Russia and some of our other toughest competitors around the world. When our businesses compete and win, it means better paying jobs here at home, higher wages, bigger paychecks for americans. And so were going to continue to keep focused on tax reform that delivers tax relief to hard working American Families and that creates greater growth in our economy, better paying jobs and higher wages for people in this country. And the focus, of course, of tax reform is to improve the quality of life for American Families. And you do that by lowering individual tax rates so people get to keep more of their hardearned money. You also do it by lowering corporate rates so that businesses can have more money to pay higher wages and to increase the activities of those businesses. Additionally, there is a lot of money in u. S. Companies that is still sitting overseas that wed like to get back here, but the tax code makes it a lot harder because those companies are taxed twice; once in the country wh
Own world cup. Well hear from the coach later in the program. First to afghanistan where the taliban is reported to have retaken most of the city of kunduz. Government forces have been trying to take control of the city since monday. Just a few hours ago, they said they made gains but those appear to have been short lived. Lets go to our reporter south of kunduz. What are you hearing as far as whos in control of the city right now . It is very fragile situation. We talked with a couple of Afghan Government officials, saying they cleared some parts of kunduz city from the taliban, but the taliban attacked them back in the past hours and taliban could manage to get control of some of the area they lost this morning. Afghan Government Security officials are telling us that they are suffering from lack of leadership, lack of coordination. Even about 7,000 Afghan Security forces are involved, still, they could not clear kunduz city. They are telling us they are trying to move slowly because
Acknowledgments, you said my son a bully me into writing it. We are talking about this book blue eyed boy. That is true. Desireever really had a to write this book. People had asked me over the years, why dont you write it . I said, i do not need to get into it. I was concerned about after flash. Hard,eing, you know, too dredging up the motions would be too heavy. I did not think at that time years ago that i had anything to in anyt was a anyway way there were a lot of books written by veterans who were wounded. Craig kept pushing. Since you may know, he was a little kid, he started wanting to do something, he just trove you nuts onto you say, ok, do it. I said, craig, do not want to do it. About, if youking are ever going to do it, this is the time. ,e look at the country everything has come back around. We have these deep divisions over 2 wars. Troops coming back, terribly wounded. Maybe youit is have something to say about that that. I said, maybe i dont. He said, try. And so, i did
Wounded. You know, it is maybe you have something to say about that that. I said, maybe i dont. He said, try. And so, i did. I thought about it and he was absolutely right. I was hoping with this book to write something that would number one, show people what to the cost of combat really is. But number two, aimed at men and women coming back in seriously bad shape. Loss of limbs, all sorts of things. Maybe this book will give them something to hang on to. A sense a little luck, some grit, so people that care about you. You can really put you life back together. Not the way it was going to be, but in a way authentically your owner. Let me show you some video when we talked about your book the nightingales song, 19 years ago. Here you are on the program. [video clip] what i did to a large extent, i felt anger and hostility that many of my [indiscernible] my sense was, i do not think it is good for me. It is not mentally and psychologically good for me to be part of it. To a certain exten
Physically and emotionally rebuilt himself and his career following the explosion. Bob timberg, in your acknowledgments, you said my son bullied me into writing it. If not for him, it would not exist. We are talking about this book blue eyed boy. That is true. I had never really had a desire to write this book. People had asked me over the years, why dont you write it . I said, i do not need to get into it. I think they felt i was concerned about after flash. This being, you know, too hard, dredging up the emotions would be too heavy. I did not think at that time years ago that i had anything to say that was in any way there were a lot of books written by veterans who were wounded. Craig kept pushing. Craig, as you may know since he was a little kid, if he started wanting to do something, he just trove you nuts onto you say, ok, do it. I said, craig, i do not want to do it. We started talking about, if you are ever going to do it, this is the time. We look at the country, everything ha