saying there are good people on both sides of the event in charlottesville. i ve not heard anyone speak about the cabinet like that. were you surprised to read this in the new york times ? i would be surprised. gary cohn and steve mnuchin are knee deep in all the tax reform issues. i can t comment on what was on his mind. but clearly now he s not resigning, so i guess that s what matters. he s certainly a very, very smart person focused on tax reform, as is the president. let s go back to january. that s when the president wanted to start working on tax reform. we ve lost eight months, but that s part of his frustration with the senate. so we should all remember that president trump wanted to jump into tax reform right out of the gate but was, to some extent, sold a bill of goods by the senate, and they didn t get it done. today we re looking forward, and tax reform is actually a bipartisan issue. both democrats and republicans know being the highest tax
what s interesting, neil, thank goodness the s&p 500 companition, two of them out with earningsments ago, microsoft, thank goodness the companies are so well run and earnings growth is so powerful they are able to overcome the stymieing the democrats are doing in congress. that puts the large agenda at risk, which is what you said, what the s&p 500, the stock market, 401-k is hinging on here. the longer they take to fight it out, the worrisome more it gets for america. neil: cutting short a little bit to pass on breaking news concerning paul ryan speaker of the house, saying the stop white house officials and republican leaders, i m sure including himself, nearing a consensus on some of these tax reform issues. he said in the fall they hope to hammer out an accord on taxes. whether he was talking generically about corporate taxes seems to be the push, or individual rates as well which the hos ways and means chief was
reform issues coming up, infrastructure coming up, those are the critical pieces of the puzzle. a rising tide lifts all ships, having the tax reform plan, he will hit the ball out of the park, this is the largest tax reform we have seen in over 30 years so it will be a critical part of his business ticket and he is going to nail this. a lot of people don t understand the significance of this tax reform, what he is doing, does a lot to a lot of people in this country. heather: people that don t have jobs, because of that, because of the economy getting people out and working again and bring companies back to america, manufacturing to america as well. not just manufacturing, i drove up last night from washington dc in three hours, part of that infrastructure plan the president talks about and i
tax reform issues. where do you fall on the argument that health care is so touchy, so complex and lengthy for people that the issues with it and ignoring it is only going to serve to erode problems with obamacare. i completely agree with that. the reconciliation battle may be over but the health care battle is far from over. i think health care will be something we continue to look at. just this morning i m talking to somebody and they said i m glad they didn t do this reconciliation package because it would have had negative effects on my health coverage. they said oh, my premiums are so high and the deductibles are so high. the problem is health care is a real challenge and we haven t come up with the right solution. we also haven t come up with a bipartisan solution. if you have a partisan approach, which obamacare was and the reconciliation approach was, you can put the blame on the other party. if you have shared responsibility, it s hard to do thatlame laying.
process between now and mid december. there would be house senate conferees that would get together and try to deal with these long-term problems, entitlement, tax reform issues that you really want to deal with. they have a parallel arrangement as part of this deal if they were passed. if we re going to give the president $100 billion or $150 billion, we ought to get some cost savings or commitment. the president has said he wants to reform social security. i think that would be a good place to start. he wants a deal with a cost of living index and all that, but right now there s an immediate crisis. you can see it unfold. and people are very, very nervous. not only here in the united states, but around the world. you ve got to solve this immediately, otherwise who knows what s going to happen. well, kicking the can down the road for six weeks or two months is not solving the problem. but doesn t it immediately solve the crisis?