ap app. house and senate republicans held a press conference yesterday to outline their plans to rewrite the u.s. tax code for the first time since 1986. this is 20 minutes. [ indistinct audio ] [ indistinct audio ] good morning, how are you doing? nice pants. [ laughter ] just one of those you ready? good afternoon, this is a historic day. this is a day that is a long time in coming. in fact, it was on this day under this dome in 1986 that congress took the final vote on the last overall of our tax code. that long. after that vote, president reagan said americans would quote finally have a tax code that they can be proud of. it was true then but things look very, very different today, don t they? instead of a source of pride our tax code has become a constant source of frustration. it s too big, it s too complicated. it s too expensive. today we are taking the next step to liberate americans from our broken tax code. this unified framework delivers a new tax code tha
in october, the start of a new term for the u.s. supreme court and the first full term for stice neil gorsuch who you confirmed in the hearings. what is ahead? a few interesting cases will be argued in the forthcoming term. one of them was just recently granted. the janice case involves this issue that was before the supreme court before justice scalia s death and deals with the ability to collect union dues from state employees without their willingness to do so, against their will. and it should be an interesting issue, an issue that was left pen. deadlocked 4-4. and the masterpiece cake shop involving a bakery owner charged by the colorado civil rights commission for refusing to decorate a specialty cake for a same-sex couple in connection with their wedding. both of those should be interesting as well as will b. whitford a wisconsin case dealing with restricting. justice, rked for a what intercontinental action will justice sew lito justice elito have. ? i think nei
continues. host: this headline from the miami herald, anymore will come, a u.s.to ricans lead territory and head to florida. three point 4 million people live there but as of this morning, 95% of the island remains without power. there is generator power, hospitals are reopening. the president will travel to puerto rico on tuesday. bob joins us from illinois, republican line. caller: good morning. good morning. love c-span. voters are faced with another season of saturday night live and their snarky comments. increasing with the left media, and even telling the generous she always has her show that says be kind to one another even though into generous is being mean to our president. our numbers are increasing exponentially. all we need is congress to grow a spine invoked with the president. host: how frustrated re: with the republican leadership, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan? caller: it is ridiculous. they finally got a chance to do something and make the next generation
lynn olson, author of seven books, many on world war ii. including troublesome young men, those angry days, and the recently published last hope island , britain, the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war. guest: poland thought it was prepared but it wasn t. nazi germany was the mightiest military behemoth in world history up to that point and poland was, had a, sizable army. small air force, small navy. it was basically a poor country. it didn t have the sense and financial wherewithal germany did. they thought they could hold off germany at least for a while but germans rolled over them. cspan: you say it wasn t a surprise. the date was maybe a surprise but was the rest of europe preparing for war at this point? guest: they expected war was coming. most european countries hoped it wouldn t happen. half the european countries were neutral. they declared neutrality. some prepared for war to a certain extent but none of them were really ready for what was about to
behemoth in the history of until that point and poland have kind of an army, a small dv but it was basically a poor country that didn t have the defenses or the financial wherewithal but it did think it could hold off germany for a while but the germans just kind of rolled right over them.germ you save the date was a surprise because the rest preparing for the war up to this point?t?but was th guest: they suspected it was coming again. most hoped it wouldn t happen ao least half were natural and declared their neutrality. they were hoping something would happen to prevent germany from embarking on what hitler had been preparing for why weren t they prepared if they were aware of you have to remember 1939 was 20 years after the end of world war i which was the greatest bloodbath in history up to that point. many have lost hundreds of thousands if not millions of people including the two biggest western allies and plans in the uk england and they were not prepared in an