we will take your comments to give grover norquist some time to respond. guest: i know this is what the democrats said happened in the tax bill in 20 before anyone had read it. the bill was very unpopular then, when all you knew about it was what cbs told you about it. as you get close, and the new york times has a wonderful chart , it got more and more popular closer to april 15 of this year, and more people looked at last year's tax bill and this year's tax bill. last year's tax bill, this year's tax bill. they know that he got -- they know he got to give it -- they know they got significant tax reduction. if you go to h&r block pro the website, they have a 20% to 25% there -- huge, huge spread. the lower class, the exception $12,000, now it is $24,000. the rhetoric that it is only for rich people -- no. corporate income taxes are down almost nothing in terms of revenue, although we took the 35% to 21%. host: we will have to end it there. grover norquist, . >> good morning. we will come to order. a quorum is present and we are meeting

with grover norquist.e sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> on the second day of his official visit to the united kingdom, president trump and outgoing british prime minister theresa may held a joint news conference in london following their bilateral meeting. the president criticized london mayor sadiq khan and labor party leader jeremy corbyn. theresa may: this week we commemorate the extraordinary courage and sacrifice of those who give their lives for our liberty on d-day 75 years ago feeling that as leaders prepare together here from across the world, it is fitting that we begin with the celebration of the special relationship between the united kingdom and the states, engineering partners who stood side-by-side on the historic day and every day since. for generations at the heart of the transatlantic alliance has been our shared democratic values, our common interests, and our commitment to justice. it is the unity of purpose that w

joining us now in the foxbusiness exclusive is president of americans for tax reform grover norquist. your reaction to what senator sanders said. >> look, socialism means the government controls the means of production. land for farmers. companies, insurance companies he wants to have only the government legally be in the business of providing healthcare and making it illegal to have private insurance companies and that's what is socialism means. democratic just means, i guess, you elect the people who tell you what to do. as opposed to having freedom itself. corporate socialism makes no sense. you may need corporate welfare for the government gives money to companies because they are failing which usually happens when the government takes over companies and runs them into the ground. then they get corporate welfare. liz: okay, but if he's trying to sell his idea of socialism he's pushing to say this is not the socialism of what we saw in the soviet union and not the socialism from eastern european nations or cuba of the past but this is more of the socialism where the government will

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there he is, grover norquist. thanks for joining us. tell us the plan. >> steve, here it is.goes back to 1992 when a number of economists went to george herbert walker bush and said you can eliminate the taxation in capital gains of all inflation which cuts the capital gains tax rate almost in half for stocks an more than that for land and buildings. how? by defining cost for figuring out your capital gains eaz cost plus inflation. bush didn't do this and lost the election. some people said maybe you can't do that by executive order. there was a supreme court decision in 2002 that answered that question. verizon v. fcc, the federal communications said cost is cost plus inflation or real cost and the supreme court said it could be historic cost, what you paid for it, real cost, cost plus inflation, replacement cost and now there's a movement that republican leadership in the house and senate support it, most of the folks in the white house are supportive. i've been meeting with people over the last seven, eight months on this and the good news is there's strong support inside

host: grover norquist is back at our desk, president of americans for tax reform, a group known for its taxpayer protection pledge. do you consider tariffs a form of tax? almost 100 years, tariffs were the taxes we had in the united states. in the 1830's in south carolina, afore slavery became defining issue, they called out the national militia over tariffs. they had a national convention to look at everything in the 1830's because of the tariff fight. so tariffs our taxes, and the challenge with terrorists i

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grover norquist joins us right now.icular aspect of the tax cut, wealthy people win. i guess democrats want to repeal salt even though wealthy people would win. ironic, isn't it? >> this is the dog that caught the bus. they kept saying the whole tax reform is only for rich people and on and on. then the one objection that they have raised to the tax bill, because it cuts taxes for middle income people and helps people save, small businesses and creates jobs. they say, hey, if you have an incompetent mayor and a corrupt governor and they can't govern without high income taxes and high property taxes the rest of the country will not subsidize you anymore. we stopped the tax subsidy for incompetent, corrupt mayors and governors. people should be very mad at left-wing governors an mayors, with such shy high spending and -- it is not tax deductible. it is not iowa's job to subsidize bad government in connecticut. stuart: i don't care what you say, grover, i want salt repealed. just everybody i know who lives in new jersey, n

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that is why grover norquist made his top priority i called him as a witness to the joint accounting committee to talk about the economic benefits of doing immigration reform the right way because people come out of the shadows, pay taxes, more workers the unions are for this because people don't just work in the shadows bracket was the way to go and we can still do it now. this is one of the challenges that nobody has done anything about another is health care. many things you can do right away like cost-sharing and reinsurance. jean has a good bill on the cost-sharing piece and it has worked in states like alaska to help bring down immediately some of the premiums then you can move to a public option what president obama wanted to do in the beginning with either medicare or medicaid to create more competition. taking on pharmaceutical prices literally have been left on their own to do whatever they want and the results have been escalating to the point where insulin has gone from $18 of ideal that that $1200 a month. a restaurant general manager in the twin cities once he aged out of his par

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2013 bill, the cbo score on that, the congressional bill processing score, and the reason that grover norquist supported the bill is that it brought the debt down by $158 billion and thinking of that cash and what you could do with a portion of it much of it in debt reduction used for order at the border would have been helpful? mr. mcaleenan: many beneficial elements of that bill. >> back to senator durbin's question of shutting down the process that the current administration shut down in 2017 that would allow asylum seekers to apply in their countries. do you think that was helpful and it was shutdown? i don't think it was an appropriate program, because it did not have it lean to legal status for the people paroled into the u.s., and what i proposed into mr. chairman's bill would allow access to in-country and to repatriate those in access and those who did not qualify. >> but now, the administration now favors bringing back a similar program to this? mr. mcaleenan: the integrity of the systems, and lawful crossing of the border. >> and what about the foreign aid that the president's threa

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grover norquist, president for americans for tax reform joining us. we will see you down the road in time. that will do it for today on "washington journal." tomorrow, 7:00 a.m. eastern, 4:00 a.m. pacific. have a great wednesday, and we take you live to the floor of the house of representatives. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker: the house will be in order or. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. the members of this people's house will be leaving for an extended weekend. many will be traveling to normandy on the 75th anniversary of d-day. a day when thousands of american soldiers joined forces with our allies to begin the liberation of europe. as the world rememberser

bill, the cbo score on that the congressional budget office non-partisan score, the reason that grover norquist supported the bill was it brought the debt down by 158 billion and you think of that cash and what you could do with that money if you took a portion of going into debt reduction that could have been used for order at the border dunk do you think that would have been moment. >> many beneficial elements of the bill. >> let's go back to senator durbin's question about shutting down, the process that the current energies shut down in 2017 that allow asylum seekers to be able to apply in their countries. do you think that was helpful and that was shut down? >> so i don't think it was inappropriate program because it wasn't -- it didn't lean to legal status for most people paroled into the u.s. i think what we proposed and in fl chairman's bill would allow us to provide access to protections in country but also to repatriate those that avoid that access or that didn't qualify. >> but you now -- so the administration now favors bringing back a similar program to in. >> with the protections

then we will talk about trump administration trade and tariff policies with grover norquist. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern on wednesday morning. join the discussion. ♪ >> on the second day of his official visit to the united kingdom, president trump and outgoing british prime minister theresa may held a joint news conference in london following their meeting. thepresident criticized on