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Maria is there any room for compromise . Even your own party says this does not reflect republican principles of thanks cutters. There is always room for compromise. But what the president is not going to compromise on is seeing historic tax cuts this year. He says this is a middle class miracle. Charles to my panel, Ford Oconnell and gail droughter. Gayledroughter. Gayle trotter. Where does the Republican Party go with this. It is a red flag. But it will be congressional malpractice if they cant get tax reform through. The details of whatever bill emerges is not going to please everybody or everyone. But they need to pass something. This is something the gop should not be let off the hook from passing. They cant let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Charles if they cant get thanks reform done, they will pay a heavy price, wont they . I think you are right about that. The pressure is on Congressional Republicans to deliver something for the president and the people. Unlike Obamacar
You move over and youre a trillion dollars closer to what tax reform should look like. It is an extremely important first step. If you skip that you end up with a mess. The path to getting it done, if youre able to do that youll lose moderates but it could get through the house but then the senate will be difficult too, isnt it . This has been prenegotiated. There is stuff thats not yet filled in. This has been worked with the senate and governors as well. Obamacare repeal is also the reform of medicaid granting medicaid to the 15 states and having 50 states do as clinton did, 50 different approaches. You learn what works and what doesnt work. Its a reform of medicaid, plus a trillion tax cut. When ryan and the president told the Freedom Caucus go in a room and go back when you can count to 218 that was important rather than have each one whispering about the other kid or trumps ear and they got tired of that and said you guys work it out. Thats where i think they wouldnt have walked o
Was your reaction to the secretarys comments . Were you heartened . I know we recently wrote a story about the possibility of transportation mixing with tax reform. The secretary saying no. Gopher big step forward. If you put grover big step forward. If you put Infrastructure Spending inside tax reform, thats less resources for further rate reduction. It reduce what is can you do in terms of the reform on taxes. Separating that is helpful. Bob maya, as far as the debt, and the offsets, it has been reported that the border adjustment tax certainly as the house has it is not going to be one of the offsets. Are you concerned about this being blowing a hole in the nations debt . Maya thank you for asking the question about offsets. Thank you for asking the question about the debt. Im a huge supporter of tax reform. We need tax reform as a way to grow the economy and increase competitiveness and lowering the Corporate Tax rate is an important piece of that. But theres been no talk of what t
News4 midday 4 midday starts now. Thank you for joining us. And we gin with this dramatic video. We aired this while police were chasing this ambulance down. They say the driver is now in custody. We are told he stole an ambulance and drove it out from the area into Prince George county. News4 midday 4 was on another story when he saw this first thing unfold. He is live in camp springs right now. Justin, what a wild morning. Reporter erica, a wild morning, indeed, we are wrapping up our last report and we heard sirens and an ambulance flanked by what appeared to be more than a dozen police cruisers. It has the look of a very high profile emergency transport. County police chief says that is not what it was at of a stolen ambulance that ended just across the street from us right over there. Near 90 minutes of panic brought to an end in Prince Georges county, a stolen ambulance on the streets and a team effort to recover it. State police, Charles County sheriffs and our office in the ver