what the u.s. treasury secretary said this morning on fox news sunday. treasury secretary says he s drafting sanction proposals for the president to consider that would cut off trade and all other business to north korea. now the u.s. has somewhat gone down this road already. the treasury department announced a couple of weeks ago that it was assessing penalties against chinese and russian businesses for conducting business with north korea. additional sanctions would give the treasury department more flexibility to do that. and under existing sanctions, and existing law, the treasury department could do that. it is all up to what this administration wants to do, whether it wants to try to persuade china to try to tighten the screws against north korea or whether it wants to penalize china to do so. arthel? arthel: rich edson, thank you very much. mike: u.s. defense secretary mattis today after meeting with president trump and his national security team saying the u.s. is not looking a
so the president tonight announced that he will not be talking about the number of american troops who will be serving in afghanistan an he will not talk about any sort of timetable for any plan to get out of afghanistan though he did say they will be doing some type of economic development in afghanistan to defray the cost of our war there. which means i think we will be starting to dig up afghanistan s mineral resources to take them for ourselves. maybe that s what he meant. sacrifices all around. we were all reacting to the speech tonight. the washington post published an item that we maybe need at this moment. the wife of our new very wealthy u.s. treasury secretary posted online tonight about flying with her husband on a government plane to kentucky.
the washington post published an item that we maybe need at this moment. the wife of our new very wealthy u.s. treasury secretary posted online tonight about flying with her husband on a government plane to kentucky. she wrote about the fancy and fashionable stuff she was wearing on the trip. #hermes scarf and when she got grief for that in the comments to her post the treasury secretary s wife responded, quote, have you given more to the economy than me and my husband? pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you would be willing to sacrifice in the choice was yours. the peon is silent. we are coming up on the 17th birthday of this war on afghanistan and the 17th year of our national response to 9/11 after president bush urged americans to go shopping more
decision. i think that we may have to agree to disagree. i am sure there are some people that are disappointed. i have heard from a large number of individuals. that s just myself and i don t know that many people in the fbi. as the new york times points out, the chance of countless agents calling the white house to complain about their director and being ran to the deputy white house press secretary is precisely zero percent. the economist sat down with president trump for a wide-ranging interview focusing on his economic policies. the main focus of the may 4th interview published yesterday was the president s recently announced tax plan. trump and treasury secretary, steve mnuchin would not go into specifics saying they are contemplating things. when asked if the wealthiest americans will benefit the most? president trump said, i don t believe that. on the subject of his own unreleased tax returns, the president and his director seemed to differ on if and when.
london. the president s tax plan was the main focus. details and specifics were scarce. a lot of talk about priming the pump. that s right, louis. on the tax plan, president trump was asked if it was okay for the reform to, in effect, increase the national deficit. the president said, basically, yes. it is okay. the increase won t last for very long. he also talked about the hope that health care reform would help to, in effect, pay for this tax reform. remember that in an of itself was not a done deal yet. then, there was the, quote, prime the pump. an old economic phrase used to describe when governments increase spending or make changes to the tax code to in effect boost economic growth. when he talked about the need to prime the pump, he in effect seemed to take credit for the phrase saying he came up with it a couple days ago despite the interviewer saying he was aware of the term and then u.s. treasury secretary, steve mnuchin did step in to explain over the course of the