click, call or visit a store today. >>> our guest host this hour, jason trenert.trategis partners all right. let me quickly give you an overview we got a pretty good running rate still a lot of discussions on both sides about whether the tax reform bill was a success for the average american or not. then the latest is you saw how big the deficit is deficit is going to be much bigger we've got to raise a lot more money. but then word came out tax revenues were higher it's spending that is causing the deficit to balloon again where are we in terms of government policy and the trump economy? >> well, listen. i think you know what my point of view is going to be but i don't think there's any doubt that the tax cut was the early returns, an unqualified success. >> not if we go back under 2%. >> it's not going to happen. second quarter earnings looked like it was up with 90% of the companies reporting. that's after a 22% increase in the first quarter. even if you strip out the impact of the tax cuts, you're still looking at double digit increases in profits i can say as