go ahead and work with us. as a result of democrat supported loopholes in our federal laws, most illegal immigrant families and minors who arrive cannot be detained together or removed together, only released. these are crippling loop hopes that cause family separation, which we don t want. as a result of these loop hopes, roughly half a million illegal immigrants and minors from central america have been released into the united states since 2014 at unbelievably great taxpayer expense. nobody knows how much we re paying for this monstrosity that s been created over the years. legislation that nobody has any idea what they re doing. they don t even know what it means. you have to see this.
you throw everything out there and in the end you get something more than nothing. that s the whole point. maybe we ll see. and harry suggested he may get the nobel peace prize for it and should for what he s done so far. you heard the crowd chanting that last night. considering what obama got his for, cooperation between peoples and strengthening international diplomacy. check, check. just saying. remember, president trump s summit in three or four weeks in an undit undisclosed location. ms13 gang members are using loop hopes in our immigration system to get into the united states. the violent group paying smugglers to coach them how to lie about their age. peter king recently revealing to congress that families are being pleasured by gangs to become sponsors and claim the children when thame come here. a trucker survives four days
for success. that s house speaker paul ryan. over on cnbc, saying the republicans and white house are plan.ted front on the tax rorm not everybody shares the speaker s optimis one gop senator says taxes mes health care look like a piece of cake. with me now from capitol hill, chris murphy from connecticut, member of appropriations, foreign relations and health committees. lots to talk about. thanks for joining us. let s start with taxes. tell me what is in this tax plan you like that you can work with? the overall idea of tax reform is a good one if you re really serious about especially on the corporate side, whittling out the deductions and credits to lower the rate, that makes us more competitive, but that doesn t seem to be what this tax plan is about. they eliminated almost no deductions, credits or loop
ryan said you can t do taxes first because of the procedural parliamentary gobbledygook stuff. they wanted a trillion dollars in saving to pay for taxes? the fact at that that we can do it and that paul ryan admits we should be doing it now, what he s saying before is wrong, i m putting it politely. we should have started with it and could have started with it and let s go with it. an agreement on that. and it s what got him elected. republicans have been running on repeal and replace for three elections. what was different about donald trump, he s a business man, knows how to work with the tax code and knows how to get around certain loop hopes. didn t he mess things up himself in the beginning saying repeal and replace. they were ready to go with repeal and the difference with that, because they ve done this dozens of times under barack obama and he would sign that. and where would he go?
own panel? that is a democrat s plan. not the democratic plan. six democrats are on this committee and though i i have a great deal of admiration for all of them, democrats have no not coalesced around a plan. chris: isn t that a problem ten days out that the democrats don t have a plan? republicans don t have a plan. we re there to develop a bipartisan plan. that s why it s 6-6. i believe we can get to a bipartisan plan. we ve got to get realistic about these so-called tax increases. how do you define the close of a loophole as a tax increase is beyond me. if you have someone who is supposed to be paying 30, 35% in taxes yet can find loop hopes not to pay anything and say it s