It. Neil on to that dysfunction and is it problem hi, everyone very happy to have you im neil cavuto, weve got kennedy, adam and look who is in the house, ben stein. [applause] neil thank you very men. He was passing out hundred dollar bills in the green room. Hes great. Neil hes got them to burn. Only problem is they werent real. Neil he doesnt quite tell you that until after the fact. Charles what do you make of this bottom line is we will function we will still get the job done. Charles a lot of dysfunction and i tell you whats interesting this week there was a report of 152page report on politics and he broke the Republican Party into four different groups. Im calling them tribes. Its interesting that you have marco rubio saying yeah, were all going to take a little pain as long as its not bad and this is just it. Is there a Common Thread with these four tribes . It used to be lower taxes. It used to be fewer regulations those are low hanging fruit. Obamacare repeal so i cant say that tax reform is a slam dunk. Neil what do you think . I dont think its a slam dunk. I think its a good chance it will happen because the Republican Leadership is back against the wall. I think the biggest sort of problem i think with tax reform is not coming from flake, jeff flake or corker. I think it comes from john mccain and if he gets Susan Collins involved he leads a sort of back door effort to basically kill this thing, i will say this though. Neil youre still confident it will happen . I think it will because here is the thing. I could say mccain saying screw it, im not voting for this and i think trump deserves whatever he has but that said i think others will look at this and say okay, ive got to be here for a while. Im a republican. If i kill tax these tax cuts neil i kill it for my buddy still. I kill it for everybody and maybe myself. I mean its a bitter pill to swallow helping donald trump sometimes. Neil some might actually like it. Who . Neil the republicans. If you listen to the president. Neil dan what do you think of that . Ben i think they get something passed and i disagree with the idea that there is new radically different dysfunction. Washington has always been a very partisan town thats what its all about. Neil you dont agree with corker . Ben i think we have a functioning democracy and we do need a Corporate Tax cut and we do need to have this around the edges and i admire mr. Trump for sticking with it and focusing. People say he has the Attention Span of a gnat. Not true. Neil some gnats are brilliant. Ben gnats for their size are incredibly brilliant. [laughter] ill be interested to see what kevin brady releases this week, were supposed to get that out of the house. I know hes spoken with you several times on your shows on the Fox Business Network and fox news channel. Neil i take no honor there i think hes spoken with the cartoon channel. Frankly, i think its a little bit weird but having said that the devils really going to be in the details of course republicans want tax reform of course they want tax cuts and the economy to grow and want all of this great stuff. They just cant agree how to do it and the problem is youre just shifting burdens from one side to the other saying you know, we have to bring in money by getting rid of the state and local deductions. Neil your problem is this a view that you dont have to pay for tax cuts or explain that. I dont agree with the idea of revenue neutrality. I dont agree that if you cut something here you have to raise it over here because i think ultimately the middle class is going to pay because even if we have these great person and Corporate Tax cuts, its not going to be tax reform. Youre still going to see Something Like a gas tax where the middle and lower classes are going to be hit. But this is not tax reform. No this isnt tax reform. On the individual side theyre not changing much. Think about what theyre doing keeping all the rates the same almost. Neil well we dont know for sure. Adam, is it your sense then that a lot of democrats have appeared on this show, other shows all been saying, you know, dont skew this to the wealthy if you dont we might not be inclined to reject it right out the gate, but i still cant imagine democratic votes for this regardless even if they were to double the taxes on people like ben. What do you think . Adam i think youre right and charles set the tone from the very beginning theres a lot of good policy being discussed on this program and in congress and i think that will be, that will end up being beside the point. They have so many things working against them. Neil i dont think what we discuss on this show is ever beside the point. [laughter] adam i heard some very interesting things being discussed here, including from kennedy, but they have to get everything right. Neil wow. Adam not at all. [laughter] adam they have to get everything right and its very, its very complicated and they arent very good at getting everything right and this president is not very good at get egg everything right. Give you an example. The way he gums things up with tweeting about the 401 k . Its not funny like this is a serious part of the proposal. Neil adam you dont like him , so adam i dont like the way im a corker fan. I take that as kennedy he said hes a cork erite. What does that even mean . Neil he likes corker. Adam i agree with his criticism of the president s behavior in situations like this all im saying is that this makes it difficult to get a very complicated thing. Neil he did mention a very good point that the president might be deleveraging committees that could sort out how you pay for these taxes, if thats what you have to do and by ruling out a 401 k , by ruling out lets say a deduction for state and local tax he didnt do the latter. Hes open to all of that but he then makes it more difficult to get these tax cuts. I think he makes it easier. Lets take some of these things off the table the gop is negotiating among the gop. Lets take these things off the table. Neil on that party very big on the deficit. Charles some of them are and here is the thing. Narrow down the argument and make votes that way. I honestly believe when this is said and done im putting my finger in there and feel the pulse of people particularly those who voted for President Trump and they will end up getting rid of the state and local deductions or changing them dramatically. What are your alternatives mess around with a 401 k . Nobody wants that. Kennedy you have to encourage people to save money because Social Security wont be there for people in their 30s, 40s and 50s. Neil ben stein you could take that benefit away for the upper income right . Ben you could take it away for the upper income and i dont object to that particularly although i guess it would be quite a loss, but adam i agree. Ben it will hurt me. Neil finish bens thoughts. Ben im not going to like it but look weve got to have some offsets. We cant just cut taxes without offsets otherwise we have blowing up the deficit to get so large it will blow up. Kennedy how about cutting spending though . Ben kennedy they never can do it. They never can do it. The problem with getting rid of the deductions is youre supposed to do that in the context of the tax reform taking down all the rates, and then you get rid of that. Thats not what theyre doing. Base on the framework of the individual side and the corporate side they are doing that. Condition eddie thats ultimate justification in places like california as ben knows in places like california theyre so justified having high state and local taxes because they know theyre going to be deduct the and thats why theyre spending and cropping up unions across the state to help write local laws. On the individual side this is not tax reform and what youre doing is essentially raising taxes by not really reforming the rates thats one thing. The other thing ill say ben thats crucial. Its just a tax increase. Not a tax cut on you. On some people. But whats good about what trump is doing and whats bad. Ill say where it comes down to margin stuff and politics not just using about the 401 k , i dont think its a big problem but i think being personal about this and making john mccain angry and getting corker on his bad side and sticking it to people. Ben if he gets this through , it will be a miracle. Who cares . I dont care. Neil but i think you raise such an important point with all due respect its not tax reform. Its really on the individual side its a tax increase. Its a tax increase. A lot of people will pay higher taxes than they thought they would in november but i will say too, where president obama had going for him was that a lot of people a lot of democrats fell on their political careers they gave them up pushing through his agenda particularly the healthcare bill and knew they were giving it up and they did it voluntarily and i think weve got a lot of republicans, its like me first, party then. But its hard to get behind donald trump on some of these things. Ben it is. Its hard to vote for a tax cut. The guy calls you names dont you not want to vote for him . Kennedy but see thats the problem is bob corker made the mistake of falling into that personal trap and hes not going to win and ben all right all right well you sound like a loser kennedy. 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Kennedy so excited to get 2800 pages of nonsense and 300 pages completely withheld because the deep state neil we have 2800 documents, hundreds of thousands. Kennedy hundreds of thousands of words and pages and all because the cia pinned them down and said that we have an extra secret dossier and we will release it if we release these files. Neil adam theyve had 25 years to get this together and out there and send the warnings and they didnt do it. I mean man oh, man what do you think . Adam i confess. I wonder what secrets theyre protecting that are relevant after so many years. That said im not a conspiracy theorist. I trust that they have good reason and well see it eventually. Neil oh, really okay, ben . Ben to me the lines are absolutely clear cut. Lee Harvey Oswald psychopath, communist, hates america goes to russia, gets a russian handler named marina to be his kgb handler goes to castro, the worlds leading hater of kennedy and next thing appears with a gun and shoots and kills kennedy the line is as clear cut as could be. He was alone guy, maybe had a bad day, had a fight with his wife and he kills the president of the united states. Its nonsense and the communist lines are clear as a bell. Why the cia backs off from making that clear connection i do not know. Neil well it is what it is what im wondering though its going to affect all of this stuff so someone into making conspiracies can make more money here. This probably created more conspiracy theory. Charles a lot more questions and ultimately people will cherry pick whatever they want from the report and they will try to bolster that argument. And throwing the weirdness of jack ruby, the guy that ran a strip club i think connected with the chicago mob and the chicago mob had it out for kennedy in so many ways, and you throw that into the mix with whatever oswald had, thats where these conspiracy, bottom line is neil that guy was a communist and he was trained by the russians and trained by them kennedy and he went to mexico. Ben we dont know all of the connections but thats the biggest trouble we have despite the president s that have been shot and killed in office is that we cannot fathom that alone nut can put it off. Well he did it in las vegas recently. Were still looking for that. Neil that doesnt mean there arent these communist connections and Everything Else but in the end. How about ted cruzs old man. Someone should have asked trump about that. Kennedy theyve all been redacted. Wouldnt it be lovely if we could get the truth . Absolutely right here americans we can handle it its been 25 years since they authorized the release. This happened in 1963, neil . You werent even born yet by 20 years. Neil but 25 years ago is when we authorized we would release that. Now were not doing that. And theres a reason for that. What do you think . Well im wondering too but what im thinking is here is why because despite all these interesting things that ben says and kennedy said good people spend a lot of time on this subject and didnt come up with any evidence. Neil thats not true. Kennedy ask people on the warn en commission. Adam, you havent watched all of that. Ben i agree. Thats the communist connections of oswald is absolutely breath takingly convincing and mountains of data. How about the mob stuff . Ben a lot of documents. Neil we should say all right guys in the meantime forget about taking over the world amazon wants the keys to your home, after this. 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Kennedy i think its intrusive i trusted 22 year old amazon driver to just waltz inside my house and not try on my unmentionables not a chance. I know talk about the first problems. Neil theres a variety of directions that one caught me off guard. Could have gone a lot of ways neil ben . Ben i think its a ridiculous idea. I hardly trust anyone to go into my house at all including my own family. I dont want some stranger walking into my house delivering something and potentially steal ing my wifes unbelievable valuable jewelry and unmention ables. Please please amazon reconsider this. Neil but adam i assume theres a mutual agreement you sign up for this service and some people if its not dropped off then its weeks before youll see it. So do you agree . Do you have a code, a time to get into my house and get out what do you think . Adam thats right we dont all live in gated communities where there are guardspeople at the desk and that sort of thing. Neil the whole nine yards. Can you imagine . Adam this is good for those people who dont have people like that helping, plus theyve got cameras involved, so that you can watch. Neil do you can see whose stealing stuff in your house, right. Exactly. Its brilliant. Charles well my wife orders so much stuff from amazon theyve opened a Distribution Center by my house so its a moo t point for me. I dont want some guy running around my house looking at my un mentionables. The other half says they have so much stuff on us already so its so easy. Neil theyre in your compound. Theyre in our compound anyway from a technology standpoint given how much we transact online. Neil kennedy . Slippery slope here. Kennedy let the market decide if theres a market and people want to spend 250 for the key and camera combo then maybe it works and it will be word of mouth that makes it successful. Neil you railed against it in the beginning. Kennedy i wouldnt do it. I dont eat butter but that doesnt mean it should be illegal. 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