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Big comprehensive bill, that will be a problem for them heading into the mid-determine elections next year. alex, what s your take on how this has been rolled out, this tax reform policy, very broad, not a lot of details there? it caught a bunch of people on the hill by surprise and people in the administration by surprise. the president made his comment in an interview the previous week where he said we re coming out with a major tax cut, possible leet bigge possibly the biggest in history. i think he sent the nation scrambling to put together an outline that would back up his interview quotes. that s why the plan was so broad and in fact it was predicted on the hill to be broad. it included more details than some folks expected. i think this is a political document more than anything else. there s a lot of detail that needs to be fleshed out. the administration will be holding meetings with sta stakeholders to add that detail. but this is something that i ....
Nbc s justice correspondent pete williams has more. reporter: since the 9/11 attacks of 2001, the post reports, the intelligence community growing so fast in the washington, d.c. area that 33 buildings complexes for top secret work gone up or under construction totalling 17 million square feet. it is really exciting to come and spend time in this fine facility and to meet the men and women who work at the national counterterrorism center. reporter: the 9/11 attacks sent the nation scrambling to find new ways to gather and analyze information on the emerging threat and now the post says more 2451,200 separate government organizations and over 1,900 government contractors work on top-set kre terrorism, security and intelligence programs scattered around the country more than 10,000 locations. no question, say intelligence experts, the system has produced good results but is a work in progress. there are some parts of the ....