Folks than what the Mainstream Media focuses on . Absolutely, people are happy that the economy is picking up speed. On the russia thing is more fake collusion than actual collusion despite the hearings and accusations and people want to turn that off. They know that Vladimir Putin is a bad guy trying to upset our political system here and they get that and know he used propaganda online, on the cable stations and the like, but, theyre focused americans are focused on, times are getting a bit better. David they are indeed. And david, even a democratic pollster like peter hart, he had a focus group recently and talked to a lot of clinton supporters who were condemning trump on everything except the economy. They did give President Trump credit for a growing economy. Well, i think that we have a new normal, wouldnt you say . In that we have the first time, a president with a Strong Economy inherited, i might add, with the lowest historical modern day poll numbers. Theres a disconnect there in that not enough people are giving them enough credit to give him overwelcoming or a majority, if you will, of approval ratings. So, something is off. I dont know if its because of the Mueller Investigation, or Mueller Investigation or because he hasnt passed one piece of mainly major legislation. Well see if he can change it to confidence on the economy. David emack, i dont think that theyll ignore that the economy is doing well and Goldman Sachs says it will do better. 2017, according to Goldman Sachs, is shaping up to be the first year of the expanse in which growth surprises to the upside. We expect 2018 to deliver more of the same. Yeah, so does Deutsche Bank and credit suisse. The new normal, europe growing faster than the United States. Crabgrass growing faster than the United States at 1 1 2 growth. That was the new normal, i dont get what is going on with the democrats today. You would have better luck getting a cracker out of an alligators mouth than getting our tax dollars from the Walter Mondale tax and spend democrats right now. David its not only the stock market which has been booming trif terrifically, but the unemployment rate. Goldman sachs says by the end of 2019, 3. 5 . We havent seen that since 1968. I think whats most important about that 3. 5 number, david, is that its coming with a higher percentage of the labor force actually working, so the Labor Participation rate has also been increasing, thats very important and i think that people are starting to feel better about trump. Because as low as his ratings are. Theyre better than his counterparts in france, germany, and the u. K. David and john, we are at the beginning, john tamny of the Holiday Spending season, but already we are getting record numbers, so, theres really a lot of good news afoot. Well, yeah, spending is always and everywhere an effective production, people are producing more and theyre productive and thats economic growth. Ill add that with americans, its always and this is what steve said, its always about economic growth. Americans arent terribly political people. Look how many vote in american elections. Americans are thankfully about producing things and lets end the nonsense about russia, how embarrassing and focus on growing. David we look back to the clinton era and bill clinton was president and got embroiled in this controversy that led to his impeachment, in the midst of that he had a tremendous tax cut that led to tremendous economic growth. He cut the Capital Gains tax. Whatever think of bill clinton, i applaud his centrism. If the democrats want to get back, go to peace and prosperity, why would that be a bad thing . I think the economy is on its really on a roll. Trump didnt inherit butkus from obama. Obama didnt have 3 growth in one of the eight years of his presidency. If weve got anything left over of the turkey soup of a tax plan and an honest to god across the board tax cut, i think wed get to 4 growth in 2018. David steve, even with a watered down tax cut, and everybody has to admit its watered down from what it originally came out as. Is that enough to get us moving even more as Goldman Sachs says . Yes, it will help, certainly better than what we have today, overall. And what the republicans should make clear, this is the first of many tax cuts to come, after next years elections. Great issue, saying well do more, you like these . Weve got more coming for you. David david, if democrats dont join and theres no sign that any democrat would join in cutting tax rates, they think that if that leads to disaster for them, in the mid term elections, will they change their attitude and be more tax cutters like bill clinton was . Whats going to lead to disaster is whats facing the republicans and that is a tax cut thats favoring the wealthy and hardly anybody else. Thats one. Second of all, you know, in good times, you dont need to stimulate the economy per se. You just went over a litany of positive indicators. What we need to address is the wealth inequality, et cetera, and go for additional growth, but we have a lot of growth already. Okay. And this president is not looking to work bipartisan. There were 30 Senate Democrats or more that voted for the reagan tax cuts. David, i come from a long line of democrats. I come from a long line of democrats. So do i. And reagan democrats. My grandmother campaigned for al smith. Jfk said the best form of fixing income inequality is work. Thats the best way. Thats the best form of welfare. We have no democrats now supporting tax cuts. When you had ted kennedy, al gore, john kerry, joe biden supporting the reagan tax cuts. I trust half priced sushi sold by a gas station than i trust the Democrats Party today and noneconomic policies. laughter when it comes to jobs weve created 42 million jobs since 61, you have created half of those jobs. Small businesses collapsed under obama. David okay, guys, to john tamny, john, its clear that the democrats are focusing on this class warfare thing that saying that the tax cuts are nothing, but give away to the rich and so on. How far do you think thats going to get the Democratic Party . Well, i wish youd get them very far as if i wish republicans would embrace that and say, yeah, were all about reducing the penalties on those who achieve remarkable things and also reducing penalties on those who invest in them. Thats the problem with the proposed tax cuts, they dont reduce taxes, but i dont think it matters. I think the genius of this economy is inaction in washington. Never underestimate the genius of gridlock for boosting growth. David mike, do you agree with that . Inthe Corporate Tax cut part of this is huge. The Corporate Tax is nothing, but a passthrough tax, it hurts employers and employees and getting it down helps the economy. Guess who supported Corporate Task cuts . President obama and john kerry. David and weve got to leave it at that. A lively discussion. Coming up next, remember the former irs executive lois lerner . She wants her deposition sealed forever, but taxpayers deserve answers . Well debate that coming up. How long do you think well keep oooooohhh you stopped youre gonna leave me back here at year 9 . How did this happen . It turned out, a lot of people fell short, of even the average length of retirement. We have to think about not when we expect to live to, but when we could live to. Lets plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. Prudential. Bring your challenges. Live from americas news headquarters, im kelly wright in washington. Here is a look at the news. The navy identifying three Service Members lost in a plane crash in the philippines sea. Theyre steven colmes, airman apprentice, they were on the way and crews combed a thousand nautical miles before calling off the search. The shooting death of a texas state trooper. Officials say the 32yearold trooper damon allen during a traffic stop outside of dallas. He allegedly opened fire while allen was walking back to his patrol car. Authorities caught up with him more than 100 miles away and its the first time a texas trooper has been shot in the line of duty in nearly a decade. Thats a look at the news right now. Im kelly wright. David as we all know, the irs will hunt you down for your taxes and personal info, but dont ask them for theirs. Thats what some critics are saying this week after former irs official lois lerner asked a federal judge to keep her Tea Party Targeting testimony sealed forever. Now, most of us write a check directly to the irs every april. Dont we have a right to see what theyre doing with our money . Of course we do and is there a more screaming obvious admission of guilt by lois lerner than she wants her testimony by prosecuting conservative nonprofits thrown into had a deep dark hole and poured over by cement. In fact, theres nothing more corrosive to the idea of a democratic republic than to know that our federal government has its fingers on the scale. David and particularly the irs we pay a personal check to every year. David, the Justice Department admitted now that the irs did target conservative groups, there is apparently a fine being paid out to some of the groups, and now, they say that lerner actually failed to tell her superiors that this was going on. So, dont we deserve to see the details of her testimony . You may want to see the testimony. It might bring curiosity, you know, satisfy that, but the fact remains, a Democratic AdministrationJustice Department, a Republican AdministrationJustice Department, a House Government Oversight Committee and three other committees in the senate and the house have looked at this and the case is closed. You add that to the fact that she could be intimidated as she was before the decision was made that the case is closed and why open the file when the case is closed and has been investigated and the only result is that she might be intimidated or others intimidated. David the fact is that the case wasnt closed when the Obama Administration left town, that it was reopened again and the Justice Department, mr. Sessions, the head of the attorney general of the u. S. Says theres no excuse for this conduct, hundreds of organizations were affected by these actions, they deserve an apology, but she is afraid, as david said, of retribution. She says, her lawyers say public dissemination would expose her and her family to harassment and violent and physical harm. Thats what she says. Shes been a target since this came out four or five years ago that she the villain trying to suppress an election. They talk about russians manipulating the elections, the irs did in 2012, but not allowing the group to get the tax rulings they needed to participate in the process. Rich is right. Shes as guilty as all getout. We should see what she did and why didnt sessions prosecute her and her cohorts, thats what i want to know. David when shes talking about fears of intimidation and she mentions mark meckler, one of the founders of the tea party. I had a chance to talk to him. She said he called her a thug. He was kind of unapologetics. They behaved like criminal thugs, not like government Public Servants so i think it was a deserved comment. The reality is this, they dont want people to know because what they did is so bad. They must have said something on the record in those depositions that will make people angry and theyre trying to keep it secret and thats outrageous. David and that deserves to be done. Given everything out of washington recently and all the lies, i certainly dont trust the bureaucracy there to tell us that this doesnt need to come out. We deserve to know as others have said. By the way, if shes really bothered by somebody calling her a thug, she really should have thought of all of that before she did those actions that she committed. David great point. And john, the fact is, again, youre big on ownership. We own the irs. They dont own us. Therefore, we have a right to look into their papers, right . Yeah, what is the Washington Post say, democracy dies in darkness, we should know everything about what they were doing. My one frustration with this is this is exactly how Congress Wants us to respond, to blame them. The irs exists to do congresss bidding, to reach into our pockets for congress. We should be directing our anger at congress. David emack, you have spent a lifetime looking into the irs, looking into the way they operate, what they do. Did they feel unaccountable to us . You know, its interesting. Ive been studying them and reporting them since the 80s and testifying before congress about the abuse of taxpayers. Irs doesnt like what congress is asking them to do. This echelon asking them to get into pockets. I dont agree with vigilante justice. I dont want to see lois lerner physically attacked and thats wrong. And the tea party says, the irs is a collector for bigger government. A danger since fdr using the irs to go against your opponents and never should have gotten into that. David the cashin in gangs. Trish, what have you got. Geraldo north korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Will this get them to halt their nuclear ambitions. Plus, what was just found inside the g. O. P. Tax bill that could mean a lot of Illegal Immigrants wont get a tax refund. See you at 11 30. David well be watching. Thank you. First, amazon setting up a secret cloud for u. S. Intel agencies. Now, you think the forbes gang would like a private company handling that, but think again. Details coming up. My experience with usaa has been excellent. They always refer to me as master sergeant. They really appreciate the military family, and it really shows. Weve got auto insurance, homeowners insurance. Had an accident with a vehicle, i actually called usaa before we called the police. Usaa was there handson very quick very prompt. I feel like were being handled as people that actually have a genuine need. Were the webber family and we are usaa members for life. Usaa, get your insurance quote today. The lowest price of the year. 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This is going to work out a lot better than if the government was having its own infrastructure handle this stuff. David and john, you think that the private sector handles things better than the government. What about this . I dont like that because amazon is too important of a company. Government spending cripples Good Companies simply because Government Spending does not represent the market, it sends them has them doing things they wouldnt normally do in a free market. Amazon should stay away. David rich, what do you think . I think china and its military technology is a great threat to the United StatesGoing Forward and if we dont have the best players on the field, you know, were going to lose that race, a race we cant afford to lose and companies are doing the best Predictive Analytics and stuff like that. David should we trust the private company with this information. Its a question, hacked, irs, pentagon, state department, im leary of it, but how pourous the government has been with data. David thats true, theres history with Government Contracting out to private services, right . Thats exactly what i was going to point out and from policing the streets to building roads, et cetera, and i think this is a viable Publicprivate Partnership to ensure that were providing for the best in our national security. Why not Work Together and bring the best minds together in doing that, rather than working in silos . And steve, i would hasten to add for those who have forgotten. Sometimes the government doesnt handle top secret information that well, just ask hillary clinton. Yes, and lizzie is right about the hacking going on. And millions have information into the hand of the chinese. And a company like amazon, i think theyll do a better job than the government trying to reinvent the wheel. David john, dont you think that amazon is so imbued in the private sector . They have so well thrived in the private sector, theyre not going to be infected in your eyes by the Government Service . I disagree, long ago, blackberry was seen as impregnabl