 I'm very happy to see you. So happy to see you. I wouldn't have missed it. And the chair, Tika will stand for you. No, no. Oh, thank you. And I wouldn't be such a proud mother. I didn't give you this one, too, because my son wrote the last chapter to me on this one. Oh, thank you. I understand. I thought you would, but I apologize for doing that in excess. But no, no, thank you very much. I have her daughter, Maureen. She comes here. She leaves the book here. When she comes here, she picks up for me your book on Russia the... Firebird. Firebird, yes. I always get confused with the title. I'm very honored that you wrote that. Oh. She's fascinated. Maureen said to tell you that she's up to Catherine the Great now. So tell her to please proceed on. Oh, she will. Because I really wrote that book with an idea that it had stepping stones to get you to the middle. And then it was supposed to come together for you so that you then keep going to the home of the new century. And I think it basically works, but I haven't been much more brief in the beginning in order to do that, to give you those stepping stones that you need. Maureen, I'm happy to see you today. How are you? And I want to know, where is that log cabin? The log cabin, you hide. How are you? You see it. John, come here. And Russell, come up here and sit down. First of all, I want to get down to the business of the day. I wish you for all the work and effort on that tax reform, and I know you're working on it now for the debate on the floor. But I want to intervene with another one right now. It has to do with Saudi arms. And Russell, leave. I know there's a lot of misunderstanding on the hill about this, about the Saudis and everything, but good Lord, they have been, most of you have. Granted, they have to say some things out in front because of their arrow connections. But for example, when Gaddafi wanted to call the Arab League meeting and bounce us for the Tripoli ring, they quashed it. The Saudis stopped it. And they've been a pretty staunch Nidhi's ally of this country for about 40 years. But right now, under the King, they're really doing just fine. In fact, Gaddafi has said they're now looking out of boots after, because they stopped him on that drive. And this thing of the arms, they can get those arms. What are you all doing? Oh, this man. Well, we'll see you. And thank you all for coming on today. More importantly, thank you for all your fine work in getting a tax reform bill reported in your committee by a unanimous vote. It's got to be almost the first, at least for a long time. You've truly been doing America's business and you've been doing it brilliantly and as far as I'm concerned, you're now the A-team. This bipartisan spirit, I think, will be a tremendous boost in creating a binding commitment to the only special interest that counts and that's the American people, the ones that pay the bills in this country. And in particular, I want to thank you for eliminating needless brackets and lowering the rates to 15 and 27 percent, raising the personal independence exemption to $2,000 for middle and low income Americans and providing a minimum tax so that individuals and corporations will pay their fair share. Merrill and his group at the Council of Economic Advisers tell me that the added incentives and efficiencies could increase America's growth rate nearly 10 percent over the next decade. And that means people will be able to keep more of what they earn and thereby encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit building a stronger, more productive economy and that kind of growth would also, it is estimated, provide an additional 4 million new jobs over that same period. You and your chairman, Bob Packwood, who couldn't be with us today are to be commended for the only method to breathe new life into something that had been declared dead on more than one occasion since we were young. And now we need to make sure the lifeline stays intact as this historic measure is considered by the full Senate when you get back from the Merrill-Barrita. Not only will the American people benefit by your straightforward, heart-hitting proposal to return simplicity and fairness to the tax code but the bipartisan coalition you forged is a major victory for the benefited process that makes this nation great. And I think the American people join me in thanking you for your statesmanship. And now Jim Baker here. I can't hear my seat, Mr. President. Well, take off from there. That's a pretty good podium. President, what do you think about using the answer plus for the deficit for a year? Well, Helen, I'm going to wait until we have a discussion here that will follow. Unfortunately, you all have business elsewhere. Why? You want to answer the Saudi stinger question now, Mr. President? No, I don't. Are you going to take the sting out of the Saudi package? This is the news subject now. Let's go. Thank you. Thank you. This way. I'll try it. I'm always trying. Today, I have just come from a meeting with a whole bunch of kids from the drug program. They just say no programs. And the same question. They come in here with a subject of taxes. They want to handle them. They're not going to dictate what's new. Hang on. Just say no. Well, Jim. Mr. President, the only thing I would add is that I know I don't have to suggest to this committee that the pressures are going to be greatly moved to the Senate floor. And for those of us who went through this experience in the House, I suppose we can appreciate just how great. I think it's really important that we all focus on moving this through the Senate floor with as little change as possible and doing so as rapidly as possible. And the majority leader and I had a discussion with this subject this morning. That's really all I have to add to what you had to say, sir. Thank you. Our floor is open. One of the heroes here, as far as tax reform is concerned, are both the parties and some were there every day in the court group. And I regret Senator Packwood cannot be here, but I think we all know he has a primary election there as a matter of some interest in. He is an organ. He will win. But I talked with him last Thursday. He would like to bring the bill up as quickly as we can when we're back here. We do have to get a budget waiver of some kind. Yes. Hello there. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Nice to see you. Well, come in here. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Look like yourself. Nice to see you. Thank you. It's a typical darkness, huh? I had a pleasure of reading a book I found a senator friend of mine. He gave it to me. It was like some time ago, and I read it, yes. It's a matter of fact, at that time I got on a White House doctor as to why he didn't talk to somebody over at FDA and he had great success. Mr. President, I had no intention of talking on this subject, but you've given power to the FDA greater than the Supreme Court has the power of light and death. And we don't even know who they are. And they've got tenure and they play their own games and what you were talking about six years ago about bureaucracy. They do anything they want to do. But anyhow, that's very, let me show you something. Give me something. I just wanted to show you something Mr. President, I'm starting for a peculiar reason. I'm sorry to interrupt. Just under my control. Please, sit down. I want to make this scary here. I just don't want to forget anything. I was just commenting finally on the stinger point and first of all, there were those who said that if it went for the stinger, they'd be with us. So the stinger isn't in the package. And second, there are those who said I voted what I thought about the package, but now I'm not voting so much on the package. I'm voting on whether or not to support the President of the United States. But I need to have a reason to change something in the picture that's different. And there's something different. So those were the two points I'm sorry to interrupt. Well, all right, well listen, thank you all for coming here. And I'm very proud, I want to say in advance that this administration of ours has been characterized by officials in Israel up to the Prime Minister as being the truest friend that Israel has ever had. And I value that reputation for us very much and we'll never be wanting to jeopardize it. Indeed, our entire Middle East policy rests upon the premise of a strong Israel. And with regard to the things of arms of this kind, I have repeatedly made a claim to them that we will never do anything that will allow anyone to get a qualitative advantage over Israel's defensive capability. And I appreciate everything that you've done in the past five years to strengthen the relationship between our country and Israel. I think it's now so strong and so important to both people that it mustn't be diminished. And because of our commitment to that security I want to go on why I think the Saudi arms say it is important, and actually important to Israel's welfare. A coherent foreign policy is impossible if the Congress intrudes on the traditional executive priorities. Common congressional action on this arms sale threatens my ability to formulate and carry out the policies needed to support our interest in the Middle East. In fact, it significantly erodes the perception of the strong U.S. leadership of the Middle East process itself. The picture of a country and remember that in order of where to have a voice to be able to persuade the countries of the Middle East, Israel and the Arab nations to come together as Israel and Egypt did in a peace the Arab nations, they know of our alliance with Israel, but they have got to be able to see that we can be a friend of theirs too and that we can be fair in anything that we present. And with regard to the security of Israel now everything in this sale, if you haven't told us already, is already in the salary inventory. Won't affect the military balance in the Middle East. And certainly it won't endanger Israel's security. And that's why, Prime Minister Perez I would say here, I would rather go out and say this publicly, Prime Minister Perez has assured us that it would be impossible while technically a state of war exists between those other nations in Israel to support such a thing. He's not opposed to this. He gives you no problems with slavery. Now, if my veto is not upheld, then it's not only the way we look at the appearance that we've given to the Arab states there of not being dependable, but I lose leverage because then they see me as someone who can't come through on the things that he may propose. And there's no question that some of the modern state Israel states that we've been trying to work with with regard to a peace process have some security needs of their own because of the radical regimes in the region that are violently opposed to the state of Israel and declared enemies of the West. Our friend Gaddafi is one of those and I don't know if you probably are aware of this. We talk about radical regimes for example Gaddafi's great goal as we know is the Islamic world revolution or the Islamic fundamental state and wherever there are Shiites Muslims that is his target because they're the faction in the Muslim religion that believes the true Islam means a church state of their religion. They believe that Mohammed before he left this earth their prophet was also that the secular head he was the governor so they believe that that is the goal that you have what Romania has now in Iran. You don't have a secular government. This kind of Islamic state and all of those who came fighting all of them they're looking over their shoulder all the time because everyone in this faction is in their own country and give them these problems. Iran is also pushing hard to put a radical Shiite regime in power in Iraq. That's one of the things that's back of their refusal now when Iraq is even though they started the war is trying to stop the war and I think that Israel and the west would be far more threatened by a fundamentalist regime of that kind in power in Saudi Arabia. Now the issue isn't whether the Saudis get these missiles it's who they get them from. If the U.S. refuses to supply the legitimate needs the Saudis have turned to those who show far less concern for Israel's security and who place no controls. We do place controls ourselves there. They know that we will respond to what irration is necessary to redress agreements if they should ever return and use those weapons offensively against anyone. I have a son in Iran. President, hello. Thank you. Nice to see you. How are you? Nice to see you. How are you? Hi, how are you? Good to see you. Secretary. Nice to see you. Yes. Nice to see you. How are you? How are you? He was. Yes he was. He was. How are you? Hi, how are you? Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Thank you. Need no introduction? Well, I would say it's a very nice of you to do this as well. How do you do? I want to know that I'm appreciative of you coming here and particularly those from the Congress who sit next to the last day before adjournment and I think that it's fitting that national observance to the dangers of skin cancer should start on Memorial Day, which is the unofficial beginning of summer. And I think especially all citizens over 50 years of age I'm getting there. 39. 36 times. Particularly should be this should be called their attention and I think it's a good thing. Yes. Right. If he wasn't dark brown something was wrong. We have a woman at the White House who has the most beautiful skin. And I couldn't resist it much longer. And I finally said to her, Chris did you ever get out of the sun and she said I've been allergic. I couldn't get out. I said, God, I wish I had been allergic. I wish, you know, I wish when I was growing up we knew then what we know now. But she's got the most beautiful beautiful. I thought I had you steamed on it. I was that way too. Little did you know. I shouldn't tell his breath about the football of the college in his first days of practice when they were running plays and I was a red guard. And the moment you bought your leg with the center's leg and I kept noticing the coach following behind us was giggling and laughing. I finally found out it was kind of aimed at me. So I thought our center was black. Cross life matter in the scene and I was like, what the hell is going on? It's funny, you know, I think it's a little better. Don't you find now that even with all this publicity and everything other than what it does to you that there are still people? I mean, I look at the news and there are people lying out there. I understand. Well, I don't know whether it be the turn of a nation that is just here to go to the beach and then bake. Oh, yeah. But my gosh, there's so many people and so much publicity. I have a secretary who, finally, I said, all I could say. They just use the sun-protective creams, then they can still be on the beach and play tennis and so on. They're looking forward to it. The tan is important. The tan, yes. We can't fight that. I'm going to try, but it's going to take a while. Well, you can get a little tan if it isn't just the tan. But it's the tan. Yeah, well, what is this new thing, these shops or these places where you can now go to have that kind of a box thing? Oh, yeah. We call them that you get in. They're concerned about that. Those are sun tan problems. I don't know if they would have the same thing as the sun. Yes. Yes. That's not sun tan. We heard about that in the testimony this morning. Very threatening, apparently, those machines. Because they do that all winter, like up in Wisconsin. And then some of the potential sun in the winter, they go back to tan. And this is, you're very concerned about it. Watching it for your own good. I'm going to look like a funny wife every day. Most of my life, I've had this funny supermodel. Yeah. I've been going back for seven years to my life. Your world life is over seven years? Yeah. Oh, terrific. Well, I've been through, not quite a little bit, but through later part of high school and all of college. But the only life card, seven days a week, morning until whatever time at night, is when he's decided to go for the river. Something about your little identity? I don't know everything. He saved 78 lives. Well, that's an example of a man. He didn't tan all the time. Worked a little bit. There's a law there that any time he'd save a life, he'd make a mark. That's the law. And it's still there? Yeah. Now, I guess in the whole era of thinking, pollution, and so forth, and the river, they've now built a municipal swimming pool. And so the law is at the entrance of the swimming pool. Oh, that's good. After any of those people that you saved, try to get in touch with you now that you're pregnant. In any way. Once in a great while, there's someone, or usually it's someone that says, you saved my brother, or something of this kind. The reason for the matches is because, to my great shock, when you think, gee, if you pulled this person out, it wouldn't have gone in. They didn't know it would not. Then after they get up, and they talk to their friends for a little bit, and see what they're looking at, and they find he comes over, he says, well, I was getting him home. Yeah. Yeah. And there's no way the boss came down after I pulled someone out. And he had an axe. And this law was washed up by a stream flutter. Someone was there on the ground, and he said, look, this is what's going to happen with all of them. So he said, take the axe. And he said, I mean, come over and start talking that way. He says, start something. He says, no, I know what you're doing. Just tell him, you're just another notch. No. That's what I did. I must say, look at the ladies. It was men that were more embarrassed than having the house or the earth. It's not so much. No. It was psychological. It was a fellow came up. There used to be a tennis team. Nixon, what was called the Colony. It was the state commemorial institutions. They were right near our park. And the workers there would come over. And it was the only day they'd go over. He looked like a weightlifter. He was like this. But he was blind. And they would swim out to the end of the pier. We went up on a 100 foot pier. And then he was a very clumsy swimmer, not very good. But then they would call to him and direct him for him to swim out. And then you could hang on the framework under the pier there. But the current goes through there. And so almost a while in the last and finally he was coming out and he was way below. And now he's fighting the current, trying to get up to them. And all of a sudden, I've not seen him and I don't want to go in after somebody that built like that. And all of a sudden he was gone. Down he went. And I went in. And I really was going to be cautious about approaching him and reaching for that first move. And I touched him. And he was just beaten in the water. He was trying to pound it down hard enough to stand on. And like that. The easiest thing in the world. Just completely. And I turned him around, got across, chest carried, took him into shore. Never made it. You're going to be felt another human hand. It was fine. Someone was there to help us. Estimatic. Estimatic. Well, I don't need to give you a lecture. No. Thank you so much for the answer. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Loading to see you again. I will. Thank you very much.