justice scalia argued in a case morrison versus olson, he lay down -- laid down a marker, he was a lonely dissent. saying this means all the executive power and what he meant is what chief justice taft talked about in the myers case about limited power removal even in the face of congressional statutes to the contrary. at least in separation of powers land that is a big conflict and it has real-world implications. host: republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats 202-748-8000. independent, 202-748-8002. ron is in michigan, a democrats line. good morning, go ahead. >> good morning. in my opinion what trump is doing he is eliminating all supervisory roles the federal government had to safeguard -- we will just take social security and put elon musk in charge of going to the records of social security to eliminate people from social security and what that's can do is there going to eliminate people from social security and in the past we could call the federal government and get help, there will no longer be any help. so though go through with trumps and the billionaires forcing them down our throa

nina olson is the executive director of the center for taxpayer rights.he idea is that you would be able basically to see what information the irs has on you, and that would be w-2s. 1090 nine and you could just say, yes, this is correct. and here are the children that are on my return. and then just push a button saying, yes, this is my return. that's really simple. the treasury department estimates more than 30 million taxpayers are now eligible to use the program this season. last year, the irs set a goal of getting 100,000 people to use the free filing program. they actually got more than 140,000 that saved taxpayers an estimated $5.6 million in tax prep fees. still ahead on matter of fact, how you could help unlock national history from the comfort of your living room. nice to meet ya. my name is david. i've been a pharmacist for 44 years and i'm from flowery branch, georgia. when i have customers come in, i recommend prevagen. number one, because it's safe and effective. does not require a prescription. and i've been taking it quite while myself and

well, let's talk this all together with the steven olson, who's a visiting cd, a fellow at the use of the shack institute. i'm a former us trade, negotiate to join us now from then pesa in indian, easiest stephen, great to have you with us. so 1st of all, what do you make of this response from china? is it kind of symbolic reply to try and say, okay, let's negotiate i think it's probably motivated by, by 2 factors. i can clearly, they wanted to provide a president changing thing with a bit more leverage in advance of the upcoming phone call with donald trump. and i think also it's a, it's a bit of a shot across the bow indicating that china will not hesitate to respond and respond. unfortunately, this time around. what is donald trump's tactic here? using tyrese's a kind of threat to elicit concessions more of a threat than intention? well look, i don't think there's any question that donald trump regard access to the us market as a weapon that he can wield in order to extract concessions from trade to partners. and that's, that's clearly what he's attempting to do it here, but i don'

justice scalia argued in a case morrison versus olson, he lay down -- laid down a marker, he was a lonely dissent. saying this means all the executive power and what he meant is what chief justice taft talked about in the myers case about limited power removal even in the face of congressional statutes to the contrary. at least in separation of powers land that is a big conflict and it has real-world implications. host: republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats 202-748-8000. independent, 202-748-8002. ron is in michigan, a democrats line. good morning, go ahead. >> good morning. in my opinion what trump is doing he is eliminating all supervisory roles the federal government had to safeguard -- we will just take social security and put elon musk in charge of going to the records of social security to eliminate people from social security and what that's can do is there going to eliminate people from social security and in the past we could call the federal government and get help, there will no longer be any help. so though go through with trumps and the billionaires forcing them down our throa

jared olson is a financial analyst. he joins us live this morning.think the american voters learned a lot about tariffs in the last couple of months. but i think together, let's emphasize if america does put a tariff on mexico, it is we who pay the extra expense on the avocado. right? that's correct. tariffs can raise the costs of goods. all right. trump himself during the campaign in particular led to this misunderstanding. there's an ipsos poll here. shows about half of americans think he's right when he says the other country pays the tariff. i hadn't gotten them to pay a penny, he says. and now they're paying billions. but that's not correct. yeah. tariffs are, you know, taxes on the imports of goods. so when a country places a tariff, it raises the cost of the goods that are purchased from that country. and those costs are paid by the producers of raw materials. and typically those costs get passed on to the end consumer. and sometimes that's a thing, let's say like an avocado. and sometimes it's something that is a part, as you mentioned, a raw

justice scalia argued in a case morrison versus olson, he lay down -- laid down a marker, he was a lonelysent. saying this means all the executive power and what he meant is what chief justice taft talked about in the myers case about limited power removal even in the face of congressional statutes to the contrary. at least in separation of powers land that is a big conflict and it has real-world implications. host: republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats 202-748-8000. independent, 202-748-8002. ron is in michigan, a democrats line. good morning, go ahead. >> good morning. in my opinion what trump is doing he is eliminating all supervisory roles the federal government had to safeguard -- we will just take social security and put elon musk in charge of going to the records of social security to eliminate people from social security and what that's can do is there going to eliminate people from social security and in the past we could call the federal government and get help, there will no longer be any help. so though go through with trumps and the billionaires forcing them down our throats a

justice scalia argued in a case morrison versus olson, he lay down -- laid down a marker, he was a lonelysent. saying this means all the executive power and what he meant is what chief justice taft talked about in the myers case about limited power removal even in the face of congressional statutes to the contrary. at least in separation of powers land that is a big conflict and it has real-world implications. host: republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats 202-748-8000. independent, 202-748-8002. ron is in michigan, a democrats line. good morning, go ahead. >> good morning. in my opinion what trump is doing he is eliminating all supervisory roles the federal government had to safeguard -- we will just take social security and put elon musk in charge of going to the records of social security to eliminate people from social security and what that's can do is there going to eliminate people from social security and in the past we could call the federal government and get help, there will no longer be any help. so though go through with trumps and the billionaires forcing them down our throats a