aaron blake, thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> jon: the white house making a major push for tax reform looking to get a deal done by the end of the year. but president trump also weighing in again on the ucla basketball players arrested for shoplifting in china. president frustrated over their response to his efforts in securing their release. kristen fisher live at the white house with that. kristen. >> tax reform will be a topic when president trump sits down with his cabinet in 30 minutes. how much does the white house support the senate bill's inclusion of the repealing the obamacare mandate. over the weekend the white house budget director mulvaney made it clear while this administration clearly doesn't like the individual mandate and wants to get rid of it, that ultimately it is not willing to jeopardize tax reform in order to make sure that repeal is included in the bill as well. listen here. >> if we can repeal part of obamacare as part of the tax bill and have a tax bill that is still a

aaron blake, i start with you. i called it enemy shopping. you call it whatever you would like. the question is, what exactly does the president get out of this? >> yeah, he seemed to be in a certain mood on sunday. that's for sure. you know, i think there is a tendency to view all of these things as, you know, distracting from something. maybe he doesn't want us to talk about the tax debate by going after lavar ball and marshawn lynch. but then he also had the tweet about the -- about jeff flake and about the tax bill. you know, i think what's really interesting about the flake tweet is that jeff flake was not a no on this bill. he did not come out against it. he did say that he wondered what it would do to the deficit. but he was undecided. and his office says that he is still undecided. what the tweet effectively does now is it puts jeff flake in a position that if he winds up voting for this, it looks like trump actually pushed him into that. this may actually make him less likely to support the tax bill, and they would only need one more senator to vote against it in order

types believe the president had his automotive history wrong this weekend and some of them said so, aaron blake of the "washington post" defended the president's comments in context and something of a newsletter to his cohorts in the media. the headline screamed stop cherry picking that trump quote about japanese cars. it's not what you think. noted. that is our broadcast for tonight. thank you for being here with us. my thanks to ali velshi and nicolle wallace for covering for me while i was on sick leave. tomorrow night our broadcast will include the election returns from the commonwealth of virginia. for now for all of us here, good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> michael flynn, general flynn is a wonderful man. i think he has been treated very, very unfairly by the media. >> an nbc news exclusive. robert mueller has enough evidence to bring charges in the flynn investigation. tonight the latest on flynn, flynn jr., trump jr., and paul manafort. >> i feel badly for him, because i always found him to be a really nice person. >>> then, what we'r

types believe the president had his automotive history wrong this weekend and some of them said so, aaron blakehington post" defended the president's comments in context in something of a news let'ser to his cohorts in the media. the headline screamed "stop cherry-picking that trump quote about japanese cars. it's not what you think." noted. that is our broadcast for tonight. thank you for being here with us. my thanks to ali velshi and nicole wallace for covering for me while i was on sick leave. tomorrow night our broadcast will include the election returns from the commonwealth of virginia. for now for all of us here good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> within the last couple hours this evening law enforcement officials in texas have confirmed some new details about the church shooting in suggestedland springs, texas yesterday morning, which has now claimed 26 lives. it had previously been reported that the killer had used a long gun, a rifle, semiautomatic rifle to shoot dozens of people inside that small town church. two handguns, in addition, were later recovered fr