preview. >> to some degree the politics today is a manifestation of the politics that has been brewing a long time. i railroad the bork hearings. i remember you were on the committee. you saw how raucous and how they were. then we went through an impeachment and went through the republican revolution and saw jim wright being driven out and then we saw the republicans win the house the first time in 40 years. the democrats kind of said no, you never won. we are going to just fight you. it sis really a pocks on both, did pox on both and you a are right the guy who yelled you lie and put out a fund-raising letter and raised money. so the system has been breaking down because of base politics. >> watch joe besideiden and john

kasich at biden institute that is 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. president trump announced the u.s. is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. he made the remarks at a cabinet meeting and talked about the signal republican's tax reform bill. >> we just returned from an historic 12-day trip to asia. everywhere we went the american delegation was greeted with tremendous hospitality and respect. people are respecting our

country again. we brought back more than $300 billion of deals which could reach well over a trillion dollars within a very near future. that means jobs for the united states at a very high level. as you know, we have just come up with the best job performance in over 17 years. this is a lot more jocks. we think the number will get a lot better. we can also put a lot of people that have not been able to find jobs, put them back to work because they are forth registered now. they will be registered in a positive sense. japanese car companies will open up and expanding plants in our country. we worked very closely with prime minister abe on that and we are renegotiating our bad trade deal with south korea and talking about bilateral trade with many country in asia and made clear to all countries we

cannot continue to be treated un unfawnun unfairly with trade. it is not fair to our companies or workers. last year we lost over $800 billion on trade deals with other countries. so, we had a negative number, a trade deficit of almost $800 billion dollars with other countries. that won't be happening that. is changing. i explained that to them from the standpoint of asia. they understand it. everyone of them understands it. one of the primary goals of the trip was to pursue the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. i want to begin this morning by meeting and talking about the fact that we will be instituting a very critical step and that will start right now.

today the united states is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. it should have happened a long time. it should have happened years ago. in addition it threatening the world by nuclear devastation, north korea has repeatedly supported acts everybody international terrorism including assassinations on foreign soil. as we take this action today our thoughts turn to otto warmbier and those brutally affected by the north korean oppression. the designation will impose further sanctions on north korea and related persons and maximum pressure it isolate the murderous regime that you have been reading about and in some cases writing about. tomorrow the treasure department will announce an additional sanction and very large one on north korea and this will be

going on over the next two weeks the highest level of sanctions by the time it sis finished. the north korean regime must be lawful and must end its unlawful nuclear and ballistics missile development and cease all support for international terrorism. today cabinet discussions will focus on crucial domestic policy issues. i want to congratulate the house of representatives for passing a vital and historic tax cut last week and i'm very hopeful the senate will do the same very soon. we are going to give the american people a huge tax cut for christmas. hopefully that will be a great big beautiful christmas present. with the democrats giving us no votes for tax cuts for purely political reasons it will be up to the republicans to come through for america.

i think that they will. i hope they will. it sun to the senate -- it is up to the senate. if they approve it, the house and senate will get together. i will be in the middle of it and we will come up with a bill that will be spectacular for growth and the people of this country. our tax plan will bring urgent relief to marched working families -- hard working tpraepls. we will reduce rates and increase the amount of income tax to the rate zero, expand the child tax credit and simplify taxes as most families will be able to file on a single seat of paper. we will resteer americaof -- restore jocks and we want to bring jobs back to our country. we were decimated the last 40 years. we want to bring our jobs back to the united states. we will go from being one of the highest taxed nations in the world to one of the lowest taxed nations in the world. corporate rates will be reduced

from 55% all the way down to 20%, which will make us competitive again and companies won't be leaving our country. our tax plan will return tralgs of dollars in wealth to our shores so that companies can invest in america again. at the same time, we are working to reduce wasteful government spending. we will hear from the budget director who is working with my cabinet to find taxpayer savings in each and every department. the cabinet members with us today are working on getting reduce reductions that we think we can save a lot of money even lower than the budgets and budgets that we are submitting. we will be working on healthcare, infrastructure and welfare reform. we are looking very strongly at welfare reform and that will take place right after taxes. very soon, very shortly after taxes. we will be submit being plans on

health care and infrastructure and plans on welfare reform willis democrats operately need -- which is desperately needed. we will discuss the opioid epidemic that sis ravageing so many american families and communities. last week i was proud to nominate alex azar to be the next secretary of health and human services. i urge the senate it swiftly confirm his nomination and i pt want to thank the acting secretary for serving with such devotion and doing such a great job. thank you very much eric. i want to wish the american people a truly happy and blessed thanksgiving especially to our brave men and women serving in our military and our border patrol and ice agents on the very dangerous southern border. alleges you heard we -- as you heard, we lost a border patrol

officer just yesterday. and another one was brutally beaten and badly hurt. it looks like he will make it. but very badly hurt. we talked about the wall. we will have the wall. we need it. that is that is rough territory. a lot of things happen on the southern border and we are going to straighten it out. we have reduced the numbers and you see the numbers back to 78% down from what they were. those numbers will get better and better but we have to stop the massive drug flow from pouring in. my respect to the families that were so badly hurt yesterday because they were devastated is. those two families were devastated. i want to wish everybody a very happy thanks. we will be working very hard during the resells in florida. we are going to florida.

and i wants to thank you for being here and let's start our meeting and to the media and press thank you very much. we appreciate it. thank you. thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> thank you. >> thanks, guys. >> secretary of state rex tillerson spoke to reporters at the white house following president trump agencies tphoupltd that the u.s. with declare north korea a state sponsor of terrorism. secretary tillerson told reporters the administration still homes for a diplomatic solution. following his comments white house press secretary took questions on a number of topics including north korea, the alabama