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backdrop he is going to step in front of the american people tonight and try to make the case that he has the right path forward when it comes to afghanistan and that they should trust him. it s a very big decision for me. i took over a mess. and we re going to make it a lot less messy. reporter: president trump set to outline his strategy for america s path forward in afghanistan. a major test for the new commander in chief, one that could put more american troops in harm s way. after meeting with top administration officials at camp david on friday, the president announcing saturday he had made a decision after months of deliberation and delays. he has made a decision, as he said. he wants to be the one to announce it to the american people. it is a south asia strategy, not just an afghanistan strategy. reporter: the president has been presented with a wide range of options. everything from a full withdrawal to the deployment of up to 4,000 more soldiers, amid questi ....
may be more people to come, is the president has to get back on track.k. he has to honor the promises that he made during the campaign. he has to get a legislative agenda passed by 2018, the start of the new year, otherwise we re going to be consumed next year with the midterm elections. it will be every man and woman for themselves and they re going to be running for the hills. the president needs a staff t around him, that s congenial, and believe me, it s possible, it happens. i worked with two presidents and the staffs had disagreements but they were in the room and once that disagreement was over, and a consensus was had, policy was made and that s what we have to do. you also have to make sure the president understands that you make policy in washington but you sell it on main street. tucker: for sure. i think he already sold it on main street, though. that s what that campaign was about. he ran out a bunch of different things that everybody in d.c.pa hated but the public ....
home and hillary clinton administration. indeed, he was one of the rare republicans there and the only, or one of the very few, populist conservatives. that s strange, since populist conservatism is the platform his boss ran on. like trumpet candidate, bannon was willing to criticize big republican donors in their ideological stranglehold in a corrupt g.o.p. establishment. he s able to break with orthodoxy and big and dramatic ways con for higher taxes, better infrastructure, fewer pointless wars around the world, and more. he understood that the country s greatest crisis isn t robert e lee statues but the steady economic and moral decline of its once robust middle-class. not surprisingly, traders on wall street cheered when he got fired this afternoon. the dow shut up 100 points on the news. lobbyists in washington will be celebrating late into the night. the funny thing is, that in some important ways, steve bannon was more traditionally liberal than the liberals who spent the l ....
companies. the typical family of four earning $75,000 will see an income tax cut of more than $2,000 slashing their tax bill in half. it s going to be a lot of money. going to have an extra $2,000. there s more than that. our plan expands the child tax credit for working families. you ll hear the numbers very soon. they re even larger than anticipated. even nearly doubles the amount of income taxed at the rate of zero. i don t know if any of you are paying zero. i hope you re not. i hope you re paying above that, but a lot of people who are having it s a little tougher will be paying zero. it closes special interest loop holes. it lowers tax rates for families. and our plan also cuts taxes on businesses, which is expected to raise income by an average of more than $4,000. so your income goes up. it s like having a $4,000 increase, which isn t bad, which isn t bad. it s a lot of money to spend, a lot of jobs will be created with the money that you spend. very special. it makes ....
times i asked him again. he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. he did not do what they re saying he did. john roberts is reporting on this on a moving bus at this moment. john, it s a fine distinction, but the president didn t say he believed putin. he said that he believes that putin means it, right? yeah. there is a different here and the language is what is important. we re pulling this bus, by the way, up to the royal palace in downtown hanoi, where the president and the president of vietnam will hold bilateral meetings. the president did make a lot of news on air force one when he said that he talked to president putin about whether or not russia meddled in the election. he got a denial from putin. headquarters of raqqa fell. and the president and president putin agreed they would find a way forward and political solution to syria under the framework of the u.n. security council on syria. the two leaders saying that efforts to deconflict between the ....