week and then they seemed to be at least on the same page about trying some things going forwar forward. i m very encouraged, i know he played golf with the president yesterday. it allows people to form associations, the bigger the pool you by end, the lower the cost. when it comes to tax cuts we desperately need to cut taxes. the average since world war ii is about 3.2% of gdp growth. i believe a tax cut is absolutely essential for growing the economy. i am hopeful we can pass the budget this week that will allow us to cut taxes later in the fall. harris: with all due respect, what is broken on the senate side? you played golf with the president, what did you talk to him about? did you talk about what s broken in the senate? it s about health care reform, we had a process that s not the best process. we ll have a chance next year to
dysphoria which is a medical condition. martha: it s worth pointing out that when asked, we don t have time to play this or not, but general medicine at his confirmation hearing said frankly similar, i never cared much about two consenting adults and who they go to bed with. he indicated in a number of ways, carl, that he was okay with this program moving forwar forward. look, i have no problem. if you want to be transgender in your own time go ahead. when i came back from iraq in 2009, i had skin cancer my family, so i get tested for skin cancer. the military wouldn t pay to semi to a dermatologist, but now they will pay for people to be transgender? that does make sense. it s on the backs of the american taxpayer. that s something i m not okay with. do what you want on your own separate template on the backs of the military, don t many of the military members, actually all of them, don t support this policy. martha: we gotta leave it there. robin, karl, thank you very much. g
he does report back to russia and does act sort of like a spy. there s always this concern within the fbi counterintelligence division that kislyak is here operating and reporting back to the russians and perhaps giving them information on what the u.s. government is doing. it s why there was such concern with his meetings with mike flynn, wolf. very, sbrerinteresting, inde. thanks very much, shimon and jeff. we ll stay in close touch with you. as the shock wears off, the skepticism moves in. many democratic senators, as they re questioning the timing of president trump s stunning decision to fire the fbi director. it comes as the bureau is investigating on russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election here in the united states, with possible ties between trump s presidential campaign and moscow. the senate s top republican and democrat disagree on the path forwar forward. today we ll no doubt hear calls for a new investigation,
do, but again, you re not going to achieve the full potential that you could if you did it the way that this is happening now. that being said, it is not a question we all knew how big this was, it s one fit of the economy, what it took. the issue is the disparate interests that are there and some of the process explaining, if you will. understanding the way this is happening, and i think legislatively it is complicated. for a lot of folks, they just understand why can t you do it all in one fell swoop, what is the bread roll, what is reconciliation, why do you have to do it in three phases, i think for people it is comp located to understand, and is not just a question of understanding, i think one of the other things that the president and the team have found is there are a lot of issues where people are wondering if i vote for this, how can i guarantee i get nothing in phase two which is the administration of, initiated peace that tom price
and any weight regret pursuing health care given how it is? how complicated it is? press secretary spicer: when he legislatively and i know for most people, does not make a ton of sense, but that savings you receive through the healthcare budget in the 2016 and 2017 process allows us to utilize the savings in that process to maximize additional tax reform measures that will start in the 2018, fy 2018 reconciliation process. while that sounds like a ton of inside baseball gobbledygook, the reality is that in order to maximize tax reform both on the corporate side to make our businesses more competitive and to give individuals especially middle-class americans for tax relief, doing this in that way maximizes the amount of savings that you can use for the second reconciliation package which would be tax reform. doing it the first way, you can