member states not to move there embassy to jerusalem. coming up will take you live to the muslim public affairs council hosting a discussion about the role american muslims can play in fighting terrorism. that starts in about 40 minutes, 11:30 a.m. eastern. we will have that live on c-span2. until then we'll take a look at some of today's "washington journal". >> robert burns, why is the speech necessary? why is it done by administrations, by presidents? >> guest: good morning. as a matter of fact, it'sas actually unusual for the president himself to present his national security strategy which is a document that required by congress and is done by every administration and it's mainly because this is a very broad brush set of

guiding principles. you might think of it as a framework for national security rather than a blueprint for action >> host: one of the headlines we are seeing this morning on the speech coming up today at 2:00 p.m. eastern is that trump will discuss trading borders and ignore climate change and announce a new strategy. what are some of the notable elements in the strategy that you are hearing of >> guest: one thing you just mentioned that i think is correct, there will perhaps be an unusual amount of emphasis on border control and also it appears that there will be more of a change in the way, in some cases semantic or terminology in the way that major powers like russia and china are described. one interesting aspect of this is although this is going to be presented as a new strategy and in some ways it's very

much in line with what previous presidents have followed, in fact, when it comes to russia for example, russia and china both will be copresented in the context of a new great power struggle that's going on in the world stage. in fact, it was recognized and discussed to some extent in the latter years of the obama administration >> who are the authors behind this national strategy? >> it was principally the national securityy team of hr mcmaster, national security advisor and you can also see a of theinfluence n defense secretary james mattis. in fact, one thing worth mentioning is that while the strategy is going to be built on president trumps america first theme, you can also look at the way the administration

has actually executed its national security strategy when you consider afghanistan, the president announced in august a new strategy in afghanistan pretty mentioned when he delivered that speech that he personally was inclined to plan to pull out of afghanistan but then his advisors lead in large part by james mattis, the secretary of defense changed his mind in the u.s. is staying in afghanistan >> host: typically how does the national security strategy af into anated administration policy and legislate of action? >> that's good point. it is a very broad document and it's not an action plan. it will very shortly, probably as early as next month will be inside this document would be a defense strategy which is little more specific and inside the defense strategy will be a military strategy

which will be even more specific and it will then be connected to several other long-term reviews that have been going on inside the pentagon, one of which is called the nuclear posture review which will reconsider how the u.s. maintains and executes its nuclear strategy as well as missile defense strategy which has been under review. this will all be brought ootogether >> and look for more reporting later today on this from robert burns national security writer with the associated press. he is on twitter at robert burns ap. thank you for the update. >> you're welcome >> president trump is making his national security speech this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. eastern. you can join us for that live here on c-span2. coming up on c-span2 we will take you live to the muslim public affairs council hosting a discussion about the role american muslims can play in fighting terrorism. that starts at 11:30 a.m. eastern and again live on c-span2.

leading up to that discussion we will take a closer look at the week ahead in congress. from today's "washington journal". >> sarah westwood is white house reporter for the washington examiner. anna, congressional reporter for bloomberg, here to talk about the week ahead and what a week it is likely to bek with a lot to get done. we talked with our viewers and listeners in the first hour about the tax reform bill, but a lot of other materials on the table as well.th first, your impressions, did yo you, as the year began, did either of you expect the week before christmas there would be so much to get done in the last five days? >> guest: certainly not. republicans control all three branches of government. they started this year with a lot of high hopes about what they could get done. they were trying to get an infrastructure package done by the end of the year, healthcare reform, tax reform

and we see that they are just barely going to get one of those things over the finish line by the end of the airport i don't think republicansns correctly assessed how challenging it would be to get things through the senate with such a slim majority >> as you are covering the halls, did you see this big ball of things rolling toward the end of the year? were youct expecting to be reporting from the capital the last week before christmas >> i think exactly because they were able to get some of those other things done, passing tax reform becomes all the more important because they have to have something to show for the first year of united government and this tax bill is something that checks off a lot of conservative priorities and gets them the talking points to say that they were able to accomplish something although some of the things will be temporary and i won't get the simplicity they had hoped but it gives them a political win if they are able to get it through both chambers onto the president's desk >> let's talk with tax reform. that's first up to the rules committee will meet today, the

houses was to take it up tomorrow, maybe even the senate on tuesday. are there still potential stumbling blocks for tax reform in the house of the senate? >> nothing is ever a sure thing until it's done. looks like there on a pretty good political placeit, i don't see any pockets of resistance. it looks like they're very excited to vote on this bill. the senate looks like they have the vote they need although senator john mccain will miss the vote because of treatment for his brain cancer in arizona and jeff flake is not a short vote. they did give bob corker of tennessee who said he would support the bill so it looks like they're in a good shape but it's not a sure thing >> part of the white house strategy is that the vice president will be present for votes this week. senator mccain is not the chamber. he is back in arizona. the vice president canceled the trip to the middle east to be at the capital for the

spread how else will the white house be involvedvo in the final push to get this through the senate? >> certainly if anyone like jeff flake, any last-minute hold out need any whipping, president trump will be with working the phone. he's been doing that since the beginning, inviting senators to play golf, working the phone, traveled to capitol hill couple times to pitch senators on their home turf so he has really been trying to be a cheerleader for this whole thing while giving senate republican space to eenegotiate. for instance the white house didn't want to see the corporate tax rate go any higher than 20% but they had to except that at 21%. that's not something president trump wanted but the white house did let the house republicans negotiate the finer points and didn't try to get in the way because they knew this was going to be difficult to get through without their interference >> it's a busy schedule for congress. we are joined by sarah westwood, reporter for the washington examiner and a correspondent anna.

we welcome your comments on tax reform and all the other issues that are ahead for congress this week. 2,027,488,001 is the number to call for republicans. democrats use 202 [inaudible] independents and others your lines are open. we will get your calls in a moment and onn twitter. i say the other, there are many things packed into this week, but certainly what has to be done is a spending a bill because the current measure, current government funding ends friday at midnight. whwhat is tentatively the plan for republicans to continue funding? >> they set themselves up for this crush right before s christmas because their last continuous resolution, temporary funding measure only went from december 8 until december 22 so they really wanted to give themselves time to get the tax bill out of those chambers. their main priority is just voting on the tax bill and

getting it out of congress. then they will turn their attention to negotiations. they been working on it but it's clear that the taxes are priority and the two chambers in the house and the senate have taken different approaches on the spending bill so they will have to try to figure out how toto reconcile thosele two approaches and get something through both chambers before friday >> particularly in the house is this an opportunity for the freedom caucus on the republican side and the democratic caucus in terms of and the faction that there's currently no stipulation for the dreamers, for the daca provision? is this an area where they could grind this procedure to a halt? >> i think it's unlikely that the protection for the dreamers is going to make it into the bill this week. those negotiations have not advanced much. :

theit doe level of spending? >> guest: the white house wanted to spending caps prior to going in and there's s talk abot appropriating money through september just for the temporary spending money for the budget just intel's january night and so that's the plan of leadership the white house is that from the get-go they have no interest in immigration in discussions right now. they think that should be left for when lawmakers come back from the holiday spirit the white house with congressional leadership resistance is why you do not see the end of your spending mix.

if they can keep this focused on appropriations and not other policy areas we are not likely to see ao shutdown. >> host: will the white house see the presidential request for a border wall? >> guest: it doesn't seem like the white house is interested in this row. the white house has daca when they are laying in the balance iner the white house will apply pressure for support for the border wall. >> host: lots of issues to talk about. first to san antonio, texas. christopher on our public in mind. >> caller: yes, i would like to first of all get this tax bill through because raising the standard deduction from 12,000 to 24,000. that puts $1000 in my pocket,

just looking at the tax table from last year. for a minimum taxpayer, $1000 is a lot of money. so please work out all the fine print on this bill. get it through and give the great people of this nation a break for christmas that president trump has promised us because we deserve it and we just needed a not all i've got to say. >> host: amateur entry, when he think, the tax breaks for w? >> guest: certainly for middle-class families that will allow people to get that break without itemizing different kinds of deductions. however, the $1000 the caller mentioned is not going to be every year. it's hard to calculate exactly what the tax benefit or burden will be for families in different situations. but they are using a changed cpi to adjust income brackets for inflation, which means families

will be pushed into higher income brackets faster so that means the breaks that -- that tax breaks initially are not going to beia better in the following years and also thehe individual tax rate cut was made temporary in this bill because of budget concerns in the deficit impact. >> host: republicans were able to win over marco rubio on friday were late last week. he had objections over the child tax credit, reason the refundable portion from $1100 to $1400. why was he holding out? >> guest: well, this bill is a lot about messaging and trying to convince people that this is a middle-class benefit, when the bulk of this tax cut is going to be for corporations. instead of $125 trillion, and about a trillion of that goes to the corporate tax cut from 35% to 21%. so part of senator rubio's concern with being able to say

we are working hard to make sure that middle-class families, working class and let's get the benefit that they need. post a letter from ross and charles phil, virginia, also on republican line. you're on, go ahead. >> caller: i to question anything for c-span. on the exemption, i understand the final billtahe eliminates te exemption for individual 4000 for 50 or 150 each. if that the case from a married couple of this $8300 in exemptions and 12,000 gain in the standard deduction would not help the individual that much. mr. rosenstein statement on its contributionstr by employees hih level ought to be considered srs repercussion against the employees, e-mails and so for us involved in that situation.

thanks for your answer and that's what i have to say. >> we will be the hair if you want to respond. >> one of the problems with this bill, why it has been so difficult for republicans to sell it to members of their own parties, that there was an uncomfortable number of losers in the belt, people live in blue states that have high state and local taxes are not necessarily going to see a break in their taxes. there are mid-to high-level income families who are not necessarily going to see a break, so there are a lot of families you and i would consider middle-class who are not going to feel any relief from this package and that is why i think there has been some discomfort among republicans foh passing it because they know certain constituencies will lose out. >> host: dylan bethlehem, pennsylvania, go ahead.

>> caller: by the way, republicans seem to have a very bad memory. we have a tremendous day by the bush bailouts with trillions of dollars and they were so concerned about this the last eight years. they would increase chileans of dollars actually in totally unfair. this is a time when taxes are to be increased when we have this benefit of the market moving. it's been going on a while. this man is not going to do that. and then what are we going to do? it would look at the social security card, medicaid, w medicare. they should take a real good look at it. probably going to be the end of their political careers. >> host: the potential next phase of this would certainly be seeking spending reductions. what have you heard about plans for any of that to address the spending particularly on most

social programs? >> guest: is victor ryan mentioned thatce at a press nconference that next year to include reform of spending for programs like medicare and medicaid. he was able to convince president trump that addressing the call for medicare will be an important thing to do in the coming year since the president said during the campaign. and that is one of the selling points republicans have seen this isn't going to have a deficit impact that studies show a taxax cut will is going to reform entitlement programs as they would call them in the coming year to make up for the deficit impact. however, after having cut taxes and adding $155 trillion to the deficit is also a hard sell because corporations are getting the benefit where they have to get cut. "washington journal" any idea

how the white house would approach the debate in terms of potentially reducing spending in areas of social programs? the president campaign promise to employ 2016. >> guest: the entitlement programs like social security and the typesl of things paul ryan has long dreamed about reforming. conservatives talk about tax reform and they won a couple revenue losses a spending cut. it wasn't part of the conversation thise time of aftr having this is going to be a heavierea left that seemed at first glance that they didn't try to go for any offsetting spending cuts like you might typically imagine they would do when they controlled all three branches of government. he saw them go for cutting taxes and would carry them forth intoo welfare reform. that's the type of thing is of thing to see speaker ryan try to

tackle next year. >> host: talking about the final week ahead with sarah westwood, the "washtington examiner" in ian edgerton at the "christian science monitor" with the fisa act. struggling to reauthorize key rules that govern the national security agency wiretapping without a warrant outside the united states per the rules are set to expire at the end of the year. the program, the rules in question, the foreign intelligence surveillance act in u.s. national security discussions are usually refer to section 702 for sure. under the program the national security agency can document the electronic communication for intelligence targets in blakely to be located outside the u.s. territory. the court issued warrant for individual target. the intelligence surveillance court with a list of proper for

intelligence collection. this is a discussion of a lot of committees this fall. what is the status? >> guest: that's one item that could be included in the city bill of the year. subsidies for obamacare, and a different kind of flood insurance programs, children's health insurance programs and the fisa reauthorization ones that you see some groups of congress wanting to include. it looks like it's going to be extended for authorization, the something intelligence communities need the certainty to be ant legal tool in order to conduct counterterrorism intelligence. >> host: one of those supporters and opponents just goes interesting to see the coalition around surveillance

talks in paris and liberty advocates that don't want to have the government to have these broad sweeping powers with conservatives worried about limited government. interesting to see the people get together, but i will say i think this particular policy area has been politicized when you talk about the house intelligence committee has been acting into in terms of an deemed the program potentially abuse by the previous administration to inject the level of partisanship into this discussion that may cause the vote to break down. >> host: we saw an accelerated in private and secret house intelligence committee their investigation into the 2016 elections. from donald trump junior last week in the last intelligence investigation will wrap up by the end of the year. >> that's an interesting discussion because they are interested in wrapping this up as quickly as possible because

it distracts them from doing basically anything else. when you talk to democrats, they will try to rush the investigation because it does atcause political problems for e white house. republicans are worried democrats will drag it out for the same year because they cause political problems for the white house. both sides disagree. >> host: doing all that is likewise being rushed? >> is being taken seriously. beginning of the investigation and mouse whether or not representative devin nunes had taken information for the white house in an appropriate way. the ethics committee has said he had not even know he had kind of recused himself from overseeing that investigation even though he was still signing orders requesting information. but now he's been cleared about in the house is still doing the senate committee is

the one looking to produce results. >> host: the congressman was cleared about. congressman conway was leading the investigation and devin nunes hasn't taken over the investigation of theot chairman. >> guest: wasn't clear how much he actually stepped down. he had unofficially recused himself that he was the lacking a committee chairman. >> host: let's go to glen and fox town, pennsylvania on the independent line. >> caller: yes, sir. good morning. >> host: good morning. >> caller: hear me out. i followed the c-span rules. now, i have this tax cut here, and the freedom party would not support obama and stimulate the

pocket because he's going to raise the deficit. approving tax cut to increase deficit. i want to explain to the american people were going to get these tax cuts. nobody's asking how they look at these tax cuts. so please, tell the american people were we going to get the money for these tax cuts? >> guest: what was seen in the whole debate is to be spending hawks, not devastated oxford complained about deficit concern comes when it comes to spending plan like the obama administration. republicans really believe that this is going to be so progrowth that it will make up for the revenue lost to the tax cut with

more tax revenue. however, your collar make the next room point but you also have higher interest rates that will be a bit of the brake on growth as well. the independent economic analysis shows the plan will not grow the economy as much as republicans say it will put a huge concern about this being passed on to future generations to deal with. >> looking back a year, sarah westwood, how effective do you think donald trump has been in overturning some of the regulations, particularly the late 2016 regulations promulgated by the president, president obama and his administration? if so that's one of the areas of the trump has his greatest successes of the presidency. he has been reducing regulations a pretty impressive rate because he held an event to showcase

that for everyone regulation he hashe a knack that. they've delayed, canceled or scrapped 22 obama or regulations. but the prettyty impressive pace and said the white house has tried to showcase that even though we haven't had as much legislative successes would've wanted, we have been working hard to deliver on the promise and president trump cut the literal red tape. >> host: part of the tax package will be the individual mandate of the affordable care, obamacare. if you're in the hindu will more legislative h effort on health care? >> guest: house speaker paul ryan said last week his line is collapsing we need to repeal and replace and of course part of the struggle is the incredible uncertainty facing them to steer republicans try to repeal this legislation

and they've not been able to. repealing the individual mandate is a huge policy that underpins the interest markets so people will no longer be required to have insurance and i can make premiums up go up even more which means less people will be able to afford insurance and novel actually push the obamacare market in two the deathac spiral. there will be some sort of legislationob to address the country and there are proposals out there to be very interested in taking a step to some senatorsak are demanding an exchange. post to in the late news conference, the speaker also reject reports that he's going to step down from the leadership of political magazine. the wild washington journey coming to an end.

what issh your sense on how long speaker ryan wants to stay in that position? just go he said it's one he didn't want. he didn't expect iran to be speaker of the house for a decade. having said that, spoken by some people who say he's energized by the tax reform package that has the reagan not historic rewriting of the tax code. there are more policy priorities for him next year including entitlement reform. if he checks those soft, i could see him wanting to step down and explore life outside the halls of congress since he was very young in his career besides being in congress. trade do you ever being adversary to more of a partner through the year. >> youou remember theresa begano presidency he described his relationship is weaker ryan is a fine line that staged a time.

the two of them have gotten much better than president trump and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell mitch mcconnell as much of a cushion has actually struggled to get these policies passed the obamacare in the house is able to pass something with relative ease when i got to the senate it's all part and president trump blamed senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> host: sarah westwood of george washington university and reporter for the "washtington examiner" in graduate of lake forest and also degrees in journalism and international affairs. we go next to laporte, indiana county hearing from gary -- leery of laporte, go ahead. >> yes, under my income from the president trump says they will see $4000 a year extra in my

pocket for the republicanan says the democratsts say i'm going to lose money. if everybody is looking at the same number is, how come i'm getting so many different answers? >> coos the go to research on capitol hill the house by partisan people say they are the ones to trust for the numbers? >> the organizations trying toto score a bill that changed a lot come even in the month and how congress has been discussing it a legislative tax policy, jack kameny untaxed option and even the congressional budget office has been working around-the-clock to score different versions of t the bill to figure what the impact would be been trying to comb through the different provisions and see which situations would be affected in certain ways is a very daunting task becauseun the

are families with certain circumstances like how your medical expenses or families that live in high tax states that would be hit by a cab on the deduction for state and local taxes. it's hard to say for certain income level will have a certain impact because it's going to look different depending what state the person is saying, what their income is, what their family structure is an not an easy thing to say this to be the benefit for everybody. >> host: a tear from clark in response then. democrats line. >> caller: good morning. i have a question now. is it true that it's a mandatory pay goes double kicking anytime the government congress passes a bill that raises the deficit that requires mandatory cuts to social security, medicare and other programs and i will take it offline.

>> guest: i'm not familiar that's been part of the question talking about initiating cuts in those programs after the tax reform bill goes through the certainly right now focused on getting the bill through and using a lot of conservatives concerned about the deficit because they are just interested in getting the bill passed. post though quite the tax plan will cost the raising of the budget caps in the headline in the "washington times" and democrat to reject the year in spending bills, the shutdown risk arises. if you had to look at it from this point of view, what will be your estimate of percentage chance of a shut down by the end of the week? >> guest: it is definitely bear. nobody really wantsts a shut do, but there's not a clear path forward to avoiding it.

the leading plan to deal with the spending deadline that would include the four defense appropriations bill through september and the temporarygh spending measure to january 19th for other government functions as a plain in the house of representatives and republicans are pretty sure they can pass the onlyr republican vote which means nancy pelosi and democrats have no leverage in the house. senators of both parties have said that approach is not going to pass the senate. there's not a chance that it etwon't even get republican vots it needs. there is no chance the democrats would vote for that. so then you see the house and the senate and whether they go with the house's moreee aggresse approach to spending or if they have to reach a bipartisan compromise. >> host: one of those senators who won't be voting this week, senator john mccain likely to miss senate tax code. likely to miss the senate vote

this week to approve a sweeping tax overhaul. president trump said on sunday the senator would return if his vote was needed. the senator returning to arizona over the weekend. thomasville, georgia. scott, good morning i'm a republican line. >> good morning. i keep hearing the experts on your program in the meetings that the repeal ofti the mandate and individual insurance markets willll not require people to buy insurance. that's obvious, but every time i hear somebody say that i am remembering in 2014-2015, 2016 and anytime trump was on the horizon, the insurance markets were in trouble and they've gotten worse over that time as obamacare has taken hold in states like mine, which is georgia were used to have four or five insurance companies and individual market by most

companies started leaving. now where i live is to cross bluehe shield and there is no other company. if you want insurance, buy from them. what happens to business exchanges to amazon of insurance or you could do a spreadsheet and look at all the different options and of course you don'tb need brokers because he collected online and figure out what plans you need. that never happened in non-community rated states. >> thank you, scott from georgia. >> it is true they didn't necessarily performance democrat but it was going to from the rollout of health care.gov through today there have been a lot of problems with the health insurance markets and democrat say that's because republicans have created uncertainty they've been unwilling to take the steps needed to stabilize the markets and republicans say we told you guys that wasn't going to work and not enough young healthy

people would sign up to offset the cost and the older people who would get on the insurance market in states where republican governors take the medicaid expansion. cayou see that they are poised o make them even worse. >> to sign up for obamacare the health insurance sign up last week, with the administration view as a success? with a fairly flawless sign-ups? speed just so they the average budget for obamacare that we were going to see fewer sign-ups that people get health insurance and that's not necessarily what we saw even though the administration scaled back its efforts to publicize, but repealing the individual mandate would certainly be the greatest low so far because younger

healthier people would no longer face a penalty. >> host: were you surprised they the repeal inside the tax bill? >> guest: it was always hardest to get it to the senate. when they decided to include it, that's really what made clear they have a path forward to passing and house speaker paul ryan waspa able to tell his moderates in the house of representatives that even susan collins is known as a moderate member that you can get on board as well. the reasons they decided to include to get some fiscal space to other priorities in the tax bill. he got over $300 billion that they were able to include other provisions. >> host: is there any other quick pro-coelho that we will

take up the offer by alexander and senator murray to continue subsidies for the aca. >> host: you, senator susan collins that even included alexander million other bipartisan bill en masse passed and that the year bill, which now we only have a continuing resolution before friday in order to get her vote for individual mandate and not with the way of assuring her this wouldn't have a devastating impact on health insurance market that independent analysts said it would. >> host: that is included in the cr? >> guest: no, it is not. that i is one thing much discusd in washington is whether or not susan collins curdled enrichment, but deliver especially on anotherco chambern the house. it has no interest including

anything that looks like obamacare market. >> guest: independent line. >> host: viewer on the air, go ahead. i'll call you didn't say my name. i'm in the economic situation because no one's address what i see going on. the $800 billion giveaway to the rich and now they are ready toan topple that or have another financial collapse because they didn't fix what happened and it's not consistent. i wanted to comment on not neutrality and how they've removed that discussion and one purely political. it's unconstitutional, always

has been. the constitutional amendment, so we really need to get rid of this legitimize surveillance. >> host: a number of different issues by the sec, anything they'd like to respond to? >> guest: that was such an interesting episode because there is so much national attention at the end of the day was a less mundane regulation about the internet. you never seems so much attention being paid to the fcc in the usually neglected small commission. a lot of people have a lot of really strong feeling about 90 charlie d.. but there were some late night talk show host who helped bring attention to this issue, but it's not surprising the fcc came down against net neutrality. how is that they are signaling they were going to do and it

brought up a larger conversation about how much power the unelected commissioners to have because of conservativesty opposing the regulatory bodies have so much power. now liberals come into the fold and say hey, maybe we shouldn't have these unelected aircraft be able to makeno a policy. it's interesting to see thosee flip on the interest of neutrality. >> host: . pennsylvania are democrats line. >> caller: merry christmas tear gas. but then, when anything happens to taxes, i have to go to my cfo, my wife, she takes care of my taxes. she's done her family taxes here for the last 26 years. so when i checked withh my cfo and she says the standard deduction is doing double. i think we are going to probably

save between $1,002,000. i say anytime i hear that word and have the inherent pennsylvania i can tell you i'm one of the democrats here in pennsylvania that voted for donald jay trump and one reason i did is because he was not part of the establishment. this once upon a time. pennsylvania gone down and down in a couple days ago there's been over 170,000 manufacturing jobs since trump took over. "washington journal" welcome your comments on twitter as well. this one regarding our caller in georgia same georgia has only one carry because he rejected the affordable care act. steve says democrats do not give

resolution on daca. they deserve to be thrown out in 2018. "the wall street journal" this morning looking to the congressional elections next year. democrats widen made according to a "wall street journal" nbc news poll asked which they prefer to leave congress after next year's midterms. 50% said democrats. 39% of republicans. "the wall street journal" is wider than seven-point advantage. the first double-digit advantage for the party since 2008. out of the democrats win in the presidential election that year. anna edgerton, going into the election year, and what if the house and senate want to get done before campaigning season starts and it's impossible to get this done? >> trying to get the tax bill because he thinks he's going to

say between $1,002,000 benefit and it's important for republicans to have that in place on january worst, 2018 said the economy would start responding and start seeing bigger paychecks in february. by the time he gets to november, hopefully the economy will be showing some signs of risk bonding to the tax bill and they willow have something to show fr it. however, the president is a controversial figure and he will likelyly feature largely next year's elections then you will have republicans either trying to take up his mantle depending on the districts where they stayed in yossi democrat making isa big part of their campaignss well. "washington journal" after roy moore lost tuesday at the "washtington examiner" white house not changing candidate endorsement process after president trump trading this morning about his endorsement of winnings gop candidate, expected

to go out and campaign and do more of his rallies next year. >> the white house views the race as a once in a generation screw up because it was a uniquely flawed candidate. they don't see wasn't president trump is sunk the candidacy and was more popular in alabama than any other state in the country. roy moore lost the race for himself and so the white house doesn't see a reason why he needs to change his game plan when it comes to choosing candidates because president trump didn't choose him. he endorse a primary opponent. hope it misses one often they can 22018 and maybe make some better decisions about these more competitive races. >> host: sarah westwood of the "washtington examiner" and anna

edgerton at the examiner talking about the week ahead in washington and congress and the funding running out at midnight on friday. president trump expected to leave friday for his winter vacation. cawe'll have to wait and see. welcome your phone calls. 2,027,488,001. democratss and for independent than others, 2,027,488,002. -- 202-748-8002. good morning. where does the money come from to pay government employees are the benefits and wages and why aren't they more productive? >> host: is that a rhetorical question? the government comes from taxes. >> caller: well, my point is we probably shouldn't pass the tax bill because they look forward to stay in business and

don't get their wages brought ue in their i benefits. >> guest: let's hear from mary ann under democrats line. >> caller: good morning. my name is mary ann. i am 53 years old. i've been a single mother living in this date of illinois said about 1986. i came from a small town in ohio. ijo remember watching the i iran-contra with ronald reagan and how they waited for the trickle-down effect. what i can tell you as i can go to my hometown in ohio now in the same streets don't have sidewalks they did and how when i was a kid. i came to illinois for work. i raised five children here in illinois. the welfare, didn't get help. when mr. george bush took office, he promised in his

primaries he would put a million new homeowners in homes in his presidency. he did. he did a lot of good for us, didn't it? everybody's homes are messed up. blah, blah, blah. he got in there, left us with a massive deficit. i want everybody to remember the gold coast bill was because he released regulations, okay? what i will tell you about the tax bill was that happened to me when bush did it. he's going to get tax breaks to the upper middle class and the wealthiest people in the country. he's going to put that burden on lowest people in the country. my point being the first year george bush took office i was a single mother with five kids. i never owned any taxes but i didn't get any taxes back. i felt in earned income credit at the end of the year and would

get 100 bucks. the first year george bush took office i got a lousy $100 refund because of his tax breaks to the wealthy. >> host: mary ann, the bill llalso includes a boost in the child tax credit. is that likely to win over people like mary ann? >> guest: well, notr? necessarily. it's likely to win over some more centrist republicans in the senate. that's what it was designed to be who are elected to go for and make it more salable sway public. the refundable portion was raised by $300 through marco rubio's decision until it was raised from 111400. not necessarily a huge boost, but it was in general doubled from 1000 to 2000 net could provide another kid relief. >> guest: i think she has a

good point in that a lot of this will benefit the wealthy and a lot will benefit not just from the lower rates on individual site, but also lower rates for corporations and the so-called pass-through businesses, liabilityps on companies. those rate cuts will be permanent. what you see over the next decade if the benefit some middle class,s even affluent and lower class people would receive from this tax bill is going to diminish over the next decade for the benefit for corporations, but alsoo individuals benefit from tax provisions will be during tax breaks for the people who need them least. >> host: let me ask you about an issue that seems to be an ongoing story with new revelations and allegations every day. harassment cases with more allegations expected, but no

protocol in place. the latest from nevada saying he's not going to run in 2018 and there were allegations against him were certainly report the administration committee in the house last week about the issue. it's obviously not going away. wizard of concrete action by congress take in terms of their own house and senate to address this issue. >> host: one thing house leadership has said is that it's easier to change policy going forward than to address cases that averted and subtle. you saw that in the case of blake farenthold murray has been cleared. even so the allegations kept coming against the former staffers speaking now and he was not going to run for reelection. there is a certain nervousness and congress not just people who know they mightn conduct did in the past that could be held accountable, but also people who don't know if in their mind

innocent actions could be misinterpreted by someone unintentionally or even westernizee to score kind of a political hit job against people. >> host: how did the president during the campaign and resurfaced for many of the latest stories by sarah sanders in the white house, what do you see ahead in terms of this issue not just for the president, but others in the administration. what initiatives direction might be taking? >> guest: this has always been a difficult subject for president trump to approach a credibles not folks meant for the party on sexual harassment due to the fact and besides the glaring rules, none of the other allegationss have been proven oe way or another. they still have some wiggle room to deny them in it doesn't mean president trump can or should be

the republican speaks out about this. it is clearly a fine line for the white house weighed in on the al franken resignation but the first photograph came out against 10. >> host: let's hear from todd in middle island, new york on the independent line. >> host: i have one comment, one question. when they talk about entitlement reform, and they're never talking about lowering how much we pay for those things. basically medicare and social security, something we are buying an installment plan. they are never talking about lowering those baby are talking about what we paid over a lifetime. that's my comment. the second thing they are talking about many things in the tax bill sunset that will affect

the middle -- lower and middle class. what specifically are those things and you ladies are more informed they will drive up thet impact. >> host: neither of our reporters are tax reporters, but go ahead and take a shot. >> guest:in the first thing is the actual rate cut. so the rate cut that they have in each of the tax brackets that will have a lower rate, not local backup after 2025. however, congressman and senator just said that future congresses going to want tout avoid the fiscal cliff finnell and that maintaining tax cuts. you are betting on congress in order to maintain individuals. however, it will have an even greater deficit impact than what is advertised now. the caller did have a good point

that the programs such as social security are not entitlements. these are things people paid into, so a lot of the conversation we will see next year is going to be reforming things like medicare and medicaid and also trying as house republicans would say, move to help dreamworks others more to seek employment. >> host: sarah westwood, 30 say they got their number one priority in the corporate tax rate? >> guest: thates was the number one thing they wanted president trump truly believes that will encourage companies to do more hiring. there's provisions on the tax bill to encourage repatriation with incomes held overseas to bring it home, eliminating the tax for reducing the tax they would normally face when they bring their earnings back to the united states. these are the things they hope will bring the process of creating more jobs in the economy andnd what republicans y will be remembered as a great event tree for the white house

if however, many critics say the growth projections are a little too optimistic, this could be something of a way to run republicans knock. >> host: let's hear from raymond under democrats f line. >> guest: thank you so much for taking my call. >> caller: [inaudible] something about the deficit -- [inaudible] >> host: i'm going to let you go. you're breaking up a little bit. something about the republican deficit hawks. >> guest: they should be a lot more concerned about spending and cutting costs on the

spending side rather than the tax revenue side. republicans really do believe they would increase tax revenue for an economy and that is that they are betting on in their selling point thatr this add to the deficit. >> host: one issue in people reading the "washington post" and the nations capital with a full page on thisinin issue. children cannot wait. the holiday season must not leave town without indian anxiety of 9 million children and pregnant women who depend on the children's health insurance program, chip, congress allowed funding to ask either nearly three monthsra ago. time to make things right for kids. will this be taken up this week? >> guest: kind of the symptoms of a really partisan congress. it was a program that had bipartisan support, but it hasn't been completely reauthorized because it may not be spending reduction.

it was just kind of emergency funding for this program in the house proposal has their own proposal for children that would make hats for other programs. that's a solution that is not very attractive to democrats in the b senate and would probably have to be changed in order to get through the regime. >> host: president trump is activeng lobbying for the child tax credit as he weighed in on this at all? has the white house weighed in on the chip issue? >> guest: the white house wants to see it pass. democrat voted against the extension because they didn't like the way it was funded. they are playing a little bit of politics with it as a republicans for their part have wanted to shine a light on the tax cut with democrats who voted the extension because the talking points for democrats have focused on republicans obstruct unit and that's not necessarily the case. >> host:. rockford, michigan,

republican line. >> caller: hello? okay. i change the channel every morning to msnbc and cnn and c-span and the one thing you all have in common is every morning you find reasons to run the republicans and trump into the ground. they are getting republicans they can make itn' on your air,o defend the republicans and donald trump. that's my comment. thank you. >> host: the thoughts on what you see on these final five days on the hill. destino congressman or senator from either party wants to see washington throughhi christmas. that was setting up for december december 22nd because they know the deadline for the timing of it would come up with some