joining me now is chris van hollen of maryland. he's calling on republicans to delay their tax vote until alabama senator democrat doug jones is seated. that obviously reduce their majority. any chance of that happening, senator van hollen? >> we're pushing very hard for that. for them to do the right thing. i just came off the senate floor, there's still time to turn back from the brink this tax plan is going to do grave damage to the country in years to come. and doug jones, the newly elected senator from alabama, should have a chance to weigh in on this. they should respect the people of alabama. afterall, many years ago when we had a similar situation when scott brown had been elected to fill the seat of ted kennedy, mitch mcconnell said it would be a travesty if democrats proceeded on obamacare on the health care plan and in fact, they waited for scott brown to be seated before they proceeded. so republicans and the republican leadership and the

senator van hollen, let me pick up where senator cornyn left off. senator cornyn says he still has confidence in director mueller. he says director should take further steps to clean house. >> i think republicans should end their concerted effort to undermine the credibility of the mueller investigation. you have somebody who by all accounts is an independent person. somebody with lots of integrity. you see a concerted effort out of the white house to undermine the investigation. i really hope our republican colleagues will not join in subverting that process and trying to end this investigation. the question is, what are they afraid of? what is the white house afraid of? let's let them finish the job and get the facts. >> why isn't it a problem, if several members of mueller's team have given contributions solely to democrats if they seem to have text messages or other information in their past which suggests that there may be a political bias there? >> well, because mueller has already taken actions with respect to those individuals. beyond that,

leading the senate committee in 2016, senator van hollen, like toomey. i think you'd love to debate tax policy, maybe not everybody wants to watch that. i tease, because it doesn't have the flashiness sometimes of some of these other topics we discuss. let me start with the tax bill. senator toomey believes that once people see moren in their paycheck, this bill becomes, if not more popular, at least less toxic. i have to say, if you see more money in your paycheck you may be right. do you worry than as far as the political environment? >> hey, chuck, i would love to see more people get more money in their paychecks, and the going to be here debating tax policy with pat toomey. we've done it before, and he's just dead wrong on this. he said only a handful of folks in the middle class will see a tax increase. that's just not true. the non-partisan professionals, the joint committee on taxation, have said millions of middle class families are going to pay higher taxes, and for what? for this big corporate tax giveaway, which is permanent, while those ameri

chris van hollen. and our powerhouse "roundtable." we'll break down the pom ticks, spoke out the spin. >>> good morning. as we head into the holidays, it sure looks like president trump and the gop will get what they want for christmas. the votes lined up for the largest tax cut in years. what will it mean for the economy and the middle class? determine. we'll have two of america's prominent economists ahead. will it look like a win one year from now? >> this is where it all began. >> reporter: this time last year, donald trump was thanking alabama voters. on his victory tour. not this week. despite the president's late push for the gop candidate doctor. >> get out and vote for roy moore. do it. do it. >> reporter: moore's baggage was just too heavy. >> the leader of the party, i would have liked to have had the seat. >> reporter: and trump's clout a little light. the president won alabama by 28 points. now his approval rating is below 50 in the reddest of red states. he's caught in a cross fire of a gop civil war. with steve bannon.

. >> sreenivasan: but democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland said that the bill was a betrayal of the president's message of economic populism. >> millionaires will get an average annual tax break $35,000 a year and the big winners are those corporations. and i think many people haven't focused on the fact that 35% of the shareholders of those corporations are actually foreign stockholders who in the year 2019 are going to get a $31 billion tax break. it doesn't sound like america first to me, it doesn't sound like the middle class first. >> sreenivasan: president trump's transition team has accused special counsel robert mueller of illegally obtaining thousands of private emails in the investigation of possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. in a seven-page letter to key senate and house committee leaders, a lawyer for trump's transition team accused staffers at the general services administration of breaking the law. the attorney claims that the gsa handed over "emails, laptops, cell phones and other material"" to the special counsel. those items allegedly c

i'm pledging to do that tonight. >> dana: joining me now is senator chris van hollen senato.i imagineg last night. do you think the democrats and you yourself have hit upon a formula that could get to you a 2018 come back or was alabama gist a one off because of the allegations because of the allegations against roy moore? >> dana, i think it was more than just a run off. obviously there were special circumstances there. if you take what happened in alabama with this big upset where you had a big, big turnout among traditional democratic constituencies but coupled with a lot of crossover republican voters, who voted for doug jones, and you look what happened last november, in this past november in virginia and other places, and clearly you're seeing a trend and a lot of momentum for candidates who are going to focus on kitchen table issues, which is what doug jones did. he talked about economic issues. he said we should not support a tax plan that's a big give away to corporations. paid for by folks in the middle class. he talked last night, of course, about funding the children's hea

of this amendment has the support of senator whitehouse, donnelly and van hollen. i think we need to make our tax system simpler and more fair for hard-working families, businesses particularly small businesses and manufacturers and that's what i have been working for. unfortunately, this is not the plan presented today by senate republicans. lets be honest with the american people. this bill is largely a tax giveaway to the wealthiest few and big corporations while millions of middle-class families will get a tax hike. with that this partisan bill from across the aisle big corporations get permanent tax breaks, permanent, while middle-class families will see tax increases. in fact, most americansca earnig less than $75000 a year will see tax increases and that is simply not fair. it's also not fair that the top 1% will end up with over 60% of the benefits and in exchange 13 million more will lose health insurance. health care premiums will by 10% and medicare and medicaid a have been put on the chopping block to pay for it. in addition, with the senate republicans

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. >> senator chris van hollen, thank you very much for joining us on this important night. i really appreciate. >> thank you. >> we're joined by gene sperling and also joining us david sirota, senior editor for investigations at the international business times. and david, thank you very much for doing the digging on this tax bill for all of us. i know how hard it is to isolate these provisions, interpret them, figure out who they affect. and your reaction tonight and what you've heard bob corker say in defense of him voting for what now been called the corker kickback. >> well, i think his explanation doesn't make much sense because he hasn't really explained why he was voting against the bill that on the grounds of the deficit, and now is voting for a bill that would increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion. the fact pattern that we know very clear. bob corker voted against a bill, a senate bill that didn't include a special provision that helps the real estate industry of which bob corker has substantial investments. he did not vote for a bill that included restrictions on

van hollen: all right. thank you, mr. president. i see senator menendez from new jersey has arrived to cosponsor together with senator cantwell and myself on this amendment. i want to thank senator cantwell for her leadership, and she has covered a number of important points. the main one is that from the beginning of our federal tax code in 1913, we established a principle in the united states to avoid double taxation. it makes no sense that any citizens of this country send a dollar of tax to their state governments to help schools or roads in their state and then they are turned around and taxed on that same dollar by the federal government, but that's exactly what this republican tax plan is doing. now, weeks and weeks ago the republican leader, senator mcconnell, and the speaker of the house, paul ryan, made she's public -- these public statements about these bills, we're going to raise taxes on everybody. they both had to publicly reverse those statements because in order to provide huge tax breaks to the biggest corporations

this amendment has the support of senators whitehouse, donnelly, and van hollen. i think that we need to make our tax system simpler and fairer for hardworking families, businesses, particularly small businesses and manufacturers, and that's what i have been working for. unfortunately, this is not the plan being presented today by senate republicans. let's be honest with the american people. this bill is largely a tax giveaway to the wealthiest few and big corporations while millions of middle-class families will get a tax hike. with this partisan bill from across the aisle, big corporations get permanent tax breaks, permanent. while middle-class families will see tax increases. in fact, most americans earning less than $75,000 a year will see tax increases, and that is simply not fair. it's also not fair that the top 1% will end up with over 60% of the benefits, and in exchange, 13 million more will lose health insurance. health care premiums will increase by 10%, and medicare and medicaid have been put on the chopping block to pay for it. in addition, with the s

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i asked senator van hollen about this about a month ago. and he said actually when you're in the minority, there's actually things that come easier, when you're in the minority because you're just playing defense sort of. and he also said there's a little bit of room to maneuver and be creative in those sessions that are never public, as you try to increase tkreecre tunisian aid cut. or when you want to -- can you tell us more about this process? >> by the way, he loves being reminded of the fact he started out working for a republican senator, just to mention it. >> i don't know whether i agree with chris. on balance, i think the point of your question was correct. i think it just injects uncertainty, unpredictability, real reticence to make long-term commitments because who knows? and it adds to an unstable environment. and again, you have to look at all that in context, we're not in a stable environment here right now. both politically and in our foreign policy. so i think we would be far better served to have long-term funding, that eve

i asked senator van hollen about this about a month ago.nd he said actually when you're a in the minority, there's actually things that come easier, when you're in the minority because you're just playing defense sort of. and he also said there's a little bit of room to maneuver and be creative in those sessions that are never public, as you try to increase thekreescrease the tunisian aid cut. or when you want to -- can you tell us more about this process? >> by the way, he loves being reminded of the fact he started out working for a republican senator, just to mention it. i don't know whether i agree with chris. on balance, i think the point of your question was correct. i think it just injects uncertainty, unpredictability, real reticence to make long-term commitments because who knows? and it adds to an unstable environment. and again, you have to look at all that in context, we're not in a stable environment here right now. both politically and in our foreign policy. so i think we would be far better served to have long-term funding, t

van hollen: we should simplify our tax code. it's gotten filled over many years with all sorts of junk that was put there by high-powered lobbyists rather than because of the public interest. unfortunately, this bill has nothing to do with tax reform. in fact, it's hard to believe you could take a tax code that's already stacked in favor of the very wealthy and the very powerful and make it even more favorable to the very wealthy and very powerful, but that's exactly what this republican tax plan does. and exhibit a about how this has nothing to do with tax reform has to do with a carried interest loophole. many may recall that during the last campaign, candidate trump, whenever he talked about the need to reform the tax code, what was his number one example? he said we have got to get rid of the carried interest loophole for hedge fund managers. go back and run the tape. every time somebody asked him what was broken about the tax code, that's what he said. in fact, he said, and i quote, the hedge fund guys are getting away with

chris van hollen saying we should be ready to make some noise if mcconnell doesn't seat jones before we vote on tax reform. alabamaens deserved to have their voices fully heard. on the republican side, you will remember jeff flake giving to jones campaign. once the results came in he wrote "decency wins." then ohio governor john kasich saying thankfully today enough republicans chose country over party. president trump is tweeting as well. saying the reason i originally endorsed luther strange is i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. of course, he is congratulating doug jones as well. back to you. nancy: all right. anderson cooper's twitter account was hacked according to cnn. calling the president a, "tool" and pathetic loser. the tweet came following doug jones win in the alabama senate election. cooper says he woke up to find out someone got into his account. alison: okay. al franken announced he will be stepping down amid sexual misconduct claims. the replacement is the lieutenant governor tina smith. the state's governor, democrat, gets to pick who fills

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. >> harris: chris van hollen is a member of the senate budget committee, he joins me from capitol hilli don't know if you could hear the fiery discussion on set but we have a democratic strategist who says you guys didn't have an opportunity to put your voices in. i read something different. what happened? >> what happened is we have certain principles going into this tax debate and one of them was that we should not raise taxes on anybody in the middle class. you may recall that speaker ryan and republican leader mcconnell at different points of said this will not raise taxes on a single american middle-class family. they both had to admit that's not true. to call this on middle-class tax cut when it will raise taxes on 11 million american families, including hundreds of thousands in my state of maryland, is a con game. we said you have to have tax cuts for folks in the middle, we did not think we should have millionaires who are now going to get an average annual tax cut of $70,000 a year. we didn't think we needed to do that as a country and while we've supported corporate tax refor

. >> plus, chris van hollen discusses the race in alabama. what it means for his party's chances in 2018. on "this week." on abc. >>> now to the massive wildfire that's been tearing through southern california for almost two weeks. the thomas fire is now the third largest in california history. it's forcing a new round of evacuations. >> this thing is huge. it's torched 267,000 acres. an area larger than new york city. marci gonzalez is in santa barbara. with the latest. marci, good morning to you. >> reporter: dan, paula, good morning. you can see all this red back here where crews dropped fire retardant. it was no help. firefighters say the flames came over the hill so quickly, they just didn't have time to save this home. while they were trying, the heat melted some of their hoses. they were able to save other homes in this neighborhood and this morning they're working to protect many more. >> more than 10,000 acres burning just since friday. flames like a glowing gash threatening homes. forcing 16,000 new mandatory evacuations. weather co

the stamp is set to be in rotation for two years but today maryland senator chris van hollen along withislation to make it available for six years. steve. >> ♪ >> time for the morning line. we'll keep it real quick for you this morning. let's start on the ice right now. caps what a great start last night first period the entire first line scored. they poured it on. three goals in the first. then they won six to two. tom wilson with two goals and two assists being doing great on that number one line. nick backstrom ended his 21 game stretch without a goal. that's a long time for him. about a quarter of the season. 37 saves for braden holtby. caps win for the sixth time in seven games. they're turning eight around. they host the rangers tomorrow night. >>> in the nfl roger goodell taking a lot of heat from a lot of people everywhere except the nfl owners who have agreed that goodell should get a five year contract extension. that means he will be the commissioner of the league through 2024. the deal has been in the works since may. all 32 owners approved and last month of course controver

kathleen: we saw chris van hollen calling chaim -- calling for him to be seated.t depends on when the vote happens. one thing to watch is whether there is controversy, whether republicans are a bit cheeky and trying to put off seating jones until they pass their tax bill through. democrats will balk at that but that is a dynamic to watch. guy: what does it mean for midterms? kathleen: they are bold heading into the midterms. they just won a seat in the most republican of republican states. special elections are different from midterm elections. there is not a national wave and a special election. who comes out to vote. usually it is the side that is the most motivated. that could have been democrats. it looks a get was democrats. it is something that democrats will take as an emboldening development. they will feel like they have the capacity to pick up republican seats across the country even in the most conservative of areas. i would temper that encouragement by saying what happens in the midterms is not necessarily going to correspond with what we saw in this m

average annual tax break of $35,000 a year and the big winners of the corporations -- >> chris van hollencan party's tax bill as the clock ticks closer to that final vote this week. the house goes first on it's passage on tuesday. let's bring in republican strategist liz mayor, the founder of the super pac make america awesome and the communications director and msnbc contributor howard dean, former dnc chairman and former governor of vermont with a welcome to you both, nice to have you join us, liz, on a sunday. >> thanks for having me. >> junior response to senator hollen's claims there, is the president ultimately breaking his promise to the american people? >> i'm not sure that i would necessarily characterize it that way. i think there are valid criticisms that you can make of the republican tax plan, but on the whole, i think it's pretty good and i think it's pretty accurate to say that if you are a family with children because of the way that they've expanded the child tax credit here, you probably are going to be better off. there are some people who obviously won't be, but i don'

the democratic campaign committee as he oversees the 28th teen midterm elections again from chris van hollen. trump loses come america wins. doug jones in birmingham and roy moore in montgomery alabama taking your phonecalls chris' first up from campbell california. go ahead, please. >> caller: hi i'm just ecstatic with this book. it's just unbelievable. i did not think this territory in the u.s. could be taken over by democrats but a great job by the campaign. i am stoked. i hate the tax bill so i'm glad there's a majority in the senate. i think it's good for our country and i'm sure trump's -- right now but i'm ecstatic. i really did not think this could happen. let's go thanks very much amigo next to daniel joining us in the public mind from brooklyn new york. go ahead, please. >> caller: good evening, how are you? klitschko your reactions from the results in alabama? >> caller: roy morris is not a good person. democrats should not read too much into this. people weren't adjusted in voting for a child molester and the next time the senate seat is up for election republicans. [inaudible] >

so i went to senator chris van hollen, whose father was very will note in the foreign service and said, hey, we should get a foreign service officers caucus going in the senate to support the men and women in the foreign service. those of youe way, who are part of the foreign service, there is also a culture that they hate coming up to the hill. most of them. so this was a little bit more of a, hey, it won't be tv just come in meat and let us show our support for you. so we launched that about six months ago. the deputy secretary of state comes in to our caucus this wednesday on the senate side to meet with senators who just want to show their support, have questions and concerns. i think making sure our foreign service officers know that they have strong support in the congress and a constituency that supports them is really important, and it gets to this issue of executive/legislative corporation. that are kind of things breed that kind of cooperation. when we first launched the caucus, we had senators like orrin hatch, jim risch, really strong, very well respected. chris murphy on t

sponsored by senator van hollen, senator feinstein and others, the secure act. we should take that bill up and pass it. yes, let's provide protection. let's strengthen americans' values. let's do our work. let's do it now. let's do it before we go on recess. it's the right thing to do. let me just conclude by quoting from becky again, one of the dreamers that i met with. she said the best present she ever got was on her 13th birthday when president obama executed the executive order that gave her legal status and hope here in america. well, now we can give her even better present right now before we take recess for the christmas holiday. we can give her a present of congress acting to provide protection for the dreamers and for those who are on t.p.s. so they don't have to worry again. and they know they have a home here in america. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i'm delighted to join my colleagues here in support of these kids who are known as dreamers or daca kids that came in

so i went to senator chris van hollen.father was very well known in the foreign service and said hey, we should get a foreign service officers caucus going in the senate. to support the men and women in the foreign services. and by the way, those of you who have served at the department are part of the foreign service but there's also culture that they hate coming up to the hill. i think. most of them. so this was a little bit more of a, it will not be the t.v. cameras, just a caucus. to come and meet and let us try to show our support for you. we launched that about six months ago. as a matter fact the deputy secretary of state is coming to the caucus this wednesday. on the senate side to meet with senators who just want to show their support, have questions and concerns. but i think making sure that our foreign service officers know that there strong support in the congress, and a constituency that supports them, is really important. and i guess this issue of executive, legislative cooperation.those are the kind of thing

and so i went to senator chris van hollen, whose father was well known in the foreign service and i said -- we should get a foreign service officers caucus to support those men and women in the foreign service. and, either way, there is also a culture there that they hate coming up to the hill. i think. most of them. this was a little more of the -- -- towon't be tv cameras meet and let us show your support -- our support for you. that was launched. is deputy secretary of state coming to our caucus on wednesday on the senate side to meet with senators to show their support. i think making sure that our foreign service officers know that they have strong support and a constituency that supports them is very important. and it gets to an issue of executive-legislative cooperation. those are the kinds of things that breed that kind of cooperation. when we first launched the caucus six months ago, we had senators like orrin hatch, jim rich, very strong and well respected. chris murphy on the democratic side. masto, a nevada senator. we had a good group, 10 senators already. ofis an important

going to senator chris van hollen we should get a foreign service officers caucus going to support the men and women. there is also a culture they hate coming up to the hill. so they let us meet to show support the deputy secretary of state meeting with senators who want to show their support but i think our foreign service officers have strong support in the congress and he gets to the issue of executive legislative cooperation because it breeds that cooperation when we launch that caucus senators like orrin hatch and jim resch very well respected, chris murphy, catherine cortez mass told the nevada senator we will grow that but i think it is an important element of that strengthening cooperation to make sure we understand the hard work and sacrifice foreign service officers do every day. >> the administration's proposal is a budget reduction for state to take it down by 8% it is no secret that morale is very low and there is a dismantling of the foreign service can congress intervene? >> i also have concerns some of that you have to get to the truth i will give you an example there w

so i went to senator chris van hollen whose father was very well known in the foreign service and said hey, we should get a foreign service officer caucus going in the senate. support the many women in the foreign service. and oh, by the way, those of you who are part of the foreign service there's also a culture there that he will hit coming up to the the hill, i think. most of them. this was a little bit more of a hey, will be the tv cameras, just a caucus, they kind of come and meet and let us show our support for you. so relaunched that about six months ago. the deputy secretary of state has come into her caucus this wednesday on the senate side to meet with senators who just want to show support, have questions, have concerns. i think making sure our foreign service officers know that they are strong support in the congress and the constituency that supports them. it's really important, and it gets to this issue of executive, legislative cooperation. those are the kind of things that breezes that kind of cooperation get when we first launched the caucus six months ago we had on th

van hollen: we should simplify our tax code. it's gotten filled over many years with all sorts of junk that was put there by high-powered lobbyists rather than because of the public interest. unfortunately, this bill has nothing to do with tax reform. in fact, it's hard to believe you could take a tax code that's already stacked in favor of the very wealthy and the very powerful and make it even more favorable to the very wealthy and very powerful, but that's exactly what this republican tax plan does. and exhibit a about how this has nothing to do with tax reform has to do with a carried interest loophole. many may recall that during the last campaign, candidate trump, whenever he talked about the need to reform the tax code, what was his number one example? he said we have got to get rid of the carried interest loophole for hedge fund managers. go back and run the tape. every time somebody asked him what was broken about the tax code, that's what he said. in fact, he said, and i quote, the hedge fund guys are getting away with

van hollen: thank you, mr. president. i come to the floor -- the presiding officer: excuse me. the chamber is in a quorum call. mr. van hollen: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. van hollen: thank you, mr. president. i come to the floor this afternoon because of the reports that the house and senate conference committees on the tax plan are nearing an agreement or may have reached an agreement, and by all accounts this is shaping up to be one of the greatest legislative heists in american history. it's hard to imagine you could take a tax code that was already stacked in favor of the very wealthy and very powerful special interests and actually make it worse, but that's exactly what we're hearing coming out of the conference committee being worked on essentially by a republican house -- by our republican house colleagues and republican senate colleagues. the conference committee is a bit of a charade because of the real work with respect to the tax bill

van hollen: they are. -- sen. sanders: they are. the way this bill is written, the tax breaks for corporations are permanent. why weren't the tax breaks for the middle class made permanent? it has to do with the priorities of the folks who wrote the legislation. their job is to represent multinational corporations, not working families. >> for more on congress and the tax reform bill, we talk with a reporter on "washington ate student loans do not. joining us is bernie becker who has been following this for "politico." walk us through the schedule this week. what can we expect? guest: we expect the house to take this up on tuesday. after that, it would move to the senate. president trump hopes to sign this by the middle of the week and by all accounts, it looks to be on a pretty good allied path. -- glide half. host: let me share what paul ryan said. >>

van hollen: no. democrats will not allow the cuts to go in place. it is a fact that when republicans voted for the tax bill that increases the debt by $1.5 trillion, in doing so they automatically triggered this provision that would cut medicare by $25 billion. we hope they will join us in turning it off. if you look towards next year, you have a lot of republicans who used to care about the debt. i used to be be seeing a democrat on the budget committee. paul ryan used to talk about the dangers of debt. we agreed on the issue. now they have blown a big hole in the debt, and if you look at their budget, the plan for dealing with that is to cut medicare by $500 billion and medicaid by over $1 trillion. >> it looks like it is going to get past the senate and house and signed by the president. is there anything more that opponents like you could have done to stop it? sen. sanders: i think we did everything that we could, but at the end of the day what you had is people like mr. mnuchin and the president who is worth several billion dollars. you had lob