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true, is illegal. and now members of both the house and the senate are launching an investigationemean to learn more. one of them is house ways and means committee chairman, jason smith, and he joins us right now. chairmanright no, you for joini. i got to tell you, nothing nothe thanore irat the idea that they re being retaliatory. you know, they re retaliatin ar i should say, against a whistleblower who s done it the righsay, ar t way, a valiant public servant, highly credible. t and yet the idea that heha is actually being retaliated against. r what s your reaction? what s happening nex t? at t jason, it s great to be with you. let s t let s put the record out. if you look at where we wherewev we got to where we are today,e we have two whistleblowers. one that s came public and the other one we released swornell. testimony as well. both of those whistleblowers that they have now been retaliated. and that s in factn
or ethnicity. you cannot do it. the only country in the world is based on an idea, the american idea. basic fundamental decency. and it is being shredded right now. it is being shredded. no matter how old or young you are the elections or as consequential nationally and locally. cuesta present spoke to reporters on his way to marine one before heading back to dc. he said his administration along with house ways and means committee chairman, kevin brady and house speaker, paul ryan, are looking at a tax cut for middle income earners and that it could come just before the midterm elections. it is unclear exactly how that would happen. congress is not in session again until after the elections. so far the white house has not elaborated any further on the remarks. jon: what does the president have on tap for this week ahead? reporter: when it comes to
politicicing through november and beyond that. in we had tax reform, these companies would stay here. this is about the connection the republicans have to make is to connect the dots between these companies leaving means jobs being offshore. that is what is unpatriotic. if we fix those tax issues, those companies will come back. even the promise of being a priority number one in the after the elections with paul ryan being the chairman of the ways and means committee, say this is my number one priority, i m going to fix these things, a lot of these companies wouldn t move now. why is it so hard to do it? absolute paralysis is the word of the day. but president obama had two commissions that he appointed that both said our corporate tax system is costing us jobs. and then you blew them off. still ahead, the things to watch in the week and weeks ahead. so what s this?
thanks, eric. many american companies are looking to move their headquarters out of america, and abroad to avoid the 35% corporate tax rate here in the u.s. the highest in the developed world. on tuesday, treasury secretary, jack lew, sent a letter to house ways and means committee chairman, david camp, saying our country needs a new sense of economic patriotism. joining us is maya macguineas, from the committee for responsible budget, one of the foremost experts on tax policy. good to see you. thank you for joining us. what s your assessment of this letter that jack lew sent to dave camp? i have to say, we all know what s going to fix the situation, and it is really a threatening situation to the economy, which is we need to reform the tax code. and so his call for economic patriotism, frankly, i found insulting and meaningless, right? it s not really going to do anything to change the environment, and it s sort of implied that companies doing what they have to do to deal