>> look, i've been the brt for 10 or 15 years when i became the chairman of the brt, obviously i didfor two reasons. i think it's more important than it was before. i think it's critical we get business involved and getting it done right okay it will not be done right by government, alone. can't be done right by business, alo alo alone. a lot of businesspeople say we have to get more involved. we can't abdicate all this stuff without thoughtful policy. i really believe it. i think if business doesn't get involved, it leaves a huge vacuum actually secretary mnuchin is up there saying business needs to be involved to have the right policy and design. can't be parochial if you present yourself to the american public, it's all about your personal regulation, and this is just good for your business it won't work. so the brt is a large group which is doing policy, which is good for america obviously it will be good for business >> okay. you have a seat at the table via the brt. but you also had a seat at the table as part of this earlier ceo council but got up from the table after charlott

berkeley refused to work fairly with them to secure two large venues for some of the controversial and brt known speakers. >> the university wasn't providing the answers. >> the berkeley patriots and yiannopoulos say they wouldn't work with them on contract amendments that won to allow them to get back more than shh 65,000. >> it's ashamed they chose to try to cast blame upon the student organization that has been committed to working with them throughout the entire process. >> the list of speakers includes some big names breitbart founder and former trump administration adviser steve bannon. and kevlt columnist and commentator ann coulter. but a spokeman for the berkeley said the patriots never provided any confirmation from speakers that they would be there. the main sticking point, though, was that the deposit. the university says those rents and deposits on venue are never returned and the organizers have known that for longer than a month. >> nobody forced them to try to rent the most expensive venue on that kfrpz. we offered them venues free of charge. they said no. >> in and out ber

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it would increase corporate income, but we've lost -- the brt brought this out the other day -- the businessoundtable -- we lost in this country in 291the 21st century, almost 5,000 companies bought by foreign entities or gone overseas because of the tax rate differential that we were talking about earlier. we're playing on 12-foot goals, competitors overseas are playing on 10-foot goals >> this is why there's a rally, the perception some of these pharmaceuticals could bring money back and have none do deals. if you're out there you have an index fund, you're not an active investor, you are hearing about personal and corporate tax rates coming down, you're wondering what will that mean for the s&p 500. what does it mean? >> right now, not much it's noise just because the proposal has a long legislative process to go down >> to mr. smith's point, i get that the proposal means nothing, but if we get it into law -- >> a 5% increase in stock earnings the consumer will feel better, because of consumer confidence and they'll feel good about spending there is a derivative of economic impact due to