Away, your children never pay. so the main take-away i get from this tax bill is go into commercial real estate like donald trump. yeah. donald trump is going to make out great on this bill. just eliminating the estate tax will save the trump family about $1 billion. not bad deal. pleasure to have you on. great to be on. thanks. next on gps, president trump s anti-iran rhetoric and actions have united the islamic republic in a way not seen in many years. that is according to a striking report by the new york times. we re joined from tehran when we come back.
Find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. now for our what in the world segment. in the early 1980s, the united states dispatched two officials to new zealand on a crucial information-gathering mission. what they learned there paved the way for one of ronald reagan s crowning achievements. tax reform. but as republicans strive for tax reform once again, they are missing most of the key tax lessons from that reform and other countries. so we at gps thought we would do our own information-gathering mission, but then we found someone who had already done it and just wrote a fun, terrific book on the subject, if you can believe it. so we decided to bring him on instead. t.r. reid is the author of a fine mess about taxes around
Eastern europe are cultural and social. the most important revolution in economics in the last generation has been the rise of the behavioral scientists trained in psychology who are finding that people systematically make decisions that are against their own interests. this might be the tip of the iceberg in understanding human motivation. the real story might be that people see their own interests in much more emotional and tribal way than scholars understand. what if in the eyes of a large group of americans, these other issues are the ones for which they will stand up, protest, support politicians, vote and even pay an economic price? what if, for many people in america, and around the world, these are their true interests? for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column this week. and let s get started.
Seem to be moves to tell the russians, you know, hold off, we re going to try and relax sanctions on you, we re going to try and have a different relationship with you. and presumably, at least, many people have said, this is all because trump was in some way being assisted by the russians. we don t have any proof yet on that first piece of the story. that s right. i think that is the however, you know, $100 million question, $64,000 question. that is the question. and there is still a lot we don t know. we know why the russians were reaching out to the trump campaign repeatedly and in many different ways, which is also very classic, right? you have lots of different kind of efforts going out, lots of tentacles reaching toward the trump campaign. which is totally understandable. because you had trump talking about how he wanted to respect russia and get along with russia, how he thought putin was a great and strong leader. that he wanted to pull the u.s. back off the world stage, w
At the time these conversations were happening between flynn and the russian ambassador, jared was in charge of foreign policy for the trump administration. for the trump team. he was the one that was approving every meeting that trump would or would not have with a head of state. he was the one that was determining foreign policy direction. so it begs credulity he would not have been aware of what he was discussing with kislyak. and if flynn was saying, hey, we re going to make sure these sanctions come off, i think jared was absolutely a part of that. there s no way we re not going to find that out. now, i don t think that s collusion. for me, you know, collusion implies that trump and putin were actually in some way working together to try to swing the election an illegitimate way. i don t see that. but i do see breath taking, staggering incompetencies. i think jared had no idea what he was doing was potentially problematic for awhat an administration would look like and there were