jon: now the president on tax reform. good morning, i m honored to welcome republican and democrat members of the house and ways and means committee to the white house. we ve been beating long and hard, we ve been meeting for quite some time. it s been very interesting and we re going to have a big announcement tomorrow. i d like to think committee chairman kevin brady, thank you, kevin. and ranking member nature richal for being here today. i ve asked both bodies to join us today to talk abut the framework for tax cuts and tax reform before it s released tomorrow. it will be a very, very powerful document. our plan is based on four very crucial principles. first we must make our tax code simple and fair.
we re going to break away from that. that was a meeting with the house ways and means committee. the president is very interested in tax reform legislation that will come out of the legislature. let s talk to one of the pivotal people involved in that, senator john thune joins me now. he is a senate g.o.p. conference chair. we re going to get to health care and a minute, senator. obviously health care, obamacare appeal and replacement efforts have gone down in flames, or so it appears. one with the prospect of tax reform, can you get it done? we have to get it done. again, it s subbing that s quickly important to our economy if we want to restore growth in the economy, get greater paying jobs, raise wages for people in this country, we need to update our tax code and make it more competitive otherwise will continue to hemorrhage jobs and businesses to other parts of the world. we are very focused on this. we realize this is not an issue
i think we re getting good marks for the work they re doing. we re literally landing supplies on an hourly basis and this is to an airport that has been devastated. we re not talking about runways that have been open, these runways are devastated and broken, the airports are broken. these people are very important to all of us. i think i can speak for anybody sitting around this table, so we are working very, very hard in puerto rico and we are also making tremendous efforts and we re sending tremendous amount of supplies to the virgin islands. thank you very much everybody. jon: president trump meeting with house ways and means committee chairman kevin brady and other members, democrats and republicans, doubly talking about tax reform and we ll talk about that in a minute as well, but right now,
lisa murkowski, you ve heard of her, she still says that she s on the fence. with a razor-thin republican majority, opposition of three senators would do this build. laura ingraham anchor of our new primetime show, the ingram angle weighed in on this development on fox & friends earlier today. they botched it from the beginning. now they re up against this supposed entire deadline and there try to cram something through that isn t a real repeal. rand paul is right on that. is it better than nothing? maybe, but they re here because mitch mcconnell couldn t get the job done on full repeal. heather: chief white house correspondent john roberts life for us with more on this story. what s happening? we should die that the ceremony of guard is posting it s all here in the driveway of the white house because the spanish prime minister will come calling quite soon. the president s meeting with bipartisan house committee of