Intelligence. Joint by re epresentative tom garrett congressman from virginia. Guest good morning. Host violent events in new york and texas the last few weeks, particularly m what it means in terms of Homeland Security in the united states. Dont think we need remind e reminders. We ave vegas as well, that are very vulnerable at home. He nature of the free society is that there will be risk. Mitigate them to the best of our ability. Will tell you without delving into areas i cant go that there are shortcomings in our defenses in any number of areas, whether Flight Safety which you would september 11 we would have gotten straight. New yber realm is a paradigm so we have to be vigilant and understand that bad are going to happen in a free society. We do everything we can to mitigate them. When it comes to the specific incidents say when it comes to texas shooting, there this whole conversation about the information on data bases approved for et guns. Do you think there are improvements n
2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Post on twitter, cspanwj. You can also post on our Facebook Page. Find that at facebook. Com cspan. The hill newspaper looks at its website, takes a look at tax Reform Efforts on the senate side, expected to be released today. The writers say that tax writers in the senate are expected to eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes in their legislation. Thats a break with House Republicans, who have proposed keeping it in place for property taxes up to 10,000. It also says that Senate Republicans are also expected to increase the threshold for the popular mortgage Interest Deduction to 1 million, a substantial increase over the house, which lowered the cap to the first 500,000 of a mortgage. They will also change the house formula for taxing Small Businesses with a new passthrough rate of 25 host if you go to the pages of the wall street journal, theres a story saying that when it comes to the white houses perspective on ta
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