collusion between the russians and trump campaign. for now that testimony delivered to the committee in a closed door committee is not a matter of public record. however, during a meeting, mer suggest thad might change. i would like the transcripts released. i i don t know why i wouldn t but i don t want to say to because i never in all the years i ve been in h kocongress i hav gone through this process. joining me now is msnbc national security special agent. former fbi. good to see you all. clint let me start with you. we re in a different world now. americans have rarely in the history, certainly in the last
are swamped. we were in downtown houston when we got the call. when we got the call, we were witnessing a water rescue that we were about maybe three blocks from buffalo bayou, which runs through the center of town. there was a worker that was in his pickup truck, he went into the water, he wasn t sure how deep it would get, what people do, they say you see standing water, don t drive through it, his engine stalled and he was stuck. bayou, buffalo bayou through the center of the city continues to rise. it is rising because of what s dropping on my head now. this rain has not stopped, it has been essentially a torrential downpour in the city of houston since last night. when i spoke to you earlier, we talked about the fact that this storm has stalled. not only has it stalled, it completely stopped overnight between 12 and 2:00, it didn t move, phenomenal.
that is set to double under this plan. you have small businesses who are bearing a great burden of the taxes in this country. they employ nearly half of the private sector work force but their tax rate ali is 46%. that s because big companies don t pay taxes. we have a very uneven tax corporate tax application so president trump likes to talk about how it s the highest in the world, statutorily it is, but that s noting a recally real. well, look, our tax code is outdated, you bring up a great point there. we are not competitive with some western european nations or canada, for that matter. or, you know what, for example the one of the provisions of the tax code, the only other country that has a particular provision of our tax code is north korea. this tax code has not been updated well, he did say the guy who runs north korea is a smart cookie. here s the problem, you know about this. if you make these cuts that are
treasury secretary and gary cohn, economic adviser are under pressure to rebuke the president or resign. man uch in, 300 yale fellow graduates wrote a letter to him, he responded with a fairly defensive position about this thing starting with the i don t know why i have to defend the president. gary cohn got a lot of ink for a more reasoned response about why he thinks it is important to be in the service of the american people and stay in that white house and that the white house has to do more on these things, but to the point, lot of people say why don t you just leave? i think every cabinet secretary has to take a gut check, say am i here for the right reasons. secretary mattis, general dunford mcmaster and john kelly are there to try to keep the president from breaking the world. they aren t exactly the biggest fans of his but they have a patriotic sense of duty, whereas gary cohn wants to be fed chair
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