rachel is with politico observing congress, and richard reuban, tax policy reporter with the "wall street journal", making a return. we'll start with taxes. richard, you are first. >> you were here meeting with house ways and means and republicans after the rest of republicans went home. what did you accomplish, come out of that meeting with that you didn't have going in? >> we had several very good days. look, america voted for change. we have a new president who wants to make america competitive again. tax reform is key to that. we focus the first day on the tax code. focussing on how to treat nor jobs in america. how do you create incentives to remove the job. how do you trade the tax code so competitive that the best place to sell to america and the world is from here at home in the united states, so we had key decision point there. we reached the decisions, and we are going to be ready for the new president on this tax reform initiative. >> key decision points - what were those, what were the decisions that you came out of that retreat with, on taxes. >> well, major ones were the rev