The companies made it impossible to bring it back. The tax rate was too high and the legal complications were far too great. I changed both of them. And Hundreds of billions of dollars by Apple and so many other companies were brought back into our nation. And we had an economy the likes of which nobody, no nation had ever seen. China. We were beating them at levels that were incredible. And they know it. (36:15–36:22)
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