. >> neil: but phil graham the guy who orchestrated the first wave with ronald reagan said ronald reagan wasn't going to play the class warfare game and he was simply going to say everyone is going to get a tax cut, everyone deserves the tax cut and off we go and didn't get sidetracked on these sort of class warfare arguments. john kennedy back in the early 60s was arguing with his own party over the need for that. i know a very different environment but he didn't let that argument get in the way of this and when democrats are warning him what are you doing here? >> amy: interesting we know from polling data that americans actually are not that sympathetic to class warfare arguments that they are not-- >> neil: i do think they hate the rich more than they used to. >> amy: possibly. >> the rich are richer. >> amy: generally speaking americans politically speaking that republicans do need to deliver across-the-board tax or at least-- >> neil: they will but ben stein the biggest hurdle they says is this is something to charlie's point that he's right on and chuck schumer will pound is this

phil graham said it beautifully, long, long ago, i have never been hired by a poor man. at this, the economics what gets me, trish if i can, every time we raise the highest tax rate, anytime we raise by substantial amounts over period of time, from 1913, not 1913, from 1919 on, every time we do that tax revenues from top 1% of income earners gone down as share of gdp. they find loopholes, tax dodges, they don't pay the taxes. you will not get the money t will cause a bad economy. plus you're behaving very improperly versus people you should be proud of and honor. trish: i hear you. numbers speak for themselves. >> they really do. trish: you up taxes revenues go down. will not do you any good economically. >> on top 1%. trish: you know who it does good with, likes of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. >> i don't think so. trish: this is what republicans are facing right now. they're fearful people will say, giving a tax handout to the rich. giving a tax handout to corporations. so they want to be equipped with some way to uh-uh, we'll penalize the rich because political

phil rutger, environmentalen significant freed and mya harris. president trump meeting with the republican establishment, he golfed with rand paul and lindsey graham this weekend. based on what graham had to say this weekend, it sounds like graham himself is putting out a dire warning for mitch mcconnell. take a listen. >> if we don't cut taxes and we don't eventually repeal and replace obamacare then we're going to lose across the board and the house in 2018 and all of my colleagues running in primaries in 2018 are probably get beat. it will be the end of mitch mcconnell as we know it. >> it will be the end of mitch mcconnell as we know it. >> true. republicans came in, we had both chambers of congress and the presidency. we had unprecedented ways to get everything done. what do we have to show for it that we can hang our hats on as a party. we have neil gorsuch. >> that's a huge win, though. >> it is a huge win and it's going to be the lasting legacy. but how does it impact somebody on main street? how do they have extra money into their pockets? how do they have health care lower for the cost? >> that's a beautiful point because true conservati

along phil fairly well because i think there is a commitment from people in this country that we help each other. so after the terrible tragedy in their barra they feel it's their duty to pitch in. graham thomas a former diplomat is coordinating the club's efforts to help ever since the fire has been flooded with office. personally just going to their i being i being rather proud of how people have responded they've responded in small ways they responded in big ways but they have responded they haven't just walked away from the whole thing. yet despite that response of grenfell's former residents and neighbors feel left been abandoned most had lost faith in politicians long before the fire for them the towers burnt out shell is just further evidence they'd been right all along. it begs the question whether such basic rights are only accessible to the privileged few who can afford to pay for them and now to switzerland where a farmer is fighting to as he puts it give cows a voice aren't a powell has made it his mission to curtail a practice he considers under sara lee cruel and based on all the signatures he was able to collect it seems many of his fellow citizens agree with him. you kn

phil gramm was working with this cause, very committed public choice economist in the senate when he was pushing for financial deregulation. his wife, wendy graham, was presiding over the center that they created in the cannons name at george mason and all of these people were involved in pushing open the financial industry for the relation for allowing all the stuff to have an. was there a moment of shame that the ideas didn't work out? no, not a moment of shame. just a more aggressive push to take advantage of the crisis in the dislocation of that financial collapse to move this agenda even harder. so, thank you for that question. i think our time is up but i just want to say, wow, i am thrilled to see so many people here. [cheering and applause] >> each year since 1950, the national book award is given out by the national book foundation, an organization sponsored by the publishing industry and literary institutions. authors in four categories, poetry, young people's literature, fiction and nonfiction are presented with awards. past winners include david mccullough, joan gideon, and gorbachev. the winners of this year's national book award wi