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Rand Paul Hushes CNBC Reporter_  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Feb 2, 2015 11:27 PM UTC Rand Paul Hushes CNBC Reporter  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Feb 2, 2015 11:27 PM UTC A CNBC anchor discovered the quickest way to get on Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s bad side Monday with a series of questions the 2016 presidential hopeful said were “mischaracterized” and “argumentative” and “full of distortions.” CNBC’s _Closing Bell_ co-anchor Kelly Evans began her interview by asking about Paul’s [stance on vaccines](http://time.com/3692701/rand-paul-vaccinations-measles-christie/), but their conversation didn’t get heated until she asked him about his and California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer’s recent tax proposal. Things got tense when he challenged Evans’ research—at one point, he shushes her and instructs her to “calm down”—and it only went downhill from there after she moved on to other topics, including a possible 2016 run. “We are thinking about it… \[but\] part of the problem is that you end up having interviews like this where the interview is so slanted and full of distortions that you don’t get useful information,”Paul said. “I think this is what is bad about TV sometimes. So frankly, I think if we do this again, you need to start out with a little more objectivity going into the interview.” ## Transcript [00:00] Let's move on, obviously the big news of the day here [00:03] is the proposal with you and Barbara Boxer that would [00:06] allow our companies which have about two trillion [00:08] dollars worth of cash overseas to bring it home, a one [00:11] time holiday, I think at a six and a half percent [00:14] corporate tax rate, senator I'm sure you know that [00:17] most of the research on this indicates that these [00:19] actually cost more money over the long term than they [00:22] save. Well that's incorrect. Are you saying that your [00:24] plan will be different? Oh oh, let's go back again. Your [00:27] premise and your question is. All right. Is mistaken. [00:29] Okay? Most of the research doesn't indicate that. In [00:32] fact there's a prominent study by Robert Shapiro [00:36] looking at the holiday in 2005, when we lowered the [00:39] rate to 5 %. And his conclusion was that it brought 300 [00:42] billion. New, 3 hundred billion dollars of new capital [00:46] home, and then it brought in about 30 billion dollars of [00:49] new tax revenue. The whole purpose of doing this is to [00:52] bring money home Right but, it works that first year Let [00:53] me finish, hey, hey, let me finish here, hey, hey But the [00:54] concern is down the road Hey Kelly, hey I'm sorry, go [00:57] ahead Hey, sh, quiet, I'm sorry, go ahead Quiet, calm [01:01] down a bit here Kelly, let me answer the question. The [01:04] whole point of this legislation is money has been [01:07] accumulating. Much money has been actually inverting [01:11] and people are reencorperating because the tax [01:13] country is not encouraging money to come home. So [01:17] this is to lower tax rate, to bring more money home, [01:20] and to take that new money, some of the tax revenue, [01:23] and put it in to the highway fund. I think this is a [01:25] win / win. You lower a tax rate, you bring in more [01:28] revenue, and you are actually able to plug a hole we [01:31] have in our highway trust fund. What people want, [01:33] Senator, is for you to make this permanent. Why not [01:35] just make it six and a half percent, period? The [01:37] problem is that, as happened in 2004 I, let me answer [01:39] the question. Let me answer the question before you [01:41] get going. 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