economy jack lew was an early endorser of biden joins us now in an exclusive interview.afternoon thank you for joining us >> good to be with you, wilf >> do you believe that corporate taxes should go up do you think it will be popular and should any other taxes go up as well? >> well, i have to say that when we were debating corporate tax reform during the obama-biden administration, we proposed 28% and what i heard from the business community was they wanted 25% so 21% was never in the debate there's certainly room i think 28% is a perfectly reasonable place for the corporate tax rate to be and that's what i thought when i was be secretary it's what i think now t overall, if we want to be able to address the issues in this country that we need to address, we're going to have to make sure that we fix our tax code so that those who are doing the best, earning the most, pay a fair share of taxes. after the 2017 tax cut, the system got worse, not better. >> what about capital gains taxes, mr. secretary in fact, during the obama administration, the response from the last cri

jack lew do you want to address some of those he brought up 3 safe years of operating behind him why is it judge in washington d.c. make this decision about what's happening up in north dakota. yeah of course judge must practice been the presiding judge over this case you know the almost the entire time and and so you know he very strongly struck the word stated cited than you but i only sions that have been ongoing and and i think that what this illustrates you know is the conflict between even the the the political existence in creation of states in this country right states or the creation of a state is predicated on the extinguishment or it's you know the extinguishment of sovereignty of tribes and as you saw in the treaty with the fort laramie treaty you know everything you know a good a good chunk of the sea of north dakota west of the missouri river and south that part river but is part of the greats you nation and there are other charities that also you know lay claim to other parts of north dakota if those treaties were honored north dakota would look like a spider web and s

archaeological museum one of its most amazing exhibits is the need on both a warship from the year 32080. 2 jack lew is very familiar with the history of the region. i don't say one was jealous of its golden era this live in the 17th century when it was the dutch. got all of these at that point was really one of europe's prime cultural centers of culture not just military might was used to try to growing is to the level of denmark 5 that was an outstanding time when there was a quote when there was a lot of construction done on the council when the gardens were planted and when there was a huge library here say it was a center of both science and the arts it had far reaching influence. even the organizers of course of its history of this region periodically belong to denmark why were the danes so interested in it. it often happened that the duke of chalets vic was also the king of denmark which meant that from the danish perspective of this region was always a part of denmark. under the. break was officially a danish fief but they were increasingly pushing for their sovereignty so what we sort of pu

profits so it feels like the wind is at your back at the moment jack lew moving forward is this is election november important to this issue in your view what needs to happen going forward. yeah of course with the dapple judgment a lot of it depends on the interpretation of the executive order that trump issued expediting pipelines there was one of the 1st executive orders he signed in january a the 1st month of his presidency was to you know to support apple and cheery start keystone x.l. and of course he ended his 1st year in office reducing bears years by 95 percent and. there's been a real attack on native sovereignty that's been ongoing i know that you know he has his former secretary of the interior is inky said that most tribes would love to give up their sovereignty to become corporations and in my book i go through i have detail about how the united states is still in many ways a colony it has no homeland you know they're going to see ideas are as worth the last 30 seconds of the show so he the vote will matter in november when is it you're back now above all keep watching this iss

congratulations to dom chu and his wife on the arrival of jack lew lucas chu.d looking kid there we'rewishing our best to the family great for all of them. >>> that does it for us on "worldwide exchange. "squawk box" is coming up next >>> good morning tech stocks soaring to new highs even as the dow dropped 360 points going to talk about the big names to watch straight ahead. it's a continuing story that we've been covering. >>> covid cases surging. the average number of cases rising by double digits in 33 states more governors now mandating masks to slow the spread we'll check in with dr. scott gottlieb and one major college football conference is cutting non-conference games and it's not the ivy league so we care about this and warning of no fall football, all this year we're going to check in on the status of all the major sports restart plans just saw a piece earlier they got cutout fans. i think the three of us need to be watching all these games even if we're cardboard "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, everybody. happy friday and welcome to