the same time we ve got to get sustained growth and lower the corporate tax rate. that s what americans are looking for. they don t want to us worry about the 21 or two, and they want us to come together and that s important in next couple of months. elizabeth: with that, i want to put a graphic up for some of our viewers at home and breaks down the differences that we re seeing in the house and senate proposals. that being said, a lot of it has deductions being cut in different areas that are different for folks, and i m curious as to when you look at a graph like this and you see the differences, where is there going to be compromise in the conference? because i don t want to go through the fact that there are seven or four brackets, or mortgages between one and 500. i m curious to where americans are going to see a compromise? what is the final number looking like on some of the columns? here is what i m hoping we re looking at. i m a businessman for decades and a c.p.a. when it c
leland: hope you re having a great saturday afternoon. i m leland vettert. liz: i m elizabeth pran, thanks for joining us. leland: this time speaking to vladimir putin about russian election meddling in 2016 and in those two other big agenda items that he s on the trips for. live to amy cel ok in vietnam where it s the middle of the night. the president waking up for a few hours, the president had the two main issues on this trip. we heard the focus of trade and getting north korea to get rid of their nuclear weapons and. any progress on either? trade deals particularly in china but there s still a long
20 million veterans who are alive in our country today and thanks to them, their service and their sacrifices that we have the freedoms we have so, of course, with the rest of the country today we say thank you. leland. garrett tenney thank you outside of memorial. elizabeth has more, liz. liz: that s right, the challenges they face coming home can be varied and daunting. the va came under fire per response for veterans needs back in 2014 and while the administration reports improvements of claims, of course, the bureaucracy and staffing hurdles are still surfacing, so joining me now to address these issues is the ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america paul, thank you so much for joining us, paul, we really appreciate it. my pleasure, great to be with you, ma am, and happy veterans day. yes, and i do want to talk about some of the challenge that is the va faces and maybe some of those barriers that can be
crisis in syria. amy kellogg has more. we had rumors of a formal meeting, but that didn t take place, correct? that s correct, elizabeth. it didn t happen and president putin, somewhat tongue in cheek said that the person who messed this up would be punished. he apparently, elizabeth, merely wanted it to happen of course, it would have made him look very good, but relations are at a low point and ultimately why this tete-a-tete didn t come off. president trump reportedly told reporters that he and president putin have a very good feeling between them and a good relationship, even though, quote, we don t know each other very well. trump said that at their few brief encounters at this summit and this vietnam he did ask putin about election meddling which the russian leader denied. he said that he thinks that putin is insulted by this and it s not good for united states
today. when you double the standard deduction, 95% of americans don t itemize so i was bringing this up in the committee that these deductions, sometimes never even make it to the tax return. so i m hoping that we re looking at that. i know we both, senate and house, agreed to double standard deduction and that s what s got to be important and i hope we re not bickering on the actual deductions, in many cases we re only talking 5% of americans will have those deductions. elizabeth: i know you re not saying that deductionses aren t important. are you saying that the brackets are more important, that the corporate tax rate is more important? what s going to give? welcol, i think the most important thing is lowering taxes for middle americans. and lowering the corporate tax rate. we re not competitive. we have the highest statutory tax rate in the world ab one of the effective highest tax rates in the world, that s why businesses are going overseas. elizabeth: when you talked about tax