orders to make a point to the people that i am going to do things one way or the other and i think those trade orders that saw yesterday are an example of that, and you know, but the administration has also said, and working with ball ryan and others in the house and nate that they want to get tax agenda going now and they want to get an infrastructure shift going now so those are part of the promises they made in the campaign and i think that the president feels very strongly that every week he wants to show progress on the promises that he made. leland: as the wall street journal reported, the executive orders and rhetoric on trade has been way, way dialed down from what we saw during the campaign or even what we saw during the inauguration speech. yeah, one of the documents that we saw, this was an early document so we don t know the current state of things, it showed that they were not going to be as aggressive at renegotiating nafta as previously stated by the president and sort
when you look at the rural counties and look at the poverty rates in those counties and measure them with the poverty rates of urban counties, they re very similar. here in missouri, i have a rural part of my district and urban, they re about the same in terms of the poverty rate, so we failed miserably, and if we don t seriously and significantly look at ways in which we can touch the folk in rural america, we re not going to win four years from now. so one of the things that came out of that autopsy is that the swing voters, the ones who were obama voters in 2012 and became trump voters in 2016 have something in common with the turnout voters shall the african-americans and millenials who didn t come out this time. here are the things that they have in common. donald trump s temperament could lead to war, they believe. his tax agenda favors the wealthy, they believe, and he will cut government programs like medicare and medicaid they believe. so that looks like a good
in a straightforward fashion and if further investigation is warranted i m open to that as well but let s proceed like we should and get the truth. should the transcript be put out? i m open to that too. let s see but we want to make sure that it s put out in the right way and redacted if there s serious classified information there. so i m open to that as well but let s proceed through this in a deliberatio deliberative fashion and let s go to all accounts. i ll take you at your word about how we proceed on michael flynn. we ll see what you do and don t do and we ll take the scrutiny from there. the president may say the media developed this. we both moe that s not true on the face of the facts. this is about what michael flynn did, how it was dealt with within the white house and how it became exposed but we re not talking about getting people jobs, about a tax agenda and all the things supposed to be done
tax agenda is a big reason why his company is investing $7 billion in the new arizona factory. trading around 10,000 jobs inside and outside intel. more proof that we need tax cuts now. charles gasperino, gerri willis, ben stein, kennedy is off this week. all right, charlie, do we need tax reform right now? i would say the sooner the better, particularly on corporate tax reform, which will, i think, be the immediate boost to jobs, although i like a tax cut and i think the more i spend and the more people like you spend and, definitely, the more ben spends, the better the economy. because he spends a lot. he s got a lot of money. when people with a lot of money spend a lot of money, that infuses the economy and i think we need corporate tax cutsment here is where the rubber meets the road. the president s going to have a plan and they re going to have a plan and then there s a competing plan called the infrastructure spending bill. and the wall. and how much of a tax cut can
i recognize you re running this campaign and not an economic policy adviser to the senator. but i wonder, on the point of releasing a tax plan, are we going to see a sort of fully formed tax agenda from the senator before iowa? absolutely. he s made that pledge and he certainly will. i will say that he s already released a number of components of his tax plan. for instance he wants to put a tax on wall street speculation to fund his program to create tuition-free public colleges and universities and to lower student debt. he has released a plan to tax income that s hidden in the cayman islands and other tax havens in order to fund his plan to rebuild the infrastructure of america and create 13 million jobs. he plans to lift the cap on taxable income and social security starting at $250,000 so we can extend the life of social security for 50 years, expand benefits for seniors, many of whom are trying to get by on $12,000 or $13,000 a year. so he has offered major pieces of his tax pla