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give? - open path to this assault, an assault. it's, you know, rip-off, shakedown, a losing of the middlele class. >> harris: up late with you tonight. 10:00 pm eastern. at this hour a new mission, tax cuts. the middle class can feel. because of what they did in washington and in the house today they will need just a majority. that means if republicans can stick together they actually won't need democrats to get tax reform done. you heard me right a couple seconds ago. 20 gop law makers in the house said no today. two more nos and it would not have passed. will they jump in line behind the president and others in their party?in my first guest is elisabeth. the question is will they fall in line and just how close did they really get? >> it's extremely close because as you mentioned these 20 republicans, most of them comeme

from very blue states, new york, new jersey, they're very opposed to the house gop blueprint for tax reform, which eliminates the state and local deduction. so you have these high tax states, a lot of their constituents take this deduction. if they get rid of it they're signaling to the speaker we're voting no now because we want to negotiate on this deduction. that's going to be one of the key things here that kevin brady and paul ryan are going toin hae to get together with these members to get them across the finish line. i think you have to give speaker ryan credit. give a lot of conservatives inin the house credit for voting on this proposal that gives republicans the opportunity to pass tax reform. a lot of conservatives had to hold their nose because this budget blueprint did not include the $200 billion in spending cuts that they fought so hard to include. they have adopted the senate version so they can negotiate now and move forward with the tax reform by the end of the year.

>> harris: i mentioned just how close did they really get? i ask this because we see both parties do this sometimes elizabeth. how convenient is it, they could only lose 22 and 20 said no? sometimes you'll see law makers waiting to cast their no vote late in the process so they can make sure that they're not the reason that the resolution didn't pass. it's more of a vocal cry of i say nay, but only if it's within the realm many, where we can win on this principle. >> exactly. you had some moderate republicans waiting next to the whip right before the vote was coming down. they still voted no. but they kind of made sure that, while they won't be the deciding vote. so i think that that is whyor ts is sole important that it's such a signal for them. they will weren't willing to kill the tax reform in its tracks this year by voting. >> harris: they just wanted to beat it. >> right.

>> harris: which is sick. >> they want to say that hey this is our priority. if you don't fix this for us we'll continue to be a no and get the rest of our moderates to vote against it the next time.vn >> harris: you know what's interesting? a lot of times with these situations you'll see american voters will watch these things and say well those points aren't really acceptable to me. they don't really affect my life. when you talk about, in bigs, communities, california, new york, new jersey, where you've got these big cities where people are really banking on being able to write off state and local taxes, salt as we call them and then the 401k issue came back after the president said yesterday as he was boarding air force one, marine one as he was headed to dallas. he said some things you just don't touch.s you might have thought he meant the 401 is k and cutting do you know how much money you can put in your retirement that is not taxed. but is that really what he meant? he said it's on the table for negotiation? >> i think it's a non-starter for trump.um he said multiple times that is something very popular with the

middle class and that's something they do not want to be blamed for by democrats, by harming the middle class. i think that and the corporate rate not going about 20% are two things that the white house are so adamant about keeping. >> harris: these are deal breakers? >> right. but the deal breakers here, the negotiating ones is the salt deduction, state and local it deduction. because you have mulvaney the budget director saying we think we should get rid of it because it's fairness.we but at the end of the day, you're gonna need a lot of these republican moderates on board.bl if they're going to negotiate, they can cap it for high income individuals, and give a little room on that, that is probably what will end up happening. we'll have to give room there. >> harris: elizabeth harrington with the washington free beacon. we just got a law maker to join us who voted no today. thank you very much. why would you vote no on the budget resolution?er

some of the reasons we were just hearing from elisabeth there and possibly jeopardize the road to tax reform? a movement being led by the president. i know one person to call. congressman, why did you vote no? >> well as you were just discussing it's important for us to resolve this issue with regards to state and local tax reduction. there have been a lot of meetings going on. myself included, meetings with white house officials, house leadership, chairman brady. we're working hard on getting this resolved. we really needed to get this resolved before today's budget resolution vote. we're not there yet. and we -- i think you could have a nearly unanimous vote on tax reform once we could get this issue resolved. you have a lot of peoplele comig on board with a final bill.pl we want to pass tax reform in 2017.er >> harris: i sometimes here

politicians use politician speak. when you say resolve, you want this off the table? or is there a special number that you can get to? maybe a percentage that people can now write off? a cap for people to write off their state and local taxes on their federal income tax reform? or form rather? or do you want it gone all the time, all the way? >> well i mean i would like to see the state and local tax deduction stay.e that would be my position. but right now there's a good faith negotiation going on. there are talks between everyone. because we all want to get to yes. we want to have a big beautiful tax cut for all 50 states. we want -- i want my middle income taxpayers to -- i have hard working blue collar constituents who want tax relief just like migrate colleagues from other states. i would like to see state and local tax reductions stay entirely. but i also understand we need to

figure this out. there are people that want to eliminate it and so we're trying to find common ground. we want to see all of our constituents be able to save more of their paycheck, to be able to save more for retirement, reducing the corporate income tax rate allows us to create more jobs and bring back. c we're all upset when we see jobs in companies overseas, we want to bring them back home. we don't want american jobs and wbusinesses to leave. so we see the economy in 2018 for gdp to go up, people back to work, making more, these are shared goals that could get us to a nearly unanimous vote. we're close but we need to figure out a one really important issue for districts like mine. >> harris: really the blunt question based on what kellyanne conway told me when she was on the program "outnumbered

overtime." she said states like yours have to become physically responsible so that the rest of the country can be on par. it's not fair for people to be able to write off so much on their federal income tax. why not lower off state and local taxes and make it more country.ss the what say you? >> i agree completely. one of the reasons why our state and local tax deductions is so high is because our state and local governments are charging so much in taxes. we have some of the highest property taxes in the entire country. we have the -- we have one of the worst business climates here in new york because up in albany the corporate individual -- >> harris: how do you change that? why not let the president get what he wants in a tax proposal? i'm just asking. why not let that happen and then force -- i mean that forces the elect or rat to say we're going to put different people in office and lower the taxes state-wide. who is going to put forth the ideas if you don't first move?

it's just a question. >> before this, i served as a new york state senator. i led the fight to repeal the payroll tax for 80% of employers. i can give you a number of examples of what we were able to get through because republicans were in charge of the new york state senate and we were able it to get victories. we got rid of 124 taxes and fees with a democratic state assembly and democratic governor. now with bill deblasio at new york city, less physically responsible than his presented discourse -- you have to elect people to office at all levels of government who want to put money back, allow you to save more of your paycheck. while it's important for me to be fighting -- i made a commitment to my constituents am well last november. and my district by over 14 and-a-half points voted for

president trump. they elected us to go to washington to deliver a tax cut for them, too. so once we figure this out, then from the federal government, the whole country is going to have r great tax cut, and it's also important to stop electing this far left liberals who are just raising all of your taxes and fees. and really the reason why we have such a high deduction in the first place. >> harris: i get all of that t you of the won't need democrats to get on board, you will get tax reform.u you say it's hard ball. how much will you play hardball on this issue of being able too write off your state and local taxes on your federal form? >> well, i don't think that either side really is going to have to play hardball with each other. we had so many meetings just this week.db we had one after the vote. meeting with whip scalise and chairman brady and deputy whip and a bunch of the new yorkers and we had a great meeting. so, the text of the bill is supposed to be out next week.

>> harris: november 1st. >> but before then. coming up next week, which is great. there's going to be a markup. and then the bill is going to come to the floor quick. hopefully we can pass it out of the house before thank giving, get it to the president's desk before christmas. because we're all on the sameec page. you know this is a, for our country, such a great thing for our economy and for our constituents. so i don't think we're going to have to play hardball with each other. it's just about figuring out what the agreement is, what the right sweet spot is. >> harris: did you vote as a block today? did you know that you weren't going to overturn the budget resolution? that you would come just short? were you aware of that as you were voting no? >> i had no idea what the y c wp count was for today'shahe votes. >> harris: really? >> yeah. and as soon as the vote started i put my voting card in the machine and voted no. >> harris: what if it hadn't passed?

>> all we have to do, this issue, they have a bill that's gonna be filed on november 1st. so they're pretty close to knowing what they want to file. in order for us to be able to vote "yes," it was just important for us to figure out more of what that reasonable agreement was. we weren't there yet.n' but listen, if if went down, and we went into that meeting and we figured this out, then we could have went right back to the floor and voted "yes." this is just a very important, very specific issue. for some of us, that needs to get settled. we're not there yet. but we have to get there. to get this done in 2017.bu >> harris: congressman, while you've been talking we had house divided down there, you can see it. it sounds like you're trying to get to the unity that president trump talked about a day ago. come back please on the program and tell us how it's going as you get close to the next vote. >> we're going to get it done. t

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commitment. >> harris: so, what are they hoping to find in these documents?so former utah congressman and fox news contributer jason chaffetz. what are you hoping to un-earth? >> for months, it's good to have the speaker engage. the oversight committee, the senate judiciary committee that doesn't seem to be enough, even when they change this administration. what they need to get their hands on are the banking records. if you can follow the financial trail that will tell a lot. the other thing that's got to happen is they've got to get the media to do its job. g that may be asking something impossible. we have places like time magazine who put donald trump jr. on the cover saying red handed only to find out now that they used the wrong picture. that picture should have been hillary clinton and team clinton. that was the precursor. this document was the precursor

for everything to do with mr. mueller, with all these other investigations. and suddenly it's radio the silence from the national media and its silence from the democrats. >> harris: you've called this process very, very slow. why has that been? >> yeah. i'm telling ya, there is a deep state there, people ingrained at the department of justice that don't like congress looking under the hood. it is the constitutional duty and responsibility. the oversight committee was founded in 1814.1414 when you issue a subpoena or make a document request or do all these things they're very reluctant. t i'm very skeptical. even though the speaker said he would get it, that they will get these documents by next week in theires totality. you can go from fast and furious to the irs to the hillary clinton email investigation. we never got all the documents. so if the fbi is gonna go out there and limp, do it publicly and tell the american people they've got 100% of the documents. >> harris: i hear the passion in

your voice. i know you have been fighting. since you've left congress i'm sure you're still watching saying you're still in this fight. let me tell you who is kind of in this fight with you, oddly enough? obama era leon pinneda says it's obvious something needs to be done. the intelligence committee ismi going to have to look at this. leon pinetta. >> yeah, he was testify pentagon, the cia, congress. when congress issues a subpoena, in the world i come from, that's not an optional activity. but you know what? the only one that can enforce a subpoena on the department of justice is the department of justice. they never gave us handcuffs over in congress. but there are some people that have to be held accountable. get the documents, and give it the exposure that it needs. that's the sunlight.xp the disinfectant and we'll get closer and closer to the truth.g

>> harris: movement on that story. we'll be watching it as it happens. no doubt you have heardd the president's doj has now settled lawsuits over the tea party targeting by the irs. the attorney general today is forcing the irs to apologize for this behavior. >> i'm glad there's an apology. but there's some people that should have gone to jail. they were taking away constitutional rights from law abiding citizens who wanted to participate. now they're finally coming around to apologize, after the fact, instead of actually prosecuting people.og i love donald trump and what he's doing on lots of facets. the biggest disappointment i've had with president trump is he allowed john koskin to continue the irs commissioner. he should have been fired on day one.e. i tried to impeach the guy because i think he made it worse than ever. he's now finally left, but those poor people that went through this. they should have never had to do that. >> harris: before i let you go,

we saw a couple of these flying by on twitter. jay sekulow who is an attorney for the president says the irs admits the tea party were targeted during the obama administration. read and retweet. i want to give you the last word. >> prosecute somebody, put them in jail, put handcuffs on them. let the deep state know there's a consequence when you break the law and take away somebody's constitutional rights. it's so wrong, we'rew sorry. that's not good enough. >> harris: we had a couple other tweets and you'll probably see them fly up on the screen. tom from judicial watch as well. thank you for your time, sir. this is a heated issue.r finally coming to a close or at least some closure any way. moving on. the drug crisis in america is getting presidential attention now. president trump has declared it an emergency. how will that affect people across the country that are dying?

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-- liberate our communities frm this scourge of drug addiction. never been this way. we can be the generation that endsd the opioid epidemic. we can do it. [applause] >> harris: chief national correspondent ed henry is outside the white house on a gorgeous night. 176 people a day are dying from drug overdose. the timing of this presidential decision is critical. >> yes, it is. now the president stopped short of calling it a national emergency. making that official declaration. a public health emergency, basically tries to break some of the bureaucratic minutia, tries it get the federal government more focused on all of this. if he had declared a national emergency it would have shaken loose more money. a if he's getting any criticism it's that there should be more money thrown at the problem. i've talked to senators in both parties who privately say they

think they need another $6 billion or so to deal with what clearly is an epidemic. i think the president's point was let's get a better idea of the scope of the problem. get the federal government more focused. they have all these budget deals coming up at the end of the year. maybe they can put the money in the budget at the end of the year. the notable part was the president did something today he doesn't do very often. he got personal and talked about his older brother fred who had died in part because of a battle with alcoholism. and the president talked about struggles with addiction and it really has stuck with him throughout his life. anybody that knows the president knows in private he never touches alcohol.t it's something that stuck with him because of that addiction problem that his older brother had. i think when he spoke that personally about it, it's something that may have broken through today.rs this is something that is ravaging the country right now. >> harris: and we know that even former presidential candidates have been at least bending the president's ear and giving him information on this.

i'm thinking of governor chris christie of new jersey and others who are having to fight this battle. you have leadership in new hampshire and up and downu the eastern seaboard, on the east coast. he's gotten information from other politicians as well. you're right. the declaration now is put in a whole new category. >> chris christie is coming out with an official federal report. kellyanne conway inside the white house has been active with it as well. they're trying to back thank you with actual data. the point is with the president getting personal this is something not just about numbers here in washington. this is impactingg families across the country. i think the president tried to get that across. >> harris: i wanted to talk about something that we knew had to happen before midnight. the president was facing a decision on what to do with the jfk documents that had not been

replaced. here it was the deadline, president trump said i'll release them. we now know they are in some cases heavily redacted. not all the documents are public. what do we know about what got released? >> the president we're told is pretty angry about the fact that a lot of intelligence agencies are still holding back documents. more than 50 years after the jfk assassination, which is only going to fuel maybe more conspiracy theories. the whole point of the law was to get these documents out a quarter century after the law. what we know is about 2800 records have been released by the president's discretion. many more documents are being reviewed.ne the president said okay fine. i'll give you 180 days and you can decide what's redacted, what's not and basically that puts us into next april that we'll find out more. there's one document that was released tonight by the federal government that shows in

september 1963 the cia intercepted a phone call which lee harvey oswald talking in mexico city with a kgb agent in broken russian suggesting there were russian involvement. here we are many years later talking about russia, russia, russia and people will be digging into documents like that. >> harris: 180 days to look at the documents that were not released. and then i mean they're already redacting them. what are we waiting for? >> i talked to a former intelligence official tonight who told me, look, the intelligence agency can't continue to claim sources and methods. if we release this document from 1961 or '62, we got that information from somebody, it might compromise a national security operation. no, that person is probably dead. the people who gave that information have probably long since gone. the excuses are running out.

that's what the president is frustrated with. sebastian gorka said he thinks it's another example of the deep state clamping down on documents saying, let's hold this. let's not be transparent. that feeds more conspiracy theories.. >> harris: jason chaffits used that word a the minute ago with regard to the dossier we now know the dnc paid for in part. i love that gold pocket square. >> ted cruz is probably hoping tonight that his father will finally be cleared. >> harris: okay, thank you, ed. >> remember, he came up in that? >> harris: no, i do. it's good to see you. >> harris: the wall just got very real. they've been building a 30 foot tall prototypes of the wall. we get to see them upp close. we got video we'll look at together. steve cortez is with the trump advisory counsel. together we'll talk about what was unveiled along the u.s. mexico border.

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[ music playing ] ♪ . >> harris: we got to >> harris: we got to kick the tires or the wall. it was a big selling point of then candidate donald j. trump now eight prototypes of the wall have been unveiled. joining us now is steve cortez a member of the trump campaign advisory counsel and a fox news contributor. great to see you tonight steve.

we got to see an actual sampling of what the wall could look like. they may be using some of each of these prototypes. some are more porous on the bottom. in the areas where there might be water, you can let the water go through on the bottom, or more solid in places where you could put it. your thoughts tonight? >> you know, harris, i will tell you this. i called president trump, president promise keeper. he is keeping his promises. a bedrock promise of his was that he would control the border. one of the most amazing things he has done already, not even a year into his presidency is that the border is largely already secured, even without the big beautiful border wall, which we are going to get.ch just through the better enforcement and through clear eyed rhetoric, illegal crossings have plunged. your southern border which has been insecure for decades is now

largely secure and it's going to be completely secure once we get the wall built. i say this as a son of immigrants, often the president is cast gated by the liberalat media that wants to create a narrative that he's anti-mexican. that's not the case. good fences often make good neighbors. controlling our southern border is good for us and it's actually good policy for mexico. >> harris: it's interesting from your perspective as the son of immigrant and you're talking about that connection. where is this topic? you call it clear eye rhetoric. some south of the border have been critical. even those here at home in america have been critical. who are you trying to keep out in i hear you saying this is about illegal immigration, not about people coming in legally. >> right. harris, for asking that he request. i am so sick of the left trying to conflate the two.

legal immigration is wonderful. it is what america is about. all of us are immigrants. we are the progeny of immigrants, so we love immigration and what it does for this country. i i'm the son of an immigrant.ru donald trump is the son of an immigrant is married to an immigrant. we love legal immigration and we can not conflate that with illegal immigration. illegal immigration brings i national security worries, economic hardship particularly to american workers, many of them hispanic workers and people of color who have to compete in the labor market against an unnatural flow of illegal immigrants who are almost always willing to work for low wages because of their status. i refuse to conflate the two. we can still love immigration. we want a big beautiful border wall that has doors in it, harris. the doors are for orderly immigration into this country. we're not anti-immigrant by any sense.

>> harris: you heard thehe president kind of allude to this topic, was talking about the drug crisis today. yourc, thoughts? >> you know, yeah. i think that is part of it, by the way. a porous border is not just a problem for national security not just a problem for the economic well-being of america but it's also clearly a problem from a drug perspective. we have to get control of our border, and part of that clearly of getting control of our border is because of the shipment of drugs into this country that do tremendous harm to americans. >> harris: so the deadline was today for the eight prototypes for the wall.s: that happened, it got rolled out in the san diego, california. they've got 30 to 60 days befory the federal government will make a decision about which of those walls and how many of the parts of the different prototypes they'll use and gond forward. we'll cover the news as it happens on that. steve cortez joining us tonight. thank you. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: the back and forth between democrats and republicans not to mention party infighting and can anything get done on capitol hill?

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♪ [ music playing ] ♪ . >> harris: infighting. a call follow unity. president trump thinks they can get there. we've seen high profile

>> harris: infighting. a call follow unity. president trump thinks they can get there. we've seen high profile legislative defeats and outspoken senators like flake and corker coming out against the president. many have asked whether the gop led house can get things done. let's ask about brian mcguyer a former chief of staff to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. we saw the president and mitch mcconnell go into a closed door meeting before that luncheon when they sat down and talked about how do we go forth beyond the budget and get tax reform and health compare done? what is senator mcconnell's style in it seems like they're finding their way forward. what are their challenges and how is he getting through it? >> i worked for leader mcconnell for three presidents, all eight years of president obama and th first six months of president trump and in each case there were different challenges. leader mcconnell's style is to

sort of think about the challenges he has at the given moment and try to ask himself how can i accomplish the most, given the circumstances i have? and in this case this president is unique, unique challenges here but 52 members in hisha conference.re a very small majority. how does he accomplish his goals given these circumstances? him walking in with the president was a good symbol of how focused he is on the goal of tax reform. today he decided he's not go go to put up with democratic obstruction and force through four circuit court judges next week. that combined with the vote on tax reform, are signs that w progress is being made and t people like mcconnell are doing everything they can to make sure that the president gets as much of his agenda done as he can before christmas. >> harris: the president has made it very clear, he just wants to get it done. you can talk about the pushing,

you can call it leadership, you can call it whatever you want, but the efficacy of getting things done is what this o president is really focused on. what about the democrats? i mean the administration is having a hard time getting anyone confirmed. they have hiring they need tone do. what is the point of coming against the current administration? ii mean that only hurts the american public in the long-run, right? >> yeah, i think not enough attention is being paid to the obstruction on the democratic bside right now. >> harris: well the president is saying it. r >> yeah, and people point it out. but i think you know it deserves even more attention. because on president obama's first day in office republicans confirmed seven of his nominees on his first day in office. here we are ten months into the trump presidency and democrats are still requiring 30 hours of debate on an ambassador to japan or the vatican. it is clearly abusive.

it's clear ly abusive. this is something that i think everybody is tired of. and as i said, this isan somethg that leader mcconnell said today republicans are no longer going to put up with and they're going to force through four circuit court judges next week. >> harris: corker and flake the senators that decided to jump ship. do you think this is contagious? or is this part of draining the swamp ? >> i feel like corker and flake feel it's their duty to speak out about the president and his style. most other republicans view it as their duty to follow through on the legislative promises they made to the public when they were elected. that's certainly leader mcconnell's approach. he's going to focus on what they can accomplish legislatively. they've had their challenges. obamacare was a high profile challenge that didn't work out the way republicans wanted, at least not yet. d there's been great unity this week on tax reform. you saw that in the vote today in the house and the senate last week. i think that there's every

indication that republicans are uniting behind this plan and could potentially get this done fairly quickly.it p >> harris: as the president was boarding marine one for dallas he said the republicans have the unity, the democrats don't. >> he's right. >> harris: brian mcguyer thank you for your time. coming up steve bannon, former white house advisor sets his sights on the gop establishment? who needs to worry about steve bannon if they are running for office? we'll talk. ♪ -appendectomy! oh, that's really attached. that's why i rent from national. where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me. which makes me one smooth operator.

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>> this is our war. [applause]un they did not start it, the establishment started it. but i will tell you one thing, you all are going to finish it. >> harris: one of his targets, arizona republican senator jeff flake announced that he would not seek reelection. after the rest of the senators on steve bannon's list to be worried? who are they? here's schiano caldwell, and senate state minority leader capri cafaro. good to see you both. >> thank you for staying up late. i want to come toou you first. should you be worried if you are on his list? >> there should be some considerations, i will tell you this, i'm live from chicago where steve bannon can be used to drain the cesspool of the corrupt politicians. i find it disheartening that

steve bannon is fighting against people like mitch mcconnell who may not have liked president trump, but somebody who has committed himself to president trump's agenda and getting it passed. i will give you a good example. back when obama was trying to confirm the supreme court justice, what did mitch mcconnell do? he held down. president trump could have this major accomplishment of this cycle, confirmed in neil gorsuch, so you think about the fact that we are getting a budget passed and working towards tax or form. you think about the fact that mitch mcconnell is definitely prioritizing confirmation for president trump. i don't think that this is something we should be focusingb on when we have 25 democrats that are up for reelection right now. and intent of those states that are associated with those democrats, president trump won. we should be focus on defeating the democrats and at each other. >> harris: it is kind of a theme, i don't know if you are watching or not, but the former

chief of staff for mitch mcconnell was echoing what you aree saying. focus in on the democrats, i would have to think that your team is rather relaxed at this focused on aid, but the president certainly has an eye out. ts calls them obstructionists. >> book, democrats can never be complacent. i have said a number of times, the democratic party needs to find a way to get its voice back. we cannot be the anti-trump party, we need to find and reconnect with the strong economic message that has been embraced by president trump. and to an extent steve bannon when you hear thete discussionsn the tax bill negotiation about adding a fifth tax bracket for the very, very wealthy americans. that isy something that democrs mean to support. middle-class tax cuts, that something that the democrats support, trade issues, something that the democrats support. to the point that gianno is

making, if there are these primaries with more extreme candidates, and this goes to the democrats, the democratic party deciding that they will primary everybody in the world like claire mccaskill, we will end up with the extremes on both sides. that means when you get to the general election in a state wide race, like the united states senate race, it is less likely that you will be successful at winning that general election. guess what, if you don't win, you cannot change a policy in washington imperative to execute the change, you have to win the general election. n.>> harris: i think you guys are going to be friends. she just bought it for both sides. >> she is one of the most honest to democrats i know. she should be on every show, sincerely. to echo the point, certainly we don't want to put the most extreme people out there. we want to put people out there that are going to be able to coalesce along the message. jobs, tax or form, repeal and replace of obamacare. >> harris: i have to let you

guys go and scoot on out of here. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> harris: i will see you on "outnumbered" at 12:00 and "outnumbered over time" at 1:00 p.m. eastern. have a good night. nths, almost , actually, the refrain has sounded. "russia hacked the election. russia colluded with donald trump." it was unprecedented behavior, treasonous. we have been told we need a massive, semipermanentit investigation to expose all of these crimes. we might even need to nullify the presidential election. okay, let's say that russia did hack the election. what would that look like? a few thousand dollars spent on lame, ineffective facebook ads? probably not. instead it might look like what was actually going on for years, at the podesta group, the democratic lobbying firm created