you give up a lot but not half of your paycheck. so we have to give up too much of our liberty. so people should fb able to retain liberty so that s why i m with tax cuts. but also debate over what it will do to the economy. so if you say it will only grow 1.9% it might leach a big hole. so a lot of things that actually are unknown that will happen from this tax cut. and i do think that in the end, the money is more wisely spent by the people who earned it then by the people who didn t earn it. but consistently for a smaller government. so when i vote for a tax cut corresponding cut in spending as well. are you concerned where the president stands on this? a man multiple times bragged about being the king of debt gs, said, quote, i love debt, nobody knows debt better than me, and now doing just that? by the way his own companies
if we re going to have clearance, then get him clearance. but should those individuals like don mcgahn or others who knew about this, should they pay the price and resign? i would have to think about that. from the little biti re i read t it, it looks like don mcgahn did let him stay there and kelly didn t respond. while i have you, let s talk about north korea. did the vice president of the united states, from your perspective, you got a lot of diplomatic experience, foreign affairs experience, did he not have the opportunity even reaching out casually and going over to the younger sister of kim jong-un and saying, you know what, this is a tense situation or forget about substance, just simply say hello? no, i don t think he did. i think the hard line, combined with some of rex tillerson s comments about no regime change
he s a hero. and he clearly did not know that rob porter. you are calling our reporters liars and other reporters liars when you say that repeatedly, steve. this man could not get a security clearance. at the very least, let s go from there, he couldn t get a full security clearance, so general kelly doesn t inquire why? oh, my goodness what s come up with the fbi investigations that my man can t get a security clearance. we all know people in our lives. we work alongside them and respect and love them. but when we are told they can t get a security clearance, we might ask the fbi to look at his file. we might discover very early on, because this was out in january of 2017. only saying he knew in the fall. he could have known as early as january. that s a good point. and thank goodness the process worked in that case. he didn t get clearance thank goodness. but he continued to work. and i m glad he s gone. keep in mind the facts here is the white house would have determined c
general kelly didn t know that there were problems with mr. porter s clearance. if he knew there were problems, then because he s a smart man, he would have looked into them. as i said we have reported that he did know they were domestic abuse. he has right to look at the fbi file which means he didn t believe the women. and fbi file by the way would have had all these details, interviews were done, pictures had been produced. i m just saying the files would have had details. and what s really sad about this is that given all the me too movement involved, to think that in the fall of last year general kelly didn t sit back in his chair and think, oh, wait a second, i may have this problem right here. now, we ll learn more. but i think that the fbi did, sounds like they did their job. but you know in the end the decision about classification is
really discourage women who are in a difficult situation, it is really, really frustrating, and, look, if they want to tout the bravery of general kelly fighting at war, they also need to recognize the bravery of these women fighting against domestic violence, and we need to take a stand and at some point there is going to be a bridge too far and this is it. bill, i wonder what you think about some of what we re hearing from the white house. it seems kelly was aware that some of the allegations were holding up the permanent security clearance of porter. he knew that. that he s in the fully aware, how does it stand to reason that kelly didn t inquire about these allegations. it seems to me that if someone says, hey, there is something holding up a security clearance, it is reflexive to say what is that? and if you find out that it has to do with domestic abuse, you say, tell me more. yes, i never thought i would hear myself say this right, but i think you got to say that