is a wonderful time to meet, so we have two of the crack members of the ways and means committee, mr. neil and the young chairman from texas, mr. brady, and we welcome you both to the committee. but before we move further, we will hear from the ranking member, the distinguished member from massachusetts for any opening statements. >> the distinguished gentleman from wooster, massachusetts -- worcester, massachusetts is recognized. >> you pronounced it right, finally. [laughter] thank you, mr. chairman, and i think the witnesses for being here. this tax bill is so unpopular, it was already pulled once from floor consideration. essentially, this bill is the ghost of christmas past, only this version is even worse than before. it would repeal the johnson amendment, prohibiting houses of worship from opposing or endorsing a political candidate, would add another $100 billion to the national debt, and doesn't even help working americans. why are we taking this up now? the senate today finally moved to pass a short-term spending bill to keep the government open through february 8, and then they

wonderful time to meet, and so we have two of the crack members of the ways and means committee, mr. neil and the young chairman from texas, mr. brady, and we welcome you both to the committee. but before we move further, we're going to hear from the ranking member, the distinguished gentleman from massachusetts for any opening statements the distinguished gentleman would like to make. the distinguished gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. >> and you pronounced it right, finally. thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank the witnesses for being here. this tax bill is so unpopular that it was already pulled once from floor consideration. essentially, this bill is the ghost of christmas past. and only this version is even worse than before. it would repeal the johnson amendment prohibiting houses of worship from endorsing or opposing a political candidate. it would add another hundred billion dollars to the national debt and it doesn't even help working americans. and why are we taking this up now? the senate today finally moved to pass a short-term spending bill to keep the government op

you so much for bringing us those details we can get more on this now of course live to our guests mr neil clark a journalist and author mr clarke thank you for joining us on the program a very good morning to you as well i think a lot of people were expecting to see a broken woman when we found out some reason they would be addressing the public outside downing street this morning but it was quite the opposite wasn't it she seemed confident on her breaks that on her role are you surprised that she's going to continue to fight her corner. well she certainly came up fighting and i think that really was to be expected because she has got a number still got number strong cards in our research so to speak because that she can play for a start she's saying quite clearly to those tory m.p.'s you may be contemplating voting against her look we're supposed to be meeting the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march if you vote against i will now only have a leadership election it's going to take six weeks that takes us to the end of january how on earth would a new leader whoever it is be able to have a s

mr kololo didn't have a fair trial. officers from the metropolitan police flew to kenya to help the investigation. but the bbc now understands that the senior officer, neilwill be interviewed by the national crime agency. a letter from the met police says they are looking at whether mr hibbert, who has now retired, may have committed a criminal offence or whether there has been misconduct or gross misconduct. mr hibberd's lawyer told the bbc he intends to cooperate with the police watchdog investigation. mr neil hibberd said to me that if it was the last thing that he did, he would find the murderer of david and the people responsible for abducting me. and i believed him, i really believed him. i think they have to take ownership of what they did back in 2011, the team that helped convict mr kololo. an innocent man. mr kololo's lawyers claim mr hibberd didn't disclose that there was forensic testing of evidence which undermined the prosecution's case, and he misled the court by giving selective evidence. his lawyers also claim that mr kololo was, for most of the trial, without a lawyer or interpreter, and was tortured by kenyan police. some people might

mr kololo didn't have a fair trial. officers from the metropolitan police flew to kenya to help the investigation. but the bbc now understands that the senior officer, neile interviewed by the national crime agency. a letter from the met police as they are looking at whether mr hibbert, who has now retired, may have committed a criminal offence or whether there has been misconduct or gross misconduct. mr hibbard's lawyer told the bbc he intends to cooperate with the bbc he intends to cooperate with the police watchdog investigation. mr neil hibbard said to me that if it was the last thing that he did, he would find the murderer of david and the people responsible for abducting me. and i believed him, i really believed him. i think they have to take ownership of what they did back in 2011, the team that helped convict mr kololo. an innocent man. mr kololo's lawyers claim mr hibbard didn't disclose that there was forensic testing of evidence which undermined the prosecution because my case, and he misled the court by giving selective evidence. his lawyers also claim that mr kololo was, for most of the trial, without a lawyer or interpreter, and was torture

i don't know mr. neil very well but i'll get acquainted and see where we can cooperate and where we can't. there will be a lot of differences but that's just the way our process of government works. host: where due think there will be common ground? sen. grassley: on prescription drug prices. here is something i don't know about the house. is that in the jurisdiction of the ways and means committee like it is in the jurisdiction of our committee through medicare and medicaid or does that deal with the energy and health -- commerce and energy committee? and i'm not sure that i can know the rules of the house that well. host: more to work out on that. sen. grassley: yes. host: back to trade how do you view the negotiations right now between the white house and china? sen. grassley: well, before i answer that question, can i say, over all, if you'd asked me questions about trade going back the first six months of this president, i would say that i just wonder whether he knows what he's doing. but now after we

the fact that mr kololo didn‘t have a fair trial. officers from the metropolitan police flew to kenya to help the investigation. but the bbc now understands that the senior officer, neilthat he did, he would find the murderer of david and the people responsible for abducting me. and i believed him, i really believed him. i think they have to take ownership of what they did back in 2011, the team that helped convict mr kololo. an innocent man. mr kololo‘s lawyers claim mr hibberd didn‘t disclose that there was forensic testing of evidence which undermined the prosecution‘s case, and he misled the court by giving selective evidence. his lawyers also claim that mr kololo was, for most of the trial, without a lawyer or interpreter, and was tortured by kenyan police. some people might find it surprising that you‘re fighting for the man who has been convicted of involvement with the death of your husband. if there has been a miscarriage of justice, it needs to be investigated. if i had been murdered, david... he would be sat here now because... he was a really good man. and he was an honourable man. and the honourable thing now to do is to hopefully get a fair trial for mr

mr. cavuto. neilpresident wants to stick to the $5 billion figure and democrats not entertaining above 1.3 to 1.6 and there's a middle ground being mentioned. is that a fair assessment? >> it seems that parties are still trying to negotiate, but i don't hear about a lot of movement and i can only say to you that it can end on january the 3rd at about noon when the new congress is sworn in, but i can't tell you that it will end before then. my hope is that it will end today. we don't want government workers, persons who have salaries will be delivered to them timely, we don't want them to have a lot of timely. >> when you say january 3rd, with democrats included. taking control of the house, that that should stop it, it wouldn't automatically, right? and you still need to get approval in the house and senate and dicey and the president signing off-- >> you would, but the legislation in this congress expires on that date and that would then cause us to have to take additional action. of course, we're no

mr. cohen. >> neil: when you look at the whole cohen case, at issue is whether this payment, payments to these two women influenced the election. not so much if they were campaign funds or private funds. you'd have to prove this was not done to protect the family but protect the president's chances that is a hard thing to prove. >> absolutely is. i've heard some commentary that it would require the intent to preserve the election as the sole intent. in other words, you couldn't have a mixed motivation. you'd have to have one thing in mind. there could be a disconnect between cohen and trump. trump could be thinking this is a problem that i want to slough away and not have to deal with with my wife, with the election, with business. again, trump's -- cohen's admission does and bind trump in any way. >> neil: just to be clear, it's not the issue whether they're campaign funds or not. that is what obviously the mueller and the prosecutors are saying here. >> yeah, i'm not 100% sure on that. i think it's a thorny area. there's some statutes in this realm where it would have to be traceable t

mr. ben net. neil: this might be wasted effort but they're going through some of the perfunctory procedure here, a measure almost certainly deemed for defeat here. that will not avoid a government shutdown late tonight. chad pergram will give details what is at stake. chad. >> this is procedural vote in the senate to call u was passed in the house last night. this is the interim spending bill to fund the government. $5 billion for wall funding this need as simple parliamentary majority. the key you need 60 votes to cut off debate. if they get a simple majority they can consider what the house did to that piece of legislation f they don't get a simple majority well the gig is up. mitch mcconnell just returned to the capitol moments ago after meeting with the president. he appears standing foursquare behind the president of the united states. keep in mind we are less than 11 hours away from a government shut down. there is almost no way this piece of legislation can get 60 votes and not to mention the ti

. >> what was the feeling among the astronaut corps when everyone knew that neil armstrong got it? mr. lovell: i think everyone had resigned to the fact that neil was going to go. of course, being a civilian, maybe that was a good choice. we were either air force or navy. there was no military implication to this landing, so neil actually went, someone had to go. >> did that figure into it, do you think? mr. lovell: i don't think so, because all the flights before 11 were chancey. if eight proved out to be we needed more training or was a disaster, then nine came or nine had something wrong with the lunar module, you know, or if everything went fine, you know, if 10 had a full lunar module , they could have landed. >> okay. let's go to 13. yeah. that has reached almost mythic proportions, because of the book, the movie, and all about that. i want to try to separate a little myth from reality here or maybe add to the myth. i don't know which we'll do. [laughter] do whichever you want to do. mr. lovell: we'll make it reality. >> okay. that was not supposed to be your flight, right? mr.

host: neil bradley, thank you for being our guest. mr. bradley: thank you for having me. ast: newsmakers is back with discussion on the u.s. economy initiatives might affect that. kate davidson, since you covered the fed for the "washington paper has a big headline about the fed questioning itself about the increases.he rate earlier this week, you co-authored a piece on the fed he is standing up to the political push from the white house. an you tell us about your observations about how the fed has been responding to the his dent's treats and pressure on them about rate increases? nick, had alleague, story about their policy is do nothing, thing, don't acknowledge, the fed is an itself ion that prides on its independence and staying separate from politics and interference and so basically chairman jay powell completely ignoring the tweets and just doing his job. he has been asked about what the said at press conferences and occasionally public appearances he'll get about it, he says our job mandates that the congress has set for us. we need to keep prices stable and try t

neil was the son that mrs. bush used to say he's mr. nice.as oppos -- implicith me. >> part of the story of remembering george herbert walker bush is remembering barbara bush. we talked when barbara bush passed away and the great love story between these two people and the enduring love between them. >> ships were still on fire at pearl harbor when they met at christmas 1941, three weeks after pearl harbor. she was wearing a red and green christmas dress and he endeavored to get introduced. >> you see the police motorcycles beginning the proegsal. let's take a pause here and take a look as the motorcade begins its journey from the funeral the home ellington air field where president bush will take his final trip to washington. >>> you see the buses that are traveling as part of the motorcade processional. carrying the family members who will be traveling with the president to d.c. later on this afternoon. the plane will land at joint base andrews and a different motorcade that we'll watch and carry live through southern maryland, through the

. >> neil: has i said, stocks were up today. if they were worried about mr. cohen going to jail, if they were worried about the prospects that britain is unraveling on this trade thing with europe and whether they want to be part of europe, if they were worried about that, they had a funny way of showing it. let's go to susan li and market watchers scott martin and gary b. smith. they focused on the positive and ignored the more worrisome. what do you through? >> i agree. i call this a trade optimism fueled rally. the two overhangs have been the u.s. china trade war and the federal reserve hiking interest rates next year. the markets may see one, maybe none in terms of interest rate hikes next year. this rhetoric tempers the expectation of heightened trade tensions. >> scott, what do you through? >> yeah, the interest rate hike cycle is interesting, neil. i'll tell you what, the prospects of a rate hike next week have dropped considerly from where they were a couple weeks ago. susan pointed out correctly. next year we're looking at one or maybe none. we were

neil gray. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. for two years that no deal is better than a bad deal. of course, now we know why. why her deal is a disaster. it will never pass this house so tries to let tely the clock tick down will she planning?er no deal >> i have been, and i remain clear that no deal is better believe d deal but i deal.is a good --john >> the schedule for brexit, will that include zero tariffs on all coming in for manufacture here to provide yet nother great boost to britain as a big manufacturing center? i say to my honorable friend, these issues are ones that would have to be ddressed in relation to a no deal scenario. we're continuing to discuss, as a government, the plans that we put into place to deal with the possibility of a no deal in order to mitigate the occur in athat would no deal situation. and obviously, we'll be looking tariff schedules. >> -- bradshaw. cost the nhsill it and other public services and thousands of businesses up and as they are ntry, forced to activate their no deal heringency plans because of reckless time wasting? >> i say to the r

neil gray. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. she said for two years that no deal is better than a bad deal, of course, now, we know why, we know why her deal is disaster and never pass this house. as she desperately tries to let the clock tick down, will her deal be punished? >> i'm happy to and remain that no deal is better than a bad deal but i believe this is a good deal. >> john edwards. >> published the schedule for exit, would that include zero tariffs on all components to provide yet another great boost to britain as big manufacturing? >> i say to my right honorable friend that these issues are ones that would have to be addressed in relation to no deal scenario. we are continuing to discuss as government the plan that is we need to put in place to deal with the possibility of no deal in order to mitigate disruption that is would occur in no deal situation and obviously we will be looking closely at schedule. >> ben bradshaw. >> how much would it cost nhs and thousands of businesses up and down the country is they are for

mr. baker was there and his wife. jeb was -- not jeb, neil, neil and maria. it was time to kiss him and give my last good-bye. but it was a great privilege and a great honor. i loved him. >> today you sang "the last full measure of devotion" which i'm told was really the song he wanted. why? >> he requested that. whatever he asked of me, i would have done a thousand times. i wasn't familiar with the song until it was given to me some months back. and then they asked for the "our father." so it was a powerful -- it was a beautiful, beautiful ceremony and a great tribute to a wonderful president. >> what will you remember most about him? >> i have some great memories, jamie. i remember we did one of the presentations for the literary program, and one of the readers was a little upsetting, the book was a little sad. he grabbed he and he said, ronan, you go out there and you make them happy. i said what should i do? he said anything. so i said do you want me to read from the book or will i just talk about the book? he said whatever you think is going to work. so

neil. i suspect the president because he's not in the oval office is up in the residence and maybe he's watching, so mr. president, you got my number if you can explain that one, give me a call. >> neil: let me know if you hear anything. meantime, we have james langford. it does seem odd, whatever people's views of this fight over the security along the wall and the funding, the president said he would take the heat for that and then pointed fingers at democrats. do you? >> you know what? here's the challenge when the president had. when he talked to nancy and chuck, if they're both going to block it and nancy pelosi saying there's no way it gets through the house, then it's on home. it turned around and it did get through the house and came back over what they said would never happen. so now there's a small group in the senate, all democrats blocking it to move over here. the challenge is the now what. it's not moving here, not able to get the traction. so we have to negotiate this out and how we can fund the government. there's some clear paths to get there, not just everybody getting a resolve and s

neil. let me bounce this over to mr. ray, i've leaned on you plenty, during this process, for your accumin, counselor ray, and it's good to ask you here once again. i'm not making this about whether or not the president is guilty of a crime. i'm just talking about the lying. the idea that we don't know that the president wasn't telling the truth about what he knew and what his role was with his payments is absurd. i'm not saying that makes him guilty of a crime, i'm not saying anything of it is a crime. i'm just saying the idea that he was telling the truth about what he knew and when, is obviously untrue much is that a fair statement? >> what does that have to do with whether or not there's an impeachable offense first, and second, whether or not he was as many, many people have tried to suggest, including on cnn and elsewhere, that he's essentially a co-conspirator in connection with the campaign finance violation. i think there's a long distance between what michael cohen pleaded guilty to, and whether or not the pres

neil: i think it was cool to see how the sausage was made. my uncle used to make sausage. >> one of my first jobs 14 years old, worked in butcher shop. mr. hoover. learned how to make sausage. it was wonderful. neil: you're not taking the leap they can't get along and do anything on anything? in fact invariably cooler heads do prevail. whether a shutdown, temporary or not happens in the interim. we hope that is the case? >> yeah. ultimately, sometimes we have divided government. sometimes very little gets done. you know, there could be a short-term shutdown. the world won't come to an end because we had so many of them. we'll get another continuing resolution. we had a gazillion of those. first temporary ones came in 1962. i'm joking a little bit. meanwhile the market is meandering. neil: when s&p, standard & poor's downgraded u.s. debt. first time we weren't aaa, it wasn't based on a shutdown. it was based on the comical, almost circus-like atmosphere where they were debating these huge points. the folks at s&p, said a pox on both your houses, we're downgrading united states debt. that rattle ad lot of folks. but what they were saying is

mr. bush's friend and service dog sully. also staffers from points of light, the service organization founded by president bush. son neil bush accompanied the group. >> i know my dad's heart would have been warmed. ours clearly are by the fact that there's such an amazing outpouring of affection and admiration for his life so well lived. >> the bush family is staying at the presidential guest residence known as blair house. earlier first lady melania trump hosted members of the family for a tour of the white house christmas decorations. president donald trump and the first lady visited the bush family at blair house this afternoon. they paid their respects to the family's patriarch last night at the capitol. president trump will gather with the bush family at the national cathedral for a memorial service wednesday, a day the wednesday has declared as a national day of mourning. now after wednesday's funeral president george h.w. bush will be flown back to houston, texas. another funeral service will take place there on thursday followed by a private burial at his presidential library. >> thank you. >>> coming up next a

neil. >> the stuff that is sending mr.pay enough women for alleged affairs to president and the president might've misrepresented that are lied about that. with that worry you? >> well, there's an investigation going on. i'm still waiting for the results of the investigation. we need to get back to conclusion. it's been 81 weeks and counting. the people i hear about from home on this is like let's get it over, get it behind us here and see what they have, what they found, get the transparency and move on as a nation. neil: senator, thank you again. very good seeing you. have a merry christmas. neil: senator barrasso. again, we've not heard from anyone commenting on michael cohen nor developments to tell you in the china trade front, just the markets are ignoring michael cohen unenthusiastic about china. it's always sad. china will dictate this market for good or ill. it is playing out just like that. just again, just the same. more after this. >> welcome back to coast-to-coast beard and gerri willis life in the floor of th

. >> president bush's son neil invited us to kennebunkport and we had the opportunity to have cocktails with president and mrsbush. they were ordinary people and wanted to be treated like ordinary people. but we all know they were nothing but extraordinary. blake: what was that moment like to have happy hour with the president. >> i had the opportunity to sit to his right. as i was stroking his right hand he was drinking and martini on the left. he was commenting on how special it was to have a putting green on walker's point. blake: you are looking at the rotunda at the capitol. this is a scene that will play out the next two days when the casket will be returned back to texas. one final thought from you. the way that you hope bush 41 should be remembered? >> i hope that we all see him as a role model of service to others. i hope everyone will give service in his honor and memory. he knew government alone couldn't solve the nation's problems. he wanted to lift others and make this a kinder and gentler nation. blake: julie, from the bark a bush literary foundation. from morning to a bit -- from mourning to a

it's no surprise that the two big biographies that you were neil armstrong and mr. rogers. eople who were humble, the great thing. i want to teach my kids to be humble again. house want to teach my kids about the value of hard work, nothing. neil armstrong when use a little kid his victory was to climb a silver maple tree in his backyard. when you climb a tree it's like the apostle. you have to grab this break in the net branch and shimmy up that way. you have to engineer, the out and engineer a a solution. one day neil armstrong as the boy, 11, climb this maple tree and he grabs a dead branch and the branch snaps and he falls to the ground. gets the wind knocked out of him. is his to confront its uncritical get mom. the most important thing he does in the mode where i read i am neil armstrong and what i wrote for my kid and most important thing he does he gets back up again. he becomes of course come he starts saving money to get his pilots license. he wants to buy toy clinton real planes. he is so john, the force drivers license. in becomes a test pilot. of course becomes

of neil w arms drawn when humily was a great american value and it's no surprise they were neil armstrong and mr rogers. people who were humbled. i want to teach my kids to be humbled again and also a value of hard work and not fame. when he was arm little kid his dream was to climb the maple tree in his backyard and when you climb a tree it's like doing a puzzle, this branch into that branch you've got to engineer a solution. he's grabbing a branch into snaps and he falls to the ground come as the wind knocked out of him, hisis sister comes running for the most important thing he does and at the moment i read i am neil armstrong most important thing hent does is get up againe wants to buy toy planes and real plane tickets is pilot's license and becomes a test pilot and of course becomes an astronaut and takes a leap for all of mankind but the lesson in the book is you don't get to take the tens of thousands until you take those steps before. that's the lesson we need to teach our kids that's what this entire series is about. neil armstrong just came out. i have three kids from 17 down to ten an

mr. bush signed into law. the bush family visited, too, mingling with well-wishers. >> i know my dad's heart would have been warmed. ours clearly are. >> reporter: neil bush came last night, and again today. >> it was more rewarding for me to be able to hug people who were actually grieving and crying and to be able to share-- i don't know-- the strength that i know, that i get from being able to celebrate a life so well lived. >> glor: all right, nancy is still in the capitol tonight where people are still lining up this evening. and, nancy, you are just getting some more details on the service coming up tomorrow. >> reporter: correct. so the public viewing continues overnight here at the capitol. there are still thousands of people waiting to get in. and then tomorrow morning, president bush's casket will be transported via motorcade across the city to the national cathedral for a memorial service that will be attended by every living president, and by many foreign leaders, including german chancellor angela merkel, and great britain's prince charles, jeff. >> glor: okay, nancy, thank you very much. we will bring this broadcast there as well. cbs n

mr. bush's friend and service dog, sully. also staffers from points of light, the service organization found oned by president bush. son neil bush accompanied the group. >> i know my dad's heart would have been warmed. ours clearly are by the fact that there's such an amazing outpouring of affection and admiration for his life so well lived. >> reporter: the bush family is staying at the presidential guest house known as blair house. earlier first lady melania trump hosted members of the family for a tour of the white house christmas decorations. president donald trump and the first lady visited the bush family at major house this afternoon. they paid their respects to -- blair house this afternoon. they paid their respects to the family last night at the capitol. they will attend the memorial service wednesday, a day the president declared a national day of mourning. mola lenghi, cbs news, capitol hill. >> the state funeral for the 41st president also is happening tomorrow and president trump declared it a national day of mourning. this means federal offices will be shut down. the postal service will suspend regular mail d

mr. bremmer from experience. appreciate it. top democrat on the tax writing ways and means committee. richard neild local taxes. wait until he takes charge of the committee. mr. congressman jason smith is a republic enemies on that tax writing committee. congressman, i live in new jersey. i'm going to get clobbered because the salted action is being taken away. i'm all in favor of bringing it back. are you? i'm sure you are. i'm not. i truly am tired of the folks in rural america subsidizing a lot of the higher property taxes on the east and west coasts. what i am interested in and where i think we can find some common ground is to eliminate what i believe is the marriage penalty. under the provision you can go up to $10,000 per household you will, that shouldn't be the case. it should be per person. the tax code should never incentivize behavior in that sense. that is where we could find some common ground that we have seen has been the result of eliminating the virtually unlimited cap on state and local income tax. stuart: do you know how other democrats on the committee feel about? they are goi

. >> neil: a lot of the stuff that goes against this is whether flynn at the time to become ready to become national security advisor was mr. presenting himself. you are arguing that even if he did, even if he he was -- the fact of the matter was the election was done, it was settled. >> the whole purpose of mueller to be around is to find out if the trump campaign get an advantage colluding with the russians with stolen emails from the dnc and podesta. the answer is no. what jumps out to me is they phoned in the clinton administration. they wanted an insurance policy. the same folks that were in the tank for clinton are the ones on the trail of flynn and all the trump folks. there's a certain unevenness here about how do you investigate campaigns -- >> neil: you are certainly right about that potential, but one of the things we learned from bob mueller on the michael flynn thing is that nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted called the defendant to make false statements to the fbi. mueller goes on to state and clarify that the seriousness of flynn's offense cannot be called into question. >> here's

mr. barr's personal opinion and shared his personal opinion with the department. lots of people offer opinions, but they don't influence our own decision making. >> neil: that was a on the back and a big support from rod rosenstein for the guy the president wants to make his next attorney general. there is a problem according to barr's critics and a certain memo that raises questions whether there's an instant conflict of interest. jonathan turley on that. what is the issue right now, jonathan? >> well, individuals like senator schumer have argued that because barr in this memo questions the basis for the obstruction allegation against president trump and firing former fbi director comey that he's in some way conflicted because he established in advance that he opposes the investigation. that's simply not true. schumer says further that it shows that he believes the president is above the law. the last statement is remarkably reckless and unfair to bill barr. he says in the memo there's various grounds upon which the president could be charged with a crime. he lays out that he believes that those types of investigations should go forward. he's primarily addressin

neil: you make too much sense. thanks, john. all right. so you have the comey situation, general flynn situation, the house oversight committee releasing a transcript of closed door testimony with mromey. there's real unusual exchanges in there, particularly when it came to the former fbi district or the and his views of michael flynn. peter doocy with more. >> when it comes to the bigger mueller investigation and the possible origins, james comey told congress why he did not alert the trump campaign about the existence of a so-called dirty dossier after the election happened. jim jordan asked him, were you concerned that the president might get the wrong impression, that you had this important information that some way you could hold that over the president's head? were you concerned about that? did you convey it in such a way to make sure he didn't go away with that impression? comey said i was very concerned that he might interpret it as an effort to pull a j. edgar hoover on him. comey explained why agents asked flynn about telephone conversations with the russian ambassador that their already eves dropped on. comey said we had clear transcripts of the conversations that we ha

neil: or markets are just feeding that? >> or costs are going up. one of the things, i think the biggest problem with mr. comments he doesn't take responsibility for the fiscal policy errors that is leading to the market volatility. fiscal policy areas are not tax cut, we think it is net-net better, but not deregulation which is great, but tariffs and trade wars freaking out this market. neil: the president hasn't commented on the federal reserve move yesterday. >> right. neil: we might getting today. we certainly heard from mnuchin today it is an overreaction on part of the markets but what do you expect the president -- >> i don't know. he will probably say something today. it is interesting. you have, markets and economies don't blow up or trade down because of one reason. all these several reasons, one reason obviously i think is the fear of a trade war. another reason is on top of that, when you combined it, a noxious mix, is that the fed feels it has to tighten. it feels it has to tighten on short end and long end. the short end, guess what we need room, the economy is strong, we need room to lower

mr. president, what can you accept, that's key? this is as much a squeeze on president trump as it is on members of congress, neil. right, chad pergram, thank you very, very much. >>> want to introduce to you a fellow who wrote a phenomenal column on this saga. he is nolan findley, writes for the detroit news. what a way to step back from the professional wrestling, kabuki theater, whatever you want to call it. nolan, good to have you. i thoroughly enjoyed your column. i love the line that said, if this is the government we're paying for, close it up, stop wasting our money. we can't afford to keep it open. i went on to say if we can't balance the con budget at economy is surging even at 3 1/2% clip, we're not growing our way out of deficits. you get beyond the debate for a 5 billion-dollar wall and funding for it. you cut to the core of the matter. it is not our spending priorities. the fact that no one is paying attention to the numbers themselves, right? >> that's right, neil. we don't have the money to build a 5 billion-dollar wall. we don't have money to build a gingerbread house. we're out of money. it strik

neil armstrong who successfully landed on the moon in july of 1969. dave is joining us next from michigan. good morning. >> caller: yes, good morning. concerning this cold war, mrgorbachev sat across the table from george h.w. bush and united the germanys, gave the warsaw pact nations their independence. the soviet union was split up and all bush had to do to promise was to stay out of their business. but we americans, the miss kravitzes of the world, violated that immediately with bill clinton and kosovo. we just can't mind our own damn business. >> mark kramer, does dave have a point? >> first of all, as elizabeth has pointed out a couple of times, in the aftermath of the cold war from the late '80s on, there's been a steady -- pretty much steady decline in the number of people killed in conflicts, the number of international conflicts going on. there's still civil wars, but still it has declined quite markedly and that does include americans, despite the tragic number who lost their lives in iraq and afghanistan. it still is a tiny fraction of those who lost their lives in vietnam. so it is true that the united states has had a propensity over the last 70-od

mrs. may is still in brussels trying to persuade her counterparts, throw me a few crumbs i can get the "brexit" deal across the line. i don't think too many people are optimistic that can happen, neilyou. neil: there is nothing in it to make them want to do that, right? >> no. they want to make an example of the uk. they don't want to make it easy, because they don't want other eu countries, hey, good idea, let's get out of the eu but we'll get a sweet deal. not going to happen. neil: a good way to frame that. thank you very much, ashley, great reporting on this week. >> sure. neil: former u.s. ambassador to the eu under president obama, anthony gardner. thank you for your time. >> good to be here. >> what happens now? seem son, suspect, ambassador, "brexit" might not materialize. what do you think? >> i think your reporter got it right, there are a lot of options, really not the experts have a clear what is going to happen but i think relatively certain is the fact that in parliament there is no majority for a hard, no-deal "brexit." so i think that option is not unlikely, not impossible but unlikely. a new, no confidence motion of the entire house of commons which is distinct fro