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39%. joining me is the chief correspondent at the washington post, thank you for doing this. everyone is asking the same question of you and everyone else. to hear it from you is important. these hundredss beginningng into the to the time we are now in this presidency? it with somess caution because it is only 100 days. we address it with some concern because of the kinds of problems the trump team at the president have run into. i think it is a little premature as it always is at this stage to draw conclusions about what this ultimately means for his presidency. but they have done a lot of things wrong. they ve got some things that they can point to, that they will point to as successes. it but this has been a very rough and rocky first hundred days for them. successes include the confirmation of a supreme court justice. some say be syrian air strike was a success. what else? their would say that from point of view, some of the things they have done on the immigration ....
the new tax plan, is that something that s going to benefit us as investors. i think a lot of people are confusing the places on our screen with what happens in washington. and i can tell you that is one giganda mistake, they know nothing. even after today s late afternoon pull back, the true driving force behind this market remains earnings, the profits of companies, we re in earnings season. just like the strategic bombing campaign from world war ii, we re being carpet bombed with news. far too many people in this business believe that what these individual companies say is just noise compared to what the president of the united states is. too many investors are all about listening to lawmakers and debating polity positions rather than the merits of actual stocks, some lucrative, the others gaseous. even though this is one of the single biggest earnings day of the year, we need to consider the effects of president trump s tax cuts. the president introduced some sweepi ....
come to order. i want to welcome our witnesses, i appreciate your time and testimony, i look forward to your oral testimony and answering what will be some pretty interesting questions. i frequently say from the podium that the general inspector general s, your are go to agencies and government. you re doing so much to root out and identify and eliminate waste fraud, abuse, dictated programs which is what this hearing is about. the reports by the gao that really started with a pretty simple. [inaudible] offering 2010 by senator colborne in the. [inaudible] something we all hate to do but if were going to do it it s nice to get some measure of control and a pretty simple concept is asking the gao to issue reports and inspections on different programs as resulted in $75 billion of savings over seven years. this is pretty remarkable. based on the amount of budget authority that the gao has, $3.8 billion over that timeframe that a 20: one investment. put the microphone on ....