this has just been confirmed. on whether the president will bring up election interference. it is clearly the biggest topic between the u.s. and russia. is the president going to press putin on that? obviously, i m not going to get ahead of the president s conversation. as we typically do, i imagine we ll have a readout after that conversation takes place. john? okay. thanks a lot, sarah. president s tweet today, does it help his legislative agenda? does it help him win the vote of the nine senators who have come out against that senate bill? senator collins, senator murkowski. what s your view on this? again, i think we re just looking for new ways to rephrase this question. the president was attacked, he responded. there s nothing more i have to add to that. i m not asking about i m asking about whether or not this
beijing? i m not making any comments on how we communicate. you re a math man. what are the chances that we get a 15% corporate tax rate or 25% corporate tax rate in the final bill? let me just comment. tax reform is a pass/fail exercise, okay? and we re gonna get this passed for a plan that s good for the american public. we are working closely with the house and the senate and we re going to get a bill that passes, that will be great for americans putting people back to work. how is it possible, noneding source of the healthcare to lead to lower premiums and expanded coverage? again, i m here primarily to talk about sanctions and tax reform, but i will comment on healthcare although it s not my primary area. the healthcare that s been in
we ll do that. hopefully you ll tune in. there have been a few questions asked this week and sean and i both said we would get back to you on. i want to address a couple of those now. monday sean was asked how we knew that the supreme court s ruling on the president s travel executive order was 9-0 when the case was when the decision was announced. in fact, the decision which stayed the lower court s injunction on the president s executive order for all affected individuals without a bona fide connection to a person or entity in the united states was unanimous on the point that the stay should be granted at least to that extent. three justices would have gone further and stayed the injunctions in full. no justice dissented on the point that the stay should be granted in part and no justice indicated that he or she did not participate in the decision. jennifer jacobs from bloomberg all asked about the imf projection about u.s. growth. this morning the commerce department revised first
month. that s incredible. guys, the numbers don t lie. the media is focused on priorities that don t line up with the rest of america. right now we ve gotted our economy growing, the stock market s up, unemployment is down, jobs are back and isis is on the run. america is winning and that s what we d like to talk about. but you guys constantly ignore that narrative. all of those points [ talking at the same time ] all of those things are true. but the president today put out this tweet which takes away from all of that. you expect us here in this room to simply ignore that. i think that s that s a lot. just ignore this entirely? i think he s put out a number of tweets on health care, on the immigration bills that will be in the house today, but that s not being talked about. that s not being asked about. but the discrepancy again, 353 minutes. you can t say that you want to
suffering the consequences of this failed law. the vice president is back on the hill this afternoon for one on one meetings on healthcare as work continues towards repealing and replacing obamacare. we are keeping these american families, business owners and individuals at the front of our minds. they ve been paying ever increasing premiums and still losing their plans and their doctors. it s time for republicans in the senate to fulfill their promise to the american people and come together around the consensus plan to fix this broken system. in terms of the schedule for today, this afternoon the president will make a big speech on the importance of american energy dominance at the department of energy. united states has been relying on other countries for our energy for decades. but with new innovation and advances particularly in liquid natural gas, we ve had the opportunity to not only become energy independent, but to use our abundant resources as an important tool in advancing o