that's not bipartisanship with the republican -- that the republican leadership has done. i know there are republicans on the other side who wish we can work together. well, we can. and today at 11:00, i think more than a dozen, certainly a large number of democrats went to the press gallery and said we want to work with our republican colleagues to create a better bill. they came and visited me last night. i encouraged them to do it. this leader, this leader is not going to stand in the way of bipartisan reform that meets the goals that we've talked about, helping the middle class, reducing the deficit, not unduly or in any way aiding the 1%. bipartisanship and compromise, mr. president, are very possible on tax reform. it's an issue crying out for a bipartisan solution. there are a lot of areas we agree. we have to work to find a middle ground that's acceptable to both parties. i dare say it would be a better bill for the american middle class than the one we're looking at right now. finally, mr. president, and briefly, because i know my colleagues are waiting on the kat

what are the republicans thinking? regardless of the specific numbers on one point all studies agree, this is a tax hike for millions of middle-class families and many of those hardest hit within the suburbs, the bedrock of the republican coalition for decades. passing a bill that raises taxes on the middle class while slashing for the rich and wealthy as corporations is political insanity, plain and simple. with one hand republicans are giving you huge handouts with all the corporations and the other they are taking away key suburban deductions like state and local, medical expenses, student loans and more. in trying to pass this bill congressional republicans are doing their best to put their majorities at risk. if republicans thought it was hard winning elections last week with the drag of an unpopular president weighing them down, wait till the voters hear about this bill as they are now. if the public and thought it was hard to win after passing the health care bill that would raise premiums and kick millions off

in republican districts. a. schumer: it shows you what pickle they are in, they even have to consider going back to health care, which was very bad news for them, because of this bill, they are trying to meet deficit numbers, give tax breaks to the rich and still protect the middle class. the loser in those three are the deficit and the middle class, the rich to not lose anything. but it is happening out there. in the next election, are democrats committed to [indiscernible] alabama senate race? mr. schumer: it is an alabama race. they are running it. if they ask us for things, we will help them, that it is in alabama race. the jones campaign is running itself. when they ask us for help, we will do it, but it is an alabama race. reporter: [indiscernible] nothe same time [indiscernible] letting them say this is national democrats coming in. how did he walk the line? mr. schumer: i just answered that, the bottom line is it is being run in alabama by alabama. he is raising tremendous money without help from the dem

but it's what republicans promised people. it's what republicans promised people. now, we'll see what the senate comes up with today, what several republican senators have already confirmed that the senate bill has the same structure as the house bill, and in at least one way, we'll know that it's worse for middle-class families than the house bill, because the house bill would reduce the value of stloal deductions by 70% while the senate bill eliminates it entirely. my friend from ohio, senator portman, confirmed that a few days ago on fox business. so this should be a three-alarm fire for every house republican in california, new york, new jersey, virginia, washington, illinois, colorado, minnesota. senate republicans are telling house republicans there will be no compromise on state and local deductibility. it's full repeal for bust, because senate republicans need the revenue raised by ending this popular middle-class deduction. there are several deficit hawks in the senate. we have stricter budget rules for reconciliation. if the senate tax plan includes cuts

from republican rule. president -- from republican rule. 1875, thel of administration made a calculation that further military intervention necessary to save mississippi from redemption would alienate too many northern votes and would specifically cost republicans the governorship and perhaps the electoral college votes of ohio in 1875 and 1876. freed from an external constraint, southern whites were going to do whatever was necessary to regain political power. black voting in the south, though it was reduced after the troops came out of the south, did not and with the fall of reconstruction in 1877. a majority of african americans still voting in the south in 1880. many blacks continued to sit in state legislatures and local offices. it really wasn't until 1890 that the precipitous decline began. formal disfranchisement took many forms. i won't run through all of them. residency requirements would penalize itinerants. secret ballot laws functioned as quasi-literacy tests because you had to be able to read

what are republicans thinking? allrdless of the numbers, parties agree this is a tax hike on middle-class families and many of those hardest hit live in the suburbs, bedrock of the republican coalition for decades. passing a bill that raises taxes on the middle class while slashing them for the rich and wealthiest corporations is political insanity, plain and simple. the republicans are giving huge handouts to the wealthiest corporations and the other, they are taken away key suburban productions like state, local, medical sciences, student loans, and more. congressional republicans are doing their best to put their majorities at risk and if republicans thought was hard when elections last week, with the drag of an unpopular president, wait until voters hear about this bill as they are now. if republicans thought it was --d to win after passing trying to pass a health care bill that would raise premiums and kick millions off their health care insurance, wait till they see how hard it is to win elections after they

with changes the republicans have offered. the second change the republicans made to their tax bill was to have many of their tax provisions for individuals expire while corporate breaks remain permanent. with this new proposal republicans have put themselves between a rock and a hard place. the provisions for individuals that help individuals and not the stuff of them help middle-class folks expire by . .. but the second is they had a huge deficit problem. they had to figure out where to reduce the deficit. and so they took it out on the crumbs that they gave to the middle class in the earlier years in this bill. well, one of two things will happen. some of our republican colleagues say don't worry, we'll extend the middle-class tax cuts after 2025. that will create a huge deficit. so i say to my colleagues, particularly the deficit hawks, particularly the deficit hawks, >> you can have it both ways. you cannot say were going to protect the middle class and reduce the deficit. this bill is a deficit budget buster. we know wha

and my republicans -- why republicans do this is pretty simple, greta. i mean, they scratch the back of the people that gives them all his money. republicans are for the rich, by the rich and of the rich. which always confuse me -- let me finish my thought, greta. host: sure. caller: what always confused me is why working class people vote republicans? it's beyond me. i just don't understand. it's not in their best interest. go ahead, greta. host: in these tax reform proposals, the house and the senate, where do you believe the wealthy benefit? because the tax code for the very wealthy stays -- the tax rate stays the same. but where do you see them enefiting? caller: corporations have to loyalty to our country anymore. they just go where they could make the most profits. i understand that. that's what they're going to do. host: and dave, this is a sentiment we've heard throughout the morning so far that we've been talking to folks here, and that is that people calling in and saying i don't trust these corporations. i don't think they're going to bring th

. >>> republicans woke up this morning clinging to the wreckage of trumpism and now republicans cannot honestly see any success in their future that involves donald trump but they're still trying to pretend that there is a future with donald trump. >> what happened last night all across the country is tired of this. >> you could smell a wave coming. >> there was a coalition of the decent in this country that rose up yesterday. >> the rejection of donald trump's fear and divisiveness. >> the margins of victory, the turnout, the energy are astonishing. >> it's important for republicans to self reflect. >> bing, bing, bong, bong. >> doesn't change my reading of the current moment. i think it means we have to deliver. >> what last night signaled was if you keep going on this path, you will be annihilated. >> this is a big deal. >> and really gratifying that our democracy still works. >> are you worried about next year? >> no. i like a good fight. >> republican friends better look out. >> last night we saw democracy in action. last year we saw the electoral college in action. the electoral

there are republicans in those states, there are republican districts.t if by passing tax cuts, you sort of heal your party kind of at large but you open up and put in play dozens of republican seats in these high taxed states who the opponents of which are going to say you raised my taxes. >> can i say one thing about that breitbart headline. it was catchy, swamp creature. swamp thing. ed gillespie. give me a break. this time yesterday, ed gillespie was doing everything that the breitbart wing of the republican party wanted him to do. sanctuary cities and law and order and ms-13 and they were so happy he was embracing trumpism and then he lost and it's like who is that guy. >> you're saying like the president they support so much they're transactional and have a very short memory. >> they're as political as the next guy. >> bannon was praising him. >> we haven't said this enough. yesterday trump lymph without trump didn't sell. the question for republicans is remember, when obama wasn't on the ballot in every election they got pummeled. will the same th

of the national republican that fractured between establishment republicans and those from the far right branches of the party is also playing out in the state of alabama where there's a high profile senate race. in the primary election republican voters here chose roy moore to be their nominee over an establishment candidate already serving in the u.s. senate here for the judge roy moore of and. this is a key race because losing here would endangered the republicans the majority in the senate. were getting ready to welcome the republican candidate for senate without further ado let's give judge roy moore a warm air fart that you well know. you've probably already heard of roy moore because of a scandal that's overshadowed his camp. in november news broke of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his thirty's allegations he's denied but even before that more was a highly controversial candidate assy got a thumbs up from the president saw guess something in her i think you came to hear him speak in late october when he was addressing the alabama federa

it's just remarkable to me the republican party, the republican party, if i live in a republican district in the new jersey suburbs, what the heck is the point of voting for a republican congressman if he's going to raise my taxes? >> listen, i appreciate the democrats' newfound concern with deficit and raising taxes. it's something that we haven't heard much about in the last ten years -- >> no, i'm asking a simple question of representation. what do you tell a constituent whose taxes are going to be raised by the republican party why they should vote for a republican? >> i would probably tell them the first thing what report you reading off of? because our numbers are saying something that's completely different. it's very important that people understand that this is tax relief for people across the board. now, if you're looking at calculating that over ten years, there may be some rise, depending on which bracket you may move in and out of based on your income, but when it comes across the board, this isn't just tax reform, this isn't just something that we're making up. this is genui

this is republican senate candidate roy moore. former alabama judge continues to deny the allegations against him as more women come forward accusing him of inappropriate sexual advances and misconduct over the past 30 years. during a news conference in birmingham, moore accused senate leader mitch mcconnell of trying to steal the election from the voters of alabama. mcconnell says he believes moore's accusers and suggested the republican senate candidate would face an ethics probe if elected. jeremy, i want to pull up something you wrote. it tells me so much about where we are. this is in the "new york times." this was theres after time you wrote when the question of whether to disown a candidate accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl was fairly straightforward. but the divisions in the republican party run so deep that it's now become a proxy fight. that's what i want to talk about with yo uh. this fight this question about roy moore. it's now become something about the base of the party versus mcconnell. it's not so muc

andcrats, (202)-748-8001 republicans, -- report -- democrats, (202)-748-8000, republicans, (202)-748-8001. >> today, virginia has spoken. today, we will not condone hatred and bigotry, and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. i want to let you know that in virginia, it is going to take a ,octor to heal our differences to bring unity to our people, and i am here to let you know that the dr. is in. host: give us a snapshot of ralph northam. guest: he is a pediatric neurologist. the washington post did a great line where he ran as a emotional moderate. he is liberal on a bunch of issues but he sounds very comforting and soothing. that was a very conciliatory message, last night, talking about unifying. that is the type of message that wins in a swing state. republicans did polling and some of these culturally diverse -- divisive issues work in their favor but post from, people wanted to hear a more conciliatory message. former obama ambassador. and very wealthy banker who was able to win the governor's race in a blue state. murphy is going to have some challenges. host:

on the republican side, the republicans obviously -- i mean don't make bones about it. the republicans -- best way to say this, republicans have the trump issue to deal with. alpha and omega of 2017 problems. we're going to be talking tonight about some of the latest sworn testimony just emerged in scandal that increasingly appears to be subsuming this presidency. we're going to be talking about the latest member of the trump administration to receive subpoenas from law enforcement. while the republicans are dealing with that very unusual situation, for the democrats, last night is the first manifestation we've seen of how much democrats have been organizing. democrats and progressives have been organizing over the past year to run candidates, recruit, make people think of themselves in our political system differently than they used to. make people think of themselves as political actors, not just observers, to recruit huge new crops of new candidates and activists, build new support for new candidate in myriad grassroots ways and win elections because of it. saw it la

a democrat and a republican. not name them, but said she's also heard of allegations of victims having their private parts grabbed on the house floor. bill press, you first. shocking to you? >> no. >> wow. >> i worked in the state legislature in california, this is rampant. maybe 30 years ago, disgusting, but rampant and people looked the other way. and i know that it's taking place. i don't know any personal stories, although jackie speier is a good friend of mine and she's been a hero on this issue, particularly when it comes to sexual abuse in the military, unreported, unpunished. but you know it's happening on capitol hill, it's happening anywhere where there are men in power, whether it's hollywood, or wall street or capitol hill. >> this is a very powerful exchange that i want to share. this is representative comstock telling a story about a male lawmaker who asked a staffer to bring something over to his residence. watch this. >> i wanted to close with something that i just had somebody tell me recently. t

to my republican friends, today my republican friends have an opportunity to turn back from this partisan bill and this partisan process. if they do, i guarantee they will find a democratic leader, a democratic senate caucus and a democratic parties' eager to work with -- party that's eager to work with them on the kind of tax reform our country deserves. we won't sit in our corner and make unreasonable demands. as many of my colleagues know, there's a lot of sincere intent on this side of the aisle to do tax reform. i've worked with senator hatch. i've worked with senator portman. many others of my caucus have worked with republicans on tax reform ideas for years. we can certainly put together a bill acceptable to both parties that reduces burdens on the middle class, makes our economy more competitive, creates jobs here at home, and do it in a deficit-neutral way. the bill doesn't do those things but we can write a bill that does together. i say let's give it a shot. if my republican friends close the door on their partisan tax bill tonight, they will find an open door for bipartisan ta

in 2012 a republican governor and republican legislature in kansas passed through the staple thing. they said, -- same thing. they said, let's make sure that we have tax benefits for these pass-through corporations. by the way, donald trump owns 500 pass-through corporations. he will benefit greatly from this. let's make sure that we reduce the tax rates on the wealthiest. and in doing so, we will make sure that we're investing in the economy. that meant, by the way, all those tax cuts had to be paid for. so a $700 million cut to the kansas state budget, which resulted in schools not being able to operate full-time, resulted in roads being in disrepair, ultimately resulted in kansas' bond ratings going down. and in the end that g.d.p. growth that we were promised, the economic growth that was guaranteed if you were to put the money into the top corporations and the top income earners, that was supposed to somehow trickle down, that growth never came to be. so guess what happened, mr. speaker. the republican legislature in kansas rolled back those tax cuts. they said that trickle-dow

republicans suffer a one-two punch. first, democrats sweep elections across the country, including two governors' races. >> was it a referendum on donald? >> i think so. >> and fueling democratic hopes for next year. >> our republican friends better look out. >> then those bombshell claims about alabama senate candidate roy moore. >> shocking allegations against senate candidate republican roy moore. >> if that's true, i don't think there would be any place for him in the u.s. senate. >> elections. roy moore and the growing awareness of sexual harassment in politics. my guests this morning, republican senator pat toomey, democratic senator amy klobuchar, and white house legislative affairs director marc short. >>> and president trump agrees with vladimir putin about russian hacking, then says he's with our agencies. >> i believe that president putin really feels, and he feels strongly that he did not meddle in our election. what he believes is what he believes. >> but what does the president believe? joining me for insi

senate and david duke emerged as the republican candidate and you had republicans saying vote for the democratic. >> the question is who. those are not going to be the ones to make the argument to the people of alabama. they nevada someone down on the ground to start making that argument. i do think, if nothing else, we saw in this past election cycle in 2017, women are turning out. we may see a shift in turnout and there are enough of these charges. we don't need more. there probably will be more. women especially are going to be turning out against this kind of behavior. so that may be the way -- i mean, the question is right now, are you going to vote for a democrat or a child molester? to me it's very clear. i'd rather see someone vote for the democrat or will we see a very low voter turnout? >> and what happens if this is a one-on-one race and roy moore stays in it and wins, then he goes to washington and you have mitch mcconnell and you have republicans talking about, well, we'll have expulsion proceedings and put him under oath and ask him questions and make him answer them and

that story posted just a few hours ago and flight we are seeing republican senator after republican senator pressure moore to drop out of the race if the allegations prove to be true including the eight you see on the screen now. in addition to the seven others seen here who have spoken out in the last few hours including the senate's top republican. >> if these allegations are true, roy moore should step aside. for all the obvious reasons. very disturbing allegations. >> if true, does he need to step down? >> any shred of truth to these stories he ought to step, and now. >> and i don't believe there's a place for him in the u.s. senate if true. >> step aside. >> these allegations appear to be, i've not read the story, but as well sourced as i hear they are, if it's true, the answer would be yes. >> cory gardner who is the chairman of the nrsc, the republican party's campaign arm in the u.s. senate is also pushing for moore's exit saying this -- "if these allegations are found true roy moore must drop out of the alabama special senate election." white house weighed in as well. >> we need to

why would our republicans do this? why would they do this to the middle class was something as sacred as retirement to give a 1%e cut in tax to the top and give a huge incentive to corporations already raking in billions and profit a year who are already flush with capital. we think republicans have it exactly backwards. they should abandon any plan to tax 401(k)s and work with democrats in a partisan way to expand retirement savings, not tax them. wyden: thank you, leader. the leader in the senate, very well. what i want to do is just amplify on a couple of points. the first is, the republicans in aboutss have been talking right at the heart of their tax therm efforts is to make tax system simpler. i can tell you, as i look again at what is an offer, this approach on retirement would be a full employment program for record-keepers. in effect, you would have one set of roles pre-tax. $2400. another set of rules post-attack. you might have employees setting up both types of account. employers will have a challenge tryin

republican women, rise up and raise hell.eal loyalty, and to those who really are your own. what is the impact on republicans in alabama? >> i think it should have been incumbent on the republican party to give their voters a better choice. and that would have mea fundamentally president trump weighing in very heavily against roy moore and pressuring state party officials saying, look, you don't have a future in this party unless you find some way to leverage this guy out of this race. it didn't happen. now roy moore is running the only race he can, which is saying all these attacks on me are attacks on you, my supporters, and against mitch mcconnell. it goes to the cynical demagoguery of the likes of steve bannon. if roy moore killed someone with an ax, steve bannon would say it's mitch mcconnell's fault. >> there's a real challenge here for republicans because in washington, the republicans i'm talking to in the senate, they feel totally boxed in. president trump is not weighing in. he's not trying to get moore out of the r

this should be concerning to republicans if republicans don't want to be concerned. that's their own issue. most analysts i've spoken to say this could be problematic. >> jon: is this a repudiation of president trump? >> i don't know if it's a repudiation. you can't ignore some fundamental realities. the president's approval rating across the board are not great but listen, it's a long way until 2018. we're a year away from the mid-term elections and we'll see the impact of the president and if the republicans can get tax reform through, if they can repeal the healthcare law and do an infrastructure bill they believe those are good things for their prospects in 2018. >> jon: we have some polling information out from virginia about what people were thinking as they went to the polls here. i want to put these numbers up on the screen for you. when people were asked how they're feeling about how president trump is working, president trump gets 9% excited. 27% say optimistic. 28% say concerned, the biggest number 34% is scared. if you are feeling that way about your pres

but it's what republicans promised people. it's what republicans promised people. now, we'll see what the senate comes up with today, what several republican senators have already confirmed that the senate bill has the same structure as the house bill, and in at least one way, we'll know that it's worse for middle-class families than the house bill, because the house bill would reduce the value of stloal deductions by 70% while the senate bill eliminates it entirely. my friend from ohio, senator portman, confirmed that a few days ago on fox business. so this should be a three-alarm fire for every house republican in california, new york, new jersey, virginia, washington, illinois, colorado, minnesota. senate republicans are telling house republicans there will be no compromise on state and local deductibility. it's full repeal for bust, because senate republicans need the revenue raised by ending this popular middle-class deduction. there are several deficit hawks in the senate. we have stricter budget rules for reconciliation. if the senate tax plan includes cuts

so democrats have to give a little bit to get the republican buy in, orbited the problem with republicans sometimes they think they need knock down a pillar in order to achieve the outcome, and that this challenge we face right now. >> so i think you said that we -- you think we'll be seeing another effort of repeal and replace in the first half of 2018. what do you guys think we'll see, if anything in terms of legislation affecting basically what we're most interested in around here and is the value movement? delivery model, form of payment. >> this is a crucially important thing that is happening in our healthcare system but there's almost no popular attention paid to what is happening, and you have this huge reg that comes out on implementing mac contract, and i-guarantee you there was zero coverage in the trade -- mainstream press, certainly not on tv. the short answer to your question is, at the legislative level, i don't see anything happening that would influence it. all the action is at agency, behind the scenes, and probably, frankly, better off that way. the more public attentio

if republicans continue to insist on moving ahead with a republican only budget buster bill, i think it will be very close and it may well fail in the end. >> let me ask you this. your fellow senator from delaware gave us his insight into a meeting between white house officials and senate democrats. senator tom carper saying on our air that the president called into the meeting from his asia trip and that carper says as the president was doing more talking than listening, he gave this advice to economic adviser carry cone. have a listen. >> and i said gary, why did you do this? why don't you just take the phone from your cell phone back and just say, mr. president, you're brilliant. and but we're losing contact. i think we're going to lose you now. so good-bye. that's what he did and he hung up. >> are you saying gary cohn faked a bad connection to get the president off the phone? >> i wouldn't -- i don't want to throw him under the bus, but yes. >> well, definitive account there. i believe you were in the meeting, as well. what did you hear? >> well, jim, there were a dozen democrat

why would republicans in the state of illinois, why would republicans in connecticut, why would republicansckage that would crush their own republican small business owners and independent small business owners? that doesn't seem to make sense. >> i think it boils down to the fact that the five states hit the hardest are blue states and illinois is certainly one of those. new york, california, but we look at those states within those states there are republican members of congress, seven in illinois who are hearing it back home when they go back home, this notion of paying a tax on a tax, we rejected that idea when we created the federal income tax and now the republicans want to make that part of their package. i had a press conference on monday with the realtors and home builders in the state of illinois. they're opposed to this republican package. they say it's going to really hurt home ownership and the construction of new homes, industries that create good paying jobs in communities that are republican and democratic across our state. i don't think the republicans thought through clear

my guests this morning, republican congresswoman barbara comstock and democratic >>> plus, house republicans pass their tax plan. >> this is about giving hard-working taxpayers bigger paychecks, more take-home pay. >> now it's the senate's turn. >> i just think it would be nice just tonight before we go home to just acknowledge this tax cut is really not for the middle class, it's for the rich. >> is the tax cut really for the middle class? i'll ask white house budget director mick mulvaney and republican senator roy blunt of missouri. joining me for insight and a23458sz are amy walter, robert costa of "the washington post" and "washington week." joy reid, host of "a.m. joy" on msnbc, and rich lowerlowery, ed "national week in review. welcome to "meet the press." >> this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> and good sunday morning, i'm andrea mitchell. chuck todd is off weinstein first broke last month, many thought the outrage over sexual misconduct would pass like a summer storm. now it feels more like climate change, with nine women coming forward with accusations against alabama repub

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no party has done this before, democrats, republicans, wigs, anti-federalists, democrat republicans, federalists. we've never seen this before. it's so wrong. it's one of the things that -- we see so many things that ail this country, and i have to say a lot of them stem from the top, from the president, and yet our republican colleagues are still fearful of ignoring him, of not listening to ideas they know are ludicrous. the rush is because my republican friends, fearful of the president and his self-imposed deadline, are trying to hide the bill that would transfer even more wealth to the super wealthy while raising taxes on millions of middle-class americans. now, according to the joint committee on taxation, of all taxpayers making less than $200,000 a year, 13 million would see a tax hike in 2019 and 30 million would see a tax hike by 2027. ryan and mcconnell said that we will not see a tax hike. they had to back off. for those who do get a tax cut, the average is so small to what folks at the top are getting. americans making $40,000 to $50,000 get an average cut of 8$0,000, 100

tonight the republican party's nominee for u.s. senate from the state of alabama stands accused of molesting a child. we're going to go through the allegation and it's going to be graphic, but it's important that we report to you the details. a woman named leigh korfman told "the washington post" roy moore approached her outside a courtroom when he was 32 working in that courtroom, she was just 14. he told her mother he would look after her while her mother went inside for a child custody hearing. that's what they were at the courtroom for. he said, oh, you don't want to go in there and hear all that, i'll stay out here with you, her mother told the "post." after getting the 14-year-old's phone number, moore picked korfman up days later, drove her to his house she says, where he told her how pretty she was and kissed her. on a second visit she remembers that moore kissed her, took off her pants and shirt, touched her through her bra and underpants. she says he guided her hand to his underwear and she yanked her hand back. "i wasn't

the mood here, republicans are nervous. i'm hearing privately from republicans in suburban areas essentially looking at a lot of these very far down-ballot races, races we don't typically pay much attention to, races in the case of people i've talked to, offices held by republicans sometimes for decades, suddenly going for democrats and having people who had at one point felt like, you know, they might have to be a little nervous about 20le is but they were probably going to be okay, suddenly taking a second look and saying, hey, there might be a major wave i need to worry about. that's what house majority -- excuse me, house minority leader nancy pelosi and chuck schumer both said at a press conference earlier today. schumer saying, look, i ran the dsce, the committee in charge of elects democrats in 2005. you could smell a wave then. smeldz like that now. nancy pelosi says she thinks they have a chance to take back the house. they could be counting the chickens too early, however this is something i think clearly is being

the republicans, are you going to have the trump and the un-trump republicans next year?> first of all, it all depends on how the economy is doing. and trump gets above 37%. if it gets up to 40, 42%, i think they will not run with trump. i think they're going the try to localize the elections. >> approval rating. his approval rating can't be at 37%. if it is, it's a real problem for republicans. he has to get up to 42, 44%. below that the republicans are in trouble. >> but that's where he was in virginia though, 42. >> that's why we lost virginia. >> no, but it wasn't good enough. >> the generic ballot right now for democrats is 11 points. leonardo-point advantage. that's the highest it's been in ten years. donald trump is juan-man wrecking machine. and i think republicans up on the hill tonight are beginning to figure that out. and they've got tax reform coming up. >> are they going to pass tax reform or not? >> i'm not sure they get that much by giving breaks to big corporations. >> what do they get if they don't pass that? >> the round table is sticking with us next. a

senate republicans would delay the corporate cut for one year while republicans in the house would like to do it right away. there are the headlines on the president's trip to asia. and thison to vietnam is the headline in the washington times. will run across vladimir putin while visiting the economic. he will likely meet with the russian leader. also from the washington post, asian leaders wow trump with pomp. new trade deals remain elusive. also, there is this in the washington post. vladimir putin is saying the u.s. is meddling in russia's election. on the eve of a possible meeting trump, vladimir putin suggested the united pushed -- is pushing for this qualification -- disqualification of russian athletes. these are some of the headlines around the country and national newspapers. we want to know your thoughts on any public policy debate. you are up first. good morning to you. caller: yes, i had a comment with royo the headline moore in alabama. and i am alabama survivor of sexual used in how these so-called christians have come to this guy's defense. they haven't read the full sto

what is the republican party do this? again, not entirely clear but the best answer probably looks like the following. the results of the 1868 election were way too close for comfort for republicans. ulysses s. grant, that preeminent war hero was elected president but only by a narrow percentage by the popular vote and he actually lost the white vote in the country. when congress was to meet for the first time because of a quirk in the original constitution, was not until december 18 69. it is not clear that republicans were going to have the two thirds majority necessary to adopt a constitutional amendment. republicans had lost seats in congress and it was not entirely sure they would still have two thirds. democrats were starting to regain control of state legislatures so it is not clear republicans would be able to get three quarters of state legislatures to ratify an amendment at they did not act weekly. i'd opting a black suffrage amendment, the republicans were breaking a promise to constituents. their platform in 1

we're a year on from that triumph from the republican party, one year on from election day republicans in washington have passed zero major legislation, nothing, despite controlling both houses of congress and the white house. one year on, president's campaign chairman is out on $10 million bond and wearing an ankle bracelet and another trump campaign official out on $5 million bond wearing ankle bracelet, not counting the skpan adviser who has pled guilty and cooperating with the ongoing investigation of this president and his campaign and potentially his administration. one year on, republican party is on the hook for at least hundreds of thousands and many millions of dollars in legal fees for the president and his family. but it's not just them. criminal defense lawyers have been hired by everybody from the vice president to the white house communications director to even the white house counsel. even their lawyers have had to get lawyers this past year. but unlike the president and the president's son, everybody else in the trump administration is having to pay for their lawyers t

even among republicans privately and some publicly, you've seen republicans on the house side. trey gowdy who has been swatting this investigation away for months. now they're suddenly taking it more seriously. engaged in serious interrogation of people like carter page. suddenly gowdy is acting like a prosecutor. goodlatte. republicans previously dismissing this are now saying, as it gets bigger and more consequential and beyond the white house even, people are -- some element, some sense of bipartisan concern, kind of almost extensial level seems to be creeping in and we're starting to see people not make some of the silly arguments they were making like forget about the old base. who cares about what trump did in russia 20 years ago. that stuff all matters. >> there was this ludicrous equivalence drawn by then chairman nunez about unmasking. he steams have now -- i'm not sure if he has the capacity for shame but that argument doesn't seem to be front and center anywhere other than on a few select conservative media outlets. >> republicans want to move beyond this. they want

so the republican strength increases. clinton gets elected president of when you look at the first few months of trump and we see the difficulties, clinton had similar problems. >> he had a democratic house and senate. he never won a majority of the american people. i had pollsters tell me it took 19% in many pollsters told me some said he took some from bush but clinton has no mandate. it only has 4043% of the vote. again he doesn't get the majority of the vote. democrats don't feel particularly loyal to clinton because he doesn't have much to hold over him since he won the election so narrowly. and republicans have enough votes in the senate for filibuster which bob dole does before clinton's big tax increase goes through in the spring of 93. things are quickly forming and there's a coalition of anti- clinton americans. where one group after another. >> the book a citizen. an excellent read. we go through the history of its lives in his persistence and moving ahead with adversity. we get to 94 republicans smell somethin

coming up with a weekly luncheon of republicans and saying republicans keep calling it a middle class tax cut bill and he calls it a boom to big corporations that will hurt the middle class. the president up there to sell this bill in a closed door meeting. they want to have the vote and they are short the votes at the moment. before he discussed the tax bill, senator schumer explaining his reason to bow out with the house democratic leader, nancy pelosi, of a scheduled white house meeting to sit down with the top two republicans and democrats to meet with the president about very big year end decisions about spending levels. could they get a deal on the dreamers? that meeting now canceled. we will keep it up there to wait for the president of the united states. always posturing in politics and always showmanship, but at this moment, if you listen to the leader, he seems to think this is good for the democrats to end the year in terms of a negotiating position and let's not forget as we are in late november of 2017, next year is the mid-term elections and everything that is done in th

if republicans don't have money to run with, hard to fuel candidate campaigns. >> that's why republicanso heavily on tax reform, of course. looks very good for them they're able to get that passed before the new year. molly. thank you. >>> so what should have been a standard event for steve mnuchin found him once again on receiving end of criticism for bad optics. mnuchin was on hand for tour of the printing and engraving in washington. presented with a fresh sheet of $1 bills featuring his signature. as he was showing the money. came along for the event. to pose for a photo. now watch this. this picture lit up social media. it comes after the pair received criticism for embarking on a taxpayer funded flight back in august. you may remember this. on the way to fort knox. included a viewing of the solar eclipse. hawking designer clothes on social media page during that trip. now per usual the internet had a field day as you can imagine with all kinds of methamphetamine. some comments steve mnuchin touches a $1 bill for the first time. honey, i think i found the perfect floor matt. now, th

bob in michigan, republican. good morning. >> caller: hello. i'm not a happy republican.hose republicans in congress i are a disgrace. i mean, my god, that republican bill in the senate looks like something the democrats would write. this is ridiculous. >> host: why do you sayth that, bob? >> caller: they would keep the estate tax for one. they certainly would. are putting off bringing the money back from offshore for a couple of years. you know what? if we're not in power in a couple years they will get rid of that. this is total craziness. we havera the power to use. i think those guys don't like donald trump andnd i don't think they like being in power. i think they would prefer to be in the minority. i'm sick of this identity politics business. >> host: bob, , i want susan ferrechio to jump in. what do you make of his comments? >> guest: will come he sounds like some numbers on capitol hill where there's been more of a divide amongst mores pseudo-populist republicans who say that lawmakers should move more aggressively on this tax plan. it should be no delays ine anyf