impeccable educational skills, background, but there is a lot more to it than that. there is a lot more to it i think the other thing, neil, most business decisions are going to catch up with you and haunt new one of these campaigns which as we have seen in the last couple of days. neil: absolutely. the diatribe is so unfair and one sided, i think the other thing i do think, business leaders are prepared to answer questions factually and objectively. when you get into the political arena as you watched during the campaigns and so forth. this stuff takes sideways turns and goes in different directions. neil: you are not kidding. watching there closely. bill, always good catching up. thank you very much. thank you, neil, appreciate it. neil: some texts are out the president wants to declassify along with a whole bunch of other stuff. the impact after this. that s it? yeah. that s it?
good catching up. the market is catching up a little bit today if you wanted to keep up. the best january performance since monthly performance since march of 2016. bottom line, that advance good enough for better than 6% advance of the dow on the month. again, generally, that can be a good indicator for the rest of the year. not all the time. but 83% of the time. history shows the last couple decades, you re up in january, you re up for the year, you re up this month in january, you re up about 13% on the year. 83% of the time. we shall see. the president is still talking tack cuts, but democrats are still talking them down. the message seems to be boomeranging on somebody. who do you think? after this. david.
worldwide. this is the right direction to move. the president showed a different tone, the right tone, set the right kind of message that the right kind of tone with this action. and senators cotton and corker already working on the kind of legislation that we may need to look at moving forward. let s figure out what we have to do and begin to look at the sanks that we may have to put back in place. neil: all right, congressman, thank you. good catching up. thank you. neil: in the town of seattle you know with all of these technology names and amazon and such, a lot of it, the advertised rate, they pay the full corporate rate, 35% and all. they can t write off a lot, aren t special allowances or breaks for them. imagine talk of bringing it down to 20%. imagine the runup that you ve seen in these stocks since the election. a lot of guys might not be big personal fans of donald trump but they are big fans of what donald trump is cooking up. big tax cuts and how it
house is going to be happy waking up to today. no, that s a 30-point drop, think about that. and it s a huge turn around. and it s, it s a big moment for the white house as it tries to turn the page to talk about anything but obamacare. and the reality is as we get into the new year, that s what they re going to have to deal with. you know, with john podesta now becoming part of the team, i think there s an expectation that they want to push on a number of different fronts on a number of different things, but they re going to have to deal with all of the aspects of obamacare. and i think this poll shows it s all catching up, basically, over that you can keep your doctor, and you can keep your plan. martha: yeah, it seems so true. you know, it s interesting to me, bret, because we ve seen the administration over the course of the entire president si, you know, try to work on the things they wanted to work on, and health care was one of them. when the economy was terrible
when you ask, if you look back historically, many of those things have not happened. you know, the 50s, people thought we were going to have jettison like cars that would fly. we ll still have those, just 50 years later. why do you think this is different? why do you think these things are different? the claims we re making are straight forward extrapolations of work that is going on now in labs. educated guesses based on trends that have continued for a very long time. if you go back to 10 to 15 years ago, the predictions about the arrival of the internet, the impact of personal information and so forth have all, in fact, come through. is the united states the center of the world for this stuff? for the moment. there s evidence that asia will get there. the number of engineers being produced in asia and the commitment of education in asia the connectivity in asia are all catching up, and eventually it s a numbers game and there are