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One of the things that donald trump said that i think stood out for a lot of people was him having to comment on his answers that he knows more than the generals. This was the exchange between him and matt lauer. The generals and you barack obama and Hillary Clinton have not been successful do you know more about isis than they do . I think under the leadership of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble, they have been reduced to a point thats embarrassing for our country. We have a force of 30,000 people, nobody really knows, but probably 30,000 people and i can see The Great General George Patent Spinning in his grave as isis we cant beat. Certainly and we have discussed this, don, there are some in the military who may want to see more action but donald tr ....
Pay the tax. we the consumer pay that. it s there for us to pay. we are losing jobs and i think a cut would be a huge thing. as far as the rest of tax reform goes, i really don t know that is going to happen. the one thing is maybe the one thing that people can get agreement on. the problem with corporate tax is not that it s 35%, but 35% for some companies and close to zero for others. we don t have the highest effective corporate tax rate in the world, but it s inefficient and difficult. that s not comprehensive tax reform. that s one thing they can get agreement on. right. i was going to say that s right and the corporate tax rate issue is for trump voters. a poll was done in january by politico and found that trump ....
For coming up with the sequestration idea to begin with. they ve spent months blaming him. what you saw mitch mcconnell do on the senate floor, fascinating, chris, on the surface. he came out after the president gave that upbeat, cheery, he was joking with all the attendees there in the white house complex about being close to a deal, but really sticking it to republicans in some not so subtle ways that angered a lot of people, including john mccain, but including a lot of people behind the scenes. but mitch mcconnell didn t take the floor and rise to that bait. he said, look, mr. president, you have been saying for weeks if not months we agree on the tax rate issue. let s vote on what we agree on. we ll put the sequester off. we understand there s a closed door meeting of senate republicans going on right now. you correctly reported that the house of representatives does not plan a vote tonight on any putative deal. there is no deal. let s reemphasize that again. we are technically go ....
Budged on the $250,000 threshold for increasing tax rates, raising that number to $400,000 in income or more. today speaker boehner said the plan b doesn t mean he ll stop working with the white house for a bigger deal. molly, when s really happening behind the scenes here? our first read team seems only the that the exchange of numbers indicates they re dotting the i s and crossing the ts despite what it looks like on tv. absolutely. these negotiations are moving pretty quickly. we re seeing both movement on both sides. you know, we had the president budging on the tax rate issue for the first time yesterday. and boehner bringing that back to his caucus and counting with this and an echo of the so-called two-bill strategy that we have been hearing floated at various points in the negotiations where he could sort ....
Story. today is wednesday and you and i have been having this conversation for a while. you have some type of deal as we are headed to this weekend. this is about the give-and-take. we saw the white house who reported they went from at one point $6 trillion in revenue that they wanted. down to 1.4. i wouldn t be surprise fed that continues to go down. the most important thing as we pointed out, both sides continue to talk. even if the phone calls right now are not all that pleasant, even if they are tense, the fact that they are still talking is a pretty good sign that a deal can get done. realistically would we get to the point where they would not talk? especially on the tax rate issue alo alone. the evidence from the polling and point it a solid proof of at least what the american people expect on that issue. that s right. a lot of the pessimism comes ....