it will not be felt until after 2018. right. and that in the short term, because everyone s going to no one s going to get hit with the tax increase next year. and because their big bet, which is that what we ve seen over the last year, which is that the stock market has been up, that gdp growth has been pretty solid, that they re going to get a big boost in business confidence and although most corporations will sit on their profits, they will put enough money back into the economy that they ll be able to point next summer and into next fall, they ll say we had robust growth, jobs are growing, we got a low-income growth here and the market is still soaring. they ll be able to create a kind of gestalt of this is kind of working in some broad sense and will not, the negative aspects of the middle class and the working poor, will not be felt until after the midterms and all they re focused on right now is the midterms. they re not focused on the out years. they re looking at next y
and as far as trump is concerned, remember watergate was nearly two years before it kind of caught up with richard nixon. and whether it s the president s misconduct, whether it s the scandal in russia, whether it s his narcicisstic insecurities, whether it s his inability to perform on a national stage and in a national stage, the net effect is that the republicans are now in a massive civil war internally. the poll numbers of this president and the republican party in general if you look at what happened in the virginia elections are in the dumps. and they are kind of in a death spiral that the point. so the notion that all of these things are not catching up with president trump i think is wrong. i think that the gestalt is that they are catching up and look at
ka kander and alice stewart. alice, first up, what do you think about these allegations against roy moore? how big of an impact do you think it s going to have on the race? look, my first television job was in dothan, alabama, and i can assure you there the people there in dothan, alabama, are not going to be swayed by one story in the washington post. he s getting some positive local news coverage. i talked to the campaign manager tonight and he said, look, they re trying to be respectful to these women, but talt, they are going to vigorously fight dpe against these claims. they say they are false allegations and people in alabama are going to see that. they are going to fight these. they have sent a strongly worded letter to the washington post saying this is inaccurate information and defamation of his character. i strongly think he should stay in the race. he says these are not true. unless they are proven true, he needs to stay in the race and he will win. people of alabama
working very hard and can t make ends meet. raies for individuals, increase the child tax credit we appealed the alternative minimum talt tax or death tax. retain it for kmarp we have a lot of things that are the most will be able to i ll on a single sheet of paper. wow. great job. thank you very much. [ laughter ] i didn t know i was going to be given a prop. it s yours. it s yours.
department of state, there are 15 ports in florida. can you tell us about their stalt s and when they ll reopen and become fully operational? basically we want operations in daylight only initially. so everyone is confident. in some cases some buoes we have might have been moved off stations. for some of the other ports, for example, the port of manatee near tampa, that one is only open with daylight restriction for the moment. we re working hard to get the equipment and personnel we need and into jacksonville where we expect them to begin tomorrow. we re also working to get equipment down to key oui wrest which is little tougher for us. can you give us the situation