bill bradley was for it, at the end it passed by a pretty significant majority. going into this year there would have been the opportunity for it -- on that kind of basis as well, but whatever faint hope i had for that they did -- faded and i got a letter from all but three of the senate impressed describing what they thought comprehensive tax reform was about. and it bore little relationship to what we felt the country needed in order to get growing again. you have heard the argument so tired ofrobably hearing them, but the problem was america was underperforming. we attributed tired of that to excessive regulation and a hillier to code.s the tax this administration, working with us, through the congressional review act, repealed 15 of the obama era regulations and why the appointments they made confirmed by the senate agreed to put new kinds of people at the sec, food and drug administration. agencies thatse can slow an economy by excessive regulation. we believe accommodation of regulatory relief and proper answer to tax reform, particularly the business side

dick gephardt was for it, bill bradley was for it, at the end it past by a significant majority. going into this year, there would have been the opportunity for it to be done on that kind of basis as well. whatever hope i had for that faded when i got a letter from all but three of the senate democrats before the august recess, describing what they thought comprehensive tax reform was about. it had little relationship to what we felt the country needed in order to get growing again. you of heard the arguments, so you're probably tired of hearing them. the problem was america was underperforming. not a single year of 3% growth during the obama years. we attributed that to excessive regulation and a failure to address the tax code. this administration, working through the congressional review act, repealed 15 of the obama era regulations and by the appointments they made, confirmed by the senate, again to put new kinds of people at the fcc, at the fda, and all of these agencies, that can slow an economy by excessive regulation. we believe a combination of regulatory relief and comp

president, i've been particularly struck by my conversations with our former colleague, senator bill bradley, of new jersey. he called almost every few days because he, along with president reagan, where the authors of a last bipartisan plan. and i am particularly struck by howho he described what democras and republicans came together, bill bradley, former nets celebrity all of the country, he would fly all over the united states to meet with colleagues like the distinguished president of the senate from north carolina. he would fly all over. now we can't get republicans to walk down the corridor of the dirksen building to have a conversation about how we ought to have a chance to give everybody a good tax plan so that everybody in america can get ahead. that's what i sought to do with republican colleagues, former senators, plenty conservatives here so it is not too late for my republican colleagues to do an about-face and say that we can do better than this. i don't for the life of me understand why we can't have republicans and democrats on the basis of the overwhelming unpopularity of t

bill bradley push the bill that banned it back in 1992.ew jersey has since tried to legalize it prompting a lawsuit brought by sports leagues resulting in today's court argument. atlantic city mayor who lost re-election simply loves the idea. >> super bowl game, everybody flies into ac to hang out v some fun and bet a little bit. >> absolutely. so, you know, you think ac in the warm weather and the ocean and the boardwalk you'll think about it every time there's a major sporting even. >> reporter: underground sports gaming is a $150 billion yearly business say experts. new jersey wants in. but it will have to convince the black robe justices of the supreme court of something folks in ac already want. >> when they drinking, they like to gamble. they like, you know, to bet on sports. and if you going to do blackjack why not do sports betting. might as well go all out don it all. >> reporter: you heard governor christie. he says the state will be ready two weeks after they possibly get court approval but it's likely he'll be long gone from of

former senator and basketball star bill bradley pushed the bill that banned it back in 1992.ersey has since tried to legalize it prompting a lawsuit brought by sports leagues resulting in today's court arguments. atlantic city's mayor who lost re-election simply loves the idea. >> super bowl game everybody flys into ac to hang out. have some fun and get bet a little bit. >> absolutely. you think of ac in the warm weather and the ocean and the boardwalk, now you'll think about it every time there's major sport even. >> reporter: under ground parts game sag 150 billion-dollar yearly business say experts. new jersey wants in. but it will have to convince the black robe justices of the supreme court of something folks in ac already want. >> when they bring are dripping they like to gamble. they like to bet on sports. if you going to do blackjack why not do the sports betting. you might as well go all out don it all. >> reporter: you heard governor christie. two weeks after possible court approval new jersey is in the game but christie will liking and far from office at that point

you talked about this, joe biden, john kerry, al gore, bill bradley, ted kennedy voted for the reagan tax cuts. who you do you think these guys do in 2018, these democrats? >> they will run into a wall of resistance from the conserve sieve side, because this is something that people want to see. one of the things that interests me in my district of tennessee, what people will say is look, i didn't vote for donald trump or maybe i'm not that excited about donald trump but i sure like his policies. i sure like what's happening hag with my 401(k). i sure like this economic growth and by the way, we're hearing that tax relief isthe way. when you say yes it is, they're all for it. it doesn't matter if they're an independent, a democrat or republican. they want to see better days ahead for their families, and that is the bottom line. liz: congressman, there are strange similarities between the polls today and the polls of the reagan tax cut era of 1986. >> yeah. liz: look at this, 26% of americans liked the tax cuts today, according to new monmouth poll. in the 1986 area, only 22% liking th

you had bill bradley from new jersey who was proposing top rates for exchanging carveouts which is now, basically, essentially a republican position. paul: but even in 2003 -- 2001, rather, a dozen democrats worked with george bush. >> right. i think democrats are betting on even in a better economy people's personal distaste for trump and the high intensity of the resistance to him is going to make them turn out and vote to for democrats. so they don't want anything to do with the tax bill. >> i do think that republicans would be smart to manage expectations. i think one big mistake the president's making is to talk about the stock market. paul: yeah. >> because the stock market is going to behave as it's going the behave -- [laughter] and there's a lot of external factors that could affect it. paul: sure. >> and that will not mean that the tax reform was not good. but if he ties them together, that will damage people's opinion of the reform. of. paul: i think one thing we know, mary, the stock market is going to go down at some point. [laughter] and you don't want to be hostage to th

chuck schumer voted for the reagan tax custody so did joe biden and john carrie and al gore and bill bradley. >> those are democrats. liz: that's the point, thank you you made my point. the jfk democrats have been basically treated like an extinct species right now. they're gone. the jfk democrats don't follow like they have a home in the democrat party as it exists today. go ahead. me too. it's tough. coming from the midwest, i really sometimes do feel that i am a man without a party. i am a proud democrat but i do hold those more old school tenants that we did see in the 60s and 80s and even 90s where there was a willingness to compromise and work together. liz: i hear what you're saying we're running out of time. curt i mean devastating losses for the last eight years for the democrats that all state government federal local levels, can they keep going like this? >> well, they can if they don't listen to democrats like capri. i think she's absolutely right. i think we need to work together to build this economy, right now the whole democrat policy seems to be obstruct obstruct obstruct an

our former colleague bill bradley mentioned that when he wrote a tax bill, he flew all over the country to work with republicans. in this case, apropos my colleague's question, not only did nobody do that sort of thing, they wouldn't even walk down the corridor to talk about working with the other side. mr. sanders: two points as i wind down here -- number one, yesterday i challenged my republican colleagues to tell us that after this bill is passed, tell the american people that when they rack up a deficit of $1.4 trillion, tell the american people that you are not going to come back and cut social security, medicaid, medicare, education, nutrition. tell the american people that you are not going to balance the budget and compensate for your huge tax breaks to the rich and large corporations by going after the middle class and working class of this country. i challenged my republican colleagues yesterday to come to the floor and tell the american people that they would not do that. they have not responded to that challenge. second challenge today -- tell us what is in section 1145-- 14

ed liberals like dick gephardt and bill bradley thought it was important to do it.oday's democratic party is driven by rhetoric of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. a lot of members who are inclined to be more centrist are entame dated by that. this was the only clear chance to get the outcome. >> looking november, plenty of people want to unseat you. one republican first used interim leader. do you think you will keep the senate in spite of the tax cut or because of the tax cut? >> i think we'll keep the senate. as what will be the principle issue a year from now is hard to predict, it really is hard to predict. every election cycle is different. the personalities are different. the map is different. unlike the house it is important to remember we're not all up. only 1/3 of the senate is up every two years. in any one so i kel you have to look where the races are. we have pretty good map. 25 of our democratic friend are up and only eight of us. but they had a good map last cycle, 24 of us, only 10 of them. in fact senator schumer was so confident he would have m

in 1986, you had a republican president, you had a democratic senator from new jersey, senator bill bradley. you had dan rostenkowski, chairman of the house ways and means from committee, a democrat, and other members of congress come together to try to reform our tax code, and they were successful in doing it against all odds. but today you have an entirely different scenario. you have republicans seeing that the economy is growing at a very slow rate and that wages for most workers have been flat for the last ten years and realizing that our current tax code is counterproductive when it comes to encouraging investment and job creation and wage growth in our country because we have the highest tax rate in the world for businesses that do business internationally. we thought we need to do something about it. and so we set about reforming our tax code with three goals in mind. one is to simplify the tax code. everybody knows how complex it is and how much money people spend hiring an accountant or h.r. block or somebody to help you figure it out. secondly, we figured that it would be importa

bill bradley tells this story about how he flew all over the country to meet with republicans to talk about how you could find common ground to deal with tax reform. this time we haven't been able to get the majority to even walk down the corridor in an effort to try to get a bipartisan bill. as i've told my colleague, i've written two of them. so my question to my friend is, because i know he spends a lot of time, how do you think people in connecticut are going to react when you have your community meetings to the idea that we had maybe an hour or so to really try to make our way through the bill that is actually the bill, the biggest tax bill in 31 years that you will have to, because i know my colleague knows very hard to be straightforward with his constituents, tell them, i just got it with insufficient time to get into it? how are they going to react to that? mr. murphy: i don't want to be too heavy about this, but everybody shouldn't assume that the way in which we run our country just continues on forever. democracy is unnatural. we don't run other parts of our lives by democ

, a another tall democrat like myself with a lot better jump shot but bill bradley described how when he was working with ronald reagan he flew all over the country to meet with republicans to work out the kind of bipartisan tax reform that congressman and i wanted. in this case the majority party wasn't even willing to walk across the capitol to try to find a way to do this right and let me make one last point. a number of you have asked whether we would be receptive to working with republicans on technical corrections and as soon as i heard it, i said, that's the ultimate indictment of the process. you're supposed to not move with reckless haste so you aren't going to need to make so many corrections down the road. here, they're just assuming, they're just assuming here before the bill has even been debated on the floor in the senate that because they have moved in such a hasty kind of fashion that they're going to be digging out for days trying to figure out what it is they actually did and the question that they have been asking us about whether we will work with them on technical

dick gephart and bill bradley were for it. it passed by a pretty significant majority. been the opportunity for it to be done on that kind of basis as well, but whatever faint hope i had for that faded when i got a letter from all but three of the senate democrats right after the august recess describing what they thought comprehensive tax reform was about. and it bore little relationship to what we felt the country needed in order to get growing again. you've heard the argument so you are probably tired of hearing them. the problem was america was under performing. not a single year of 3% growth during the obama years. we attributed that to excessive regulation and a failure to address the tax code. this administration, working with us through their congressional review act, repealed 15 of the obama-era regulations and by the appointments that they made, all confirmed by the senate, began to put new kinds of people at the sec, nrlb, food and drug administration and all of these agencies that can slow an economy by excessive regulation. we believe a combination of regul

it was a bill that had been offered by senator bill bradley of new jersey. he was retiring. i was asked to consider sponsoring this wilderness proposal in the state of utah. and of course i said i'm from illinois, not utah, and i've never seen this. well, they asked me to come out and take a look and i did. my wife and i went out to take a look at what was known as the red rocks wilderness area. it's in the southeastern corner of utah and i'd never been there, nor had i ever heard of it before i visited. what an eye opener to go there and see this magnificent vista, this incredible landscape that was being proposed for wilderness protection and status. so over the years i reintroduced the bill, the conversation continued and it wasn't until president obama took a major share of this area which is in san juan county in the southeastern corner of utah and designated it in the name of the bears ears monument that we finally achieved protection for this beautiful piece of real estate. i've been there. it is breathtaking. there are incredible cultural sites there, native american

, i agree with you in a bipartisan bill look, ronald reagan's '86 bill was led by gephardt and bill bradley't forget this, 28% and 15% and that was it. so those days have not come back, but business tax cuts are going to propel this economy. >> larry, we love you. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> his likes and this lidisliked the ties he loves. >>> how you should protect your portfolio from wild market swings like today. >>> the guilty plea of former national security adviser michael flynn. >>> later the head of chemicals giant explains how congress' tax reform plan could impact his business if it becomes law stay tuned we're back in two. against that? well, the national debt is $20 trillion. as we keep adding to it, guess who pays the bill? him. and her. and her. congress, we should grow the economy. not the debt. ♪ the open enrollment period is here. the time to choose your medicare coverage... begins october 15th and ends december 7th. so call unitedhealthcare to learn about... a plan that could give you the benefits you're looking for. it's the aarp medicarecomplete plan insured through

they're the jfk, bill bradley, dick gephardt and even joe biden democrats.s. ted kennedy voted for the reagan tax cuts. al gore did, john kerry did, joe biden did and chuck schumer did. >> one thing i hope the gop has learned from the process is how to better get their message out. when you look at the polls, the majority of the people don't like this deal. they should. they need to do a better job. stuart: break the monopoly on the establishment media. that does nothing for you, young man. [laughter] >> thank you to matt schlapp, dan heninger right here. liz and ash, as always. i think it's yet another historic day in politics and money. >> it is. stuart: the dow industrials up 108 points, we're at 24,834. my time is up. neil, it's yours. neil: you know what i admire about you, stuart? you acknowledge on air the tax package is not going to help you, you will pay more. you and i come from the same high-tax state of new jersey. i don't share your enthusiasm. [ laughter ] >> i thought i'd say that. i know do you, actually, neil, i think both of us want to see

in 1986, bill bradley and democrats have served on the finance committee to the growth and innovation he flew ove all r the united states, mr. president, all over the united states to work out with republicans the variousvi provisions of the tax law that would make the bill bipartisan. so, 1986, democrats flew around the country to meet with republicans to get bipartisan reform. this year, they haven't been willing to walk down the court or to discuss specific provisions about how we could move forward in a bipartisan tax reform. that's why the moderates are so concerned that we are missing a great opportunity. the multinationals by the way you look at the first letter from the joint committee on taxation. we could be looking at interest rates that make it hard for people to buy a house or a car because of this bill produces. this bill is not tax reform, it is a grab bag of goodies for the special-interest. it is embedded in the tax law and double standard with breaks for the multinationals and vanishing benefits for the middle class and most importantly, it didn't have to bhave tobe

you had chip o'neal a democrat speaker of the house, then conservative democrat bill graham, and bill bradleyre no conservative democrats left. even the senators who pretend to be conservative democrats, they are voting identically to chuck schumer and elizabeth warren. ainsley: sir, thank you very much. steve: merry christmas, sir. >> merry christmas. steve: meanwhile, they helped put donald trump in the white house. david bossie. come on, guys. we're going to talk about the tax win for republicans and the new book that will fit in your christmas stocking. [ click ] [ keyboard clacking ] [ clacking continues ] good questions lead to good answers. our advisors can help you find both. talk to one today and see why we're bullish on the future. yours. talk to one today and see why we're bullish on the future. ♪ it's the most wonderful time of the year ♪ ♪ ding dong, ding dong $50 gift card for them, $10 bonus card for you. only at applebee's. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. ♪ as soon as i became a parent i changed as a person, drastically. ♪ i tried hard to quit smoking. ♪ but when w

in 1986 bill bradley, someone i talked about bit on the floor as democrats that served on the finance committee with good government and growth and innovation. he flew all over the united states, mr. president, all of the united states to work out with republicans the various provisions of tax laws to make the bill bipartisan, so in 1986 democrats who around the country to meet with republicans to get bipartisan reform. this year republicans have not been willing to walk down the hall to discuss specific provisions about how we can move forward on a bipartisan tax reform bill. that's why our moderates are so concerned that we are nixing a great opportunity. multinationals-- by the way look at the first letter from the joint committee on taxation. we could be looking at interest rates to make it hard for people to buy a house and car because of what this bill produced p or this bill is not tax reform. it's a grab bag of goodies for special interests. it in beds in tax law a double standard with a breaks for the multinational and vanishing benefits for the middle class it didn't have to

bill kelly. back to you. michelle: gorgeous. >> getting down to business. >> bradley beal a huge night. why is his mom not pleased? we have an update back on the practice field this afternoon after a day off yesterday. the team plans to finish the season strong as they prepare for a trip to l.a. to face the chargers. jay gruden says tight end jordan reed who already missed five straight games due to injury. he probably won't play sunday. no surprise there. however, he said that shutting him down and placing the skins tight end on injured reserve hasn't been discussed yet. earlier, gruden was asked how he would assess reed's season. >> coach: what do you want me to say? it hasn't been out there for the last four or five or six weeks. incomplete i guess. i hate the people he's just unlucky. he had a bad toe coming to camp. then he tried to put too much weight on the other leg and that has affected the hamstring. erin: a lost season for reed. meanwhile, bradley beal went off last night and scored a career high of 51 points in portland. only lebron james and james harden have scored more po

and military spending increases.in the end, they settled on a stopgap spending bill that addressed neither issue., (r) alabama> "i think it is a dereliction of duty in the highest order." democrats saw an opening for their agenda, "i'm all in favor of keeping our government open the difference that i have is that i want to keep it open for everyone."nat "dream act now!"children of illegal immigrants brought here as children came to demand restoration of the daca program.unless congress acts by march, they could be targeted for deportation. republicans did agree to take up the issue but not until congresss returns in january. "not everyone gets what you want in this town" now to our four zone forecast. taking a live look outside at s-f-o.(pam) kron-4's chief meteorologist brittney shipp meteorologist brittney shipp is here now with the forecast lear and cool conditions tonight with widespread lows in the 30s. dry weather returns thursday with cool daytime highs followed by a colder night into friday morning. high pressure keeps things