He has put in a deadline on all of this. Well give you the latest straight ahead. Former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort indicted on multiple charges, tax fraud, Money Laundering conspiracy against the United States, all stemming from transactions years before the 2016 campaign. Will this be a distraction . Or will the president push forward with a progrowth agenda . Does that literally no pun intended, trump all . The russian dossi and sketchy uranium one deal saying quote, the American People have the right to know what the government does. They do. Why isnt the Congress Investigating democrats in all of this . Well tackle it. First new details on uranium one. First to our top story, republicans set to unveil the historic bill bill on capitol hill. We have adam shapiro. Adam, big week for the nation, for the economy and for tax reform. Reporter trish, it is. You can feel excitement on part of republicans on capitol hill. The democrats came out fighting. We know talking points. There was discussion of three points of attack on the bill they will attack. They are saying this bill will help the wealthy and nobody else. Lets get right into this. The president has spoken about the tax reform bill. Remember key parts of this reform bill will be simplicity and what the president says will be a middle class tax break. Here is what he said about the democratic opposition to all of this. Well have no democrat support. We may have on the tax cut because i think it will be very hard for five or six of them to run successfully saying they want to raise taxes. The democrats want to raise taxes, really create obstruction. The republican want to lower taxes. Reporter the question, can Chuck Schumer and democrats hold their Minority Coalition together in the senate because they are going to be close with but there are democrats that worked with the president in other situations. Think of joe manchin from west virginia. Here is what Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the senate said in response to the tax reform bill. The republican tax plan will be full of tricks for the middle class, and full of treats for the wealthiest americans. This theory churned out by rightwing think tanks that growth will occur because of these tax cuts is absurd. It is utter selfserving bull. Reporter so Chuck Schumer calling it what you heard him say. Lets hear what kevin brady said this morning what is coming tomorrow, he is the one writing tax reform bill in the house. There is tax relief at every level. Were doing it in the way people keep more of what they earn regardless where they live. Back to you, trish. Trish thanks so much, adam. Joining me for more, bell point chief strategist david nelson and Heritage Capital president paul fast. President putting a deadline on this thing. Looks increasingly it might happen. White house thinks it has got the votes it needs. David, will we look at lower taxes come the new year . I certainly hope so. The hope is the Corporate Tax code, we have to 20 . My hope they wont phase it in. The president is right. It will only stall the process. You will hear from the left, marginal tax rate for the United States corporations is lot lower. That is simply doesnt take into account thousands of companies that have left the United States for a lower tax status. If our tax reform or rather our tax system is so starspangled awesome, why have thousands of Companies Left the country. We have 77,000 page encourages them to do just that full speed ahead. Get it done. Is messed up. You heard the president earlier say, look this is Long Time Coming right . Weve been basically waiting 30 years for any meaningful tax reform. What im stunned by, you have seen taxes creep higher and higher and higher. Act really as a penalty on businesses, Small Business owners. Yet, Chuck Schumer as you heard, there are tricks not treats. This is the argument that the left always pushes, right . Over and over fenn. Somehow this is just all for the rich, paul. Thats right. Listen, you can search history. There has never been a country that taxed its way to prosperity. That is because you cant do it. We all require basic services. I fully understand and appreciate why you need taxes but clearly, clearly, in the last nine years our tax system is choking our economy. We got a little bit of relief from regulations. We have to have tax reform. Im a little disappointed frankly, the republicans won and theyre trying to hold the process hostage. I wish they come together, just because it impacts people, doesnt make it bad. Everybody has to give a little to take a lot. If they take step back they would have much better margin to pass this without negotiating one off here and one off there. One thing they dont do, im surprised, take the amt, reach across the aisle, tell democrats, look it if we keep trish tell them this, right . Democrats, if they actually looked at this thing, by the way you have Chuck Schumer talking about how bad it was before even saw a darn thing. It is a little political in that sense, david. Yeah. Trish they have one note. That one note is lower taxes are bad. And that is what theyre selling. Its a great sound bite from Chuck Schumer. He is trying to be cute here. Paul brought up a very good point. Were really hostages here because lobbyists literally descended on washington. Every lobbiest will have agenda to push. Some loophole theyre trying to save. It makes the job very difficult. It is not surprising it has taken 30 years to get us to this point. I hope kevin brady and the team and president can hold it all together and see this through. Trish ultimately, they say okay, well not push that agenda in terms of the asking people in new york, and california but that is the problem, trish. You have a 77,000 page code. The idea was to make it simpler. You can end up gumming up the works, not accomplish what you really set out in the first place. I dont want to add 2,000 pages to the 77,000 already. Trish do you like what the president is talking about, what were hearing, they would like to get rid of salt and state and local Tax Deduction . I agree with that. I think it is right thing to do. It is unfair to the center of the country theyre subsidizing our state and local taxes. Trish i have no interest in seeing this. I live in connecticut. Im just as bad. Trish okay, paul time to get rid of salt. Time to get rid of Hedge Fund Carried Interest and energy subsidies. David said, simplify everything. Get rid of loopholes. Get rid of special interest subsidies. Have a simplified tax code. Trish talking something that is good for the middle class, all right . Agreed. Trish Chuck Schumer, nancy pelosi, they dont see it that way. They really just dont. Do you think theyre being intellectually dishonest paul. Of course, that is the system were in now. I guarranty you, they have read nothing and they wont read anything. You know what . That is the system. The hand youre dealt. All they care about is poking holes so the middle class may reconsider their votes for 2018. The manchins and heitkamps will be hardpressed not to support this when all said and done. What they care about, paul, they want something to fight for in the election cycle next year. They want to gum this up. If they slow the economy down in any measure or form, that plays to their hand. Trish isnt that triage schnick. That is the truth. Trish they want to see our economy slow down the you heard donald trump out there today, looking we have 3 growth, better than considering what we had. Consumer confidence through the roof. Trish i said over and over again, if he becomes president , you better believe, he will say, hey, did you see that 5 . Suddenly all of america will know what gdp is . You know what . That is a good thing. Ultimately if everybody is doing better, some of this political bickering maybe the why the democrats dont want the economy to do better, to your point, david, some bickering will have to fall by the wayside. Thanks so much, guys. We have a lot to get to right now. White house chief of staff john kelly saying there should be an investigation into the democrats involvement in the russian dossier and uranium one deal. Here he is with foxs Laura Inghram on her brand new show. Watch. Do you think there should be a special counsel appointed to investigate all these narratives coming out with the dnc and the Clinton Campaign actually Funding Research that was in part compiled by the kremlin . , Kremlin Associates . Im one of those people who think American People have the right to know what their government does. Have a right to foe what their government is doing on any given day. By the same token what private citizens are doing if they break the law. Doubly important when these kind of accusations are made they should be investigated. Trish joining me right now, trial attorney, legal analyst, miss at this morris. Good to see you misty, what do you think about this other issue . They absolutely need to dig. Isnt this what is all about russia influencing election . Clearly we get more and more facts this is not limited to the Trump Campaign. Were learning that the dnc actually hired Opposition Research, hid that from the American People and their donors and then also involved with the russians. Clearly we need to get answers. Trish but this is where it becomes difficult, right . In other words, we dont know for sure that the dossier is what eventually caused the fbi to say okay, we need to wiretap the Trump Building and keep an eye on those phone calls in the Trump Campaign camp. We dont know that yet, but there is a lot of suspicion as to whether or not that dossier in fact did fuel some of those wiretapping concerns. If that is the case, misty, then, hey, thats not good. No, absolutely not. Trish, you make a great report. No, we dont know. Thats why you conduct a full and thorough investigation of those facts to get down to the bottom of it and find out what exactly happened with the clintons, with the dossier, with the dnc. Trish, i know one thing for certain. One of the big issues with this, Opposition Research was done, but it was not disclosed to the federal Election Committee that is a requirement. We know there is one law broken. What else is going on . What are the ties . Why arent we Digging Deeper to figure that out. Trish there was a guest on the program yesterday, misty, that worried that the u. S. Got played effectively. What happened in all of this, was, that the russians figured out that various political operators were trying to gain Opposition Research and they fed quite deliberately a bunch of misinformation to that british spy Christopher Steele, who then in turn brought that back, then turned everything on its head. Is there a danger here we got played, and doesnt that need to be looked into . Certainly trish. This is exactly what were talking about. Because the whole idea why we have special counsel appointed to see, is russia trying to improperly influence elections in and exactly what you pointed out, we need to know what was going on. Could the u. S. Have been played. How could we avoid it in the future. Avoid these types of situations we need to appoint a special counsel to get to the bottom of it. Certainly issues that need to be investigated. Trish let me ask you about uranium one. This is story ive always been fascinated with. Ive been stunned to learn as we recently did, that the fbi was looking into Vladmir Putin was trying to gain outsized influence in our Atomic Energy market at same time they went ahead, cfius went ahead and approved that deal for the russians effectively to gain a 20 stake in uranium, rather gain control over 20 of the nights uranium supply. Misty, i mean i keep going back to what i said over and over again. As far as Hillary Clinton went, 146 million going to the foundation while secretary of state while a deal like this is getting approved. How did we wind up doing a deal like that . How was this deal not blocked is question of the hour. Certainly doesnt taking a lawyer or being a politician to know, common sense would say, the fact that there was this investigation, would put up a red flag. Hey, maybe this deal shouldnt have gone through. Trish, we learned a former fbi informant set to testify before congress who said they would testify talking about how russia was trying to gain influence with the clintons at that time. There are some pieces to this puzzle. The only way to get down to the bottom of it is make this a part of investigation. Trish youre right. I dont know how you cant. It cant be ignored. It is absolutely so interwoven. The fact it is just now coming to light is pretty shocking i dont misty, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Trish White House Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders will speak in a few minutes. Well bo to her live as soon as that begins. We have a whole lot in the meantime. Indictments against Paul Manafort and his Business Partner rick gates. All the accusations against them was before they actually worked with donald trump. Is there any there there . James rosen has been following the story from the very beginning. He is here, he is with us, next. 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Lets go to fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen for the details. Reporter trish, good afternoon. We have fresh reaction in the George Papadopoulos plea deal, from sergey lavrov. Russias foreign minister. Translator if the meeting was about russianamerican relations i dont see anything illegal or about it. Im looking with skepticism and lack of interest of new and continuous reports how donald trump won the president ial elections. Reporter meetings minister lavrov cite those taken by George Papadopoulos, low level Foreign Policy advisor to then candidate donald trump and professor overseas who introduced the younger man to figures advertised as having strong kremlin connections. This led to papadopoulos to arrange a meeting an initiative Trump Campaign rebuffed. The professor told defendant papadopoulos as defendant papadopoulos described to the fbi, that they the russians have dirt on her, Hillary Clinton. The russians have emails on clinton. They have thousands of emails. Today the telegraph newspaper identified this professor as joseph misuod teacher professor at scotland in may whose online rest may is sketchy defined and expressions of support for laugh love and the putin regime. Mifsud acknowledged meeting with papadopoulos later last year. He was upset by claims being privy to dirt on Hillary Clinton because they were incredible. He described as a laughingstock, a suggestion in the report that he introduced papadopoulos to a female Russian National described as relative of president Vladmir Putin. So while mifsud hardly most eminently academic, and proputin is he official challenge to the version laid out by the special counsel and his team. Trish james, there is a lot of questions here. What does it cross the line . You are having a meeting because youre interested in getting some information and that person happens to be from russia. I have joked, you cant really have had a White Russian in washington and get away with it these days just at a bar but there is real concern if you any connection with russia whatsoever, met with anyone from russia, concern on side of people looking into donald trump and his campaign team, while smallly, james, 146 million going to the Clinton Foundation. 500,000 speaking fee to bill clinton . I wonder if were not applying same standards across the board to everyone . Reporter by all accounts, and estimates of all legal analysts who looked at the papadopoulos plea deal yesterday, everything he was doing in terms of his contacts with these foreign nationals was probably not illegal at all but he got into trouble because he lied about the contacts and circumstances to the fbi. I heard in the earlier segment you maybe the suggestion you dont know how the special counsel can fail to include the uranium one deal and the contributions to the Clinton Foundation in his scope of investigation. Another issue that some are suggesting today should properly be part of the special counsel investigation if he is looking into the tax returns of Paul Manafort from a decade ago, presumably mr. Mueller will look into how secret grand jury information from his own very investigation made its way into the hands of cnn this past friday night when they were in a position to report there were sealed indicts that had been filed . Trish thats a good question. James rosen, thank you so much. Reporter thank you, trish. Trish well keep on eight. We await white house briefing, wall street journal editorial page, that the none of this involves trumps 2016 election. I mean all of this noise around this, and yet, they werent able to find anything about the Actual Campaign . Well talk about it right after this. Infrastructure mlps . Think again. Its time to shake up your lineup. The alerian mlp etf can diversify your equity portfolio and add potential income. Bring amlp into the game. 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Eight priceless corvettes had plunged into it. Chubb was there within hours. They helped make sure it was safe. We had everyone we needed to get our museum back up and running, and we opened the next day. Trish it is last day in october. Were still in positive territory. Dow may end month of october up 4 . S p up better than 2 . Good earnings season. Good gdp reports. Low unemployment numbers. So far, so good. The big question, will republicans fet tax reform through . Will they continue this move higher . Liberal media has been having a field day following news that Paul Manafort and his associate have been indicted in special counsel Robert Muellers russia probe but, take a breath for a second. Yes, they have been indicted. They have been indicted for tax fraud but anything that that happened during the 2016 campaign, that wasnt in there. This is all stuff from way back before. Wall street journals Editorial Board sums it up here, saying, quote, the most striking news is that none of this involves the 2016 election campaign. It goes on to say, the main charge against donald trump is poor judgment for hiring notorious beltway operator. Kind of like what i said yesterday, right . Joining meed tomorrow page writer for the wall street journal, jillian meltzer. Jillian, i was saying yesterday the republicans must have been breathing a sigh of relief. This is hanging over their head. All of sudden indictments come out, and it is from two years ago. This shows what extraordinary poor judgment to hire man for the. This guy represented kovocich who turned his bun on his own people. This is about Money Laundering and tax fraud. The only 2016 charges related to lying to the fbi. One thing we have here, the Mueller Investigation being really broad but so far we havent turned up anything that shows collusion or shows criminal conspiracy. So i think that is kind of where things stand. Trish so the goal, i would think as far as members of the left were concerned, that you needed to somehow weave this story how manafort in direct up to with the russians, somehow he is getting kickbacks along the way and russians are manipulating this campaign from afar. At least so far they havent come up with anything that looks like that. So far they havent proven it. We also have a lot of charges filed against manafort, but that is kind of a suggestion or an indication that, you know theyre not trying to use him, flip him, turning against other people. Usually you do that before you file charges. Trish what about papadopoulos . That is really interesting one. I remember laughing at him a while ago. He is a model u. N. Guy. What this shows russia was attempting to interfere with our election, which is what weve seen all along. It does not prove that the Trump Campaign was take. This needs to be thoroughly investigated. I want to see lots of congressional involvement because the American Public need this to be done in open and accountable way. Trish as long as that is on the table, what about uranium one . What about compilation of dossier and faulty intelligence fed to the Christopher Steel and fed to the u. S. That is important thing to look into as is the fbis involvement. We have questions whether the dossier prompted fbi to begin a investigation to prompt wiretapping. There is lot of focus on trump collusion, not on the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton collusion. Also not how russia interfered and potentially affected fbis actions. Trish people dont like to go back to the clinton thing because for some reason she got a free pass for all of that. I question how much you get that much russian money going to your Family Foundation while being secretary of state and not having eyebrows raised. Nonetheless she got a pass. But now were looking if fbi was Vladmir Putin was trying to get into the outsized influence of uranium here in the u. S. Eric holder should have known that at the time but he was on the cfius committee, russians, you want to buy 20 of u. S. Uranium, go for it. I do not understand how they allowed that to happen. There is a lot of potential for conflicts of interest throughout this. One of those things with mueller. This is a guy in charge of the fbi for years. It is not a slight on his tin integrity that he should step aside for somebody who does not have the conflict of interest to investigate. The American People really need to know what russias role was in this election. That raises a lot of questions. And we need to get those answered. Trish the wall street journal has raised this point, that mueller may not be the best one for the job at this point, although if the president were to go out and sack him, you can imagine the political ramifications of that right now. I dont think the president should do that i think mueller should step aside. It is disservice to the country not to have no taint of potential conflict interest, no questions about how this investigation is is being conducted. I think his very presence there raises questions, not through his fault but it would be good for him to step aside. Make an important point. You can not ever have the perception of conflict of interest because in some ways perception becomes reality and frankly this is Hillary Clintons problem. No matter what, even if she had nothing to do with anything regarding that deal for uranium one, knowing her foundation received all the money, knowing that her husband received all the money, brings up these questions and mueller, questions about him as well. Jillian, thank you very much. Thank you. Trish good to see you. S from tock Top Tech Companies in washington, questions about russia using their platform to influence elections. We have the intel for you. 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Today im once again pleased to talk about the topic that we and more importantly the American People are all very excited about, tax cuts. Were approaching the release of legislation based on the tax reform framework that the president supports. Unfortunately no matter how great the plan is for the hardworking families, democrats are expected to criticize the tax cuts as they have done in recent years, putting partisan politics ahead of their constituents pocketbooks. Arguing over president reagans 1981 tax cuts, democrats claimed it would only benefit the rich. Democrat speaker of the house tip oneill, he caught them royal tax cuts because he claimed they favored most wealthy americans. What happened, 14 million new jobs were created five years, incomes grew over 22 for next seven years and economy grew by over 3. 5 on average for rest of the decade. Some democrats must have been paying attention to history, as recently as last year they publicly supported many of the principles for which the president is advocating today. That include lowering the Corporate Tax rate, which is the highest among developed nations so that our greatest businesses can be more competitive. In fact president s obama and clinton both advocated for cutting Corporate Tax rates. Senate democrat leader Chuck Schumer in the past called our tax system, upside down and inside out, and last year he actually admitted that cutting Corporate Taxes is quote, really important for american competitiveness. Minority leader nancy pelosi apparently agreed because she said quote, it is long past time for tax reform that would lower the Corporate Tax rate. The only thing that seems to have changed since then is who occupies the white house. Since day one the president has been committed to jumpstarting our economy and giving hardworking americans the raise they deserve. Under the framework supported by the president , our economy will grow, businesses will invest back in the country and American Workers will see their wages grow. In fact, the council for economic advisors estimates that a typical hardworking American Family would get a 4,000 pay raise. So to democrats in congress, particularly those that like to place american jobs and middle class tax relief ahead of partisan politics, the question is very simple, do you believe the American People deserve a pay raise . We certainly do and thats what well be focused on fighting for. The choice is yours, and with that i will take your questions. Reporter sarah, where does the president stand on Tax Deductiona for state and local taxes . We laid out the priorities for the tax cut plan of the those havent changed. The president will continue working with house and senate and push forward to make sure principles he laid out are achieved. We havent made any adjustments to that at this time. Reporter what about the mortgage Interest Deduction . Again same point here. We havent made any changes to the priorities that we laid out. Im not going to negotiate between you and i but the president is going to be involved in ongoing conversations with members of both house and senate. We laid out what our priorities are. Well stick to those as we move forward. Reporter conversation with speaker ryan just now . Theyre still meeting now. Well have readout on meeting once it is completed. Matthew. Reporter sarah, question on yesterdays mueller news. Nominee to serve chief finance adviser, sam clovis, he was the cam sane supervisor cited in the papadopoulos plea. The lawyers acknowledgeed he encouraged papadopoulos in 2016 make a trip to russia, to meet with russian officials about the campaign the given all that is president still comfortable with him sam clovis in the administration. Im not aware any change would be necessary. Reporter on that note, is the administration aware who three or forecampaign individuals referenced in papadopoulos plea, were be and serving in or advising the situation . Im not aware of specific individuals. What i can say i think papadopoulos is example of somebody doing the wrong thing while the president s campaign did right thing. All his emails were voluntarily provided to special counsel by the campaign. That is what led to the process and place were in right now was the campaign fully cooperating with that. What papadopoulos did was lie. That is on him. Not on the campaign. We cant speak for that. Jonathan. Reporter chief of staff john kelly says the Council Investigation has been very distracting to the president. Can you elaborate on that . What it is affecting to get his job done here . I dont think at all it is affecting his job here. You twice completely obsessed with this, while other things are happening a lot around the country. Frankly people care a more about. Media refuses to cover it. That is the distraction shun. Instead of focus on tax cuts, tax reforms. My guess look at record, questions i take here day out, have far more to do with investigation frankly most americans dont care too much about and whole lot less of policies that impact them. Reporter why are you so confident that the investigation wont go on much longer . Because we have confidence that it will come to a close in short time. Glen, go ahead. Glen, got a call. Needed to phone a friend to get help with his question. [inaudible conversations] glen, i had more faith to ask a question all by yourself but. Reporter other thing that general kelly said yesterday was, in left reference to general lee, he says the civil war was as a result of failure to compromise of the was he suggesting that there would be compromise on abolition of slavery . Can you expand on exactly what he was talking about. All of our leaders have flaws. Washington, jefferson, jfk, roosevelt, kennedy. That doesnt diminish their contributions to our country. Certainly cant erase them from our history. General kelly was simply making the point that just because isnt perfect, that it is not our history. Reporter let me follow up. You are a proud daughter of the south. When you see [inaudible] someone like Nathan Bedford forest who was responsible for the fort hill massacre and other folks are there different ages, are there certain confederate figures dont deserve to be honored like nathan bed for forest. I dont think we should debate every moment of history. There are moments that took place. There are moments were a lot less proud of than others. We cant erase the fact that they happened. You have to determine where that line is. The president said those are something that should be left up to sit and local governments and that is not who i am representing here today. I will not get into the back and forth on it. John. Reporter thanks a lot, sarah, follow up what you said yesterday, what you have reiterated today about this investigation, and your belief it will be wrapping up soon, yesterday you said that those are the indications that we have at this time. From your point of view, is what youre saying, Wishful Thinking . Is it spin . Are you getting leaked information that gives you that indication . Why do you continue to say that you believe that it is wrapping up soon . Again, that position has not changed and we do think that it will wrap up soon. I didnt say it would be three or for days. I said soon. We hope that is the case. In large part because we know that the facts are on our side. There was no collusion. Were looking forward to moving forward. Hoping that you guys can as well. We can actually Start Talking about focusing on some of the things that i mentioned to jonathan. That we feel the American People would rather conversation be turned towards. Jessica. Sorry keep moving john. Reporter ask you one thing about, one of the prosecutors on bob muellers team, the plea hearing for mr. Papadopoulos last month he hinted at possibility of more to come in the investigation. He said the Mueller Probe is quote, a largescale, Ongoing Investigation of which this case, papadopoulos case, is small part. So, given what he said, as an officer of the court, are you disagreeing with anything that he said in his remarks during that plea hearing . Maybe his references in looking more to come between the democrats and Clinton Campaign since i think if there is any evidence weve seen to date, it is between them, colluding with the other foreign governments. Certainly not from our side. Jessica . Reporter one question about what the president said today, then asia trip question broadly. First question is, the president mentioned in the tax reform meeting there he was going to be announcing, quote, soon, some companies that are coming back to the United States. Can you either name them or give us the industry that were talking about . I will not get ahead of announcements the president will make. If he wasnt willing to tell you i will certainly not step in and do it. The speech at apec is being a theme for the trip as well as indopacific. This administration see india as pivotal part of your strategy when it comes to the asiapacific more broadly. Certainly plays a big role and general mcmaster will be here later this week to discuss the trip in greater depth and more detail. He will be happy to address more of those questions at that time. Reporter steve bannon is saying administration should push back harder against special counsel robert mueller. Does the president support the special counsel . No. Im not sure we push back against. All they have come up with ways shows there is no connection between the Russian Campaign and collusion. John the. Reporter thank you, sarah. First the president is quoted last year as calling mr. Papadopoulos, and i quote a great guy. And today it was a liar. And, i wonder, just kind of clear the air, how well did he actually know him, and did he, was he briefed by him often . Did he have frequent meetings . How well does he know this man . My understanding the only interaction he ever had was one meeting that the Advisory Counsel gathered together where he was in a large group of other people in the room, and to my knowledge that only interaction they ever had. This was campaign volume teamer he wasnt somebody that was senior advisor, as many of you want to bill him to be. He was somebody played a minimal role, if one at all, was part of a voluntary advisory board. That is it. Reporter candidate trump, one time . That is my understanding. Only incident were aware of. Reporter other thing i wanted to ask a few weeks ago when the president sent out twitters about the media, he suggest equal time should be applied. To many people that was euphemism, fairness doctrine, something that president Ronald Reagan eliminate, democrats leader pelosi tried to revive. Is he seriously in favor reviving fairness doctrine . I might add peer opponent of revival was a young congressman named mike pence . I dont know he is deep into the weeds of the fairness doctrine but i think he believes in fairness. I think he would like to see that applied certainly to his administration in a way that is probably hasnt been so far. Charlie . Reporter president , sorry, Republicans Senate candidate roy moore is on capitol hill today. Does the president have plans to meet with him at any point today or this week before leaves for asia . No, there is no planned meetings at this time. Blake . Reporter a lot to be negotiated on taxes. Salt which was just brought up, possible phasing in corporate rate, just to name a couple, when the tax bill, whatever of it is released tomorrow, will the president wholeheartedly endorse this as his plan . As of right now we see no reason to feel otherwise. Until we see the details of that, im not going to speculate on where we are. We laid out what our principles are. We expect that that piece of election to reflect those principles. If it does you will see the Administration Come in with fullthroated support. Reporter with the fed, i know you will not give us a name, i will not ask you to give us a name if i did. Would it be fun . [shouting] that is the most excitement we have ever gotten out of this room. Sorry. Reporter if you want to give us a name, well take it, my simple question has the president made his decision or is he still debating it . I can tell you it is not major garrett. But beyond that i dont have anything to weigh in on. Reporter during the campaign repeatedly castigated Hillary Clinton for not coming forward and coming clean when she got debate questions ahead of the debates. Why didnt anyone in the Trump Campaign including his son, come forward, when there were solicitations from russian agents to provide dirt on his opponent . Im not sure how those two things are even remotely related, so i couldnt begin to figure out how to answer that . Reporter getting sense of proactive duty to come mean when there is an ethical question. Is the president upset people in his campaign did not come mean when there were ethical questions i dont believe that to be ethical question. That is pretty Standard Campaign operating procedure. Reporter the russians that is not collaboration with russians. I know you want it to be but it just isnt. Reporter i have two questions. Youve been very clear trump didnt collude and hillary did. What is your definition of collusion . Exchanging millions of dollars to create false information is a pretty big indication. Taking millions of dollars into a foundation that benefits you, while making decisions that impact people that behave that money. I think those are certainly areas of collusion that certainly should be looked at. Reporter my second question, followup from glen. Robert e. Lee, aside, i understand how all leaders have flaws, what kelly said yesterday was inability to compromise led to civil war. Back in the spring the president said he thinks that Andrew Jackson could have made a deal to avoid the war. What is compromise theyre talking about . Leave the Southern States slave and northern states free, what is the compromise could have been made. I will no that i wont get into debating the civil war, many historians, including shelbyfoot in ken burns civil war documentary was failure to compromise was a cause of the civil war. A lot of historians think that. There are a lot of different versions of those compromises. I will not get up lear to relitigate the civil war. There are certainly historical documentation that many people, and there are pretty strong consensus, people from the left, the right, the north and the south believe if some of the individuals engaged had been willing to come to some compromises on different things, it would not have occurred. Reporter thanks. Apropos what is going on the hill, facebook disclosing 100 million americans were exposed to what amounts to russian propaganda, what is the white houses view of that notion that more than 100,000 people reading washing what the russian outlets are putting out . What do you make of the notion there ought to be some kind of requirement that facebook be required to disclose the way that many broadcasters are required to disclose when political ads are made . I think we need to see you who the process works out over next several days. That is process you need to ask questions of facebook. That is not something the federal government can weigh in until findings of those investigations and hearings are completed. Halle. Reporter follow up on something you said earlier. I want to follow up on conversations happening about the slavery compromise. Im not asking you to relitigate the civil war. We dont need a History Lesson on compromise that happened, does the white house at least acknowledge that the chief of staff comments are deeply offensive to some folks and historically inaccurate. No, as i said before, i think that you cant because you dont like history, doesnt mean that you can erase it and pretend that it didnt happen. I think that is the point that general kelly was trying to make and, to try to create something and push a narrative that simply doesnt exist is just frankly outrageous and absurd. I think the fact we keep trying to drive, the media continues to want to make this and push that this is some sort of a raciallycharged and divided white house, frankly the only people i see stoking political racism right now are the people in the groups that are running ads like one you saw take place in virginia earlier this week. That is the type of thing that i think really is a problem, and i think it is absurd and disgraceful to keep trying to make comments and take them out of context and mean something that they simply dont. [shouting] reporter poll out that shows the public seems to have trust many of the Mainstream Media outlets that the president criticizes more than they trust the president himself. Why do you think this would be . And do you think that the white house agrees with that . Reporter i havent seen anything to suggest that. I would have to look into it. I certainly cant comment on some study i know nothing about, dont agree with. Reporter sarah, given some criticism of the president advisors is the president happy with his legal team right now . Does he feel wellrepresented, welldefended when it comes to the Mueller Probe . Im not sure how he couldnt, considering as i said yesterday, i repeated several times today, all revelations taken place over the last several days and hours have and i think the further we get into it, the more and more we see that happening. Kevin . Thank you, sarah. I just wanted to ask about taxes and maybe just a very quick follow on the discussion about compromise. If im understanding you correctly, what youre really saying is hes not suggesting a compromise on slavery, hes talking about other compromises that may have been germane to that part of history look i think that was part of the conversation a lot of people have had. He didnt get into the specifics because thats something thats been discussed very widely by many histarians from both the left, the right, the north, the south, however you want to look at it. And he didnt get into the details of it, because it wasnt the point he was making. On taxes, i just want to get a sense of what the president might be really interested in as far as the Child Tax Credit and as far as the obamacare individual mandate. Is it your opinion that the president would be supportive of both, meaning that may need to be a major tenet of the tax reform unveiled this week . He certainly supports the childcare tax credit. Im sorry, what was the other piece . The obamacare individual mandate, does that have to be a part of tax reform . I dont believe it has to be part of tax reform, but the childcare tax credit is something hed certainly like the see. Ill take one last question. Major. Sarah, you said a few moments ago the papadopoulos plea agreement is an example of an individual doing the right thing, but the campaign doing doing the wrong thing, but the campaign doing the right thing. Is that encouraging papadopoulos the go to russia on behalf of the campaign to so plus sit information solicit information . My understanding is he made false statements to investigators. Thats something that the campaign, nor the administration would ever support. All of his emails, again, were voluntarily provided to the special counsel by the campaign, and that is how they got to the place that theyre in right now. Are you saying that clovis is being misinterpreted by George Papadopoulos . Im not getting into the detail, im talking specifically about the multiple attempts that he made in setting up a variety of meetings. There were more than one instance in which he tried to set up meetings that were rebuffed about the campaign. He lied about a lot of those activities, and that is the place that you, i think, see come i through in the emails that were voluntarily turned other. You asked at one point during yesterdays briefing when the president became aware that [inaudible] you said im not sure of the specific date when that took place, so id have to look and get back to you. Yeah, i can respond to that now. The president was briefed in a pretty widelypublicized meeting back in january. Later that very day he said publicly hed received the intelligence briefing, and he believed russia was behind the email hacks. Thanks so much, guys. Hope you have a happy and safe halloween. Thanks. [inaudible conversations] and she exits. Manafort, gates, papadopoulos, all of that coming up with the media just now. We just have 30 seconds left, but im here with deirdre, and weve been watching the whole thing. The president probably feels like its one giant tax one giant distraction from tax reform. So while Sarah Huckabee sanders was speaking, the markets did lose a few points, since regaining. And, of course, this idea of whether or not Corporate Taxes will be phased in or not is one that many investors are focused on. Getting town to that 20 rate by 2022. Trish deirdre, thank you. Liz, over to you. Liz trish, of course, i was listening right alongside you and deirdre as Sarah Sanders said donald trump did not collude with the russians to throw the election. We know that the cold war is long gone, but the old soviet art of espionage is alive and kicking online. Who let it happen . At this hour the big trifecta of social media goliaths under fire on capitol hill. Facebook, google and twitter fending off questions from lawmakers on just exactly how russia was able to push thousands of political ads and bogus election articles in front of hundreds of millions