he said it again. he said let there be light, daddy. >> sean: bring the whole family and bring to choose. that's all the time we have left this evening. fair and balanced always. stay tuned, steve hilton is next. ♪ >> steve: good evening, i am steve hilton and this is "fox news tonight." see, they did let me back for another night and i'm very glad because we have good stuff to get next to. john mccain will be looking at whether "the new york times" will have hypocrisy over the nfl. president trump was answering questions from the press when he provided yet another palpable example of why he appealed to americans that are fed up with open borders and free trade run amok. >> i will not allow our country, the united states of america to be taken advantage of by so many

other countries all over the world. if you look at our trade deficits, massive trade deficits with virtually every country. we look at our jobs moving out to certain countries. the companies are leaving and they are firing the people. the product is made elsewhere. it sold back to the united states. i'm not going to be allowing that so i can see how certain countries and the leaders of certain countries may feel. we are not going to allow the united states to be taken advantage of by other countries anymore. >> steve: joining us now for reaction to washington, charles hurt. and ashley pratt, a contributor to the u.s. news and world report. let's start with you, with a very clear expression of the america first message and he also spoke very clearly about in the u.n. two weeks ago. what's wrong with that message? >> there's a lot wrong here. the fact that he got elected on this, that's great but the

message he's putting forward when he tweets and when he says things like this is one not of collaboration. we need to hear in the united states be able to work with other countries and be seen as a leader and yes, we must protect and look out for our own interests at the country. i don't think that's a bad idea at all. we always should be doing within our best interest. at the end of the day if we want to continue to be a world leader in that shining beacon of hope, we need to act like it. right now, this leadership is not showing up. >> steve: i want to pick up straightaway -- he did say that. what america means is sovereign nations working together. what it doesn't mean it's these unaccountable, undemocratic globalist institutions where the power is sucked away from national governments but charlie, i want to bring your perspective in here. not so much on the basic methods which i think we probably agree about. i want to know whether you think

he's actually delivering on it enough and specifically in one aspect he talked about trade debt and jobs. the big one is china. what i am worried about is the paris claimant and all the rest of it. china, we are still in the mode of sucking up to them because he's being told by the elite he's got to do that in order to get any progress in north korea. do you think he's actually delivering america's agenda? >> when it comes to things he's doing by himself, he's done some of these executive orders. anything he can do completely on his own. it held very firm to the american first agenda he ran on and one back on. when it comes to working with congress on some of these things, he has failed. and republicans across the board have failed at some of these things but i do think -- it's

amazing how, you know from politics, steve, the tendency for groupthink to take over somebody's personality and their agenda, it's what's destroyed washington for decades. people come to washington and they got corrupted by this place. while unity may not have a whole slew of successes to point to, the thing i think is so interesting and we heard it today in the press conference with the prime minister and the heritage foundation speech tonight, he has something that always keeps them directed towards the american first thing. this is not a huge thing but it's very important thing. we had a previous president who hated what we stood for and apologized for everything we stood for and now we have a guy who is proud of it and supports it. >> charlie, charlie -- >> steve: i put my cards on the table. i completely agree with what you just said. i do think he's doing well and

pushing back on the groupthink generally. maybe one exception, it's china. ashley, you are dying to get in and you didn't really like what i said to you after. have a go at me. >> i am a republican too but let me come out and say back in 2008, john mccain ran on country first and we are calling him an elitist and someone who fits into the washington establishment when he was hated by people in the establishment at that point in time. he had a country first agenda. now we are talking about donald trump's america first agenda and we are saying he's hypocritical? someone donald trump has criticized. a whole other story. >> steve: you make a really good point. >> mccain loves his country and he says we should not be isolationists or pounding this nationalism when we do need to be working with other leaders and if we do want to be the shining beacon on a hill, we need to start acting like it and not picking fights with other countries all the time. >> steve: you made the point i

want to make. i had forgotten about that. you're quite right. america first. how is that not nationalist? how is that any different. >> it's a completely crazy one that has been monitored by steve bannon and taken up as a mantle for the conserved default rate which is not right. >> steve: in terms of action, what is your problem with it? >> a problem with a lot of trump supporters as they would consider john mccain and people like myself to be neocons, who can go into other countries and make things better. i'm not saying republicans haven't done that but this is exactly why donald trump was elected by his supporters. they did not want that. the come out and say that he has this american first agenda seems very hypocritical to me if they're going to come after people like john mccain who have touted country first agenda for a long time. >> steve: i don't want to go on and on about john mccain.

we will talk about him in a bit. he started it. >> john mccain is not patriotic? to say that is crazy. the president said that. >> steve: no one said that. >> the president said that. >> john mccain was john mccain first. i'm not saying he was always like this. >> wow. >> he was probably a very good senator. there was even a time and i like him but over the past 10-12 years, he has turned into the maverick that the media love and the reason they love him is because he's always dumping on republicans and the campaign he ran against, barack obama in 2008, that was an utterly lifeless and failed campaign. and i have a hard time thinking -- looking at the situation now and not something that john mccain isn't --

again, john mccain first -- screwing over the president because he accomplished something he could never accomplish. >> legislatively, charlie, what couldn't he accomplished? >> steve: to be fair, legislatively on the things he was able to do, he's been able to do through executive action. for example pulling out of tpp, paris accords, border enforcement, these are all things that clearly are of result -- you can call it nationalist if you want. >> these are executive actions, orders, think that conservatives for years hated about the obama administration. >> steve: what's wrong with the actual substance and policy? >> the alt-right and nationalist agenda is not at all conservative. >> steve: i don't get it. we haven't set a single thing --

>> they've hijacked the republican party to make it unrecognizable to conservatives like me. >> steve: going all funds slogan, a quick last word. >> the thing about the alt-right, i've never understood the alt-right and i don't think anybody knows what the alt-right is -- >> it is nationalist. >> a cover-up for saying that they aren't racist but they are racist. >> steve: good debate. president trump giving a primetime speech tonight about putting more money in your wallet. we will have more after this quick break. when you have a cold stuff happens. shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels.

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>> steve: just hours ago, president trump delivered a major speech to the heritage foundation in washington, d.c., about his plan to overhaul the tax system. >> we're also simplifying the tax code under our framework, the vast majority of families will be able to file their taxes on a single sheet of paper. in addition to simplification, the other pillar of our tax plan is reducing our crushing business tax so that we can restore america's competitive edge.

>> steve: joining us for a reaction from, ed henry. when i see the president and i watched the speech, it seems to me when he's talking about the economy, it feels like he really understands the policy, knows what he's talking about. he seems happier than any other topic. i wanted to ask you just watching tonight, was there anything new either about the content of the tax plan or when it might be delivered? >> yes, there was movement today right before the speech suggesting rand paul, john mccain, some of the other republicans who had been holding up the president on health care for example were going to move forward on the budget process. that opens the door to potentially the biggest tax cut in american history. there will be procedural votes on wednesday and thursday. watch this over the next 36-46 hours. it's going to get confusing in

the swamp. at the end of it, and looks like if things go the president's way, he's finally going to have not just the biggest tax cut in american history but the biggest win legislatively. as you know, he has done all kinds of executive actions but has not had the big legislative win on capitol hill that he can lock in and go into the end of the year saying "i had a big win." >> steve: you sound really upbeat about it. just a day ago, we were at the press conference with the president and mcconnell. it was all well, we will try to do it next year. a bit depressed about the chances of this happening. it sounds like you are much more upbeat about it. >> they are hedging their bets and saying this could slide into january or february but they are more hopeful because what happened since we spoke last night, steve, john mccain came out today and after battling with the president on health care, said i'm going to vote to move the budget process forward. again, it is not done yet. they're all kinds of votes over

the next 24-36 hours but there's optimism here at the white house and capitol hill for republican republicans, that they can open the door for the biggest individual tax cut that would go to the middle class. democrats say no, it will go to the rich. and also potentially lowering the corporate tax down as low as 20%. that could mean a lot of jobs and a lot of economic growth. >> steve: the other thing really striking about this president, he is really out there selling it. is he going to be more of that? >> you are right, some of the staff aides told me he will go out on the road again. the most important point is the one you made at the top of the segment, when he is talking about the economy, talking about jobs, the first ceo president -- with real business experience,

he is really in his element. i think you nailed it. that's why the tax cut is his best opportunity for a big win. it's not there yet but they are feeling a lot better tonight than they were yesterday, steve. >> steve: that's really great news. i was pretty depressed yesterday. it was the main thing he was elected to do. >> if i can cheer you up, i would feel good. >> steve: [laughs] great, we will rebrand your intro. cheer up in chief. good to see you, buddy. what his plane can do for those people currently in poverty. ♪ >> steve: for more, let's go to the heritage foundation policy analyst who saw president trump's speech first hand. great of you to join us. what'd you make of that? you were there. >> thank you for having me on.

the speech was everything we wanted to hear. individual tax cuts for every american but also focused on the economic growth and wage growth that it came from tax reform. cutting the business tax rate down to 20%. bringing profit home from overseas. making america a place where americans want to do business and higher americans. >> steve: i put my cards on the table and i agree with all of that. i've been a big proponent of all of this all along. many times arguing for pretty much exactly this plan. but i would like to do is get your reaction to some of the arguments that have been put against it. our audience as well armed against those that say this won't work. this idea, just cutting taxes is going to lead to more economic growth, that may be true. there is going to be people that elect out of that. even if you go back decades, tax cuts, boosting the economy.

incomes from working americans have been flat or falling for decades. now they are going to be different this time even if we get the growth from this tax plan. >> reducing the corporate tax rate and business tax rate in general has been proven time and time again across countries and states to lead to higher wages for workers. we've seen it across the border in canada. over the last 15 years they slowly ratcheted down their business tax rates. we've seen wage growth in canada exceeding that of neighboring countries. the examples are out there. the report that the president was talking about, at $4,000 that he's talking about of the wage increase for the average american after-tax reformists through, not the real number. it will materialize. >> steve: it's real in one sense. but it's an average and an

average can hide really big differences. one of the things that's really been going wrong in our economy is that you had parts of america that are booming. particularly on the coast and other parts that have really not shared in that prosperity and the average lushes them altogether. how can we be sure the people left behind will benefit this time around? >> the current tax code is -- is the code the benefits those that are rich and powerful. it's so complicated, the people that can hire the expensive attorneys and good lawyers are the ones they can get ahead in that system. it's not about lowering the tax rate which has all these benefits but it's about simplifying the system. making it so people and businesses know what they have to send to washington at the end of the year. >> steve: here's another argument. for profit now, at record levels. companies have got a huge amount of money.

they don't need more money to make the decision to invest. if you cut their taxes, the only people that are going to benefit are the owners of the businesses. it's not going to change their behavior because they've got plenty of money they could be investing but they are not. >> one of the pieces of this tax reform is changing our current system where we tax the worldwide profits. this is where the president talked about bringing home trillions of dollars of profits overseas. this is money that businesses haven't been able to bring back to the united states for fear of getting that internationally high corporate tax rate levied on it. the current system does distort business activity but if we can make america an attractive place both for american businesses to bring that money back into invest but also for foreign businesses to invest in the united states and hire american workers, that is competition for additional workers, it drives up wages and drives economic growth

that the president is talking about. >> steve: i buy that argument. the corporate tax rate is the highest in the world. if you're making a decision about where you are going to locate your business, i think that will have an impact. the critics will point out that we have those kind of cuts and the repatriation, things under the bush administration. actually, it did not lead to more jobs. what it led to him with more money. for the rich, the shareholders. >> the problem with that temporary repatriation was that it was temporary. when we are talking about temporary tax policy, if we can make permanent lower corporate tax rate, permanent move which is what we are talking about -- another piece the president talked about today, those three pieces will be an amazing center for businesses to invest here, which is the foundation of economic growth.

we will see the economic growth being predicted for can get those key pieces right. >> steve: remind me what they are again. it's important to remember these arguments. we will get a lot of people. what we say in response? >> lowering the corporate tax rate to 20%, it's the highest in the industrialized world. moving to a territorial system. businesses can do business in the united states and not be penalized for selling things outside the united states in the moving to full -- allowing businesses to invest in factories, pieces of equipment, this is what really drives economic growth. >> steve: thank you so much, adam. we really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me on. >> steve: a high-stakes meeting being held at the nfl today for the national anthem protest. will the league ban kneeling?

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>> steve: nfl players, more than three hours today, announced no changes on the policy that admits players to kneel during the national anthe national anthem. here is what president trump told brian kilmeade earlier today. >> hillary clinton said it was okay for the nfl players to kneel during the anthem. i disagree. maybe that's why she lost, because that's bad. real bad. we need to respect our flag, country, anthem. >> steve: he thinks so clearly. i think that's what people love about him. meanwhile, the "wall street journal" said "the new york times" has a double standard. the newspaper praised colin kaepernick for kneeling during the anthem but has just

announced a policy that prohibits its own reporters from making political statements on social media. joining us now for reaction from washington, howard kurtz. we see him as a host on fox news "media buzz." i want to take it into. first of all, is it right for the times to clamp down on a journalist this way and the second of all, is it hypocritical for them to do that to their own employees while saying that the nfl employees should be able to speak their mind? >> i will blow than whistle on this analogy. asking "new york times" journalist to be a lot more careful on twitter, it's long overdue because a number of times journalists have been -- particularly when writing about president trump -- have been snarky, derisive, mocking him. it undermines the credibility of the paper.

journalists are not like football players. we weren't that good at sports. that's why we stuck to writing and talking. you give up certain rights. you can't join partisan demonstrations and when you pop off on twitter, about politics, you are seeing -- fairly or unfairly, representing the news outlet you work for. everybody likes to have a personality on twitter and gain a following but people don't follow those who work for networks like espn, the recent case of a suspension or "the new york times" because we are so cute and witty. it's because we have a big platform. >> steve: okay, fine. why don't you accept this argument about hypocrisy? they said very clearly it was completely wrong for the nfl to try to constrain the ability of its own people to say whatever they want to. why is that not true for their own? >> one fact is the executive

editor doesn't oversee the editorial pages. a different part of the paper but more importantly, i do think it's fair to take a poll at "the new york times." when colin kaepernick of the 49ers first at the kneeling protest, the paper was not all that interested. it's only when donald trump got involved that it became this crusade for the free speech, the right of players to protest however they wish. in fairness, we have a president taking on the nfl and they spend massive media coverage for weeks and of course the times liberal editorial page is going to take shots at the president. there's a different standard here between football players, professional athletes, i don't think they should be doing it during the anthem. they can do it in other ways. and journalists who have a path with viewers and readers, they are going to keep their personal opinions. i'm not talking about the columnists, keeping your personal opinions and trying to cover the president and political system fairly. i see it a little bit as apples

and oranges. >> steve: the comeback would be nfl does have pretty tough rules. about what his players can and cannot do. players must be on the sidelines for the national anthem, hold their helmets. all the arguments about the fact that when they tried to make other protests, for example in support of the police or whatever, they've been banned from doing that because of these very strict rules. they do actually have rules. is that what the times is doing? >> it's tightening their rules and not banning anybody or saint they have to get off twitter. because of all the criticism that happens when you get to personal expressing personal opinions but there were rules against spiking the football and all of that sort of stuff. clearly president trump has thrown the nfl for a loss. it's trying to figure out to find a way to stop the kneeling protest. it's hurting the nfl brand,

ratings, roger goddell has changed his tune from criticizing the president is saying he agrees but not in a way that ticks off the players. trying to come up with some machine language. but it's hurting the national football league. >> steve: do think "the new york times" wants it to go away? >> it's become a left-right thing, if trump is for it the liberals are against it. it's a nice way to say we believe in the right to protest against police brutality and racial injustice. sure, i have no problem with that. if you are being paid millions of dollars, maybe you don't have to do it during the national anthem. the fact is, much of the country agrees with the president. that's why the nfl is losing ground on this issue. >> steve: in theory, between the reporters in the opinion pages -- to me, that's completely gone. i remember when i first moved here from england.

i was struck that that line between those two sides seemed to be pretty strong, certainly in comparison to british newspapers but the coverage of the administration and the headline writing in the way stories are presented, all the way through the paper. not just in the comments section, it feels like it's become completely an anti-trump anti-trump -- >> the times has a liberal editorial page in the coverage seems to lean that way, i will not give you a big argument. there are many, many stories that are negative towards president trump. some is a legitimate reporting. some it's covering his mistakes. some is investigative reporting that newspapers should do. if you want to say that there's a lot, the times as an institution and even its own former public editor, whether it's about football or tax reform, i'm not going to give

you a strong argument. >> steve: good for you. i've along with that. let's twisted a little bit on this one. i think they've changed and how they cover politics with the arrival of donald trump. appear to a lot of people have changed with that. >> steve: to seo. up next, senator john mccain delivered a stark warning about the rise of nationalism. we will tell you what his beef is right ahead.

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>> steve: senator john mccain and philadelphia received the liberty metal from the national constitution but he had a stark warning for u.s. leaders when he gave his speech. >> to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for some sake of some half-baked spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats and solve problems. it's as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tire dogma of the past, for history. >> steve: i wonder who he was talking about. >> i don't know. >> steve: we have

juan williams here to clear it all up. the cohost of "the five." what do you think he was trying to achieve with this? it seemed to me that really what john mccain is up to these days, generally this is part of it, burnishing his legacy and frankly seeking the approval of the media elite in the morning joe crowd who laugh at this kind of attack on donald trump and so on. what is he really trying to do with this? >> he's speaking to america's better angles. in terms of his life and career, or life on earth, i don't think he's in a position where he has to care about any of the elite. he speaking from the heart. when you look at things, when you look at the climate deal in the iran deal and somehow we would withdraw from our role as a global leader, he thinks that's not in the best interest of america. >> steve: it's a strawman.

what is the withdrawal? >> what's the withdrawal? >> steve: with the iran deal. it could argue it's exerting leadership. >> i don't mind if you are exerting leadership but the vision so far is limited. i think this is where mccain spoke about half-baked. you say simply i don't like what this deal is. i can't tell you exactly why and i'm not even going to deal with it. i'm going to kick it over to them and say to my followers -- and then steve says no, it's not undone. he posted over there. >> steve: if something is bad and you want to correct it, i think that its leadership. the elites don't like it because it's undoing the policies that many people argue completely failed. >> people can argue about it but when it comes down to the people who signed the deal including the president's top advisors, saying it's not in our best

interests to stay in the deal -- he had made a campaign promise, trashed the deal inside it was the worst deal ever. i think that's what he's done now. to simply say if i give it to congress, i can say to my followers i did away with the deal. if congress doesn't do away with it, he will say that's on them. >> steve: we talk about the iran deal all the time. i don't want to talk so much about the specifics of it but just changing policy is the same as withdrawal -- it's just not fair. let's take another example. the paris climate change. to say america retreating. actually, isn't it just a different kind of leadership? to save this deal is going to hurt our economy and it doesn't even deliver the aims that the people that put it forward claimed it did? >> we need to take this conversation to a different level. the president at this moment is suggesting that in pursuit of what you were discussing in your first segment, america first, that in fact we need to retreat

in terms of our global influence. >> steve: i don't think he is saying that. >> i hear that loud and clear and apparently senator mccain here is that. the guy who wants to appeal to this kind of nationalism, this kind of tribalism. saying we are americans and we are going to protect ourselves against the evil world. rather than we need to be an example to the world. >> steve: if you look at the u.n. speech when he said look, america first is the same -- it's the same strategy you all have for your countries. the way we get progress is sovereign countries working together to solve problems. instead of these global institutions where there is no accountability and you get a bunch of international bureaucrats who make the policy. he say that's wrong. it's about democratic countries deciding what is in their best interests. that to me is leadership. >> remember we are not any

nation, we truly are an exceptional nation here at the united states of america. we have the strongest economy in the world. top military in the world. our cultural messages to the world, through hollywood, the number one source of entertainment for cultural norms in the world. for us to be just like any other sovereign nation is to reduce us in stature. in fact, i would argue the president should be enlarging us in stature and saying all the reagan we are the shining city on the hill and in terms of what we are willing to do to keep our air clean and make deals with people that could potentially destabilize peace. >> steve: i agree with what you said. i really do. the argument he's making is that we do that by our example. it's actually a fact that the reduction and admissions for america, the changes in our energy have actually put us in a leadership position. not joining the climate

agreement but what america has done. >> if you make a deal, you can act as an example, a leader to other countries that would say why should we come along and do anything especially if you are a third world country that aspires to be on par with the american economy or even china? and then you say oh, no, we are making a sacrifice -- what a great nation is willing to do in order to serve its people. >> steve: i honestly think the president, who is incredibly crowd of america, this whole discussion has gotten down to a slogan level. >> let me to say, john mccain. patriot. good guy. >> steve: i agree with that. so does the president, i think. >> i wonder. [laughter] >> steve: nothing to say about that. thanks, juan. get to see you. the draft memo written by james comey, exonerating

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>> steve: today, the fbi

heavily redacted documents saying that former james comey drafted his announcement that hillary clinton would not face charges in her email scandal two months before the fbi even interviewed her. in september 2016, comey denied he made any decisions about hillary before she spoke with the fbi. >> director, did you make the decision not to recommend criminal charges relating to classified information before or after hillary clinton was interviewed by the fbi on july 2nd? >> after. if colleagues of ours believe i am lying about when i made the decision, please urge them to contact me privately so we can have a conversation about this. all i can do is tell you again, the decision was made after that i didn't know what was going to happen in the interview. she may be light in the interview, no way we could prove it. >> steve: joining us now for reaction in los angeles, a former spokesperson for hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you for having me,

steve. >> steve: i want to ask you very directly, does it make you hate james comey more or less? >> i am certainly the last person in the world who's going to come out here and defend the way james comey handled the investigation of hillary clinton. but i will say is this is not new information. we knew several months ago that he had written some sort of memo, some sort of statement in regards to what he ultimately said in july. when he said case closed, the investigation -- hillary clinton did no wrong doing. we also know from james comey and what he has said is that he is a very copious notetaker. >> steve: you can say that again. >> with congressional testimony, he is a self decay to back declared copious notetaker. none of this is surprising. i know they are trying to use this to open the door, donald trump made a very clear when he initially fired james

comey -- he semifired her because of the way he handled the hillary current investigation which we all know what's wrong. now republicans are trying to say james comey was bias in some weights towards hillary clinton. it's the last thing in the world that i think most of us who watched the investigation and tone aggressive james comey was towards hillary clinton -- >> steve: maybe there's an agreement between democrats and republicans. not so much about how he handled that but you can't believe a word this guy says. he is totally untrustworthy. i think all sides can agree about that. >> look, i will say this, james comey, i think you mishandled the investigation with hillary clinton server but he's a top investigator. he was very aggressive with the fact, he's been known as a very -- he was a very tough fbi

director. and reopening the investigation 12 days before the actual election day, which i think largely cost us the election, i mean the mishandling of the investigation is far different from the way he went in and dealt with the facts. >> steve: the things he said just don't stack up. the reason she even was getting into all this was because of the tarmac meeting, she couldn't take care of it so he had to take over. that was months after he wrote this. if that was really the reason that he was expressing his views, what was going on with this memo a couple of months before hand? >> again, i am certainly -- i've made it very clear -- i'm not going to go on and defend james comey's tactics and how he handled the investigation but i will say look, it's not uncommon for judges to write opinions

before they issue a judgment. going back to what james comey has said, he said i was a copious notetaker and i wrote everything down. i don't know -- why this memo is was right in the way it was before it came out but i do when saying james comey was not tough on hillary clinton was not following the investigation. he was incredibly harsh. >> steve: whatever. the main confusion as he wrote things down but you can't really trust a single thing he said. adrian, thank you so much. >> now he is writing about, right? >> steve: oh, my gosh, please spare us. more news for you tonight, after this. maybe it's time for otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream.

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♪ >> tucker: a fox news alert, president trump has just finished speaking to the heritage foundation in washington where he promoted a republican plan to reform america's tax code. good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in just a minute we will talk about a meeting at the weinstein company in los angeles today. harvey was part of that. also, there is new information about the laws of vegas security guard who apparently vanished into thin air, one of the rare eyewitnesses inside the hotel, the latest on that. but first, here's part of whatra the president just said about his tax plan. >> our framework provides a one time, low tax on profits currently sitting on the shores so that this money can comeax bk right where it started, come