biggest bang? look, we don t believe that. i helped put this plan together for donald trump during the campaign. we worked very diligently to find a way to raise the wages and increase the number of jobs for middle class people. we think that our business tax system, alisyn actually, cutting the business tax rates is the heart and soul of the plan. as you know, we re up here at 40% tax rate on our businesses and the rest of the world is at 20% or less. our businesses, when they compete in global markets, are starting with a 20 percentage point disadvantage. that s just unamerican. we go from one of the worst tax systems to one of the best in terms of attracting businesses. i had dinner, alisyn, with fred smith, the ceo of fedex, a company that employs 100,000 americans and he basically said look, if you get that tax rate down, as donald trump is talking about, and you also do the repatriation. remember, alisyn, we want companies to be allowed to bring
escaped? are they going to go home and plot terror attacks there? how many civilians were killed in this brutal and bloody fight and finally, where is the leader of isis, reported killed so many times, emerging in a recent recording. where is he now? does he move on. does he, quote, escape from this particular violence or does he go on to inspire attacks elsewhere? back to you, alisyn. nick paton walsh, thank you very much for the reporting. that video of the families fleeing and those vast ruins, as you call them, is incredible. thank you very much. up next, the brother of one of the green berets killed in niger. he will tell us about his 29-year-old brother, dustin wright.
administration. they raised taxes, right. and, by the way, during the reagan administration was huge. 70% gentlemen, we have to leave it there. i feel as though we haven t resolved the issue. but you both have presented everybody is going to benefit! your cases. that would be interesting. i don t disagree with that. everybody is going to benefit. some benefit more. good. let s do it then! agreement. stephen, anthony, thank you. thanks, alisyn. have a great day. you, too. on the military front, u.s.-backed forces are driving isis out of raqqa. fighting in that syrian city is nearing its end, we re told. we have breaking details about the battle to liberate that isis stronghold, next.
about this, alisyn. one quick thing. right now the problem with the u.s. economy isn t so much we re not creating enough jobs. we are. in fact, a lot of places in the country we have more jobs than we have people that can fill them. the biggest problem, i believe, and i think donald trump agrees, is that for 15 years the average middle class worker has not seen a pay raise. yeah, yeah, yeah. go ahead. when you look at the question, we re not in general disagreement. i think that the tax cut will, in fact, create jobs. the question is, are there bodies out there? we have an unemployment rate of 4.2%. that the point, the economy is close to full employment. so that s not as easy. but when you look out there of this tax cut and you ask yourself, is it going to be good for america? of course it is. but who bears the corporate tax burden? in fact, stephen doesn t like the tax policy center but here you have nonpartisan individuals, tax specialists from the reagan administration, from th
these calls are tough on him. alisyn, with one eye on the legislative calendar, the president is finding himself straddling competing factions, that are at war with each other, praising senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and trying to keep the peace with his former adviser, steve bannon. we re probably now, at least as far as i m concerned, closer than ever before, fighting for the same thing. reporter: trying to put up a united front with senator mitch mcconnell despite lobbying this criticism at the senate mcconnell leads. i m not going to blame myself. i ll be honest. they are not getting the job done. reporter: attempting to appease the leaders he needs to get his agenda passed and the