detail. you heard scott hodge. what do you make of it overall? well, i think scott s exactly right, that we re looking at a major pro-growth cut on the business side and nothing on the individual side that s going to make it meaningfully better. the house narrowly avoided sunsetting the corporate rate cut in years nine and ten which is a huge relief because companies make investment decisions longer than ten years. now, to make the math work for the budget, they had to make other things temporary like the new parent credit, but that does nothing for growth and could be extended if congress decides. paul: and the expensing provision, five years as scott said. but i think there ll be pressure to extend that after five years. that d be my guess. oh, absolutely. we ll just do this every five years if we have to. paul: okay. so, dan, the business side seems to be the best. the business side does, indeed, seem to be the best. cutting the corporate rate from 35% to 20%. and let me addre
there s conspiracy to defraud the united states. there s no such thing as conspiracy against the united states. he made it sound like treason. paul: he did. that s the heavy hand and the empty holster. tulle. paul: so you think there may be less here than meets the eye? there may be more, i don t know. but certainly, whatever s there wasn t uncorked in this indictment. paul all right. thank you, judge, appreciate it. when we come back, in the wake of tuesday s rampage, president trump vows to shut down the visa program used by the terror suspect, saipov, to enter the united states. but will an immigration crackdown prevent future attacks? our panel weighs in on that and the latest in the mueller probe, next. diversity, lottery sounds nice. it s not nice. it s not good. it s not good. it hasn t been good. we ve been against it. stage 4 prostate cancer. metastatic and it spread to my bones. time is very important when time is running out.
paul: bill, i was in tokyo and singapore last week, and the message that i heard consistently was that they want from the president reassurance of the u.s. commitment. what they fear is that trump is not something distinctive, but that he s a continuation of what obama started. right, right. paul: and obama withdrew us from that part of the world, notwithstanding the rhetoric of the pivot. there were no resources he put behind it or very few. and they see china on the ascendance filling the gap left by american retreat, and they fear with trump s withdrawal from the pacific trade deal, for example, that he s going to continue that. what they re looking for here is him saying, no, we re not. right. look, the reality starts with the post-war experience of american leadership in asia. help these countries democratize, helped trade, helped enrich them, and it s been very good for the united states paul: and i should just tell people, you lived in hong kong for many years. right, ri
almost exactly to a t the instructions that isis has put out in its social media channels before with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack. paul: judge michael mukasey served as the 81st attorney general of the united states, and he also presided over the criminal prosecution of the 1993 world trade center bombing suspects. judge, good to have you here again. good to be here. paul: you heard john miller. this is the kind of nightmare scenario for people who are trying to prevent this. somebody self-radicalizedded here, very hard to stop. well, self-radicalized is one of those phrases that, frankly, i d like to bury because he didn t invent the doctrine, he didn t create the videos, the support system and everything else that goes with it. he was alone, in a sense, but somebody who had passed through the radar before. paul: what i mean by that is
there that says that d.t., meaning donald trump, doesn t do these trips, and we ought to tell whoever this guy is talking to, we ought to turn him off ask do it at a low level so that we don t send a signal. that looks like it was something that they thought was a heir-brained hare-brained scheme. paul: in the manafort and gates cases, it seems to me if those two guys were going to cooperate, they would have cooperated already to get a lower, some kind of plea deal because mueller s throwing the book at them. i mean, these are, you know, serious charges with a lot of prison time. he s throwing a book at them but not necessarily the book. it doesn t charge, i mean, he talks about a fraudulent scheme, but he doesn t charge bank fraud which carries a 30-year penalty. he labels it conspiracy against the united states. there s no such crime. there s either conspiracy to violate a statute like the bank robbery law or whatever, or