he s a writer for president obama and the book. and liberty fares, and senior for rand paul, former u.s. attorney from alabama, and jim nul, staff writer at slate. now there is only three of you up there, but there are really four of them here, i think. there you go. okay. let s start with this, then, if we can, david, issue of the tax plan. and the headlines that have been coming out. i ll bring up one poll in terms of the approval rating of it, it is now 25% of approving of the tax plan, 52% not approving. is this going to make it through when kopg comes back? i have no idea if it s going to make it through. i do think one of the things we saw during the obama years was tax cuts for the wealthy became extremely unpopular. and as you pointed out in your introduction, this is a tax plan