i understanding is he s going to let congress introduce the official plan. there s hope yets for democrats, at ali. republicans have a keen way of shooting ourselves in the foot so i m saying to my democrat friends that there s hopes that this could fail. the problem with tax reform is that broad strokes are hard. i have broad strokes to be 15 pounds thinner. i ve had them for a long time. the only way that happens is with hard work and i have maintained if you thought health care was hard, tax reform is probably harder. i think the obamacare replace and repeal debate was significantly more difficult. you have issues like medicaid, all that tangled mess in the states. tax reform is easier and here s what i know to expect. we ll see permanent reductions in the personal income tax. currently people can only deduct $6,000 per individual in upwards of $12,000 for a married couple.
i don t mean the salacious stuff. that s correct. and that s the important part. most people, the salacious stuff is for gossip mags, the other is for the people. he says fusion gps is proud of the work it has conducted and stands by it. this is what they re saying publicly. we don t know what glen simpson said behind closed doors, but let me just show you something. president trump has been venting his frustrations to members of congress, he s been in sort of open warfare with some of them. there have been some where he said donald trump has expressed frustration over a bipartisan bill sanctioning russia, he tried to convince senate foreign relations chairman bob corker of tennessee that it wasn t good policy, and then you saw bob corker made some offhand remarks last week suggesting that donald trump really doesn t understand some of the things he needs to understand as president, which
happen. if you didn t do anything wrong, let the investigation happen and exxon rate yourself. it is the most bizarre behavior of a president in the modern era. since richard nixon. yes. if there s nothing there, you don t even bring it up. if your agenda is what you want to advance, business, infrastructure, you go do that. no matter the situation, once a week, sometimes every day you see the president drift back to an obsession about the russian investigation or talking to senators in congress on both sides. something about which he is not obsessed in this fashion about anything else, not about health care or tax reform, not about things that he actually should be. and why praise putin or say you want to deal make with putin. whether or not it had anything to do with his actual election, we had direct meddling inside the united states by a foreign power. you have to address that if you re president. you can t claim to be strong on defense and lower your defenses to a main a
few decades have not spent this time watching congressional testimony. this is an interesting concept that there are stunning stunnin allegations against donald trump and the trump campaign in this dossier that s not been verified. should the public have access? it is interesting, last time we had an investigation like this was iran contra, that was narrowed to a few media outlets, there was no cross dialogue amongst people across the country about what was out there. it was one way, everybody watched what information came out. exactly. it was very deliberate and slow. what you see now is there are parallel investigations, you have information coming out in the media before it is coming out to congress and you re hearing about subpoenas in different places, so people are trying to piece it together, and no one controls the entire situation. so what s fascinating is the level of interest from the public and also the level of confusion, you know.
when treasury secretary steve mnuchin said it was going to be done by the end of august, everyone who knew anything about economics said no way. that was before this administration fell apart on health care, that was before the administration failed to get anything done so now mnuchin on friday admits the administration is not going to be passing significant tax reform by august, maybe, because as bloomberg is reporting, the president won t even release his own plan and will rely instead of congress to solve the big questions. just because the president doesn t have details won t stop him from launching a multistate tour this week starting in missouri to sell the public on his tax reform proposals. joining me now is jen kearns of the washington examiner, a former spokesperson for the california republican party. what s he launching? what s he going to talk about? he doesn t have a plan. i haven t seen the exact plan but i have been briefed on the broad strokes of the plan.