they would not say how many flights or passengers were affected. one was christine romans. the star of early start. stuck in washington, d.c. apparently completely unaware that things such as trains and cars and buses also exist. only flights from washington to new york apparently. she was down there to host a policy debate. economic debate with the trump campaign and the clinton campaign. she was joined by greg ipp and steven moore. the clinton economic adviser on behalf of the secretary of state. the debate posted by the association of business economics. the sides have different visions and promises for the economy. romans asked how a trump administration would achieve the goal of 4% economic growth. first of all, if trump wins, he will have a republican congress and we will be able to pass our business tax cut within the first 100 to 150 days.
moderator. that is why she was in washington, d.c. she was joined at the moderators table by greg ipp from the wall street journal. trump economic advisor warren spurling. romans asked how a trump administration would achieve their goal of 4% economic growth. first of all, if trump wins, he will have a republican congress. we will be able to pass at least our business tax within the first 100 to 150 days. we will have a stack of executive orders he can sign that can undo a lot of the executive orders barack obama put in place. but he says she has done it before. hillary clinton was part of the administration that i was part of that had the four-year
is a transatlantic sport. here to tell us about the government s stylings and strategies is greg ipp. thank you for putting up with that somewhat ridiculous intro. but your premise here is basically the dysfunction that sort of defined europe. manifesting itself in the united states. can you take us through what you re trying to argue there? sure. i mean anybody following the economic debate here in washington for a couple of years hearing the fed chairman or the treasury secretary and sometimes the president complain everything would be fine if those guys in europe didn t keep screwing up their own crisis and patching over everything in the middle of the night and getting us the can kicking deals and i have to say that the europeans can throw that right back at us. i mean, like this is a forth time with the last fiscal cliff deal up to the deadline and basically patched the way over
debt somewhat lower than america s. the share of gdp. it s a distribution of the debt that s a problem. you have the counties in the south and northern countries that don t want to pick up the tab for it and the nexus of the problem, a dispute of how to get paid for. you know, if you think about it, that s a little bit of what we have going on here. neither democrats or republicans disagree there s a debt problem and nobody really disagrees that the problem is fixable as the numbers you quoted tell us. the big fight is over how to deal with it. neither side seems to want to accept any of the other side s recipe for getting this done and that s why we have dysfunction. well, greg, to your point you write in this economist piece this week mr. obama boasted he had fulfilled the mandate by raising taxes on the rich. in fact, he and republican leaders are building a brussels on the potomac. i think you re right and tea
of the next election telling the elderly that their sacred programs are cut back so i think the next piece is harder than the last one that was about taxes. greg, i wasn t trying to make a point there. i thought you said republicans and meant democrats. i wasn t trying to sort of be a, you know, pushy there. i was trying to get it right. that s all right. okay. all right. we have cleared that up. greg, sorry to leave you hanging there. thank you. america s biggest problems are hurdling at us at lightning speed. up next, jonathan whihite puts on asteroid alert. i have low testosterone. there, i said it.