Senators return from thanksgiving break next week. Former texas senator phil graham, visiting scholar in American Enterprise institute. Senator, great to see you. Thanks for coming in. Great to see you, paul. Paul you have seen a lot of tax legislation in your day, helped pass good legislation, how do you see the two bills now just as policy, as tax and Economic Policy good or bad . I think they are both good represent good policy. I think the debate is that a lower level than i have before seen, people forget that 56 democrats in the house voted for the reagan tax cut. The tax reform in 1986 got huge bipartisan votes. Its ashame that things are as partisan as they are. Paul yeah, thats where we are right now. I think they will get no democratic votes in the Senate Unless republicans show they can pass it. But do you think theres enough progrowth policy in these bills to energize the economy over next two or three years, get up to 3 growth annually plateau . Well, first of all, the eco
Parkland, florida. He met with First Responders and survivors of the massacre that left 17 people that more than one dozen injured. New concerns over missed warning signs about the suspect. The 19yearold nicholas cruise. They responded to his home and the fbi said someone close to him contacted the fbi in january. Including information about his gun ownership and social media posts. Doctor sally is a practicing psychologist. She is actually a a resident scholar at the american institute. When you see a profile like this in the details about this young man, what is your reaction is a Mental Health specialist . The key word is emergent. This is all very patton retrospect. You can almost connect the dots. Even at the time the things that we did know in real time with that there were 39 calls to the house for to mistake violence in some sort of disruption from 2011 to may 2016. Thats a small span of time. He was expelled from school and before he was expelled he was not even allowed to car
Buyers, greater power to seize guns from the mentally ill and tighter age limits for buying rifles like the one used in the shooting at a high school in parkland florida. The nras top lobbyist pushed back on some of those proposals thursday night following a meeting with the president and Vice President , tweeting, quote, we all want safe schools, Mental Health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people. Potus and vpotus support the 2nd amendment, support strong due process and dont want gun control. Joining the panel this week wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim strassel and bill mcgurn. Bill, is the president finally breaking what he calls the gridlock on gun control . Well, it depends on which President Trump you mean. The President Trump that sort of said we could do away with due process and do a lot of things grab the guns first . Right, or the president after he met with the nra lobbyists and seemed to walk back some of his thi
We believe that ultimately were going to be able to trace this back in one form or another to a payment from the Trump Organization offer from the surrogate for mr. Trump. I think it is Crystal Clear they are doing everything in their power to keep this out of court and what does that mean . That means hidden from the american people. Lets get right to the white house and Nbcs Kelly Odonnell for reaction. We just had the completion of the White House Press briefing where this wasnt really covered. It was not the dominant topic in part because of the north korea news which well also talk about and in part because Sarah Huckabeesanders knows the land mines associated with this and took a much harder view of not engaging on the subject which is sometimes the back and forth between reporters and a spokesperson. If the door isnt opened at all, it is hard to keep going with questions. But as you point out, this is a case where Michael Cohen at least failed to properly protect the Trump Organ
Buyers, greater power to seize guns from the mentally ill and tighter age limits for buying rifles like the one used in the shooting at a high school in parkland florida. The nras top lobbyist pushed back on some of those proposals thursday night following a meeting with the president and Vice President , tweeting, quote, we all want safe schools, Mental Health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people. Potus and vpotus support the 2nd amendment, support strong due process and dont want gun control. Joining the panel this week wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim strassel and bill mcgurn. Bill, is the president finally breaking what he calls the gridlock on gun control . Well, it depends on which President Trump you mean. The President Trump that sort of said we could do away with due process and do a lot of things grab the guns first . Right, or the president after he met with the nra lobbyists and seemed to walk back some of his thi