That we seize it. My presidency is entering the Fourth Quarter. Interesting stuff happens in the Fourth Quarter. And im looking forward to it. Going into the Fourth Quarter, you usually get a timeout. Im now looking forward to a quiet timeout. Christmas with my family. I want to wish everybody a measure wrimerry christmas, a happy hanukkah, a happy new year. I hope that all of you get time to spend with your families as well because one thing that we share is that were away too much from them. And now, josh has given me the whos been naughty and whos been nice list and im going to take some questions. Reporter thank you, mr. President. Starting with north korea since
that seems to be the biggest topic today, what does a proportional response look like to the sony hack . And did sony make the right decision in pulling the movie or does that set a dangerous precedent . Let me address the second question first. Sony is a corporation. It suffered significant damage. There were threats agai
and least. i want to first get your response. this is the same talking.point we ve heard for a decade. no one s pay checks have gone up. everyone is saddled with this horrible tax code. we want a new era of american prosperity. that comes with a new tax code. harris: talk to me about what senator thune just said about salt, eliminating those in high tax area, 14 or so state, those who pay more into the government than they get back in terms of resources. you say no way. if you take away salt completely, you can t get this through the house. what does a compromise look like? so what i am committed to, to the house, our priority is to retain the mortgage deduction, the charitable deduction and the property tax deduction up to $10,000. that s twice the national average. we know, with the lower rates and the new family tax credit that even in high tax state, we re providing tax relief regardless of where you live.
sounds great, one page, sounds terrific. but i mean the republican party, they re not going to go for this. they re not. i don t see how they do, mike, i really don t, because the numbers are huge and they will just get bigger as the realization of policy becomes legislation. and the negotiations. take, for example, just on the deductions and the tax area. you really think all those lobbyists in this town that have banked their careers on protecting some of these deductions are just going to roll over and let them go away into that good night? it s not going to happen. so the speaker is going to have to manage that. he s going to have to manage the whims, the wiles and the wishes of the white house who s going to want to push forward a very aggressive, i think less republican agenda because this president has the ability by his very nature to play both sides against the middle, against his
are legislating in the tax area and everyone wants to know, okay, how does it affect the president. now that he s broken that tradition, how do we get it back? i think just by having another president. i think that s all it takes to get almost all of these traditions back. just another president. thanks, rachel. we are watching the special election in georgia tonight to see if the democrats can win a republican seat. it s been republican for 38 years in georgia. that republican district is now being led tonight in the returns by the democrat. we re joined now by kasie hunt who is there at the campaign headquarters. what is the latest that we have on this? lawrence, there has been a little bit of a shift just in the course of the last 90 minutes or so. when the first votes came in,
beginning in the tax area today. did they add up? do you really expect them to? do you believe his solution regarding the 11 million people here illegally does? do you believe his claims regarding the president do? this is a question that any candidate for president, sure, they can promise, they can promise anything. but do their promises compute? does their pitch pass the smell test? we americans are pretty good at this. when we buy a car we ask about the terms, we ask the monthly cost, the total when all the payments are added up. we don t just go for the car. we want to know what the cost is. and if we ve done business with this dealer before, this car dealer, we remember precisely what we got for our money. if anyone believes donald trump on president obama s birth, place of birth, if they believe that, if they believe that trump s talk of building a wall is real across the rio grande, that no human being can get over that wall, and have the mexican government pay for that, if you