our guest host has been richard lefrak of lefrak organization. thank you all for being here. with you. >> okay. >> and it's a question i asked richard. when you talk about -- when people talk about the path to tax reform, or the path to infrastructure, what is the path as you see it, given the commotion and the headlines that we talk about daily? >> yeah. i think from a business perspective, i think the path is one that we must make. and we're going to have to figure out how to make some compromises around the various issues we need to get done. we do need to get the tax reform done from a standpoint of the competitiveness. at the same time, infrastructure is very, very important relative to the needs that we've fallen apart as a country from the infrastructure. from our perspective i think there's going to have to be some tradeoffs and going after some more revenue. broaden that revenue base, and try to get a competitive tax rate and put the money back into the future. i think for the first time we've been living off our parents' infrastructure investment and we need to get

be joined by transportation secretary and real estate titan and trump infrastructure adviser richard lefrak. we have an interview with the ceo of chevron and the ceo of blackberry john chen. another big newsmaker speaking to cnbc, david faber sat down with treasury secretary steven mnuchin earlier today. david faber joins us. a very interesting conversation, and you tried to get him on what loopholes, what specifics on the tax plan, what did we learn? >> i wish i could say we learned a great deal but we're still waiting on the details that we asked secretary mnuchin about, brian, because the plan itself is one page long. and beyond telling us that all of the deductions that are going to be contribute to making it a possibility of not adding to the deficit. we don't know much. what we do know is that the administration continues to say it's all about growth. >> our focus is really on creating middle-income tax cut and simplifications. and as i said, a lot of the reduction on the high end is going to be paid for by eliminating deductions. people's effective tax rate won't go down. this is abo

we have richard lefrak joining us for an hour. is on the president's council advising him about potential things they can do with truc infrastructure. richard has been open with us about what they have been trying to do, like cut down on the permitting procedure. we will dig through the things he thinks we can see in terms of progress. also talking about cybersecurity this morning. the vice president -- ibm's vice president of securities is joining us this morning. he is already here in the green room, talking about the new partnership between ibm and cisco. he will talk about what business can be doing and what they should be doing. and did you see yesterday in the "wall street journal," the story about drug pricing. what's happening with ever increasing costs for drug prices, especially seniors who are caught in the medicare d block that -- they're out of pocket costs keep going up and up. this morning we have two guests joining us. first, steve miller with express scripps. and robert ward, ceo of radius health. they'll talk to