plan to keep the u.s. there long te term, is he in support of that plan in the u.s. stays longer? the president is still reviewing what options he wants to take and we ll keep you poeshed. posted. repealing and replacing the affordable care act was perhaps the biggest campaign promise that the president made when he was president. does the president believe the fear that failing to do so will impact the republicans ability to hold on to the house and the senate in 2018? is this something that he s conveyed to members of congress in his conversations with them? again, we re going to get the job done, we re still focused on doing what we set out to do. but i would also argue that the president laid out a lot of priorities during the campaign, creating jobs, creating a better job environment, getting rid of
return by increasing the standardized deduction, so we are going to have a very simple tax system. as i said the other day, we want to go back to simple-one-page tax return where people can do it themselves at the kitchen table. maria: you think this is going to dictate behavior. look, you re keeping more of your own must be, you re probably going to put that into the economy, what do you see in terms of the behavior of individuals and companies when they do get much more attractive tax rates, you think you can get growth up pretty significantly with those numbers? maria, absolutely. the president s agenda and the number one objective is to grow the economy and create a better job environment. if you look at the tax rate, what s the number one thing we are going to do? we are going the make america competitive for businesses, we are going to want businesses to
brian, welcome. thank you for having me here this morning. jobs are looking strong. we know we are in a good economic cycle. we have seen a trump boost. yes. when you look at this specific number, this is a number on the campaign trail president trump said don t believe it, phony baloney, nonsense. when you look at the trump economy, where is the big positive here, if not this number. the positive, this is a start. the first month of a four-year process where he s going to have a strict focus on jobs, a strict focus on cutting regulations and create positive job environment. if you look at intel and lockheed martin, they are companies post trump s election they saw a president to create a positive biness environment for everybody. we are going to continue to invest here. u see e month, part of january is the second month growth. i think the next couple months and as you have more time for
specific answers. got to reform the irs. do a fair tax. a whole bunch of great answers out there things that would work that would help stimulate the economy that would create a robust job environment and would encourage businesses to come here instead of exporting america. we don t want to see jobs go overseas. we want people to manufacture and build here. how do you do that? you can t do it when our taxes are higher than everybody else and it s a frightening corporate environment. nobody wants to do business here. why would they? they d be fired from their nobody wants to do business in an america? on a large scale because of the punitive tax structure. you re buying into a view of america that s not true. america is the number one place in the globe on the world to do business. everybody wants to do business. you want to combat it with sophomoric argument. go right ahead, love. dana, welcome to the show. thank you. to that question about specifics at least on the e
thanks for joining us this morning. let me first start by asking you about the issue of mental health and pilots. it seems to me this is an issue that is sort of out there and maybe hasn t gotten that much attention until right now. how is this something in your experience in the airline industry, how widespread are the kinds of problems, especially this pilot having. for the pilot community, a problem like this is extraordinarily rare. in all the pilots i know i do not know of anyone that is battling a severe depression like this. it s not a job environment that is very conducive to somebody that is struggling with a severe depression problem. it s too intense. it s also the fact that pilots work very closely and close proximity with each other. if somebody is not performing well, other crew members will bring that first to their attention, but then to the attention of the company. and they will be given an opportunity to get their life