bourne has extensive broadcast and print media experience and has appeared on bbc news, cnn and sky news. and he also writes weekly columns for the weekly telegraph and. he holds a pa and master of economics from the university of cambridge united kingdom. and we will leave time at the end for q&a. and i'll have a short announcement before we leave. but for now, let's please welcome ryan borne. [ applause ] >> good afternoon, and thank you so much for all being here today. i think the size of the audience is both testament to the importance of the topic and also to the quality of our speakers on the panel. so welcome. the title today asks whether this is the home stretch for major tax reform. and it really does feel as if momentum has been building in recent weeks, particular where i the senate budget agreement obviously now passing the house today too. major tax reform has been something talked about for decades, and i think the ambition of the plans and the frameworks being laid out are exciting not just for those of us who spend our lives analyzing these things, but also i suspect for

we have a turkish jornlist taniir writing for a new outlet. dr. pornel, stroll and bbc's very own nick dan worth, expert on all things turkish and other things too. let me start with you. can you give us a summary of what the case is about? what are the allegations in this case? >> sure, thank you. thanks for the invitation. m m and the rest -- in march of 2016 f and became very, very famous in hurkey. i think he stayed in jail in turkey for -- i don't know. a couple months and then he was kind of forgotten in turkey. but still seems he was -- and he still is married a pop star in turkey. everybody knows and more or less, he has been untouched against since 2013 but last year, in 2016, he got arrested. it was a shock to everyone. and he has been in jail since then. we don't since then. we don't know if he's still in jail but we know for sure he's under u.s. federal custody right,000. there are lots of speculations whether he's in hotel or somewhere else but he's under custody. so that have been for indictmen indictments. first one came right after