Lower rates, address International Taxation in ways that currently but american businesses at a disadvantage, and allow for repatriation, but not simply empty out the treasury. And would generate enough revenue so we could pay for some infrastructure. Hope was that we would get some nibbles on the other side. To his credit, paul ryan expressed real interest in discussions and negotiations, but your previous speaker, mitch mcconnell, has said that he is not interested in getting tax reform, comprehensive tax reform of that sort, done. So theres still work being done. We are still in conversations with mr. Ryan, and i know that senators schumer and others have been working on the possibilities of a fairly robust ultimately you have to ask the leader of the senate, majority party, brought in to try to get this done. I understand why tax reform is losing, because those of us who believe in a simpler, fairer, more competitive tax framework in the abstract sometimes look at our bottom lines
Religion, the region they live in, they do believe in a common creed, that if people work hard in this country, they should be able to get ahead. I know that is what you believe. Those are the values you try to instill in your companies as well. My hope is that that decency and hard work, common sense will be reflected here in washington. With that, let me take questions. I will start with randall, since he volunteered for what i am sure is the thankless job of being head. [laughter] randall i will get it going here. Leader mcconnell was here earlier. He gave us all a cause to exhale talking about the budget. In the context of that, he spoke about how split government can actually provide opportunities for getting big things done that might be hard otherwise. He caused a headhead snapper when he gave you a strong complement over president obama my head is snapping. What did i do . Randall trade you worked aggressively. He was complementary about the work. We have the possibility of get
Have the forward air observers that would make it more efficient than what youve got today. Can you share with us a little bit about what youre doing to try to improve that situation and how you would like to see that handled . General austin sir, we routinely use all of our Intelligence Surveillance and reconnaissance assets, u. A. V. s and manned aircraft, to make sure that we are understand whats going on on the ground before we employ weapons. And we are diligent in our efforts there, not overly cautious to the point where we where were not able to take advantage of opportunities to engage the enemy, but were very, very mindful of, you know, the possibility of committing civilian casualties. Senator round but were not using any of our own forward air observers at all . Is that fair to say . We dont have any forward air observers on the ground at all . General austin thats correct. Our jtacs are operating in the command center. What that does is allows jtacs to have visibility over
And russians are close, we are still the best at this. Offense, ato go on whole bunch of countries would have some significant problems. See theont want to internet weaponize in that way. That requires, i think, some tough negotiations. We would like to see if we and the chinese are able to foresce around a process negotiations, that i think we can bring a lot of other countries along. And we will work with you on that. Thank you. President obama thank you. Thank you for being here. It is also good to be reminded occasionally of some of the progress we have made. Thank you for that. When to be a is good, even the iran deal, Health Care Setting up, all good. The place we havent made a lot of progress, but is really important for businesses, is on tax and tax reform. What we are getting to now is a think the most like kind of being backed in a corner. We are starting to talk about some deals. And the sub deals are destructive in this roundtables view to the total tax reform. Can you help
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