>> melissa: i finished today. i am officially done. i know, i am bragging. >> jon: thank you, amazon, right? thank you for joining us. >> melissa: "outnumbered" search right now. >> sandra: this could be the day that president trump and republicans have been waiting for. the g.o.p. tax overhaul making its way to the house this afternoon. and likely the senate tonight. this would hand the president's first major legislative victory. this is "outnumbered," i am sandra smith. harris faulkner, katie pavlich, for a deputy state department spokesperson, marie harf, entities has taken a one lucky guy, fox news contributor and national syndicated radio host, kevin jackson. he is outnumbered. if it was not evident, everybody is feeling the holiday spirit. >> kevin: we have a tax bill that is about to come through.

sorry, marie, we have the left on the ropes, and i think america -- >> marie: where the t keep winning elections though. >> sandra: at the house is set to vote in the next hour. republicans say this bill will produce the most far-reaching overhaul of this country's tax code in decades. senate majority leader at mitch mcconnell said his tape it will vote on it tonight after it passes the house. president trump is predicting this bill will add fuel to the nations economic engine. tweeting this this morning. stocks in the economy have a long way to go after the tax cut bill is totally understood and appreciated in its scope and size paired bigots tax cut and reform ever passed! enjoy democrats will see it as a big lump of coal for middle class the white house could not disagree more. today is a huge day not only for

the white house, not only for congress, but most importantly especially middle-class americans who will see the biggest benefit out of this tax package. >> big tax cuts for the very wealthy, big tax cuts for corporations, tax hikes for millions of people in small tax cuts and temporary for everybody else. that is not putting america first, and surely not putting the middle-class first. >> sandra: peter doocy is covering it all on a very saddened and hill. hello, peter. >> sandra, this is how confident house republicans are that they have the votes to pass -- excuse me, all right, we are doing a live shot really quickly. excuse me, obviously, there are protesters here. we are going to swing it on over this way. excuse me. thank you very much. >> sandra: peter, and we see some things going on. we will hopefully get back to you in a bit.

this is a historic day, kevin jackson. >> kevin: i love it. we won appeared this is exactly what we wanted to happen, and the difference between what we are witnessing now with barack obama passing obamacare, and we have a track f success. the stock market going through the roof, consumer confidence through the roof, i gdp that is now two quarters of a 3% that obama was unable to receive, and expected to go to 4. you see cutting the red tape, working on trade deal, and i know it sounds alt-right, but he is leading expectations. it is difficult for somebody to say, this cannot work. we didn't think obamacare did not work, and it did. just let this happen, and you will watch this economy continue to boom. >> harris: before you battle it out here over politics, because that is what we do, but i'm curious. when you say you have a track

record, and you look at the number of americans in recent surveys to say, they are against this bill. i think they get a voice in the track record too put i understand what you're saying. wait till next year, but what you say to them going into christmas? near them are not in the category. >> marie: a lot of the polls show that they believe their taxes will not go down as as a result. >> harris: that they not believe it. >> kevin: the fact of the matter is, they should not be be looking at polls. we looked at polls on hillary clinton, and bogus. polls on donald trump's likability, but you look at things he has done and at the average american, and those poll numbers, they differ dramatically. >> sandra: the weekly news conference, where paul ryan said, he would defer to a poll when asked about a a question, because the unpopularity is because a miss information put out there by the media.

it has not been that popular. what one thing you hear most often from paul ryan, neither where reagan era tax cuts. it was not popular. >> marie: you look at reporting at the local level and ask people how they feel about their taxes going down on the street, which republicans argue and tax foundations from the left to the right are great at that assessment, they will say, of course i want to be keeping more of my own money, so i can provide what i feel is best for my family. when you look at the overall economic picture for the top administration, tax reform is a cherry on top of the really good year economically, which is the story that has been covered across the board. president trump gets credit for setting a deadline pit he wanted this done by christmas, it looks like it is going to happen, five, six days before christmas time. washington, d.c., that is something that is usually guidelines instead of hard deadlines. spilled beer night at the end of the week. they are saying there will be a

vote tonight >> marie: i think we will see about tonight, but we remember, a lot of people are skeptical because this is almost the opposite of what president trump promised on that campaign trail and when he first put this tax plan forward. he said we focus on the middle-class, there would be a corporate reduction and a wealthy reduction of the top end of the bracket, but he said it will be focused on the middle-class, and that is not the case. >> harris: that is absolutely true. >> marie: that is not true, because tax cuts expire in the corporate tax cuts do not. let me finish before you jump in, please. the other problem, the more people learn about the bill, the less they like it. >> kevin: really, like obamacare. >> marie: why are you comparing it to obamacare? we are talking about a tax bill. do you remember what paul ryan with the postcard and said, we will be able to do our taxes on this collect the tax code is not simplified.

that promise is way out. >> katie: i will say they have not done exactly what they thought they would do. >> kevin: great. >> sandra: this is a three present growth when they talk about six, 7% tax growth. we will not be owed to our taxes on a postcard. when you look across the board, the numbers, 80% of the middle-class is going to see a tax cut for a family of four, $70,000 of your coming into the household, that's $2,000 a year that they can use way what they think is best. they are going to get a tax cut. >> kevin: loom and gloom is always predicted by the left. when trump got elected, the tax bill, and now it will not affect everybody. barack obama administration promised we would have our taxes -- lower payment for a obamacare and keep our doctors. it was nonsense. trump does not have to live up to 100% of the promises. he needs to live up to the fact that he is getting it done. >> marie: i'd hold politicians against the promises.

>> harris: when they compared the journey with tax bill versus obamacare into "member how long it took to get the final websit? it was a disaster in the white house was remember, this was a disaster. if people cannot sign up. i want to say is, because i want to press that the messaging is clear here. people have said and surveys that they are against this bill. 55% in "the wall street journal" poll. i mean, they both have looked. other people looked at bits along the way too. i understand what you're saying too. it comes down to the questions. that's why i said, your answer of, let's wait and see what happens and less to immediate work. >> kevin: it was katie's point earlier, everything that these guys are talking about in terms of what d.c. wants, you go to the street and asked, doing your taxes lord? yeah. >> sandra: it's important point to

make, and i against the tax bill or are they against what they had been told is the information that has been put out to them? are they against the content of the bell? >> marie: maybe they should have a congressional hearing. zero congressional hearing help and a bill that will help every american. >> katie: hearings are a waste of time. >> kevin: spoken like a true bearcat. >> harris: on the day that they are voting. >> sandra: we were seaward goals, listen to ours, the house intelligence committee said to interview debbie fbi dr. mckay. at the center of several controversies around the agency. from the hillary clinton investigation to the surveillance of the trump campaign, and new allegations of anti-trump bias inside the fbi. our investigators breaking new ground or going on a fishing expedition to make real debate.

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speed to less than two hours, deputy fbi director andrew mccabe said to testify behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee. they are expected to ask the fbi number two person about a lot, including strzok, the doj official booted off robert mueller's investigation several months ago. strzok had sent anti-trump text messages to a mistress come fbi lawyer, lisa page. one of those text messages says, i want to believe the path for consideration in andy's office. we believe that is andrew mccabe. there is no way he gets elected. i am afraid, we cannot take that risk. it is like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before your 40. congressman trey gowdy will be among those leading the question today. he wants to get underneath that

message with some other things. >> mccabe crosses every facet and 2015 that your views from secretary clinton's email to the investigation into the trump campaign. he is the deputy director of the fbi. there are a ton of questions including the one you made reference to, the meeting between agent strzok and lisa page in andy's office. we need to make sure that was andy mccabe, and if they were coming up with insurance policy and the case donald trump won, that's devastating. >> harris: senate judiciary committee chuck grassley says, is not the fbi to replace enter mccabe. we have to get to the bottom of whether andy was andy mccabe and what else you want to know? >> kevin: i think they will say, what was his intent, right? that is exactly what former fbi director james comey said when he was letting hillary clinton off the hook. and his tent whether it was an

assassination attempt or whether, deafly something -- i am just saying, we do not know what it was. when you say, we need to make sure this guy doesn't get in at all because, what does that mean? i am saying, there is a spectrum of what does it mean, but one thing we know for sure, he was plotting in an election against a candidate, and there is fbi finger prints all over this. >> harris: because i know how things get clipped on social media, i want to make sure we pushed on the fact, nobody floated an idea -- >> kevin: i'm talking about social media stuff it has been floated in. >> marie: nothing credible. >> kevin: yet. >> katie: the bigger question, what comes out asking mccabe question. what will be learned. i am glad that it is a closed conversation, because i think everybody then you can take politics out of it a little bit. not entirely, but when there is not tv cameras there, they can have a conversation about all of these different issues.

there's been a lot of accusations and allegations against the fbi. we talked about a lot of them here. there's so many people that work there, including these investigations who are career officers, respected, served both parties, no matter who is in the white house. that needs to remain at the core of how we see the fbi, and andy mccabe will answer questions without the cameras there, which makes it a little more political. >> sandra: deftly a fanfare. when they get there >> katie: there's a lot of questions he will have to answer. where the in your office discussing the insurance policy print where they there. if they were there, why were you allowing them to use federal government tax funded office to discuss going after a political candidate they did not like? what was done after that meeting. it was a follow-up meeting? to discuss the insurance policy, and where you engaging them on this policy and what is your

connections to the clinton foundation considering your wife has deep connections to a friend of the clinton took money from them in the virginia race? it becomes complicated. the one thing they will want answered is, what was the plan to carry out, the insurance policy, was connected to the russian investigation? >> sandra: more broadly, he has to defend that there was a political bias, anti-trump bias inside of the fbi while it was ongoing. marie, i would put you on the spot. do you think that there is? >> marie: i do not. there's a lot of fbi officers and people working on the investigations that probably voted for donald trump and are republican. some of them clearly didn't. we have seen no evidence yet that however people politically felt on their personal level that that impacted anything -- wait, wait, wait let me finish. the fbi officials can have personal opinions.

we need -- the question is open. there is no evidence showing. >> kevin: that is absolutely ridiculous. >> harris: do not let your opinion called the way you do your job. with a long list of things that katie asked, mr. mccabe, did you know about those text messages among your employees? where you onboard or or not on board considering -- >> sandra: this played out in text messages off duties, between the two federal agents. unofficial phones. >> marie: they had the meeting and fbi headquarters, and as a question. why are you using the power of the fbi to go after a political rival? >> kevin: i want to say, the fbi, the grassroots level, the general level, these are people that want to do the right thing. at the top, we have seen corruption. end of story. there is no question about that. whether it is mccabe or the

stomach the other players. the general public knows this, and the bottom line, somebody has to answer for this. we are not imputing the empowerment. >> harris: it is behind closed doors with the intel committee, but as it makes news, we will tell you first. meanwhile, white house lawyers are gearing up to meet with special counsel robert mueller's office. "the washington post" reporting that meeting could trigger a new, more consistent phase between the two sides. knowledge of the investigation, most probe it could last well into 2018. white house lawyers have stated publicly that mueller is done with the white house interviews and requests. that was the opposition. the post is reporting that he asked investigator said they need any more information so that it will be soon be over. >> kevin: i think mueller is going to ask for a pardon.

>> harris: what? 's before he had not a crime. >> kevin: is more of an a la branch into the trump administration. i do not believe for a second that anything more is going to come out of this that already had. >> harris: does it behoove the president to let it play out? >> kevin: in the short answer, yes. i think that is what donald trump did. everybody gets mad when mueller started to stack the deck with hillary clinton supporters and they are upset that president trump did not say anything for it he is letting them stack the deck. if you're not guilty, stack the deck. does the investigation need to continue with taxpayer money? when there is still no evidence of any wrongdoing or collusion? >> sandra: how can they continue doing this, marie, when they're not coming up with anything and the white house want to ask that question. >> marie: i don't think it's fair to say they do not have anything pit to indictments that are guilty pleas, and this

investigates, we learned the russian government reached out to the trump campaign. the the trump campaign. the chum campaign met with the russian government. they were not fully forthcoming about those meetings but i'm not saying there was collusion. we have learned more about the trump campaign interactions they are not done with their investigation part for every american who cares about russia interference in our election, there is no harm in letting this investigation play out fully and making sure we run down every single lead. >> katie: you are correct. if americans are concerned, which are about russian meddling in our election and elections in europe, then they would hope that the mueller investigation would focus on the original attention, investigating collusion. the four indictments you mention have nothing to do with collusion, vote changing, working with the russian government. >> marie: that is not true. >> katie: a slide about the fbi about talking to the russian

ambassador. the other indictment was about the own business dealings. in terms of what we have moving forward and getting this ball rolling and coming to an end, we do not know a lot about the investigation, and we can let it play out, but in terms of the original goal, they are far from it. >> harris: real quickly, kevin, before you move on. it behooves the white house to see this through. half a million dollars for taxpayer money for no evidence. if we are close to the end, it may makes more sense that the president meant to interfere and let it play out. and then it never comes up again. democrats will not let it go. >> kevin: let them spend money on things like that, because it is a witch hunt. it will spin back on podesta and the clinton campaign, the clinton foundation. >> harris: jim chris are willing to let that happen

it is not the idea of a special counsel, but you have a attorney general jeff sessions who could turn and i to hillary clinton and look into some of the things, the anti-trump dossier. there is some meat on the bone. >> kevin: go for it. spend money on it. >> sandra: they are debating the tax bill. look how quickly this is moving along. kevin brady from the ways and means committee to spoke briefly and said, the g.o.p. is delivering on their promise. >> harris: this is a huge day, and we know we're here shortly from the house speaker, paul ryan, who will take to the floor after the debate has come to a conclusion. again, they are debating. does that mean the discussion is over? the text of the bill is done. it is ready for vote. we understand that will happen within the next 90 minutes. if not sooner than that. according to published reports.

>> sandra: we're still on track to have the senate vote on this tonight, but fair warning, it could get laid. watch a pass in the house, if not, is click to send it to the late-night vote. >> harris: and after, they will need a budget bill. as the friday deadline is almost here. can they get that done in time? all of congress, not just one party or the other, they need to work together. the political fallout could look like it they don't not get it done. stay close. ♪

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that part of the track when it careened off an overpass. at least three people are dead and dozens injured. >> hey, guys paid what happened? >> we are coming over the corner over i5. and we went on the ground. >> okay, it's everybody okay? >> i am figuring that out. we have cars everywhere. down onto the highway. >> harris: i want to take you now before we go to are reported to the live pictures. they are moving one of the cars off the track. yesterday when this happened, one careened off the overpass, find out. another was precariously perched for hours, and then you have some cars that were out of sight, upside down in the woods, and now you can see they are making headway in terms of moving these cars out of the way. claudia cowan is live with more. claudia? >> as you mention, does a lot of activity here at the sight of yesterday morning's derailment. investigators work to find a

cause and as the officials tried to get the stretch of interstat. four or 5-mile section of this very busy freeway has been closed for more than 24 hours because of all the wreckage. crews using cranes and other heavy equipment have held several train cars away. they need to move a few more to make sure the road is safe before they can reopen the free way to. meantime, speed is a possible cause or contributor to this derailment that left three dead and injured dozens of others. investigators say the amtrak train was going nearly triple the speed limit. >> the polymerizing information shows it was going 80 miles per hour. we do not know that is happening yet. and that we do not know the whole territory, was something we need to find out. >> the track which has been used by freight train has gone over

$181 million upgrade to enable high-speed passenger service between seattle and portland. in fact estate was the train services inaugural run. positive train control, which can slow or stop a speeding train, was not in use on this track, and one local mayor protected there would be fatalities with these trains traveling so close to traffic. they say, will not spike laid amuck we encourage others not to speculate as well. people will want to answers and want them soon as to why this train was traveling more than 5. >> harris: we will have upward to 70 people i blue eyes, so a lot of answers need to be answered. thank you, claudia. >> sandra: fox news alert, government shutdown looming on capitol hill as they approach the deadline this friday to pass a spending bill. house g.o.p. leaders plan to

vote later this week and it bill they know it's dead on arrival at the center. at the senate sends back a clean continuing resolution, house republicans will likely need help from democrats to pass it. this has many democrats withholding support with any version of the bill that does not protect those dreamers right here illegally as children. democratic senator maisie geraldo tweeting, i will vote against a resolution that does not include the dream act. anything that would help people, they want to give tax cuts to the reds. talk about misplaced priorities. republican senator john pending on those demands. >> i don't think we'll have trouble keeping the government open over christmas time. having said that, and i do not want to see the government shutdown, having said that, i will vote to shut down government in a heartbeat if they try to stop something into the legislation that shouldn't be there. they try to make me swallow, for

example, immigration. they want to add immigration reform to it, i doubt it would be immigration reform. it would be some special interest, provision about immigration. so doctor, i think dhaka doug daca, so maybe. >> sandra: as shutdown or one-third, the discussion becomes whose fault would be if there was. >> kevin: it will be -- we played this game depending on who is in office. if it was obama, democrats doing whatever they decide the other way. the bigger issue in terms of this, why are we focusing on hinging this agreement on daca will when we should be hinging this on veterans off the streets and getting them jobs. there hinging it on an immigration piece that should be voted separately.

>> katie: look, i think the daca issues to complicate to stuff into a continuing resolution. it is something that the majority of the country supports, something president trump rightfully kicked over to congress, because it was done illegally under president obama to the executive branch. however, it is too complicated in terms of what year do you make the cut off from when europe brought here as a child can make what benefits do you get? what status do you get? are you an american citizen or you simply get to be a permanent resident? it is too to insert into the continuing resolution. that being said, i doubt that democrats will try to top it in there is a political bomb to blow things up in president trump's space, special after the tax reform bill when they want to push back and get another victory. >> harris: democrats have to be careful. they are risking real legislation on an issue, and i specifically to you, marie, because you're with the

administration last, the obama administration left it open? daca never had any sort of future beyond a certain point. we have to solve this. what do we do? it deserves a real look. house members have told me that i have talked with don "outnumbered" and beyond, they are looking to keep the nuclear family. there is discussions about keeping people here that republicans were not having. democrats really miss the opportunity. it may not be in the middle. i think we oversell that sometimes, but there is a nugget we can get to that they agree, and then the program has a life a period of time. and it is replaced by something, better, i do not know. >> marie: i hope that happens. >> harris: is your party willing to bend? >> marie: we will see, maybe funding for the children's health insurance program, chip, hundreds of thousands of children get the health insurance through that program and it needs to be funded.

that is a priority too. democrats are concerned that if we do not push daca now, we will never get it. because of some of the rhetoric. >> harris: if that is the case, they should stop throwing fire at republicans about tax reform. they have majority right now. it is their time. >> marie: you cannot shut down the government. >> sandra: the national security strategy for the coming year, and it is putting america first. democrats slamming it as isolationist, but it was a campaign theme that propelled the president to victory. holly may take shape and if it will work. we seldom ate we shall debate that

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administrations by putting america first. he also touted one of his primary campaign promises. >> this strategy recognizes that we cannot secure our nation if we do not secure our borders. for the first time ever, american strategy now includes a serious plan to defend our homeland. it calls for the construction of a wall under southern border, ending chain migration, and the horrible visa lottery program. >> katie: the president making the point to use language that president obama would not, especially fighting terrorism. >> our strategy calls to confront discredited and defeat radical islamic terrorism and ideology. and to prevent it from spreading into the united states. >> katie: for some democrats, concerns are russia. >> russia deliberately tried to

interfere in our elections, they have a propaganda campaign that is detrimental to our interest. president trump cannot say it. he still embraces mr. vladimir putin. he cannot acknowledge what russia did here in the united states what he is doing and continues to do in europe. that is a fundamental problem we have with president trump. >> katie: kevin, i'll go to you first. i want to get to marie on on te run aspect. what do you think about him putting the immigration aspect into his national security strategy? >> kevin: it's a big part. people coming up cross i.e. porous border and it disrupts the safety of america. where kate stanley was killed and exonerated, and many other aspects of empty prisons during the time of obama and let people back onto the streets, because we have false notions of sanctuary cities that do not

exist in america, because we have laws. i want to make one point about the situation with russia, a comment that this guy made. it is ridiculous. donald trump is ready to deal with russia. in fact, he initiated policies that were don pro- russian, and that democrats are silent. this is a guy that will help america in any aspect, but it will a pro american policy. >> katie: they do acknowledge russia and china are adversaries trying to redo the world order, and they do admit, marie, the russians did have some influence in terms of propaganda in the election. >> marie: that is what is interesting. the written document is fairly conventional. it talks about china, russia as growing powers. i was disappointed that talk about human rights as it is in a bipartisan way plays a

leadership. for me, this written document, which i think is not that bad will only hold up and be as good until the first tweet. i did not think there was a whole lot in that speech that i liked. i know that it's surprising. i think the overall strategy. again, parts of it takes a conventional look at the threats we face. his speech was focused on a whole host of other things, and it did not lay out, i don't think, beyond slogans how we will look at north korea. >> katie: the documented. >> marie: the document is only as good -- it's only as good as the implementation, and putting diplomacy on the back burner. >> katie: unlike the obama administration has been very focused on iran and their role in the middle east as a bad actor rather than appeasing them like the obama administration did, that's a a huge policy

shift we work with the saudis, the egyptians, your israelis, and how we handle the humanitarian crisis in yemen. >> harris: differ between the two administrations with what you are saying, it is the hunger and thirst for evidence that iran was a bad actor. we are looking for under the obama administration, but the finding of it, the way we saw nikki haley lay it out and invite other countries to come here and look at the poster with all of the areas, where houses where it iran put within "made an iran sticker" on the weaponry it's giving yemen to fight a proxy war. that gives color in the argument gets the american people with you. we did not see the obama administration dube. >> marie: we sanctioned repeatedly and often. >> sandra: new day, moving along as legislation to put a stop to sexual harassment, some democrats are reportedly saying, they regret urging al franken to

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>> sandra: more "outnumbered" in a moment pit let's touch base which air is coming up on "outnumbered: overtime." >> harris: thank you. there is action going on the floor of the house. they're having a debate. you know some of publicans crystal against the tax bill? do not know if that will matter. paul ryan said it will hit the floor with his remarks and then they will vote on the g.o.p. tax bill. diana black will join in a couple of moments, and will talk about delivering delivering the president's first legislative win. and the intel committee going after with questions andrew mccabe against possible bias at the fbi. and it mueller russia investigation, i'll ask campaign manager if he will really get answers. that and more on "outnumbered: overtime" at the top of the hour. >> sandra: thank you, harris. the houses my cap legislation today requiring sexual harassment awareness training

for all house members and their employees. a wave of sexual misconduct allegations services against minnesota senator al franken, who announced earlier this month, he would be resigning after multiple senators urged him to finally step down. now, at last, for senators reportedly say, he should not resign, instead, let the ethics committee do the investigation. democratic senator joe manchin is one of them. >> we have a process within the congress, senate, and the house, it is the ethics probe. he is willing to come outside, take me through this. i'll do the outcome and if they say i'm a predator and i will leave, i will leave. i think everybody that listens to al franken speech on the floor, first time for him to speak out openly, it may be had second thoughts. >> sandra: political reporting that james lankford wants to see al franken go through that process, and patrick lahey of vermont told frank and

privately, he regrets urging him to step down. interesting turn in all of this. >> kevin: i love it. the democrats promised something. they want to have the moral high ground. part of it was, it was a trick to go after donald trump. they resurfaced the sexual allegations against donald trump, because they thought with frank and stepping down. >> sandra: i wish we had a split screen with katie and marie, because marie is saying come and katie is smiling. >> marie: i love how partisan politics is the first way you go, knee-jerk reaction. you cannot talk about the issue. >> kevin: i have had a lot of practice because i watch leftists over the last decade. >> marie: 1960 word, leftists. >> kevin: they use al franken as bait, and the next thing you know, he's not going to go away. i am shocked that al franken is not going to go away.

>> katie: they're worried about the senate seat going to a republican, even though it would look really bad now that a female lieutenant governor is appointed to replace al franken for him to rescind his resignation, this may have been the plant from the beginning, considering he gave it from the floor, and not an exit date. he just gave an open-ended question. does beg the question, why did democrats try to take the moral high ground to make that is not a good process. the positive, they will make the training mandatory now. >> marie: yes, and for me -- >> kevin: train on minority issues... >> marie: as a democrat, i think it's less about electoral politics. there is double standard. you have congressmen that admitted or been accused of or pay off, one in nevada, they now say they are not going to run for reelection. i think they should actually

step down. al franken went up to the plate and said, okay, i will leave the senate. it's hard for democrats to look across the board and other democrats. >> kevin: i actually agree with marie. there's an agreement. >> sandra: 55 minutes in the show, and we have an agreement. katie, my point a minute ago, do you think the right things are happening to see change in washington on this? >> katie: i think the training will be helpful as i talk to other people they say, i went through training 30 years ago. why do we have to tell these people who make the rules to pass legislation. why do have to re-educate them about what to do and what not to do? that the culture in washington, d.c., less a culture their changes, the drinking culture, working late hours, spending more time less changes,

nothing will change. >> sandra: thank you for that, more "outnumbered" is next when we return. the morning walk was so peaceful.

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>> i think so. >> tomorrow i will finish up. >> and go to amazon prime. >> and a lot of news still coming up and thank you fo to all of you and now here is harris. >> harris: the house floor is where the actions. the finish line in sight. president trump and republicans on the cusp of a major victory to tax reform. we are in "outnumbered overtime". i am harris faulkner. and the republicans are confident they have the votes they need to overhaul the tax code. the house is expected to vote this hour and the senate will vote later this evening. house democratic leader nancy pelosi blasted the deal as a bad deal and house speaker paul ryan said people will see the benefits in their wallets. >> we'll get it done and see the jobs occurring andigr