bolu in the way it has been it would seem to me this is going to be an easy toss in the house alan grayson but will there be senate democrats that come on board and will they get sixty votes on this that's a big number yes they'll bug them one by one that's what they'll do corporations that hand out the ten thousand dollars checks will start writing bigger checks to super pacs and they'll just buy the votes that they need that doesn't make it right alan grayson bob barr gentlemen great to have you with us tonight thanks so much thank you hospitals in puerto rico are facing power outages as the island suffers from shortages of fuel and water three and a half million americans are without power with ten confirmed deaths or tease brianna portnoy has the latest from miami tonight according to fema fifty eight out of puerto rico's sixty nine hospitals are without electricity or fuel for generators now a minimum amount of hospitals currently functioning i know i learned maybe around eleven official. say they are i pull capacity and face frequent power outages in one case desperate tweets have be

the bottom is going to fall out is uncalled for work with trump and see if he'll work with them alan grayson will the democrats accept a twenty percent corporate take tax rate or is that just too big of a bite what do you think. i think there's enough democrats who are sell it democrats do something like that and i expect that from bernie sanders but there's sort of a threshold issue here that nobody is willing to talk about why are we cutting taxes when there is a one hundred billion dollars deficit this year two hundred billion dollars more than projected two billion dollars a day two thousand dollars for every single american why are we making sure that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer well when the government can't pay its bills alan that's an interesting point will americans by this i mean you know the republicans have been squealing about the federal budget deficit for years and too much spending will the american people hold on to this what do you think i think it will be sold to the american people the same way that you saw candy to children of course they're going to lunc

in the world in life expectancy the japanese live four years longer than the americans do now alan grayson always great to have you with us on the news thanks so much thank you as you that the president met with moderate members of congress from both parties today to work out a deal on taxes and jobs for the middle class in an unexpected move president trump says the rich will most likely not be getting a tax cut. it is legislation ever passed it was done in a bipartisan manner and so that's what we're going to give it a shot and we'll see will we can do it if it works out great and if it doesn't work out great hopefully we'll be able to do it anyway as republicans ok and the rich will not be gating at all with this plan would not look well good for the middle class and we're looking for jobs jobs created companies so we're looking to the middle class that will look at the jobs. i think the wealthy will be pretty much where they are. pretty much where they are we could do that we'd like to have to go to the right we're looking at the middle class that we're looking to just. for more on thi

for more on the backlash to the graham cassidy bill we're joined tonight former congressman alan grayson allen nice to have you with us always you were always a big fighter for single payer and making this subject paramount as you served in congress what kind of an impact can jimmy kimmel have i mean he's real he's speaking the truth there are very few if any people in the mainstream media that take the time to speak with the passion that he has been speaking with the last several nights what do you make of it i make the same thing i've made of you you've been an inspiration to many many people in talking about your wife's condition and how she suffered for having a preexisting condition and i think what's necessary is for people to understand that this is all tethered to reality this is how people live this is people die and i think that what he's done and what you've done make that clear well he's clearly using his platform and getting people aware of exactly what's going on i mean it's commentary we're not getting in the mainstream media no question about that it's almost as if i don'