working on tax cuts, they have better luck there. in maine they are fighting over different issue and surcharge on the wealthy, 3% surtax on the wealthy is no less, if this goes through and keeps happening he and his wife would move out of maine. the governor is next.

neil: on capitol hill to the next battle, behind the scenes, the president and congressional republican leaders working on a plan to get those tax cuts moving sooner rather than later, getting something together by august when talking to the house ways and means chief, a proposal will be out in spring more than a month away when they have a package ready to commit to

members. not a moment too soon, the main governor, fighting a herculean battle against the surtax on the wealthy. it seems small on face value, 3% surcharge, $200,000, it is going to lead to a brain drain and a lot of successful people leaving your state. >> it is "happening now," doctors and scientists, high wage earners are going to new hampshire just 100 miles away from the state capital. the governor of new hampshire, no income tax and people are telling me why do i want to be punished for being successful? neil: what was the argument for this? it would shore up educational what? >> shore up education but it is a false narrative, there is plenty of money and education.

the problem with education in the classroom, the national average $.64 on every dollar, and we are top-heavy and too many superintendents declining enrollment and don't want to address it. neil: when your term is done you and your wife would leave the state? >> no doubt about it. i will not be paying an exorbitant income tax, i think it is not appropriate. they don't need it. just democratic wherewithal, tax everything you make and get more from your pets. neil: this did pass the public vote.

prominent democrat, tory jackson, maynard didn't approve questions referring to the surtax on the wealthy, more people voted then for either of the presidential candidates and their votes should mean something. >> what i say to that, there again, the questions get ten words to it and the legislation had 32 pages behind it. the devil is in the details but details weren't on the ballot. >> this comes at a time when republicans nationally are focusing on licking their wounds after the healthcare thing and trying to get together on the tax cuts but already that there are divisions there. what do you recommend they do? >> this is what i recommend. as much as i despise the ideology of democrats, when it is time to work together they

work together. any republican that did not support this effort for fixing the aca i hope they lose the next election. >> similarly divided, on tax cuts, some already saying he better not make the deficit worse. some are saying we better find a way to pay for this, they are not going to propose big tax cuts and blow a hole through the deficit and the debt. what do you say? >> congress is broken, it can't work, it is time we take a hard look at it, we are heading into to a constitutional crisis, congress of the united states is broken and i think the american people elected donald trump for change and reform to this country and if the republicans in congress don't realize it is time to go home. neil: those who voted against

the president on this were ready to vote against this, reworked, would say would leave. >> what we going to do? attempt to lower taxes when we don't know what the fiscal note of healthcare is going to be? it is insane. we have to fix healthcare. i'm telling you if you can't do your job, go home. neil: there is another thought that republicans approved this measure even though it was that is big as the president's healthcare, it would have been unpopular because it would not have addressed some issues is would have heard them on election day anyway. what do you say to that? >> it was a work in progress. this is the first attempt to do anything in a decade. by fixing some of it and making it a work in progress and

continuing to work on it over the next four years, the next two years it would not have hurt them at the polls. by not taking action they really hurt themselves, both parties hurt themselves significantly, we are heading into a constitutional crisis. neil: do you think paul ryan should go? >> i don't think paul ryan is the issue. the problem with republicans is they break rank too quickly. whenever i say fix bayonets i don't hear one click. neil: i got that, thank you very much. good to see you again. the beautiful state of maine. a lot of folks saying donald trump is finished. what have i told you? go back in time. they said the same thing about

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>> i know what you are thinking. why are you showing that jfk bite from a couple months after he was president of the united states? to make a point, he was discussing with reporters after the debacle that became known as the bay of pigs, many including the mainstream media and new york times said not that he was finished but he had botched something, something he had inherited from his predecessor, went through on the advice of his generals, you could argue he was completing that pass. fast-forward to today, many people dismissing donald trump saying he too got a lot more

negative than jfk in those days. the kennedy half-century, it is already playing out. we will be rifling through headlines from yesterday and today that lambasted this catastrophic, cataclysmic, however you want to characterize it in the media, the president is all but finished. we have to step back, don't we? >> absolutely. you are in the media and you watch it all day every day. >> it is important to emphasize the media always is today, things happening today are the most important things that have

ever happened or ever will happen until tomorrow when something more important happens. the presidency is 1461 days, this was one day, it was a big day, only day 65. this is a long time to go, congress this week to run to go, the senate two more than that. it is hard to say anything that happened will affect every other thing that happened. that would be dead wrong as prior presidencies show. >> on the upside to the downside, ronald reagan comes to mind. we forget how difficult those tax cuts were in his own party to say nothing about southern democrats and after the midterms, ronald reagan, lingering recession, why and how do we proceed looking at donald trump and what do you as a presidential historian look to see and do and congress do to is

"happening now"? >> i look for two things. yesterday was a dead start for him. he gave a little press conference in the oval office, the over room in the white house in which he basically said i am not going to blame anybody, he blamed the democrats but he didn't go after paul ryan or the freedom caucus. he was genteel about the whole thing and to a certain extent took responsibility, he was learning all these new things, new process. remember what john f. kennedy did after the bay of pigs? you showed that clip. what he said after that was i am responsible officer of government, blame me. he went up in the polls. people like it when the president takes response ability. john f. kennedy learned from it, studied carefully what had

happened. reached out to opponents, called president eisenhower, had a summit in camp david, learn as much as you can from these setbacks. heather: neil: he realized i can't take the advice of these generals and all land that served him well in handling the cuban missile crisis. many different opinions on fat. a crisis he had to and create. and when it comes to the next big agenda, these tax cuts, open to conservative caucus members, would he be as open on tax cuts if people are barking, and a come to jesus moment, we are all in this one? >> it would be more the latter

because a presidency cannot afford two setbacks in a short time. they need a victory. they were hoping to get healthcare, reasonable to think they can reach some conclusion about tax cuts and they need that victory, if it doesn't, that is the point at which a president and for that matter the leaders of congress need to crack heads. neil: there will be disagreement among republicans, others are saying order adjustment taxes, even the leadership, they will have problems and some say we don't want to make deficits worse. do you think they with a deficit be damned, we are going to do this because we promised we would? >> they are probably going to say some of that but what is

important is the votes they cast. at a certain point you have to recognize your governing party, you are no longer the opposition party, the party of no which they were during the obama administration, they have to govern. it is not something to be in favor of because you have to make the party look good, make the president look good, you will to a certain degree sink or swim together. neil: thank you very much. in cities, it was crystallized in the rate of a high school girl, when one of those allegedly behind it was here legally and in fact had been deported or should have been after this.

neil: you heard of things where he states, things were cities, rockville, maryland, pushing to have that status raising a lot of eyebrows, vacations into how it could have happened. >> two teenagers who came to this country illegally accused of a brutal rape at a maryland high school. henry sanchez from guatemala, 17-year-old josé montana came from el salvador. police didn't release his photo because he is a minor but he is tried as an adult. they pushed a 40-year-old girl into the boys room in montgomery county and raped her in a bathroom stall. sanchez has a removal case against him but was still involved in the school. a new homeland security report shows montgomery county near the top of us jurisdiction, the decline immigration and customs detainers.

>> montgomery county is acting as a sanctuary county and not cooperating with federal foundations. that is part of the problem. >> lawyers were hit with hate mail, one threatening the violent rape of a lawyer's daughter and another suggesting metal detectors. neil: i want to go to andy harris on this. congressman, even now the fight continues about cracking down on this, in light of it. >> just amazing, maryland, the sanctuary state law will not allow any jurisdiction to be anything other than sanctuary jurisdiction, it is unbelievable. neil: this was a rare unusual event in the case of sanchez, whatever he encountered among border patrol, something ending up setback, can't be blown up

into a situation that calls into question criminality of others in the district. what do you say to that? >> someone who had deportation subject to deportation, committed a violent heinous crime. this crime was completely avoidable if all we did was enforce immigration law and any crime like this that could be avoided, shame on us if they were a force of immigration law. mean they could look the other way even if authorities want to get to the bottom of them? >> the maryland law, has to go to the state senate, and looked the other way, not cooperate

with federal officials, and given crimes like that. neil: i know you are doing that, you keep pulling that and lose the money that you have coming from us. >> i agree. in my county, my executive declared a sanctuary county and hundreds of thousands from the federal government. we have to stop that. if jurisdiction wants money from the federal government, has to agree to comply and help federal authorities enforce immigration law because federal authorities are the only people who can employ immigration law and we need the help of local jurisdictions to avoid disasters that occurred in montgomery county. neil: thank you very much. we will keep it here. incredible stuff. in the meantime, in our second hour, we are working today because you heard every word whether congress will stop

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