Been going really well. Not so says the mayor of san juan. Put lives in danger, theres a disconnect between. Dickerson well get the real story from puerto rico and hear from florida marco rubio. Then its on to tax reform. As House Speaker paul ryan tells us what we can expect from the republican tax plan. Guarantee that every middle class person will get a tax cut once it becomes a bill. The purpose of doing it, is to get middle class dickerson is that a guarantee . What will the plan do for you and what do democrats want. Chuck schumer will be here, plus cbs newsman Bob Schieffer will join us, his new book over load takes a look at the news deluge in the trump era. Plus well have plenty of political analysis its all coming up on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. Weve got a lot of news to get to today but we want to begin with the ongoing humanitarian cries in puerto rico following hurricane maria. Cbs news correspondent is in san juan. David, right now what is the most urgent need . John, physically getting food and water to the people who so desperately are still begging for it. Yet people are still desperately finding clean watt are. Fema is there, bee saw the good work that they are doing but we also talked to the mayor who said its not enough. Ive got 60,000 people in town but only got 2,000 meals that i can hand out. John, there were people who got in line to get food and were given four bottles of water and four snacks, adults and kids. When some people came back for second they were turned away because the sheriff said, theres not enough to give second to people. Dickerson david, where is the bottled water, built no truck turnovers get them to the people is that where the problem is . John, the problem appears to be actually doing it. Theres a lot of talking, theres a lot of meetings but the actual doing is what seems to be lacking in many areas. When we went to the port earlier there were 30,000 shipping containers that we were told just sitting there waiting on truckers. The governor said i need truckers, i think governor because we cant get in touch with some of these people, theres no communication, their homes may have been destroyed. Good news, yesterday, we saw truckers leaving the port. But of those 3,000 shipping containers only three or four hundred had been prosed. Theyre going in, buying some of the supplies in those containers and sending them out themselves. John there is a larger military presence here today than there was a week ago but even a general on the ground has said, we dont have enough yet. Dickerson David Begnaud for us, thanks so much. Cbs news chief medical correspondent john la pat caught up with the mayor. And asked her what she would say to President Trump if she had the opportunity to do so . He is a businessman, i use business terms, right now were in the business of saving lives. And the supply chain of eight is not constant, is not properly administered, is not properly replenished then the business of saving lives will go bankrupt. Bottom line, right now, do you think youre headed in the right direction . Do you think everything is being done now that could be done . No. Dickerson we turn now to republican senator marco rubio, he joins us from miami. Senator, you wrote a letter about the situation in puerto rico you said there is no clear commanding control has that been worked out is enough being done at the federal level . Well, i think hope. Ly began to turn the corner on thursday evening when general buchanan arrived sort of command began to take over of the daily tactical and logistical operation on the ground. My concern was not that fema wasnt responding, theres a tremendous amount of aid thats gone into puerto rico. The problem is as i said to someone yesterday, there is aid getting to puerto rico but wasnt getting to Puerto Ricans because it had to be distributed from san juan to the different municipalities. Then distributed to people. They had established this sort of hub and spoke system where all the aid came in then had to be distributed out. Those Distribution Systems were victims of the storm themselves. They were broken. And so i felt and continue to feel that the department of defense are only people could have gone out reestablished that i hope thats whats begun to happen. There are some small inkling signs of progress in that regard, obviously from the time they make a move to the time you start to see its affects will take number of days. There are some other issues now emerging that i think are problematic, im very concerned about the situation with the hospitals in puerto rico. Ive had some ive heard some concerning things about that and hopefully well keep an eye on that. Dickerson what concerns you the most about the hospitals . The capacity of these hospitals. Im concern you how many medical personnel might be around do they have sufficient quantities of that. Obviously the system require the operation of generators and do they get enough of the fuel to those hospitals in time to continue to operate. Weve had reports of hospitals ca he middle of the night to say were down to two hours of operating fuel. I know that fema, i know that Emergency Responders are aware of this theyre trying to address it. But thats something to keep an eye on. Dickerson you mentioned that general buchanan got there on thursday. That is almost a week after this started. Was there just not fast enough recognition from the administration or from the department of defense to get in there . You know, i think they responded to the storm the way we respond to storms, this responded to it in way no different than texas or florida in terms of the assets, what that is, federal government says we are here to the local government or to the state government. In the case of puerto rico the territorial government were here to help, tell us what you need. That model generally works, its worked in florida a couple of weeks ago, helped in texas. It didnt work in puerto rico, the reason why it didnt work because government of puerto rico itself is a victim of the storm. There is 78 municipalities, some of those mayors themselves couldnt communicate with san juan and even if they could even if you could get to them deliver aid they didnt have enough municipal employees to be able to deliver the aid or didnt have resource like fuel or vehicles or even drivers in many cases. They recognized that a few days later, but again from the time you make a decision to make a change to the time you start to see its impact takes a number of days. Hoefully we are now at that point where were going to begin to see measurable progress. Dickerson speaking of the government, president has been critical of the mayor of san juan, what do you make of that. I dont spend a lot of time thinking about it to be honest, having now, having lived through four hurricanes, our desire to be a voice and a force for positive results, helping people. I truly believe that if we dont get ahead of the curve bad things are going to happen. Some have already happened unfortunately because storms are terrible things especially in an area like puerto rico where people have been without electricity much a week, but i do think every minute we spend in the political realm bickering with one another over who is right or wrong or didnt do right is a minute of energy and time were not spending trying to get the response right. I think when this is all said and done well have time to stop and look back and things have done differently, everyone involved in the response has things they could have done better but right now i hope well stay 100 focused on what needs to be done to get the people of puerto rico help and then well have plenty of time in the future to have these debates about who didnt do the right thing or what could have been done better. Dickerson a question about cuba, an issue you spent a lot of time working on. Ive been critical of the state departments, its weak, unacceptable and outrageous, is there any evidence that the cuban government has been bind these attacks . Well, obviously im limited in what i can discuss in Media Program like this. Let me just say this. Could you been is one of the most tightly controlled and monitored society in the world. Anyone who is interacted with cuba, been to cuba anything to do with cuba understands that very little happens in havana that the cuban government doesnt know about especially americans working for the state department. So, the idea that over 20 americans working for the state department, working for the u. S. Embassy could be severely injured in cuba and the cuban government not know anything about it is ridiculous. Dickerson what should be done now . Well, i think they have done half of it which is drawing down our embassy presence, again, for purposes of protecting our personnel. Everybody knows how i feel about cuba policy but set that aside for a moment, if Something Like this happened anywhere in the world with a government that tries to argue that they know nothing about it, this is the same response wed advocate. I agree with the drawing down of our personnel, i think it is fair in reciprocal for us to require a proportional draw down of the Cuban Embassy and the cuban diplomatic presence in the united states. Thats what i expect they will do. Dickerson let me ask you another question, your secretary price had to resign because of the private plane travel. White house has new procedures here, is that it . Is this executive branch thing or does Congress Need to look into this and oversee this since congress controls the purse string . Well, obviously congress controls the purse string you can always look in the internal budget of agency and put prohibitions in place. But first i think its an executive Office Management issue, if they can get ahead of it manage it appropriately, prevent that from happening in the future, thats what we would expect them do do, may not be a problem, congress should be focused on tax reform. Congress should have its handful trying to get tax reform done, hopefully before thanksgiving, that wont be easy. Youll have some guest on later today that will describe the alt to get there and how difficult that could be. But again this is an issue that unfortunately kind of got in the way of secretary price being able to continue to do his job. I think hes a good person. Obviously this didnt work out in the positive way and he had to step aside. But the important work has to continue. Dickerson all right, secretary excuse me, senator rubio, thanks for being with us. Thank you. Dickerson President Trump traveled to indiana this week to unvail new republican tax reform plan. But at this point the plan is only a framework. We traveled to aspen, pennsylvania, with Speaker Paul Ryan to, tour manufacturing plants and get more details. Mr. Speaker we are at Pennsylvania Machine Works im go to ask you a question, how are these tax cuts going to help the blue Collar Worker . What are they going to take home in their pocket . First of all the whole purpose to get middle class tax cut, to pep the people working paycheck to paycheck keep more of their hard earned dollars. Our economy has been growing between one and two percent. We havent had 3 growth in a decade. That means workers are struggling, number one, a middle class tax cut to help those families keep more what they earn. Number two, this business is a perfect example of how we need to help get tax reform to get tax rates done so they can stay competitive and keep hiring people. Dickerson what am i taking home . Promise knowledge anything . Can i you know some money is coming to you, well did make it to fill out taxes in a postcard. Lower his taxes, thats really important. More take home pay. But another component to this, look at this machine shop. This business pays a 40 tax rate but it competes with companies all around the world who pay average 22. 5 on their taxes. Well lower the taxes on this business so globally competitive can compete with the foreign competition then give this business an ability to write off the investments to buy more machines to hire more workers to raise wages, that to us to really important. I want to get back to the business in a second theres some debate about effective rate they pay. Stick to the worker for a minute. Can you gharib tee that every middle class person will get a tax cut once this becomes a bill then that pass . Thats the purpose of doing this. To purpose to get middle class tax. I dont know every single persons small problem or issue. Dickerson but minimal if its on entire purpose to lower middle class taxes, yes, people will get tax cuts. How big, that depends on the individual. Do you have kid, going to be a bigger child, are you married . Have zero marriage dickerson thats the worry those are the kind of things that will determine based on how low peoples taxes go we want pro family tax cut to make it easier, to get married, raise kids. Dickerson you mentioning doubling standard deduction, getting rid of exemptions and Child Tax Credit is up in the air those numbers havent been figured out yet. Thats right. Dont know how much its willing going to up. Dickerson there may be some families who do see their taxes increase im saying objective for the bill as it goes through the process will you work to squeeze that number . Thats exactly right. Objective is to lower taxes for middle class taxpayers. Dickerson something you wanted to do in the past youre in the doing here which is expanding the earned income tax credit for childless filers, way to help people who are at the bottom end, people who have seen this inequality, why is this were still working were keeping it because its effective thats one of the things the Committee Still looking at. Within the framework of this bill are many of the decision that have to be made. Because the framework of this, the reason we did it this way, is unlike health care, we wanted to make sure that everyone was on the same page with respect to the house and the senate and the white house. Now working within that framework were going to be targeting these things so that we can make sure that middle class taxpayers get a break and one of the things that we think helps move people into work is eitc. We want more work incentives dickerson you could expand it. Let me ask you this then. Coming in the process, the president wanted to get rid of carried interest loophole thats something that committee will make a decision on. Dickerson shouldnt it be a no, it should be something that the tax writing committees who are in charge will be deciding and working on. This this is one of the issues. Point im trying to make here is i like going through what we call the regular order pros. Dickerson youre pitching middle class tax cut you say every child in america should have an opportunity in this country thats part of the american dream. But there are specifics in it. Getting rid of the estate tax. Wered income tax credit not being expanded might be in the future. The carried interest loophole. If im middle class person, estate tax people are taken care of, alternative minimum tax that will help the wealthy but things that will help me were going to double your standard deductions so you can file taxes on postcard. Take people who are in 10 bracket put a lot of that money in zero percent tax. Taking 15 down to 12. Increase Child Tax Credits. Going to maintain critical things like incentives for home buying, charitable giving. Education, retirement savings. Those are calling middle class tax things. The purpose of this is to help People Living by paycheck, keep more of their money but also get more jobs, faster growing economy. Dickerson the theory behind lowering of Corporate Tax rate. Corporate tax rate goes down how do you know companies will put it back into wages. Going to shareholders. When you lower that the tax on businesses is taken out of wages. The point is dickerson isnt there quite a lot of debate about that . Legal me say it this way. Should we be taxing american businesses at much higher tax rates. This business is high as 40plus percent, competitors are taxed 22. 5 . Now does that help this business in global competition . Effectively the rate is quite lower than 40 also i guess the question is thats not always the case. The point is, we know were taxing our businesses at much higher tax rates than the foreign competitors. Here is the point, john, businesses are leaving america. The current tax code discourages making thing in america, the current tax code says if you are good enough to be big enough to make money overseas you cant even bring it back because of our tax laws. Dickerson you have spent your life thinking about tax reform, the other thing, fiscal issues. Will this increase the debt . Going to be deficit neutral. The bird rule. That will have to be deficit neutral. We do believe that this tax code and this tax reform will give us faster Economic Growth. Faster Economic Growth helps raise the economy which raises revenues and that helps us tackle the deficit. Two things we got to do to get rid of this debt. Deal with entitlements, thats why were frustrated health care reform. Deal with run away spending also grow the economy. This helps grow the economy. So if you are asking me whether its deficit neutral tax reform thats what it has to be. Dickerson after ten years . What about the debt in terms of additional money tolt debt from this, not deficit year to year. This results in giving us a faster Economic Growth. That will help us reduce our debt. Dickerson what a lot of people who have known you for a long time, when they hear you say if this gives us growth they say hes gone to the dark side. I think its the bright side of Economic Growth. Dickerson but they say the growth is something that youll need to fund this just beyond two things. Youve got to have tax reform to get faster Economic Growth. Its necessary for us to get our debt under control. But you also have to reform entitlement programs. Dickerson could you tie entitlement reform to this . You could, but i think wed kill tax reform if we did. Let me show you one piece of evidence, the senate cant get health care out of the senate. Something that is proven to fail is tax reform, why would you do that . Dickerson that lead us to politics. Affordable care act didnt make it through in the senate why is it going to make it through . Tax reform . I think it will make it through for a few reasons. Number one, we did this on the front end we negotiated a framework so that we all agree what thisth needs to look like. In health care what we did we passed the bill in the house, then senate looked at our bill decided to go a different direction. Here we are. We have more consense on tax reform and less consensus on health care reform. Dickerson i dont hear you talking about working with democrats. But do you work with them on this . Were not going to give Chuck Schumer the ability to filibuster. Do we want democratic involvement, absolutely. Did the president have democrats in the ways and means two days ago. Dickerson you are worried they will work with the democrats . Any he should work with democrats. Dickerson on tax reform . I dont think not on filibuster a big mistake. Because were basically dooming tax reform. But do we want democrats to work with us . Of course we do. We had joe donnely on the plane yesterday going to indiana which i really believe some of these democrats from some of these states are going to vote for this. Indiana, number one state for manufacturing, this tax reform so much helps these kind of manufacturers, i think when people look at their constituents, tax breaks for middle class families making manufacturing more competitive, helping businesses stay in america, creating more jobs and faster Economic Growth. I got to think that some democrats are going to listen not to the Party Leaders but to constituents. Some are going to vote for this. Dickerson well be back in one minute with more from house spooker paul ryan. Dickerson we spoke to speaker ryan about the topic of race in america. A year ago we talked about Race Relations in the country you said you hoped then candidate trump would be inclusive you said, hes new at this. Its been a year now, how would you rate his ability to bring this country together which hasnt clearly like you said on the charlottesville thing it. Like three comments one was great four comments i think, two good, two bad, i think like you say, hes learning. I know his heart is in the right place. Dickerson how do you know that . Ive had some candid conversations about this, especially during that time. I do believe his hard is in the right place. I think what matters is that we have to show people that we are inclusive society, that we want everyone to succeed. I think theres more that all of us as leaders have got to do to be inclusive with people make people feel like theyre included in society. I think we got long ways to go just as society in the country for that. Dickerson here is the criticism we know with the nfl, the president makes the case for those who kneel and argues about patriotism. He never has chosen what thats about. Should that be addressed by a National Leader isnt that part of the conversation . There has been conversations, weve had these police shootings, ferguson, that has been a National Conversation no two ways about it. We do hearings on this, i set up a Task Force Last year after the police shootings, Bipartisan Task force. Dickerson as the president hes one side of the argument but holding opposite view and being concerned what i think a lot of people who are protesting on that dont necessarily see is that other people see it as disrespecting the country, what it stands for the flag and people who died to protect it. I think clearly people have right to express themselves in First Amendment however they want to. But what so Many Americans i see this at home see is youre disrespecting the idea of america that we want to make this free country a more Perfect Union and people have died to protect it. They dont see the point that theyre trying to make. Dickerson mr. Speaker, thanks for being with. I you bet, thanks, john. And ourselves. For a better us, donate to your local y today. Bp developed new, industryleading software to monitor Drilling Operations in realtime, so our engineers can solve problems with the most precise data at their fingertips. Because safety is never being satisfied. And always working to be better. Dickerson Chuck Schumer who is stapping by in our new york is stapping by in our new york studio. Plant. This is tim barckholtz. Thats me this is something he is researching at exxonmobil using fuel cells to capture Carbon Emissions at power plants. This is the potential. Reducing co2 emissions by up to 90 . While also producing more power. This could be big. Energy lives here. 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