. >> the thayer is relatively new, it's untested, and i think it's something that we really need to think about before dramatically changing sort of the supply chains of the businesses in this country. >> reporter: with health care reform now stalled and the white house forging ahead with tax reform, you can bet small companies like ledbury will be watching closely to see if the b.a.t. makes the cut. >> if the b.a.t. goes through, does ledbury have a plan? >> their first phase would be to cut workers, which they don't want to do. second is to put it on consumers, because we're already selling shirts retailing around $140 or so, so that will go up. >> price will have to go up. >> exactly, but they're higher-end men's shirts, so their consumer might be able to weather that. but he says bringing the operations back to the u.s. is a big challenge because they don't have people here that understand even the tailoring that they do. they're using european-style tailoring. it's not a skill necessarily taught here anymore and it's not something people want to do, he said. you know, people can get

nbc's janice mackey thayer. >>> here at home, president trump is taking a different approach. talking tough against the rogue nation, telling them to, quote, behave while his white house says nothing is off the table. nbc's chief white house correspondent halle jackson has more on that. >> reporter: at the white house, a jarring juxtaposition the president posing with the easter bunny, at the other end, new questions about north korea. >> behave. >> reporter: later on fox news. >> i don't want to telegraph what i'm doing or what i'm thinking. i'm not like other administrations where they say, we're going to do this in four weeks and that doesn't work that way. >> reporter: that strategy of suspense, a hallmark of this administration so far isn't sitting well with russia where there is new tough talk. on russian state tv, a putin ally saying, quote, trump is more impulsive and unpredictable than kim jong-un. trump tight lipped. >> drawing lines hasn't worked in the past. >> reporter: president trump appearing to take his own advice, the art of the foreign policy deal. he's writ

thayer may be i'm getting they're wrong, because these economic impact promises are almost always wrongmost always overstated. we just learned that last year's convention by all accounts was successful, sold tense of millions of dollars short in the economic impact predicted by the city. and remember the visit by pope francis the year before, same economic hype, same disappointing results, the reasons vary. these are religious pilgrims traveling the not constitution nears -- clubs and restaurants. >>> parties and receptions are always smart enough to >> that leaves little room. now, all of these events are billed as great showcases for philadelphia on the national or world stage. they may very well be that. stop trying to convince me they're also a boost for our bottom line. as far as i can tell, with all the traffic mess these events generate, about the only local company doing big business are the guy whose rent out those orange cones, only in philly. >>> orange cone stocks soaring. >>> many people are celebrating easter and they came out to the enon tabernacler church >> they held it

>> senator lankford: thayer in the process of budget negotiations.ying to put everything out there. it's part of the give and the take the entire budget process. my biggest frustration is that we are at this point again, period. we've actually gotten it done correctly and on time as the law was written. there's no president's budget that has ever been signed into law. things that the president's budget become the baseline for the argument. we have a real issue in the process of budgeting and how we do it, we are never going to get another product until we fix the process. there's a group of us in the senate that have been pushing hard to change the way we do budgeting so we can actually get this done right and not have these cliffs all the time. >> chris: let's talk about what seems to be a greater willingness among some republicans in congress, yourself included, to criticize this president. there are a dozen of your club said the president should keep his promise and release his tax return. there are some republican senators and congressmen in bord

he has transformed his ways that was once thought to be pretty much all republican thayer were a lot of people not do as the non-republican runoff. we were right about the big topic and round about the republican affair. ossoff has raised more than $8 from a flooded the district with advertising and this is seen as an early referendum on trump popularity. >> host: was that 8 million coming for mr. ossoff and where is money coming from outside groups for the republican candidates? >> yeah, the tremendous amount of money is outside of georgia in the district. only one in 20 of ossoff's donors live in georgia and even fewer in the actual congressional district. same thing with the outside spending from washington groups, washington political groups gave very little spending is coming in georgia it felt. this is definitely aample of nationalized racemic as the more they getting 2018. >> the six congressional district has been held by republicans since 1979. where is it and what's it like? >> yang mean, it and the district right now at transfer and east cobb county and sort of the northwe