business network for the intelligence report daily. have a terrific evening. i'll see you tomorrow. kennedy: house speaker paul ryan makes another pitch to reform a ridiculous tax code. but will his plan fix the system? dr. ron paul is here with real ideas. a free speech battle on a college campus. a new docu-series documents how badly the war on drugs has failed. grab a chair because it's time to get schooled. paul ryan made a new tax reform pitch as house speaker. he hopes to deliver what he calls transformational tax reform. the speaker finally got out of weeds to make this economic pitch.

>> if we are going to fix our tax code, then we have to fix all of it. both for individuals and businesses. why are we going to do that? because it will create jobs. that's what this is about. that's what this is all about it's about jobs, jobs, jobs. good-paying jobs. kennedy: he's a regular lahr -- a regular eminem. tax reform should be a much-needed issue for republicans. so where do you start? by lowering taxes for everybody. here is more of ryan's breakdown. >> you can't just lower the rate for corporations which is in america 10%, 20% in wisconsin. level the playing field but give them the edge they need to compete in global economy.

kennedy: if taxes are the finish line and the entire economy wins, ryan is hoping this is the cookie at the finish line that buys him precious time. >> we must think differently so that once again we make things here and export them around the world. there are so many different ways of cheating us. we in the house have our own idea. and that's one of the things we are discussing with the administration because we are going to get this right. kennedy: i don't necessarily agree with that. but let's hope it's not through ryan's dread border adjustment tax. let's get right into taxes. i'm glad you are here. i'm kennedy.

what shoulded the speaker of the house paul ryan spoke us on when it comes to tax reform. dr. ron paul joins me now. dr. paul, welcome back. ron: thank you very much, good to be with you. kennedy: do you agree tax reform is necessary? ron: yes, i do. i was optimistic we would get some good news, but i was very disappointed. i thought a major reform would be to call for the repeal of the 16th amendment and it never came. so i'm not all that optimistic about what's happening. he did not talk about the term revenue neutral but he implied they would to give tax cuts for a few people we have to raise taxes on somebody else because they had deductions. it's more economic management and planning through the tax code they are doing. but lower rates, yes. but the other thing that is never mentioned because taxes

are different than spending, if you want a reduction in taxes, you have to think about cutting spending. that means we have to deal with the role of government. and it's out of control. the role of government has nothing to do with our constitution any more, therefore the tax code will remain very oppressive. kennedy: oftentimes the tax cuts rely on the theoretical and magical economic growth which we haven't seen and we are not creating the environment for. but the idea is, if you cut taxes and incentivize businesses to come back, we'll have so much gdp growth, there will be an even bigger tax base. but that model is unsustainable as well, isn't it? ron: absolutely. and it's the wrong incentive. to sneak in an increase in revenue, enhanced revenues coming in.

if it did work and maybe there could be examples point out. but it's merely to pay for government. if you happen to have gotten extra revenues in, great, cut more spending. but there is no talk of that. that's not part of what's going on. they want to maintain the welfare state. and never really pay for it. and that's the fallacy. so you can't adjust taxes to deal with that problem. this is structural. it's anti-constitutional. but he did mention less regulations and that's good. less complicated tax coats and that's good. but the revenue neutral stuff and hoping for economic growth to pay for these bills, it's a dream. kennedy: it's shifting the tax burden and turning it into grease. where would you like to see republicans start?

do you think there is hope of something like a flat tax which is obviously more than simplifying a few brackets? ron: no, i don't think it will happen. there are too many obstacles. i remember the first speech i gave in politics in 1974. i said the thanks code ought to be simplified. maybe we could get by with a 10 per tax, never higher. the churches don't ask for more than 10%. the government total should never get more than 10% of our earnings. and now i agree it might be too much if you want limited government. a flat tax might offer something. but it will never happen. what ryan was talking about was flattening the tax code but then he said except for this, and except for this. that avoids the problems.

it might be you could get lower tax revenue and simplified tax code, and i think that's what steve forbes argued for. but overall i think it's a spending issue and role of government issue, and our constitution is the problem. so this is not going to solve the problem. but some people say instead of the flat tax you should have a sales tax. no matter what the reforms are, you have to talk about spending. that is one of the reasons i never endorsed either one. fit provide an opportunity to lower taxes, i would have supported it. but i didn't want to get away from tinkering with the tax code thinking it would deal with structural problems. kennedy: ultimately lowering taxes is not the goal because then you would have to lower spending. in the end it's all a charade, but hopefully society will

benefit. in the chamber of commerce things are getting testy over healthcare. the gop is preparing to vote on their healthcare bill next week. democrats are angry the republicans have been meeting behind closed doors and haven't taken the bill to the senate floor. last night they held a talk-athon. >> when we have time, more than 10 hours? this is a complicated bill. to review the bill? will it be available to us and the public more than 10,000 before we have to vote for it? >> you have ample opportunity to read and amended the bill. >> we'll have ample opportunity to read and amended the bill. kennedy: 7 years ago vice president mike pence had this to say about the left's talk on

obamacare. it's simply wrong for legislation that will affect 100% of the american people to be negotiated behind closed doors. hashtag hcr. let me bring in mike malice, and comed yab and host of the abe lincoln's top hat podcast, ben kiss he will. and a columnist at the daily beast, anthony fisher. what a sterling night of liberty. so anthony, i'll tart with you. this is the height of hypocrisy. this is what republicans were so incensed by when obamacare was passed in the first place. >> the democrat didn't bathe

themselves in glory the way the affordable care act was passed. right now there is no transparency. republican voters can't even say with confidence they know what's in the bill. you should always delete your tweets he couple years. kennedy: nor rand paw was poking around the house office building looking for copies of the house version of the ahca. >> that entire talk-athon

government?

no one wants to ask that because god knows they don't have the answer. >> i think we are dealing with the ramifications of the years and years of jerry man during and redistricting. there is anyone season tough to compromise because it doesn't benefit them politically. >> this has been around since america was a country. this has been our system from the beginning and that's the way it's going to be. kennedy: president trump today called the death of american college student otto warmbier a total disgrace. he died after 17 months in a north korean prison. yesterday arizona republican senator john mccain said americans murdered warmbier. he said americans would be

stupid to travel to north korea. today the u.s. military with two supersonic bombers not far from the north korea border with a show of force. michael malice, you have been there. the going wisdom, the people you have spoken to and the intelligence you personally gathered are americans are well taken care of. why is he dead? >> all these people are saber rattling. in 1968 they captured the u.s.s. pueblo and killed an american soldier and held the rest for a year. and necessity chopped up two u.s. soldiers. he was a hostage, a bargaining chip. if you have a hostage you want to deliver him back alive. they want to get rid of him, they don't want the body on your

hand. they took a gamble. it went poorly for them. now they are quaking in their boots because we have to act in some way. >> michael is the expert on it, but when it comes to north korea it seems like that entire regime is acting like a cult in their waning days. they don't seem to have the concern of their constituents in mind. they want the united states to be militarily aggressive against them because it proves their narrative that they are being oppressed by the west. kennedy: do you think they are trying to go ahead the u.s. into military action? >> i think this was a mistake. i don't think they attempted to kill his kid. kennedy: i think it's murder. >> i think it's murder. my biggest ma co-fear is i don't

think the administration is competent enough to handle the fall of his regime. kennedy: i don't know that china is. >> we'll have a refugee crisis that will be a fiasco in the east. i don't believe the trump administration has the competence or patience to handle this. >> there would be a coalition between china, south korea and japan. it would be expensive but it would be easy because you know what to do, give them schools, roads and food. kennedy: you have got a new leader in south korea who isn't that thrilled about the militaristic aspect of the united states' involvement. >> south korea has never been a faithful ally. he few years it's which candidate can be more anti-american.

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kennedy: the hate-hate relationship between president trump and the press continued yesterday with the white house barring reporters from taking live audio or video during the afternoon briefing. that infuriated reports and set the stage for another contentious briefing today. the president hinted in the past he wouldn't mind eliminating the briefing all together. the standoff isn't ending anytime soon. here with me now, the co-host of "fox and friends" and kilmeade and friends. he has got so many friends he agreed to be mine for the next few minutes. speak of breakups, it's a contentious relationship between president trump and the press. brian: you see the tension that

sits there on top. kennedy: they are fuming. brian: i thought they might have that logo soon. but what i was struck with is the reporters can't figure out how to do a story for which they have the answers but not on camera. they are all getting their questions answered in a gaggle behind the scenes, but then they have to go out and do what print does and write down quotes and say if they can't give us the answer to the questions on camera, where can we record the audio it's basically pointless. you can record it and you can repeat it. sean spicer told me moments ago north korea will start bombing them soon.

kennedy: i like the visuals. i embrace the future which i believe is television. brown * is the goal answers or content. if your goal is to put on a show pinning sean spicer to the ground, that only helps the reporter catapult their career like david gregory. kennedy: if the worry is your spokesperson is being pummeled, get a different spokesperson. brian: they can sit there and answer we have a few options. in many ways he's still the ceo of his own company making that adjustment. >> you can see the fear in his eyes. you know how sean spicer is scrutinized. he does his job well.

when he hops in front of the camera you lose a little self confidence. and you have 90% of the people who think he's lying before he opens his mouth. kennedy: brian kilmeade, thank you very much. remember republican lawmakers in washington, washington state that is, they introduced new legislation that would defund colleges that stifle free speech through free speech zones and prior restraint policies. in the jeff green state conservative speakers were shouted down. this happened. oh, my god. racist teachers.

that's evergreen state. oh, my god. they are so anti-fascism they have been doing everything they to be silence people they disagree with like real fascists. if anybody can make sense of this, it's my weapons grade party panel. michael malice, ben kiss he kisd anthony fisher. there was a professor who pointed out the absurdity of absence day and privilege day where white professors were asked to leave the college. >> the first amendment is under attack on the left and the right. we have individuals disrupting shakespeare in the park. both sides need to chill out. i changed from sociology from

political science. i had multiple teachers call me fascist for studying political science. >> i'm shocked they didn't take it chance to call you a giant fascist. >> thank you so much. >> mussolini was my height. >> you went to a college where they allow students to grade themselves. this cities steward privilege. i don't know of anyone who would take a job at evergreen state. kennedy: michael moynihan did a fantastic video. he went to evergreen and talked to the professor. and he talked to the president of the school. and then he said some students call you a white supremacist. that would be something if

evergreen had a chanceman. >> a white power diversity officer? >> moynihan had to condense the crazy by a factor of 100 to get it into that 7-minute piece. it's despicable. it's good to for washington republicans or lawmakers of oath part why is to be talking about defending speech. there are states that want to ban books in school and make that law. there is plenty of hypocrisy to go around. kennedy: the reaction to this is hysterical. it creates so much hypocrisy on both sides. projecting and force are rarely the prescriptions for freedom. >> force was how this country was found so i disagree with you

on that one. there are three legs of the progressive school. the media, the government and universities. the college is aspirational. so they are shown to be places where your daughter comes in a bright eyed beautiful girl and comes out a a monster. i would suggest having a bill to seize all university endowments and use that money to pay reparations are and turn urban white and minorities against east other and stand back and watch the carnage. the ivy league schools which have been around for 200 years. they have built their careers on privilege. let's use all their money that they use to take down capitalism

and the american way. >> if we can educate kids in high school, they could get a job. these students peso much money to these universities it's basically protest camp. the whole power structure is totally off. >> one way to split the left from the inside would be to invoke the speech codes and make the man in charge of free speech. and ultimately they would be arguing over what is acceptable speech and they would be killing each other. kennedy: any time we can base the university system on a stallone film we have won. what a glorious discuss. a new documentary on the history channel documents the craziness of the drug war. we'll talk to the executive

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>> what make us thrive is having a war. war means -- once you create the enemy. once you build the institution, it will keep perpetuating itself forever. kennedy: that's a clip from the

docuseries. the series delves into the direct ties between the drug trade and united states foreign policy. viewers will get a glimpse into the secret motivations the government may have had for its role in the drug war. welcome, anthony. so much interesting stuff in here. i want to start with richard nixon. i talked about roger stone who said that knickon kick starting of the war on drugs was his greatest failure. what role did knickon play in the war on drugs? >> nixon was the first president to declare a nationwide offensive against drugs. he felt that drugs were the thing that were driving the country into sort of a state of

out of control. but really there is a lot of evidence that we found and other people found that there were some other you tear year motives behind the declaration of the war on drugs. kennedy: is like miami sprung up and prospered during the cocaine phase and other is were completely ravaged. and the contrast between the two is pretty stark. >> the tory in until is fast -- the story in until is interesting. in 1960 castro take over cuba, and the cia now looks to try to take down castro and teams up with a bunch of gainingers who were running guns and drugs through havana. and launch a plot to kill castro that end up failing but end up empowering a whole generation of

cuban americans, they go to south florida and kick tart the drug trade. there are weird interesting connections between the central intelligence agency and the drug trade. and it happened in southeast asia with the whole heroin explosion that knickon was reacting to in 1971. it was in part a result of a secret war we were fighting in laos. kennedy: you could argue the drug war is america's longest war. is afghanistan a drug war? >> it has turned into a drug war. the taliban is a gigantic drug trafficking militia and both side are protecting drug lord and the taliban found afghanistan is responsible for 90% of the world's opioids. september 10, 2011 it was 30%.

there is a real connection between american foreign policy and overseas wars and the war on drugs. kennedy: what follows from that policy is it's so serious and deadly. as libertarians we talk about it and have to be vigilant about jeff sessions who want to restart the war on drugs. hopefully everybody will watch this docu-series. nebraska police have gotten body cameras, and you won't believe what they found. that's in the "topical storm." it's next. [vo] when it comes to investing,

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kennedy: have you ever been in a financial pick. and had to choose between what to give and what to keep in order to stay afloat?

of course we all have. including johnny depp. he's in a legal battle royale. he's in such financial yogurt he had a wee bit of a spending problem. one of his managers quickly suggested he find ways to cover his outstanding loans covering his lavish lifestyle. but he was reluctant to cut a private jet from his roster of means. he respond in an email. what else do you want me to do you? want me to sell some art? other than that i have got bikes, cars, pointing, and some semblance of a soul left. where would you like me to start. but considering the plane options. i don't have many options.

a commercial flight with paparazzis in tow would be an f-ing nightmare. he's a past united ask passenger and he knows he would have no choice but to go by boat with the loathe some pirates of the caribbean. who would fly commercial. edward. good luck to you, john. you can follow me on twitter and instagram. email kennedyfbn@foxbusiness.com. tomorrow night we are live at 9:00 p.m. following president trump's speech in iowa. we'll have all of it right here including the best analysis of the entire day in the world ever right here on fbn. good night.

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