i think we can get it done. i think there s agreement. my objective for the last six months, helping lead the working group on health care, has been to reach consensus to bring together and unify the republican conference. and the way we do it is focusing like a laser. president trump sounding like it s now or never on twitter last night tweeting, for years, even as a civilian, i listened as republicans pushed the repeal and replace of obamacare. now they finally have their chance. 48 minutes past the hour. let s look at what s coming up on new day. alisyn camerota joins us. hi there. hello, my friends. nice to see you guys. happy monday. and you. okay. so we re going to have a lot more on donald trump jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer. what was that about? why was it not disclosed until now? we have all sorts of experts on that. we re also going to have foreign policy expert richard haas with us. his reaction to the g-20, what
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unless we have good intelligence. it s important that the president is getting the very best nonpolitical sized intelligence possible because our national security is at stake. so my hope is that when the president-elect receives his own briefings and is able to examine the intelligence as his team is put together and they see how professional and effective these agencies are, that some of those current tensions will be reduced. president-elect trump reacted last night tweeting the following. it s a good question, david ignatius, but not the most important question. the most important question well, no. it is an important question on why is the president-elect going to be getting a classified briefing. it s leaked all over the place
and paying more in taxes, so you look at it die namically, and with that, i think we ll actually bring more money in the federal coffers than last. which loopholes do you think need to be eliminated and how much will that snaif. save? that s a wide debate, and there are a couple that makes people s hair stands up, like mortgage reductions and chartable reductions. those we want to keep around. but we can start looking at a lot of other deductions, but the tax deductions is 4,070 pages long. there are a lot to cut business taxes out. there are thousands of them. we have to start with a blank sheet, set our rates and go, what kind of write-offs should we have and everything else taken out. let me shift gears for a second. when we last spoke, you said you didn t think it was very presidential to be up at night
president-elect let others, some of his aides, do that kind of tweeting? you know, wolf, i i don t think that it s very presidential to be up at night tweeting out. but i think donald trump, if he if he really restructures how he uses twitter, it can be beneficial for him. if he wants to go over the media, if he wants to go over wolf blitzer and talk directly to the people you talk to, he can do that by way of twitter and push back on stories that he thinks are false. i do think you have to have some restrictions and guide rails on how you use it. but to talk about stories that are false on what s actually happening inside the transition team and he wants to talk directly to the american people without having a press conference, i think that s okay. and we re i mean, america is changing. technology is changing. and the way that politicians and barack obama was brilliant at this, using the other sources of media to talk to a wide array of folks all across america i think is real