Mike Allen. From his morning newsletter. With tidbits from Trump's 60 minute interview shown Sunday night.
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Good Monday morning. THE CONVERSATION: The Donald, who unveils his tax plan at 11 a.m., used his sit-down with Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes" to tease the most ambitious Republican agenda in 35 years: "[T]here will be a large segment of our country that will have a zero rate, a zero rate. ... We're talking about people in the low-income brackets that are supposed to be paying taxes, many of them don't anyway."
--On Chinese currency devaluation: "They will respect me. They won't be doing it. But here's what we have to do. If they don't come to the table, they're going to have a tax when they put their products into this country. And they're going to behave." PELLEY: "You're talking about a trade war." TRUMP: ... "I'm talking about a fair war."
--On NAFTA: "Excuse me, we will either renegotiate it or we will break it. Because, you know, every agreement has an end."
--On the border: "It will be a real wall. It'll be a wall that works. It'll actually be a wall that will look good, believe it or not. ... We're rounding 'em up in a very humane way, in a very nice way. And they're going to be happy because they want to be legalized. And, by the way, I know it doesn't sound nice. But not everything is nice."
--"I would end ISIS forcefully."
--On whether he'd drop a bomb on North Korea's nuclear reactor: "I would do something. ... Yeah, they're going to listen to me."
--Promises universal health care: "Everybody's got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say ... I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. ... [The uninsured are] going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people."
--KEEPER QUOTE: "I'm on a lot of [magazine] covers. I think maybe more than almost any supermodel ... But in a way that is a sign of respect -- people are respecting what you are doing." Worth reading the transcript! cbsn.ws
--DAVID AXELROD, "Reality TV bites: 'The Apprentice' effect aids Trump" cnn.it |
