the violence we keep going. i yield the floor. >> watch the profile series on white house administration officials. will feature mercedes slap. >> mercedes means compassion. so i feel like there's a part of me that very much carries the sense of duty to my nation, and duty hoping my generation, older or younger generation to understand why we are here in america and why we need to preserve the greatness of america. slight was an easy when i was off to join the trump administration. was to preserve our nation.

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>> 's week we expect final debates on tax reform. here's more about that. >> 's alendronate us is a member of the freedom caucus and represents the eighth district in ohio. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: let's talk about the alabama senate race. this is the headline in the conservative washington times page. they blame bannon for election last in alabama. the u.s. in your times aggravates risks for republicans, the wall street journal the gop civil war goes on. is there civil war in the republican party? >> guest: i think there's some differences of opinion. i think to call a civil war might sell more ads. when you look at the losing

teams blame each other. after a loss like this you'll see people point fingers. i found that that's not very constructive. you need to get at the root of the question. roy moore was just not a great candidate. jones was a horrible candidate. very different than alabama has been for a long time and i think that will turn up the 2020 election. >> was their mistake made then by steve bannon to push for roy moore and to call for republicans to vote for him? they still never got behind donald trump despite taken pledges an oath to support our party's nominee because they thought donald trump would renege on that pledge. as it turned out they were the ones who reneged on that.

how did roy moore become the candidate. >> it looks like breitbart.com did this start that this starts with mitch mcconnell everybody had their opinions some people got in their race and on tuesday they decided they'd rather have doug jones than roy moore. >> one big item is repealing the affordable healthcare law, this is the headline, they have a heavy blow to the obama care repealed. >> losing one vote when we fell short is not helpful for doing what we told the american people we would do. the house already passed a bill, the house bill fell a bit short.

people back home is like how did we fail in this, we did have a plan, it's called the better way on healthcare there is 47 bullet points on this playland. need to repeal obama care we have not succeeded every. >> and before we came up you can pull this out of your suit jacket, a better way, this is what you're referring to. i references a lot because people say is of their plan, yes there is. the plan is good we run into trouble when we don't look at the playbook that's really the thing. when republicans have a plan that wins we know because it one last year. this is what everyone talked about doing. we've talked about all the things we've done in the house and we done some good ones, republicans of house and senate

that the regulatory agencies. but when we have fallen short and you look at the number of bills we have done and tax reform is pretty close to being done. >> and what you make of democrats? the argument that they should wait for doug jones to be sworn in as the senate before they take a vote. >> we set for a long time we would get it done before the end of the year. i think we are on the cusp of having that done. i anticipate we will do that next week.

>> host: we encourage our viewers to call in, get your thoughts on it and keep the government running, the republican and democrats need to come up with some sort a long-term deal to avoid a government shutdown. before we get to those still socially this. she he tax cut get sweeter for the rich. americans view this as benefiting the wealthy over them. and then even the wealthiest of americans will see that rate come down to 37%. >> i think everyone should see their taxes go down. i think it will be great for america. when you look at the feedback in the market the markets know it will be a good plan. everyone in america will benefit.

the revenue into the government have only gone up when the economy is growing. so everything about this needs to be focused on growth. >> mike is up first, good morning. two red flags on the new tax plan they're talking about, the corporations that invest overseas can write off all this which means in america the taxpayer pays for, number one i think that's where it is. then instead of itemizing like a robot, they can write it off and i thought -- you talk about those two?

>> guest: the international piece of it, the reforms for an international or defensive. if you look at what's happened to ireland's economy, they drew massive amounts of investment from around the world and u.s. corporations that move parts of their operation to ireland and then lowered their corporate rate to 12 and a half percent. they went further and lowered it to six and a half percent, these are high wage, high-tech jobs. it has been growing ireland's economy really well. if you look at this is not really gonna grow our economy, you see that china is discussing how to react to the u.s. tax rate. so willing it to 20 or 20% is just getting competitive.

now are still average and we missed a chance to be world leaders. some of the other reforms like the expensing when the massive increase in investment. what happens when you can fully expense at any year, it makes sense, he spent the cash this year, you still have an asset, and depreciate the value. on a tax base to fully expense and will help companies recover their investments further. then you'll make more investments. we want that capital to be in the united states. if you look at the link between the two, just between facebook and apple they have nearly $300 billion of cash in that country, why, because mark zuckerberg and tim cook are

right-wing ideologues. it's rational under our tax code. when we encourage them to repatriate those dollars and fully expense them, we expect to see increased investment in the united states of america. >> host: the washington post has a front-page post about this. highly skilled workers and tax overhaul poses little threat. a preferred year pain home to the top tech pharmaceutical generations for. they expect them to continue to invest with little incentive to move back. >> guest: that's because we should have done a lower 15% rate. when you look at their reaction they're happy with that they had it 12 at half and said we should do more. so there ahead of us, they have

been moving faster than us. when you look at the massive amount of capital that has slowed in there, a lot has to do with having a competitive tax rate. >> host: let's go to jeff from north carolina,. >> caller: i would like to make a comment and a question. my comment is, i hope that you pass this tax reform bill before the end of the year for my tax purposes, and my question to is that because of the alabama senate race, and i am an african-american and a newly republican, i would ask you to please start to demand that senator menendez be removed from the senate because of his recent activities with young women,

young prostitutes that have sex. i just really think that if this is so important for the democratic ever congress to get this right, that senator bob menendez for new jersey must step down along with the other two congressmen and i really think that's important and needs to be discussed right now. >> guest: thank you for that, and welcome to the republican party. i'm glad you chose to be republican. i hope more people do. thank you for noticing bob menendez. you have to look close to find that story. what has happened is some form of due process. that's a concern that i think a

lot of people have in light of the roy moore situation. the people of alabama decided we probably believe the allegations but there has not been a full due process. it's changing things. he saw the heavy weight of that with in kentucky. we hope for due process, i don't know the facts and bob menendez case that they are at least as serious as anything else i have seen in headlines alleging corruption. >> there clearly serious, has to process happen there tonight or ethics committee is looking into that. we've had good updates from the chairman of that committee they tell us there reviewing the whole history and whatever privately not from him but other members who've been here for a

while is that the alleged $17 million settlement fun is that all sexual harassment, some legal claims. but it's still bad if there's one case. >> host: it was $84000 of taxpayers dollars. so when you look at that's one of the core things. every congressional office has a budget. and if you spend more you are personally responsible this was outside what you can spend if you spend that money that's on you. >> host: charlene in ohio, republican. >> was the name of your town? >> caller: it's a very small

town. the reason i'm calling is i'm glad they have tax breaks. i'm glad you're on the ball getting tax breaks. i'm tired of the democrats, i'm not calling them democrats, calling them liberal. they can't get their hands on it to control everything. . . i think it is want to trickle down into the economy. host: can you explain the asked i do not view the theory of trickle down. it is a nice term. i would say that democrats -- neo-marxism. that would be a good term so we can trade insults.

economics consist of supply and demand. not just demand. we have seen all of the demand sides of the economy can take. we dealt trillions of dollars of quantitative and all the economics that the world markets could bear. and that moved us to a 1 and a half percent growth rate under president obama. and headlines are like two or three percent growth rate, those days aren't done. our economy is big. the new normal is the slow and steady growth. which is distorted by monetary policy. if you go to austrian economics, which is also very prudent ideology in terms of economic theory, it emphasizes the supply side. the reality is the market consists of supply and demand. we have had very little on the supply side for stimulus until when you look at the markets think will happen with the tax reform, they're telling you what tthey think. and janet yellen also said, she

did not say this way -- i do not believe the scorpio does not she said it but the reality is given her modest statement was a a projection higher than what they say. >> and you're referring to the last news conference that she had yesterday where she talked about interest rates will go up. it means the credit card interest rates could go up. we will cover the north where she also talked about the tax reform bill if you go to c-span.org. also in june 2016 to fill the seat of retiring speaker john baynor. he is now serving a second term. linda, mississippi. a democrat. >> good morning. >> hi linda! >> good morning. i would like for him to explain to me how the trickle down

economy is going to help those of us, by the time of us get to the bond we have nothing. and i would like to know what is the hurry? the republicans just want something for donald trump to sign. we want a good tax reform bill. and why is it that the top one percent gets all of the benefits? and the bottom benefits has to expire? anthony republicans that ask for accountability for other senators, we need accountability from the top man. because he has been accused. >> linda let's talk about the tax reform and your comments about that. >> thank you for your questions. how is this going to benefit everyone? everyone is, every bracket, every income level in the tax plan gets a tax cut.

in a household that is currently let's say you have a married couple, currently the standard deduction is $12,000, 6000 per, roughly. under the new planet will double. $24,000. what does that mean? it is a first $24,000 of your household income, you pay zero taxes on that. it is a win for everyone at that income level. that kind of logic moves and so as people pay more taxes, they get more dollar benefit from it but they pay massively more dollars in taxes. in fact, we have a very progressive income tax. the reason that when you cut taxes, for the wealthiest people in america, it benefits the most from tax cuts because the income taxes are very progressive already. so when you have a rate cut people at the highest level pay less dollars. but they also pay very high

proportion, think around 15 to 20 percent highest incomes in the us pay i think, 85 percent of taxes. that is how skewed the amount of revenue the country collects is from wealthy people. so you want wealthy people paying taxes but you do not want wealthy people taxed at a rate that causes tax avoidance. which is a big concern. france that they want to something and they said let's have a 75 percent tax rate on the wealthiest french people. and what happened? they had less wealthy french people. they become less french, they recognized their money in belgium or switzerland or ireland. they said we are going to stop that. then you become the soviet union.i mean i joined the army to see the fruition of martha gorbachev tear down the wall. we did not tear down, he did not tear down the people to op

work done. they were holding people in. we would not want a system that is supposed to be the freest, greatest country in the world turning into this system where we are holding americans captive here. and so i think we need to do things that are competitive that make rational decisions. when the capital is able to get a return, it is invested in the united states of america. >> on the second statement about investigating sexual harassment allegations. she made a point repeating that we should be investigating, taking charges seriously. should there be an investigation of the president as well? and allegations made against him? >> i do not know of any. >> there have been at least 20 women. >> i do not know of a single allegation about donald trump that was negative like that. before he started to run for president. that does not mean that they are not true. i am sure there is a legal

remedy that would not exempt the president of the united states if those women choose to do it. what would be under scope right now would be covered under the department of justice, not congress. and there are certainly plenty of investigating happening with president trump. >> under the house rules, you can investigate anything! >> you can investigate anything. .and you can look at it. some of the things have been crazy. i think enwe're doing quite a l of investigating of the current president. i'm pretty interested in why there has never been a real serious investigation of the clinton foundation and a broad scope investigation. what has russia been doing with their engagement in the united states? and within scope, i'm hopeful between the department of justice and robert mueller, that they are doing a real honest investigation. not an inquisition. it increasingly looks like it is tilting towards inquisition. >> now we're going to an

independent from colorado. >> good morning! i would like to congratulate you on having a very good story. i was curious, have you ever noticed his kinds of surveys that are taking about that where the countries are that have really the highest quality of life? have you heard things like that? >> gap. the number one index under -- quality of life and happiness. they had a happiness index. happiness index is a very popular people are oppressed. and everyone is very happy with the dear leader in north korea. so they really focus on happiness there. >> okay, a democrat from atlanta. >> yes, i just want to say, 26 percent of americans actually support the tax bill. that is all i need to say. but i would like to say i spent eight years in the united

states marine corps. and we were planning to fight the cold war to keep the russians out of the united states. next thing i look up and donald trump is just inviting them in. and i just want to just ask this congressman one thing. i mean, why are the republicans, especially yesterday, aiding in embedding -- as vladimir putin was watching yesterday, who do you think he was cheering for? the democrats? for vladimir putin jaipur republicans? >> what are you referring to? >> -- i just want to say one last thing. i want to make this point. as vladimir putin is watching

the republicans, aid and embed in this cover-up. i'm trying to figure, i mean ã what are you getting from aiding in helping the russians? no investigation, and it was said right after that al qaeda had declared war on us but bill clinton did not realize it. the russians have declared war on us. and we have these appeasers. people like you are helping cover this up. he talked about waving a red flag. you are appeasing vladimir putin! >> let's get a response. >> i get your passion on the issue. but who is vladimir putin cheering for? i would think is cheering for taking down united states president, personally. that is all theoretical.

i did d not know vladimir putin i've never met him. frankly i've never been to russia. all of these allegations that somehow people are aiding and abetting russians, is frankly, pretty insulting. i was privileged to be in germany when the wall came down in 1989 to see the fruit of that. what i saw was people that had been trapped behind it were liberated. they realized that they had scarcity. i met three east germans and they could not believe that what they were seeing. i am a kid from western ohio. when i asked is it like this everywhere? they would talk about how big berlin is. but they would like no, stores open at night and there's fresh milk and stuff on the shelves. and they said can anyone just go in? because that is not what they experience in their system. to say republicans are somehow advocating something that advances russia, i think is entirely partisan. what you -- if donald trump is

investigated and the attorney general recused himself to make it clear that he was not going partisan t of a allegation because we had seen too much of that when the redolent was attorney general and when we you know all of the obama administration, there were allegations of serious things that we could not get an investigation. and nthat is my point with a comprehensive investigation into russian involvement in the united states. uranium one, we give 20 percent of our uranium to russia. we did not give it to them, we sold it to them. and who benefited from that? it is very clear who benefits from that. so has there been a real serious investigation? no. especially under the previous partisan department of justice could why is it receiving attention with rtpresident trum? because you have a massive amount of media on this topic with this president and almost 0 coverage of the previous issue under the previous

administration.in the department of justice that appears to mebe compromised eve day, new data comes up. i think atjudicial watch has do a great job of helping cover that. i think that you really should open up the things you're getting your information from. i get your passion but i say it is a whole topic, not just one slice. with you in germany because you were in the military? >> yes i was in the military after high school. i was able to serve over there and it was an incredible honor to see the end of the cold war. in a way were still wrestling with what is our foreign policy post-cold war? we were unified for a little while after 9/11. at that were down pretty rapidly. and still today, we vacillated under a see no evil approach. send the fbi over which is what happened an 1998. or let's build an empire approach, in iraq. i think the american people, part of why i decided the army

was cut it down the middle. i will do anything to defend america but i am not going to go fight every battle in the world. >> and he serves 12 years in the army. the 75th ranger regiment and hundred and first airborne division.thank you for the conversation. >> thank you. i enjoyed talking to you. >> she spends washington journal. live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. friday morning restate foundations randolph make and christopher lewis with the group public knowledge on the fcc rolling back net neutrality rules. an washington examiner economics writer talks about the republican tax bill will be voted on next week. and william -- and critic of russian president, vladimir putin. discusses russia's influence in the us and other countries. be sure to watch c-span

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about more things than any single man in north america. and i include franklin in that. who would be his only rival. and everyone was impressed by jefferson, the extent of his knowledge good items was smart but he did not have the breadth. but he had some history in law. that jefferson did not have. not because jefferson could not. he just was not as interested in the law as items. >> sunday on q&a, gordon would on his book, friends divided. about the relationship and a different political views of john adams and thomas jefferson. >> adams was a realist. he did not believe all men are created equal. he says all men were created unequal. he did not believe in exceptionalism. we are no better and no different from other nations. jefferson is the opposite. he is into nurture. and that i think is what most

americans believe. that is what we put so much in -- we are all born equal the difference is due to different experiences. different environments. that is why education is so important to us americans. it is important to jefferson. >> professor and historian, gordon would sunday night at eight eastern on c-span. former ambassadors to the middle east, ryan crocker, eric edelman, james jeffrey and stuart jones discussed efforts to combat isis, iran's nuclear program, us relations with turkey and the israeli-palestinian conflict. senate armed services committee chair, senator john mccain did not attend this hearing because he is in the hospital. senator inhofe filled in as chair. [inaudible conversations]