormous trouble. It does seem like this is going to get done though. They have to get something done. The only question is how ambitious are they going to be with this. 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Orin hatch joined earlier inside Corporate America needs to get involved. The mac both democrats and republicans and say we are tired of this. We wanted to businesses in the United States of america and you guys hold the key. Whats so tough about that . Trying to turn the conversation coming out. Texas senator ted cruz is here. Tune into the fox Business Network this afternoon beginning at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Well take you live. Plus this, judge roy moore pulling off the victory in the Alabama Senate runoff defeating sitting senator Luther Strange was backed by President Trump. The fallout coming out. Cleanup from hurricane hervey has been one month since the storm made landfall in texas and houston residents of picking up the pieces. Stars coming together, celebrities to those in need and tickets go on sale for a harvey benefit concert produced a country star clint lack. I will speak with him coming up you coming up into Business Impact impact of the nfl. Directv now offering refunds to some sunday ticket customers offended by players taken in need. People want their money back. Twitter dublin appeared the Company Catering to user demands and testing 35280 characters. Markets this morning awaiting the president s comments on tax reform higher. No industrials at the height of the morning with a gain of 30 points at the open. The nasdaq of the quarter of a percent 16 points higher. Durable good reports at 1. 7 for the last month on durable goods orders. That was better than expected. Thats a positive here. The major indices look like this this morning higher across the board. European indices up a third of a percent. The dax in germany up almost half of 1 . Asia overnight stocks mixed as you see here at the close. Our top story for tax reform. President trump will travel to indiana democratic senator joe donnelly. After the light has unveiled its plan. Former president ial candidate, texas senator ted cruz and senator cruz, wonderful to have you on the program. Thank you for joining us. Tell us about the tax plan as you know it. What would you like to see today . What do you think is realistic . Welcome will find out details later today. Details today are encouraging. The principles that should govern tax reform our growth, fairness and simplicity. Number one should be growth. The focus should be jobs and Economic Growth and theres a lot of elements we are hearing that are encouraging in that regard. Maria what gets you there . Is 20 Corporate Tax a good news, 20 passthrough good news . Will you go for that . I would like to see those rates lower. I would like to see one simple flat tax. Yesterday came running out in the president ial race, what ive encourage my colleagues to go. If we dont have the votes to go firm seven raise to three is a positive step. Three to two is even better, two to one is even better. Simplicity and being low is important. I also think for individuals can have been able to fill out your taxes on a postcard has a powerful, powerful impact of simplicity. We spend 9 billion hours a year in tax compliance. Thats an easy save. But ill tell you one of the first questions we will debate in congress and with the administration is how big of a tax cut are we talking about . This matters. It is to be a a tax cut, unapologetic tax cut for the serious taxcut induced first reason if you want to see reagan era Economic Growth, booming gdp, Small Business growing coming youve got to have reagan style tax cuts, real tax cuts. Not just deficit neutral nt one bucket and filling another. Youve got to have a real tax cut on Small Businesses, job producers, working families. Train to within talking about this morning. Im glad you set unapologetic. I said to one of your colleagues in the house who got bullied again. You keep getting bullied by the left. We need to be the big headline from the left would be this is a tax cut for the rich. And yet now without the highest rate would be 35 , now there is a buzz in the air and that a millionaires tax or to take the highest earners at 239 . Would you vote no on that . We will have extensive negotiations and we are not close to this passing. It will take a couple months to hatch out and get consensus. We will get it done. Weve got to get it done. But it will take some time. This is being unveiled. This is one proposal. In the senate with a very narrow majority. 52 republicans. Weve got to get at least 60 to support it. There is going to be a lot of giveandtake. If we focus on growth, simplicity, fairness, thats how we get 50 together. To bury this point, the Republican Party, the Republican Party has, the Republican Party sent out, the Republican Party sent out to about three tax brackets. But when it comes out today will save three tax brackets, but maybe a fourth with the highest earning households. Can you get behind attacks playing with for brackets instead of three . Im not going to engage in debating hypotheticals. There will be all sorts of proposals and i think its a bad idea for anyone to begin by drawing lines in the standards that will support tax refund unless xyz. Whatever passes at the end of the day will be less than 100 of what everyone wants. That is just the nature of particularly a narrow majority. But the direction i have been pushing and will continue to push is bold and simple. That we can really have an enormous and back. Let me give you an example. One of the most progrowth reforms that can be included in tax reform is immediate expensing of Capital Expenditures, when businesses spend money come when a farmer spends money to buy a tractor he can express that immediately instead depreciated over years. Its a huge idea. A massive idea appeared massive idea. When a steel factory builds or buys the equipment to hire new workers, immediately expensing is an enormous incentive for dollars spent here to create heavy manufacturing jobs, to create jobs, the kind of bluecollar jobs that have been the backbone of the American Economy for decades. That is a big deal. I think it is important to have it in there. That debate is going back and forth. Since he is a tradeoff between expensing them lowering the corporate rate. You get, for example, folks in the Financial Services sector, some obviously dont worry about expensing. That makes sense in Financial Services were not having big Capital Expenditures on equipment. But not for a farmer. Not for a rancher. Not for the men and women who elected donald trump. The answer i agree lowering the corporate rate is make it a real tax cut, really unleash the economy and we can see tremendous results. Senator, we just blew past him and not on the go 20 billion national debt. Folks in this town, a lot of democrats all of a sudden talking about deficits. Conservatives are concerned about deficits. Are you willing to go big on tax cuts even if its not deficit neutral . Absolutely. This is critical. If its not deficit news show, its not a tax cut. The way washington scores tax cuts come a day consistently underestimate the Economic Growth impact of tax cuts. Thats exactly right. One of the reasons im such a passionate advocate for a big serious taxcut is because im very worried about the deficit and debt. The only way we will turn it around as Economic Growth. There is no way congress is going to find it in the backbone to cut enough to get out of the bed. Its not going after the democrats. Not quite happen with republicans. The only way we get out of the hole we dug ourselves is getting out of the anemic obama air 1 2 growth, getting back to robust three, four, 5 gdp growth. That generates so much revenue that that is how you end up paying down the deficit. Trade do you think you are revenue neutral because growth will happen . Thats exactly right. If we want to start paying down the debt, the only way to do it, you know, since world w i our economy has gro 3. 2 a year from 28 to tay i has grown 1. 2 a year. This is dismal. Mr. Boll and a lot of people in washington except this is the new normal. Now we grow 1 to 2 a year. Prior to obama, the last four years. You have Economic Growth less than 1 was 19781882, jimmy carter coming out of the same failed economic policies had wanted reagan to an 81 . Came in at the major tax cut from a major regulatory reform. The economy took off. Do you know a gdp growth was in 84 . 722. Those were china level numbers. Nobodys even imagining thats possible. Reagan produced any bids that because he wasnt scared of his own shadow. The democrats a demagogue and one in a cut for the rich. Under Ronald Reagan, working men and women come in their wages when it appeared under Ronald Reagan come, africanamericans saw significant increases in their annual in them. Hispanics saw significant increases. If you want people to ride the economic ladder, you need the economy growing and Small Businesses going. They tax cuts the way to do it. Maria kobold. He used the word dismal to the economists who say we cant get to 3 growth because the population is aging and product dignity is very low. What do you say to those people who save the environment now isnt what it was in the 1980s when inflation was coming down in Interest Rates are coming down and coming. Maria you know, to quote a voice from the past, they are nattering nabobs of negative. I think they dont know what they are talking about. Every voice in washington who says except mediocrity, except that we have to become like much of europe,. Net, state socialism is utter nonsense. This economy we can unleash incredible growth. But the cutest Small Business washington focuses so much on the big guys come in the Major Companies and lobbyists. Best to a stroke in this town. Also usually care about. The little guy, Small Businesses as two thirds of all new jobs and the economy come from Small Business. Trained to do like that rate . Is a step in the right direction. I will keep pushing for more, simpler, stronger, better. One important piece to have as part of this debate is we should use tax reform as the opportunity also to repeal doddfrank. Democrats will filibuster any attempt to do so, which means the only possibility of repealing doddfrank is doing it on budget reconciliation. Attach it to tax reform. And the reason that matters, as you know, doddfrank has decimated the smaller banks, community banks, credit unions. Thats why youve got 1 growth. Maria would you care about Small Businesses. My capital, less regulations, less taxes and getting rid of doddfrank would help fuel. We would have a different conversation one year, two year from now. Maria by the way, the dems will attach an infrastructure plan to this. Health care. Youve been trying to get to this. Are you a yes . I am a yes on repealing obamacare. Maria i know that. Right now grahamcassidy has been pulled. I dont know what the vehicle is going to be, but we have to get this done. We have to honor promised to repeal obamacare and im spending every waking moment on obamacare and tax reform trying to unite republicans. Maria senator ted cruz, that is why we love you. Thank you for joining us. Well be right back. Opportunities arent always obvious. Sometimes they just drop in. Cme group can help you navigate risks and capture opportunities. We enable you to reach Global Markets and drive forward with broader possibilities. Cme group how the world advances. Maria welcome back. Twitter testing a big change from a doubling of her of characters in one trade that in the stock higher. Nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Good morning, maria. Is this what its going to do it for twitter . Zero user group added over the summer. Two years of rebuilding revenue growth. The stock was up 1. 5 . 280 characters is double the amount of the 140. Turns out in japan the language. English users are quite restricted. They will take small amount of random twitter users around the world for less than 9 and maybe 1 and give them a try. No word on whether or not donald trump will be one of the ones testing it out. Moving over to directv turns out we talk about the National Anthem protest. We saw this job to a new low yesterday a three by 5 lower and not talking about refund the money. The premier package for football is 280 a season brings at 1. 5 billion in revenue in licensing revenue. It is a major, major catch for the viewers. They are now offering some customers are refined a few sites that you are upset with the National Anthem protests. Interestingly enough, Pittsburgh Steelers player who served in afghanistan, his jersey window number one, the one who actually stood up for the National Anthem. So much controversy, rea. Maria charisse pinnacle on the floor of the exchange this morning. Well check back as things develop. Lets get through, come up with a host of Varney Company at the top of the hour. Good morning. Good morning, maria. You know what i want to talk about. True to guess, i do. You want to tell the audience first or shall i. Trade do you want to hear about tax reform and tax cuts. I will talk about one particular thing of the aspect. Maria the highest earners in the millionaires tax . Lets tell everybody was going on here. There is a proposal that there will be an even higher your tax rate for individuals who make a real lot of money. A new and higher tax rate in a taxcutting package. I guess this is what is required if you want to attract any democrat votes. You tax the rich even more in order to get a tax package. Maria you could say it that way or you could say this is what you get when you give a lay by the shaming on the left. Yes, that too. This is what you get when you got high principled politicians against the Republican Party cant agree to any compromise and lose everything in the process. Maria gap. Orin hatch just told us to the top 5 of the earners pay 70 of attacks. Is right. If you now have a new and higher tax on upper income earners and if you get rid of the deduction for state and local taxes, you will have an even smaller band of rich people who will pay for everything. That is not healthy. That is what got california into trouble 10 years ago because all taxation is based on the tiny fraction of upper income earners. When they go down, the whole state goes down. Maria listen, im fired up about it. Watching you in 10 minutes. Thank you so much. Guardian Company Begins at the top of the hour to talk more about that. Helping houston in the wake of hurricane harvey. Back in a minute. This is the new new york. We are building new airports all across the state. New roads and bridges. New mass transit. New business friendly environment. New lower taxes. And new University Partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. Learn more at esd. Ny. Gov so we need tablets installed. With the menu app ready to roll. In 12 weeks. Yeah. The world of fast food is being changed by faster networks. Data, applications, customer experience. Which is why comcast business delivers Consistent Network Performance and speed across all your locations. Fast connections everywhere. Thats how you outmaneuver. Maria well, a hurricane can even mess with texas. In an effort to help the Lone Star State in the aftermath of hurricane harvey, clint black, lyle lovett and don henley will take a benefit concert featuring the dallas legend of a native texan master behind helping texans concert, quit life. Great to have you on the show today. Thank you for being here. Thank you for your help. Maria what can we expect from this concert . He will be a really great show. We are still working on the details of it. It is starting off really great. Maria you have been the driving force behind this, planning the hurricane benefit. What was that like to set up the concert . Tell us the challenges and how you did it. Well, i started off with calling one of the coolest and most philanthropic people i know in texas, advanced along with ed and sasha macho. We put together the lineup. They happen to be at a lyle lovett concert when i called them, so they had him up first thing after the show and he was in and we all know don henley, the most famous texan in the bunch so we reached out to don and theyll quickly agreed. Maria how about for you personally, how tough was the destruction in texas . Well, i think we all know somebody. My family was lucky, but my extended family was not. It is hard to watch, even if you dont know someone involved. Maria clint, thank you so much are joining us this morning. Thanks for all your effort. Bass hall. Com if anyone can help out. Maria thank you so much good will go. Clint black joining us. Final thoughts from the allstar panel coming up. Stay with us. Maria what a show today. Final thoughts right now. One thing that stuck out to me for senator cruz. He said on tax reform they are not really that close to getting this done. It could be months of a lot of negotiations still to come. That makes a little jittery. Maria especially after what we saw with health care. We said this at all your great guest today. A lot of tradeoffs and pushing and pulling over the next few ka physical way, how this affects the deficits. Theres a long road ahead. Maria Dagen Mcdowell, final word. Dagen mr. Crews come if you cared about Small Business owner you would repeal the bono care. Where is that . Maria have a great day, everybody. Here is Varney Company. Stuart yes, dagen, yes, yes, yes. Long live tax reform. This is the day the big tax plan is to be revealed. Good morning, everyone. Today we have a very act of political thing. Along with the tax packages, middle income people to pay less. Big companies to pay a lot less. Top income earners may pay more. Yes, there may be a new hire rate above