washington post" that trump administration officials were in early stages of considering payroll tax cuts as one way to boost consumer spending. we got an official statement, cutting payroll tax is not something under consideration at this time. yet less than 24 hours later after the statement came out, heard president trump in the oval office say i've always been looking at payroll taxes. he also talked about indexing. feel like i am preaching to the choir, the trump administration has been considering taking executive action to index capital gains to the inflation rate. republicans are on board with that, generally republicans on capitol hill. democrats say the white house doesn't have the authority to do that unilaterally, that it would only help the rich. watch this to see which proposal that the economic advisers are talking about prop up the economy come to fruition. >> an interesting conversation. all my years of covering the economy, never heard of taking executive action to change