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later, charles johnson on the cost of combating isis. we take your calls and you can join the conversation at facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning. it is monday, august 7 and the wall street journal reports congressional applicants -- republicans plan to use the next -- they hopeom republicans will heal divisions that open when the party's signature health care bill collapsed. we want to get your take on the possibility for tax reform or at least tax cuts or something in the area of taxes. what is your message to taxington, congress on reform? here are the numbers to call.

202-748-8000 if your income is less than $30,000 a year. if you make between $30,000 and $50,000, your number is 202-748-8001. if you make over $50,000 a year, 202-748-8002. we have added a fourth wind is money for business owners, your take, your concerns, your desires only area of tax reform. is your number. if not by phone, you can weigh in at social media. is our twitter handle and you can post a comment at http://twitter.com/cspanwj. keep the heat on the gop. they go on to write that at home in their districts, members of congress base pressures that can make it hard to focus on taxes. many constituents and party activists blame congress more than president donald trump for the health care stalemate and are pressing them to find a resolution and before they can do anything, lawmakers face time

sensitive fiscal business hashing out a budget, funding of federal government, and raising the debt limit. they result is a party sent home for a month-long recess to face mixed messages from voters and an uncertain path forward in the fall. people are not met at the president, they are mad at the republican party by not working with the president to get things done." this is from republican mike kelly. he says he hears complaints while doing errands at walmart. tax headline focuses on the , a major town hall -- a major message of discussion. here is president trump from last week in west virginia making his push for tax reform. [video clip] >> to be a prosperous nation, it is also critical that we lower the crushing tax burden on our workers and on our businesses.

[applause] the united states has the highest tax rate on business anywhere in the world and we want to bring it down to one of the lowest because we want more growth, more jobs, and higher pay and that is what is going to happen. [applause] importantly, we also want to let their ownkeep more of money, not take it from them. [applause] cut forme to pass a tax middle-class families. host: at the same time, we caught this piece in vanity fair the headline says "republicans still have no idea what the white house is doing on tax reform." we will read a little bit. they write "still reeling from the health care disaster, the recent health care vote, republicans scurrying back to

more comfortable territory, cutting taxes." " we have our vote and are moving on to tax reform, said ohnson -- "the trump administration has clear tax reform leaving republicans in the dark and at the risk of repeating the same mistakes that killed obamacare repeal." that is in vanity fair. message toon your congress and the white house on tax reform. monique is our first caller from here in the district attorney over $50,000 a year. caller: thank you for c-span. i wanted to say that d.c. has some of the highest taxes in the world, but people are literally flooding to my city. i don't mind paying an additional two cents for

education or an additional five cents to make sure my streets are clean or an additional $.21 for the roads, you know? also, i don't think that millionaires or billionaires should get a tax reduction to purchase a million-dollar home on the back of someone like myself that makes over $50,000. i don't get earned income or anything of that nature. i think money should come back to people in a situation like myself -- when i file my taxes, i don't get a lot of money back and i just think they need to think about the people who are actually working to build america as opposed to those who already have the millions and billions of dollars. host: thank you for calling. fremont, the line from

california. you are earning less than $30,000 a year. what is your meshes -- message on taxes? caller: i think we need to heed president trump's call and cut taxes across the board for every american. i don't know if he is going to win reelection 2020, but i have to say i am also can -- can find re---- confined to a wheelchair. i think he is trying to do the best job he possibly can for everybody across the board. even though i earn less than $30,000 a year, i think we have to cut taxes for everybody across the board and strengthen our borders and keep the country safe from terrorists. host: thank you for calling. the reserve center has put out a poll, a sampling of opinion on taxes and they headline their piece by saying "top

frustrations with the tax system." the wealthy does not pay their fair share. the majority of americans view the tax system as unfair. partisans differ in their concerns about taxes with democrats far more likely than republicans to express frustrations of some -- that some corporations and wealthy people do not pay their fair share. among the public overall, 62% are bothered a lot. bothered a lot by the feeling that some corporations do not fair -- pay their fair share of taxes. 60% say the same about wealthy people not say -- paying their fair share. perhaps we will hear reaction thisyou to that calling in money. david in arkansas makes between $30,000 and $50,000 a year. good morning. caller: hello. i am really sick and tired of the democrats.

with the democrats in our country, we would be like venezuela. we pay the highest in the world and people don't realize human corporations.se not only do they pay highest taxes, the highest in the world and then they pay dividends to the shareholders and they pay taxes. it's double taxation and when they die, they pay taxes again, triple taxation. host: what would you be looking for from congress, then? caller: also the stop -- the stuff about the rich don't pay a next -- and off. they pay 92% of our taxes. that is just a theory the democrats have had. if the rich paid 99% of the taxes, they would say they were not taxed enough. we need an across the board tax cut on everybody and we are not going to be able to get really what we want because democrats want to tax everybody to death.

we need to get the lowest tax rate we possibly can, hopefully corporations 15%, but because the democrats are socialists, probably will end up around the teens or 20's unfortunately because what happens when we lower the tax cut for corporations -- tax rate for corporations as they come back in. corporations would start coming back in in droves to america and then when we let them repatriate their money they will bring trillions of dollars back in. that is what they need to do. they need to lower the tax rate , fill out our tax and if wea postcard do it the way the administration wants to do it or close thereto -- host: ok, david. joshua is in maryland earns less

than -- more than fort -- relies on theody government to fix everything including the tax code and i think people need to pay their fair share. you hear all the time about people wanting to take exemptions for this and that like people cannot even give to charity without wanting an exemption. i think we need to do our part before we ask the government to overhaul things. definitely things to be changed and we need more efficient improvements to the code, that we need to think about paying our taxes first. host: david writes that " trickle-down does not work and it never has. tax the rich and corporations fairly." neil writes "donald is a billionaire that can only afford visa holders." tracy writes "before any vote is taken, explain how the middle-class working poor and all-american employees will benefit and not just the usual

trickle-down." "we are happy to pay taxes if they are being used appropriately. don't cut for the sake of cutting. let's bring down our debt." paul earns less than $30,000. good morning. caller: thank you particular my call. i agree with the caller from arkansas a little bit ago. one of the things congress could for corporations and also figure out a way to let repatriatedll this money back into the country. they have maybe billions and trillions overseas and if they bring that money into this , whaty at a fair rate would that do to our economy? it would really improve our economy a tremendous amount. they want to get the gdp -- that would help a long wait do that .- along way to do that it needs to be in this country, not overseas.

host: thank you for calling. fred writes "the power to tax is the power to destroy. smaller government means fewer taxes. shrink the size of government." james is calling now on the line for taxes he makes between $30,000 and $50,000 a year. james from georgia, what is your message to congress? caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i was just wondering how people and the rich people supposedly pay less, but when poor people -- i am wondering what the difference between a poor person not paying any and on the food stamp -- lying on a food stamp application to get more of month and a rich person having millions and not paying any. they are all stealing from the government. host: let's hear from crist.

fort washington, maryland are earning more than $50,000 a year. let's try again. chris, are you there? caller: i am here. thank you for taking my call. first of all, i don't think there is any fortune 500 up any paying an actual 35% tax rate because of the tax code. the tax code is the size of an old yellow phone book four inches think. there is no way any corporation is paying an actual 35%. if there was a flat tax rate and everybody had to pay that, 5% or 10% or whatever it is and there would be no way you could get around that, i would be fine with that. host: ok. thank you. your message to congress on tax reform. thomas is calling from new york. earns less than $30,000 a year. caller: how are you? good morning. host: doing fine, good morning. caller: caller: unfortunately,

there's a lot of poor people in the u.s. as you know. trump and the administration doesn't care about anyone. in government they think about the poor people. we have no good road in our area. poor people in the u.s. every day by day they become more and and they show us the government doesn't care about them and only want to pay money to kill innocent people in yemen and iraq and afghanistan. host: be specific. caller: the washington tribune

-- chicago tribune writes something that is very unusual, trump there is an theyollection that shows -- why do25 million we have this big gap in the u.s.? why do we have this big gap in our country? host: questions from thomas. we have a business owner from fairfax virginia on the line. caller: thank you for c-span. host: give us your perspective on all of this. what kind of business you own, what kind of employees, what is your tax situation? what do you want from washington at this point? caller: i have a business in the

advertising agency. ourve met with our cpa and tax advisors and we are currently at the 35% tax rate. if we were lowered to a competitive rate to other countries, if you go to ireland, italy, some of the other ones that are at the 15% -- 50%-20% marginal tax rate, that would give us enough right there and moreto at least have two full timers on staff, possibly three. that is a small impact for a business like myself, but just in northern virginia alone there my size orcompanies larger if you multiply that by that, you eliminated all the problems with any unemployment in this area and i daresay you would start to do it in other regions of the country depending on the affected rate of the tax

increase. host: thank you for calling and we have other business owners to call in. the vanity fair piece about republicans and what they are looking at when they see the white house in this tax area, when donald trump unexpectedly won the oval office, they wrote "the gop was given the greatest opportunity in 30 years to rewrite the tax code. 6 months in, it remains as the health care debate was roiling and capitol hill, the so-called big 6, paul ryan, kevin brady, gary cohen, steven mnuchin, hatchmcconnell, and orrin released a 6 paragraph statement that lacked any real policy minutia. a few vague paragraphs with a broad strokes proposal.

it's more like fingerpainting. " this literally started as principles yesterday and worked into -- they are talking there about the republican tax plan and some democratic viewpoints on it. nealis congressman richard from our newsmakers programs which ran over the weekend. democrat on ways and means and writes the tax policy talking about the prospects in congress. [video clip] >> i think there is broad agreement that there is $2.8 trillion offshore. some of that is intangible assets that will not be brought back, but there's an awful lot of money that can be brought back for more productive services hopefully for infrastructure, for example. i think there's also on the democratic side a your earning to address the issue of the skills gap across america today.

thatlion technology jobs go unanswered. in new england we have between 16000 and 20,000 precision manufacturing jobs going unanswered. acknowledgeeed to how we can align economic growth with job opportunities because certainly there are opportunities that exist with members of the american family. hereo think the difficulty is going to be, kevin has already met with democrats on the committee and it was an instructive meeting, anything but harsh. -- revenue neutrality, prescribed number of dollars around in the current system. where i think there will be brought this agreement is his suggestion that he will not adhere to distribution of neutrality and i think that is where the resistance will come in on the democratic side. people at the top of the american economic ladder, they are not pining for tax cuts. they were not pining for them at

201 or 203. i think that many of them are suggesting that if you are going to transform the tax system, let's do it in an equitable way where it improves the quality of life for all members of the american family. host: you can go to our website, www.c-span.org, to watch this "newsmakers" segment and any others in recent months. go to our website, www.c-span.org. calling from canton, north carolina. what is your message regarding taxes? taxes, i really agree with the guy from arkansas a whole lot. c-span, i've got a question for you. host: yep. run a: when have you ever segment on how the government spends our tax revenue? we come to find out after eight years of democratic control that

higher taxes just won't work. barack obama -- when barack obama got reelected in 2012 and saidlicans -- john boehner we will give you your tax increases on the 1% and the last four years of barack obama's tenure, the government took in more tax revenue than it has in in history. our roads are terrible, health care is terrible, our education is some of the worst in the world. i mean the way democrats run things, it almost looks like we could be venezuela any day. donald trump is trying to work the people. i can see somebody took less money and had more productivity than any government official i have ever seen.

when you hear a democrat say that all they want is tax increases for the rich, that is just codewords for that politician needs more money. when maxine waters can live in a $4.3 million house as a civil servant, something is wrong in this country. host: thank you for calling from canton and thank you for putting -- somethingto us we should be doing as much as possible to help educate ourselves and folks out there. we have thomas writing at twitter about taxes and he says "the disbursement of tax money should be fair. there should not be donor and receiver states." we have john on the line earning more than $50,000 a year. caller: i just wanted to call in some hard truths about tax levels in the usa compared to .ther countries

it tax revenue and the percentage of gdp in the u.s. is around 20%. the usa is trying to compete with them in terms of infrastructure and training. the previous caller had a question about where the tax money is going. there simply isn't enough. if you want to be an advanced country with advanced infrastructure and services, you've got to tax more of that is just the hard truth. host: thank you for calling. robert is a business owner in waldorf, maryland, not too far out side d.c. what is your situation? caller: my business in the state wemaryland is being taxed -- are also being taxed -- we have a flush tax. your last caller says we need to be taxed more.

is that not the craziest thing you have ever heard in your life? how can you could -- how can you be taxed for flushing the toilet. you need to go back where you come from. the one thing you've got to understand here. if the republican party really wanted to cut taxes, they would've done something with obamacare, but the republican party has run the biggest con job on the american people for the last seven years. they have raised aliens and millions of dollars saying we are going to repeal obamacare -- millions and millions of dollars saying we are going to repeal obamacare and all they are going to do is stand in donald trump's way, undermine him every chance they get. they have no intention of cutting taxes and it's an absolute con for anybody to sit here today and think they are going to paris to this is nonsense. -- going to. this is nonsense. host: what kind of business do

you run? caller: i am a dental technician. host: what would a tax-cut mean to your business? toler: they would allow me make more profit. more money in my pocket for me to spend. host: would you be hiring more folks with that money? caller: no, i would make more profit to go in my pocket. i go to work every day just like you do to make a dollar. would you like to make more today or pay more in taxes? robert inwords from waldorf, maryland. charities are making the push for tax can -- charities stand to lose billions of republicans advance their tax overhaul, prompting nonprofits to --efully attempt to lawmakers to change their plan. it will double the standard production -- reduction and prevent people from the ducting. 5% instead of 30% would have financial incentive to itemize

deductions including the charitable gifts. this according to several estimates and they write to that moreover, each reduction would be worth less to individuals if marginal tax rates are reduced. that is an "the wall street journal" this morning. jonathan is in california earning less than $30,000 a year. there? caller: yeah. host: go ahead, you are on the air. caller: ok. host: one last chance. jonathan, go ahead, please. i don't think we have jonathan anymore. i think we have mary from rochester, new york. are you with us? caller: yes, i am. host: you are earning $30,000 or under a year, correct? caller: yes. host: tell us what your messages to congress on tax reform. caller: i believe if we have a

tax reform of 20% for the -- for the rich, it will put us in a recession like under bush junior . if we do have a tax reform, i think that they should put in law that that money should for hiringpent people and making sure wages go up. if not, they do not get this tax increase because all they are going to do is pocket that money and cause the economy to go into a recession. and: thank you for calling -- is calling from riverton, new jersey. i am a retired master's degree social worker and i make and $33,000 and

i am a widow. i very much am concerned about the tax reform and how it may affect the middle-class especially and i very much would like congress to consider the yes, i know that we need businesses and -- but i am very worried. the first caller i heard now saying that what happened under president bush may happen again. relatedthink it is only -- i just don't think it is fair bracketpeople in the 1% get another reduction that is

include a way to raise business. and il just help them think everyone needs to pay taxes, even our president doesn't pay taxes because of the way the tax reform is. host: thank you for calling. as some of the other news out there. it is 7:30 eastern time. congress is out. there is a tweet the president sent in the overnight. i think it was late last night "it just completed a call with president moon of south korea. a very happy and improves -- impressed with the 15-0 vote on north korean sanctions." headlinen post had the "china telling north korea be smart and halt the missile test." china delivered frank advice to

north korea. telling pyongyang to make a thet decision and -- statement by the chinese foreign minister came on the yield of the un security council decision to impose added sanctions on north korea and its exports and suggested that the american push to further isolate the regime of kim jong-un is reaping some dividends. it -- also calls on the united states the deal -- we have shannon on the line from palm city, florida, earning between already thousand dollars and $50,000. good morning. caller: good morning. i just wanted to comment. i heard the gentleman speaking earlier -- i believe it was the gentleman from indianapolis called on the over $50,000 line and spoke about how we need to take care of our public more and we need a slight increase in taxes. i was a little disturbed by the

next caller. he doesn't know the citizen's status and said "you don't belong here." he just assumes that american -- americans are just americans and sound like americans. i found that really disturbing and he also said he would take home his profit, whereas the point of the tax cuts was to create more jobs. if we can't count on this single gentleman to create more jobs if he is given the tax cut, i don't understand why we should be giving them to the rest of the profiting companies in america. host: thank you for calling. "the washington times" says trump is on the offensive in the mueller probe. "trump and his administration going to war -- launching a multipronged public relations offensive to spread distrust of robert mueller's probe."

that is in "the washington times" this monday morning. of north carolina and chris -- theirdelaware registration would give a judge the ability to review any decision by the president in the case he should fire robert mueller. here's what they had to say. [video clip] it is a necessary part of continuing to improve the reputation of independents for the department of justice. this is beyond this special counsel. it provides the president with the opportunity to consult with the ag and the department of

justice and potentially have one removed, but have that subject to a judicial review so it is done for proper cause. is calling andt you heard kellyanne conway repeat the entire russia story a fabrication, witchhunt, and a hoax. do you agree? >> i am not sure i agree with the witchhunt. we will let the facts lead us to whether he was a hoax or distraction. i want to see this investigation concluded so that we can get on to doing the good work the president has already started with regulatory reform, health care, and tax reform. this is a distraction i would like to get past so i can go back to supporting the president's agenda. >> what are the prospects of passing this legislation? >> i think we have already heard strong interest from colleagues on both side of the aisle. senator bram and senator booker introduced a similar piece of legislation before we went out. i will point to you the fact the president just signed a russian sanctions bill that he initially

passedd -- opposed, but the senate 98-2. this is an important efforts that may shore up the rule of law and may ultimately get past. host: here's little input from kellyanne conway, right house -- white house counselor. -- met with a cool reception yesterday from -- why are we engaging in hypotheticals? she also said on abc this week "the president called it a total fabrication to excuse the colossal and unexpected, unwanted defeat of hillary clinton in last year's election. people just can't get over that election, george. it is corrosive to our body politic." more from your calls. bob from l.a. earning less than $30,000. we are talking taxes. what is your message to congress? caller: hello.

is you the big solution got to cut the military and cut it take -- big. 46% of all military spending in dollar from the 197 nations in the world that half. 46%, almost we have 11 nuclear powered aircraft carriers, 97 nuclear powered submarines. our navy surpasses russia and china combined by fivefold. they are just-- coming out with their first aircraft carrier, which is about 50% the size of our smallest. our military is so massive it is pretty much a ridiculous proposition that we need such a

thing. what to do with that money if you cut it from the military. where should it go? i mean -- it depends on in thee of the cut proposition of cutting the military, of course, is far more complicated than just saying take this money and throw it in somewhere. obviously, infrastructure is something that needs to be done and we have a lot of needs here, but the bottom line is it is a catch-22 to have such huge military spending because it is a false bolster to an economy that creates massive amounts of jobs, create a whole industry, basically, which is creating something which its whole purpose is to destroy stuff. that is not an economic proposition which is sustainable. if you take france and north

-- northichever one korea's military is almost their entire economy. , he wantse of trump to expand the military by 10%, which is a huge red flag for me. any con of support i made -- might've had -- any kind of support i might have had for donald trump, it just shows he is full of it. host: we are asking what your message is to congress on tax reform. members are home for a month, certainly going to hear about taxes and health care, but the wall street journal today points is one ofax reform the big message is republicans in congress are putting out toward their constituents. offered right that twitter "dear congress, pleasing knowledge the trade deficit at $100 trillion. in fact, it is bringing u.s. manufacturing jobs back to the u.s. is a must. reform taxes accordingly."

we have harnessed on the line -- we have earnest on the line from tampa, florida. are you there? caller: i am right here. everybody is arguing about this tax plan, but it is going to be really hard to change anything. i am glad he came on and said truth to power. he said even if he got a tax break, it would benefit one person, him. that's what most of these companies are about. they are either going to benefit themselves or -- what kind of national matter what kind of tax system you get, figure out before the ink dries, they will how to -- that for their profit. if we get to a point where we learn that we are all americans, -- to help other people

rise up, then it will never come the fact that we rise up. much, c-span. host: thank you for calling. athens, tennessee is on the line, richard who earns over $50,000. good morning, richard. caller: good morning, sir. i am a unionized papermaker and my wife is a public school teacher so we make in excess of $100,000. luckily, we are blessed. vote republican and i actually am good with my tax bracket. i just wish congress would spend .y money smarter host: give us an example. what doesn't work in terms of how they spend your money? caller: well, there's a lot of

good programs out there. there's a lot of good charities that i would enjoy being able to give to, but i cannot give to everything, so i have to pick and choose. specificallylook at defense first and infrastructure second. there's a lot of things the public can pick up. the people that want to use the arts want -- need to pay for it. i'm a big proponent of national parks. i would not have a problem paying interest fees to the great smoky mountains. there's a lot of people in our country that have zero skin in just -- somethey

of them don't want to have skin in the game. there's a lot of people that have to pay a lot of taxes for the people that don't want to pay taxes. host: thank you for calling, richard. the new york times has vice president mike pence denouncing an article over ambitions for 2020. peter biker -- peter baker writes "the vice president declared his loyalty to the president and announced the new york times piece suggesting he was positioning himself to run for president in 2020 if president trump does not seek a second term." "disgraceful to me my family and the entire team. the allegations are categorically false and represent the latest attempt by the media to divide the administration." they write the article reported a number of republicans appear positioning themselves to

run in 2020 mr. president indoors low poll numbers and investigations. the vice president added "whatever fake news may come your way, my entire team will continue to focus our efforts to advance the president's agenda and see him reelected in 2020. any suggestion to the otherwise is laughable and absurd." peter is calling from north carolina. peter is earning less than $30,000 a year. what do you do for a living? caller: i am retired. host: what -- tell us what your message would be to washington on tax reform? onlyr: the whole thing -- a human being -- the lives of human beings can pay taxes. when i buy dog food, i pay a tax on the dog food. my dog doesn't pay the taxes. i pay the taxes. when a corporation is taxed

money, they increase the price thateir product to pay for tax. the end user pays all the taxes. this is whatay and people have to understand. people are talking about corporation taxes. consumer, i pay the taxes. that's the whole night. i don't understand how people about corporate taxes or this taxes. taxes are paid by the final consumer of good pays all the taxes in the united states. if you have an economist as one of your guests, can they explain that to me. i don't understand it. host: we will try to do that at some point.

the conversation continues. allen is checking in from orange county, california. $50,000 and above is his salary. good morning. caller: good morning. i have an opinion. i think increasing the corporate -- the reason is the job, if there are higher taxes, a lot of corporations try to reduce their earning and the way to reduce earning is by paying people more, you know, the cost of doing business. the cost of doing business is tax-deductible. they would increase their investment because they would pay less tax. mistakenpeople get it

the idea that if you reduce the somehow it is going to produce more jobs and it doesn't theuse it goes back to corporation and there is no reason for them to invest or pay them more. taxes, ther the corporations would try to reduce their expense, the cost of doing business. jack let's go to columbia, calling -- jeff is a business owner. caller: good morning. how are you doing today? host: doing fine. how are you doing, sir? caller: real good. what they need to do with their taxation is turn out all the lobbyists and go to statewide

taxation. simplify, simplify. simplified. it is over complicated and all because of the lobbyists. host: what kind of business do you run? pictures andl market them a dozen different ways? . host: we had two different business owners. one said if his tax rate went down he would be able to hire more people and another caller said it would simply mean more profit for him in his pocket. a couple callers took attacks at that. if your rate went down, what would you do? caller: if my rate went down, nothing because i am just starting the business and i am not making all that money in sales at the present time. i am just getting into the marketing aspect, but i have -- it is all legitimate.

host: thank you for calling and sharing your situation. we have just under 15 minutes left of your calls and we are asking what your message is to congress on tax reform. they are out from the month -- for the month, but they will be hurting it -- a lot -- they will be hearing a lot more back in their districts. "the from base is bigger, stronger than ever before despite some phony, fake news polling. look at rallies and pennsylvania, iowa, ohio, and west virginia." he writes "the fake news -- the reason is the fake news russia collusion story. court pick, deregulation, and so much more has driven the trump base so much closer together. will never change!" news" got term "fake our attention because a new type of video turned up on the

facebook page of the president this morning and it comes from someone who worked for cnn and the headline says she is appearing in a probe from news news videoo trump and the whole thing is based on folks were trump calling fake news. they write she is hosting campaign style videos for the president and the first came out yesterday and decided several pieces of really positive news. here's a look. [video clip] >> thank you for joining us as we provide you the news of the week from trump tower here in new york. more great economic news, the july jobs report added an expected 200-9000 jobs. overall, since the president took office, president trump has created more than one million jobs. the unemployment rate is at a exterior-year low and consumer confidence is that a 16-year

high wall the dow jones continues to break records. president trump has clearly steer the economy back in the right direction. on wednesday, the president introduced the rays act. for decades a steady rise in immigration has depressed the wages of american workers. this will increase wages, decreased poverty, and save taxpayers aliens. americans deserve a raise and president trump is finally putting the american worker first. also on wednesday, president trump awarded the medal of honor to one of our vietnam war heroes, specialist james mcluhan. he risked his life on nine separate occasions saving many of his wounded peers. president trump also honored veterans as a whole with yet another v.a. reform hackett that will enable millions of veterans to receive better access to care. president trump is dedicated to honoring these men and women who fought for our country and ensuring they received the care they deserve. thank you for joining us. that is the real news. on off thelled

facebook page of the president. the promotional segments are the latest way team trump is trying to forge a direct connection with fans through social media. it's unclear if the -- it is being funded by the reelection campaign. it does not appear to be government-funded. the video came out one day after -- announced her exit from cnn. frank has been waiting from aberdeen, maryland. he earns between $30,000 and $50,000 a year. good morning. caller: good morning. i remember when the reagan tax cuts came. i got about $300 and billionaires were getting millions. any tax cut should be from the bottom up, raising the standard -- ctions there should be cuts above what

they do now. host: anything else? caller: that's all. host: john is on the line. comments've got some about c-span before i get into my comment. fake c-span and you are just like the new york times. that's all you read every morning. stop you just for a sec. have you been watching the whole program? caller: yes, i have. read have you heard us from the wall street journal a couple of times in the washington journal of couple of times this morning. caller: i may have been out of the room when you done that. most every morning the first thing is the new york times, the most liberalist bunch. host: today, the first thing was a wall street journal story. just pointing that out. caller: let me talk.

because everything, 90% of the stuff you all are trying to throw our great president out of office. the greatest president we are going to have. you all are not going to let him do that. call -- you have all these people that call in and call him all kinds of bad names and you won't hang up on them and then back years ago when they were calling on the wrong line, you would hang up on them. i watched yesterday morning and four democrats called on the republican line and you let them talk first like two minutes. host: we have heard the comments about our coverage of the president, well taken. do you have anything to say about tax reform? do.er: yes, i if these people don't want these companies to survive, if these people had invested money, there would not have been jobs in the

country. now, they are investing all their money and taken the chance of losing their business and not surviving and i have friends and they pay all kinds of hidden taxes these people -- it is terrible the taxes these companies pay to survive. host: ok. that was john in florida. this is alan from scottsdale. another business owner. caller: good morning and thanks for c-span. i have been in the business for 31 years and as far as this discussion goes, taxes is one part of being in business. subject towards what is really going on here that nobody wants to speak about if congress starts having a

thing about how to lower the cost of living for every american, especially the people on the lower part of the totem pole, it is -- what it is is when you take a look at cost, it starts with energy. energy is probably the biggest factor that drives cost through the word -- through the roof. when obama wanted six dollars a gallon, what do you think would have happened to the lowest people on the totem pole? i was able to just last year replace two air-conditioners and i reduced my cost per month for for 110 degreec plus heat and reduced it down from $1300 down to $600 a month. i mean, there are many things a businessman can do, but energy is a big sector. the other big part of the thing in regards to the budget, 264 departments in the federal government.

there is only two letters in the alphabet that don't have a name by it and if we eliminate the 264 departments that are spending money every year and increase i 6% and we can reduce department, how much money are we going to save the federal government? that's the most important thing. host: thanks for calling. time for a couple more calls -- a couple of other tweets. we noticed this one over the weekend "behind the scenes at the white house, the president is a way for 17 days, but they are doing renovation while he is gone. " the famous resolute desk is being removed from the oval office as renovations begin. structural repairs to address a ceiling leak, hvac work, additional renovations to the navy mess kitchen. all sorts of work while the

president is in new jersey for 17 days. a tweet at the president said he is working hard from new jersey while the white house goes through a long planned renovation pretty going to new york next week for more meetings. in case you missed the story, the post -- the washington post reported the president may host world leaders that his resort in new jersey. not while he is on vacation, but later when the un's meeting is happening in new york. he is planning to host foreign meetings at his new jersey golf club when he attends the general assembly meeting. getting ready for an unspecified number of meetings over several days during the week of september 18. there is a little bit of ofticism to this, the idea an american president receiving dignitaries at a private business from u.n. headquarters is unsettling from bill richardson, former governor of new mexico. "it's better to do it in the city. do it at the u.n.."

"symbolism is important, this is the u.n. there should be an acknowledgment of the importance of the u.n." that is in the washington post from yesterday. wade is calling from wisconsin, earning more than $50,000 a year. caller: good morning. just like to say -- i want to address the last caller that said obama wanted six dollars about -- a doll and -- a gallon gas. that is just crazy. we have a $30 trillion deficit. why they are even cutting about -- talking about cutting taxes is ridiculous. i thought we are supposed to be fiscally responsible. how are you supposed to be fiscally responsible when you are paying less taxes? taxes should be raised on everybody as far as i am concerned and start paying down the debt and maybe take some money and use it for health care. that's all i have to say.

host: joshua is calling from earningk in washington more than $50,000 a year. caller: before i get started, i would like to request another c-span like c-span 3 or c-span 4 for people who actually like donald trump because you guys clearly do not like him. you clearly skew your stories. let me go past that because i just wanted to throw that out there. what i want americans to get -- to do when you think is do something simple. i want you to look at the group -- go to the grocery store and look at a loaf of bread and that i want you to reverse engineer the loaf of bread all the way back to the farm. paid of every tax that was on every aspect from the farmers income tax to the fuel tax on the tractor and so on and so forth. we are one of the most hidden overtaxed nations in the world. we defend the world, we give away money to the world, and

yet, you've got guys like the last caller that can't seem to put it together. the hidden taxation on our people is phenomenal. very simple. a loaf of bread all the way back to the ground, you think about how many people pay income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, and every other kind of tax and yet, as americans, we have nothing. we don't have the best hospitals, we don't have the best freeways. we don't have the best of anything because host: that was joshua. thanks to everybody to called on rogeeform. we will broaden the conversation to talk about the economy now. he president has been touting good economic news but how much credit can he take is the the next e will ask guests and how strong is the u.s. economy. they will be at the table and

for the first time the federal put a price tag on the effort to defeat isis. go through the numbers. while we get our guests set up e will show you something from the aspen institute a panel discussion recently with the security advisor condoleezza rice who was ational security advisor understood the george w. bush administration. she was asked about dealing with future.nd >> the first advice i would give vladimire you know who putin is. and vladimir putin is someone likes to humiliate, someone ho likes to dominate and someone who essentially understands power. so don't go in a room with you are intin unless a powerful position. that means when you go it talk vladimir putin first let's

continue the policy that the began, ministration aybe accelerate the policy, putting forces at least on a row aeugts basis but -- rotating basis in places like poland and baltic states. secondly, i like raising the signal to get as a the russians. third, i think that you have to russians we know you did it on the electoral process. at a time of our choosing by means of you're with it but we have confidence in our electoral ystem so don't think you are undermining american confidence by what you are doing. because he feeds on this sense he's succeeding in undermining our confidence. say is l thing i would stop flying your planes so close aircraft -- and shs