corporate taxed cuts phased in over many years. where do you think this is going? in my fantasy world, i want to rip up the entire code and have a flat tax. i know that won t happen. so i m not upset that we re doing sort of a halfway step. i am upset that that he half-way step is becoming a third way step. a quarter of a way step and maybe when it s all over and done with, it will only be a tenth of the way. given that russia is in the news right now, here s my deal. why don t we send podesta and manafort and hillary and all of them, let s send them to russia and russia can send us their 13% flat tax. both countries might be better as a result. neil: you think this is in danger of not passing? we ll get the details wednesday. we can be wrong on the things we re getting worked up about right now. but is there a sense that this doesn t happen? all it takes is what?
power in the world replacing the united states. while there is more internal going on, xi is external. i do believe we ll see, but north korea blowing up as a result of kim jong-un and the problems he will cause are not in china s national interests. so you have to believe that after he has all of this power now that he will start exerting some of it on north korea and start bringing this thing to a halt. this crisis doesn t serve him well anymore. neil: you would think. we re just learning the white house is announcing the apprehension for a terrorist on benghazi. that resulted in the death of our ambassador and three others. the president has said because of this successful operation, he will face justice in the united states for the alleged attacks on benghazi. it would be some closure i
neil: the credit idea would be a set dollar amount or just for different income groups? it s a set dollar amount with a cap on it. neil: in addition to doubling the standard deduction for a lot of families, this would be on top of that? yes, sir. neil: so their concern among the deficit hawks is how the heck are we going to pay for that. you say? i say that we re talking what is left of the mortgage interest deduction and using the tax expenditure geared to the wealthy and putting it toward the middle class. neil: all right. again, meantime, that doesn t look like it s going to happen. dan mitchell has more. how big of a deal with that when the home builders association is saying no, not us? obviously you want every interest group to be possible on your side. i can understand why the home builder s guy, he s in charge of defending his piece of the swamp. obviously when you combine that with the other swamp creatures trying to preserve the existing system, that s one of
because you can t count on democratic help? a little bit may be. i guess it s a bit of a distraction. today we are talking about manafort incentive tax reform. you and i are talking about something different. it s a bit of a distraction. the republicans in the house are committed to doing this and moving forward and this doesn t tie directly back to the trump campaign. doesn t tied directly to the president. if they evaded the law and didn t register as foreign agents, they should be held accountable. most of us they left the special counsel to his work and we will do hours. neil: the reason we mention it is with george papadopoulos and whether he but be talking or trying to squeeze other players to get roped in, that it does escalate. you don t think it will?
american intelligence failed. and right now, he s focused on that than substantive issues. i believe there will be major changes both in the military and the intelligence community and probably is pretty occupied with that. i just hope a crisis doesn t hit the white house the first couple months. bob, julian, thank you very much. we ll be right back with reaction to the death of fidel castro. we ll go to havana where people are celebrating the death of cuba s fidel castro. ya sleepin ? come on!e on, why what time is it? it s go time. come on. let s go, let s go, let s go. woooo hoooo!! yeah!! i feel like i went to bed an hour ago. i ll make the cocoa. get a great offer on the car of your grown-up dreams at the mercedes-benz winter event. it s the look on their faces that make it all worthwhile.