that is on the business side of the equation, making sure all americans are competitive against each other and grow our economy. that s how you increase wages on a self-sustaining basis. they don t want to use that term because of the big deficits. that s what it is. give more money to people like me. then i will use private investment to drive benefits to the middleclass. they get a booster on top of whatever their tax cut is. economically it s dubious and practically we have seen that it doesn t work that way every time. you shouldn t be guaranteeing it as an outcome. i want to the see the information top prove the economic growth we get with all of our tax revisions.
information to prove the kind of economic growth we are going to get with all of our tax revisions. so we ve got steven moore, cnn economic analyst and former adviser to the trump campaign and dylan is with us analyst. dylan, let me start with you, we heard it first from senator collins, concerns with the individual mandate, part of the plan stands right now that would mean that health care premiums would go up which would negate any savings from tax cuts for middle class americans. how big of a problem is that as a saling pint foint for republi? that s a big problem. really industrial policy. tax policy dictates how you want capital to flow, how you don t want capital to flow, how you basically deal with resources. and i think what s challenging about this particular piece of legislation, it s not hand es in
probably has to happen before he can move into doing the tax revisions and tax cuts, and the prosperity in a way depends on that. david: but, again, what he outlined just briefly for us in italy, the extraordinary visit first with the arab nations and then going, meeting with the head of the religious leader of roman catholics in the form of the pope, and finally with the european leaders. i mean, this was a kind of a diplomatic tour deforce, a hat trick, a lot of people said he couldn t pull off. this was big. he shifted the political ground in europe and i think with russia, and i hope, very much, with iran because that s where the, i think other than north korea, i think that that s where the real contest is going to come, between iran and its various, such as hezbollah and hamas and
they talk as often as five times a kay. this isn t the first time mccain has gone from thorn in the side to legislative partner as he acknowledges. when president bush was president and i said rumsfeld ought to resign, voted against his tax revisions. then president obama was elected and obama care is the first agenda item out of the box and i fought tooth and nail against it. well, it s the grumpy old man. i allege that i didn t even joy losing. but i also allege that it was both a mischaracterization. i ve always been results oriented. mccain was a thorn in the side of george w. bush. mccain s anti-obama streak was so violent in 2010 it helped
at the same time that message whennet out on seirius tv on wednesday. he and his father were open to talks. libya s national transitional council is in for tough questions today. he goes for the libya contact brief in paris to discuss his plans for the future. international support for the ntc is reporting. russia tv is now recognizing the group as libya s new authority. amnesty international has release add disturbing report describing the deaths of detainees. they cite at least 88 victims and say that more than half the bodies show signs of torture. india s most famous corrupt activist is regarded as a haier. he was admitted to the hospital after striking. those are the top stories from cnn, the news leader. i m max foster. world business today starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning from cn london, i m nina dos santos. a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories