what are the odds that donald trump walks around with claire mccaskill's name in his head? what are the odds that he actually knows the name of the democratic senator from missouri? here's is how senator mccaskill's name came up while donald trump was closely reading his teleprompter today. >> we must -- we have no choice. we must lower our taxes, and your senator, claire mccaskill, she must do this for you. and if she doesn't do it for you, you have to vote her out of office. [ cheers and applause ] >> he was very clearly reading the teleprompter when he said her name. it was right there in the prompter. his speechwriters working in the white house on the government payroll wrote that completely political campaign passage in the president's speech in violation of the law. it's against the law for white house speechwriters to write lines like that. federal government workers are not allowed to use their jobs in campaigning for or against a candidate. watch what happens when donald trump ad libs off the teleprompter about claire mccaskill right after saying that. >> she's got

and your senator claire mccaskill, she must do this for you. if she doesn't for you, you have to vote her out of office. >> bret: president trump today on the first official pitch of his tax reform effort. this in the backyard of a democrat up for reelection, claire mccaskill, one of several democrats up for reelection in 2018 in states that president trump won. here is the tax reform in a nutshell. cut the number of income tax brackets to three with a top rate of 35%, lower the rates of 25% and 10%. top rate right now is 39.6. double the standard deduction that americans can use to reduce their taxable income. you've got basically married couples, also individuals under the proposal would go down. reduce the corporate tax rate, this is a big one. the initial plan was to cut the rate from 35% of 15%. there is some talk about the 20s being the target but he mentioned 15% today. repeal the alternative minimum tax and the estate tax known as the death tax. that's a big one. and the 3.8% investment income that was opposed by obamacare. that's a nut

senator claire mccaskill and chairman of the state's democratic party who called for her to resign. schaap pell nadal reiterated yesterday she has no plans to step down. >>> coming up next, more on president trump as he prepares to address the nation for what's next for the u.s. military in afghanistan. and both weigh in on the expected plan and whether it will end the 16-year war. just moments away. i needed something more to help control my type 2 diabetes. my a1c wasn't were it needed to be.

so you mentioned claire mccaskill.crat instead of a member of his own party. let's take a look at that. >> we must lower our taxes. and your senator, claire mccaskill, she must do this for you and if she doesn't do it for you, you have to vote her out of office. >> jake, do you think there's a chance that mccaskill votes for tax reform? >> not the way it looks right now, it doesn't seem like it. they're not in the room, they have no buy-in. senate democrats are telling me yesterday, republicans control all of government. let's see what they come up with. if they want to include us that's fine. i want to make one point on the white house's posture on tax reform when it comes to the hill. the white house has been saying for weeks this isn't that hard. we'll get the this done by august, done by october, done by december. i don't think gary cohn -- it's understandable he's confused, because he never served in government and he worked in a bank and the president is confused because he doesn't understand this either. once th

i agree with claire mccaskill, we've got to work together on it.hat. senator alexander has announced that his committee is going to hold bipartisan hearings. the finance committee should do the same thing with -- both of us serve on that committee. we've got to fix this thing because it's not working. the status quo is failing the people i represent in ohio and it deserves to be fixed. we can continue to work on this even while we're doing other things. we can chew gum and work at the same time. >> jim vandehei. >> senator portman, i'll take you up on your offer to talk about the bill you want to talk about. my wife has worked on sex trafficking for a long time. tell us why the facebooks and googles of the world don't like your legislation and that's one of the reasons it's complicated efforts to do what a lot of people think should be done quite easily. >> first of all, jim, your wife has a champion and she produced this film "i am jane doe." it's on netflix. it talks about our investigation and talks about exactly what claire mccaskill just said

touch with regular people lately i've got one here for you now it's about democratic senator claire mccaskill from missouri and her privately she's cut a lot of trouble for that plate over the years she has to fly from washington back to missouri on it over the weekend it was an eight passenger turbo prop worth about two million dollars she owned it back in two thousand and eleven it came out she didn't pay taxes she owed on it for more than four years so she owed about three hundred thousand dollars in state property taxes she was also caught using taxpayer dollars to fly the plane around for many reasons including at least one trip political in nature which set off an ethics complaint so the plane was big trouble for mccaskill especially because she was doing what lots of politicians do trying to sell herself as a do gooder out to just help the poor instead of as an ambitious hard working woman going out there and get nervous that's the only image she was trying to create didn't exactly square with owning a two million dollar plane that she dodged taxes on so finally she ended up selling th

your senator, claire mccaskill, she must do this for you and if she doesn't do it for you, you have to vote her out of office. i am calling on all members of congress, democrat, republican and independent to support pro-american tax reform. they have to do it. >> he was really broad on his tax reform policy that he laid out. simplify the tax code, eliminate special-interest loopholes, provide tax relief for middle-class families and cut corporate tax relief. what is interesting, fox news has a poll out talking about do people think congress will pass tax reform this year and here is the paul, yes, 49% state is important, 46% say no, pretty much half and half which is it likely? yes, 14% say yes but it is overwhelming, 78% say not likely with this congress. >> that coincides with the approval rating for congress which is 15% whereas donald trump is 41% overall but his highest approval rating comes on the economy at 49%. he does have the upper hand now and congress had better listen and get some work done. >> may be. we will see. >> the time is 10 minutes after the top of the hour. you j

for a lot of folks in the gop, including josh holley, the attorney general who may run against claire mccaskillhe has come out and called president trump a hateful man, leading the party to ruin, it puts the current members of the party in missouri in a tough spot. who do they side with, the godfather of the party in their state or rank and file who like trump just fine? that gets to the larger split. the rank and file are just fine with the president. the elites in the party increasingly believe he is a perilous figure for gop. >> we'll keep an eye on that. margaret? >> i'm going to double down on missouri. the dynamic inside the republican party is clearly fascinating but we'll also get a chance to see next week how president trump, live and in person, deals with red state democrats, claire mccaskill, who may be facing one of the toughest re-election bids for the senate in the coming year. staunch clinton supporter and has talked herself of bipartisan outreach and wishes that the president would engage in more bipartisanship, whether it's tax reform, infrastructure. the state senator democrat

claire mccaskill come out in -- claire mccaskill out in missouri, susan collins up in maine. [applause] senator warren: and so we got a bipartisan group together. you are going to like this part, before the industry even knew what we were up to. down low. down low. kept it on the down low. kept it quiet. we got the bill introduced and , here comes the best part. there was a bill moving -- i am on health, education, labor, and pensions committee. it is one of the committees i sit in. and there was a bill that had to move, about fda reauthorization, both sides agreed it needed to go forward and it is like a , train coming through the station. this is how laws really get made. there is this train coming through the station, and we had enough people who were interested in the hearing aid bill, and we hoped our little -- looked -- hooked our little car, our hearing aid bill, on the back of the train, as it came through. and we said, as long as we are doing reauthorization, let's do this. so, we made it through the committee -- oh, and by the way, we needed some help on the house s

joe manchin of west virginia, heidi hidecamp of north dakota, claire mccaskill.he president spends most of his time going after his own party? >> it is really bizarre. i mean, democrats are really worried about all of those races you just put up on the screen, because trump won in those states. they tend to be states that tend to be a little more conservative and know that they're going to have a hard time even in a midterm election year where the president's party tends to do poorly. they're kind of watching in awe about trump not going after these people. this is a gift to claire mccaskill giving them breathing room in their home state to be able to push think own message forward instead of worrying about the president tweeting about them every morning. >> and discussed this in the last segment. the challenges in balancing this. the president going after them, or attacking the president, staying with the president. deciding this is, go after him in specific issues and with him behind others. one reason why, we discussed it earlier. the agenda is intense in sept

your senator, claire mccaskill, she must do this and if she does not do it for you, you have to vote her out of office. [applause] president trump: we cannot do this anymore with the obstruction and the obstructionists. essentially the biggest ever, we're looking for the biggest ever, jobs in our country cannot take off as they should. he dems obstructed so many other things we had not one vote to try and fix health care and get rid of obamacare. the strategy of economic rivals ork. they make it far lower than any cases and jobs, left our country. large corporations change their business model to other countries and back to the united states, they have made massive profits and they would not be paying tax either. we lost the jobs and the taxes and closed the buildings and the plants in the factories. we got nothing but unemployment. we got nothing. other businesses, even classic american brands, switched headquarters to foreign countries. because of this and other reasons like weak borders, america remains stuck in the past. we have general kelly here today and we stopped 78% on the

the president specifically took aim at claire mccaskill, you saw there, the democratic senator, he told the crowd if she doesn't vote to lower taxes, they should vote her out of congress. >> and arizona senator john mccain returns to capitol hill next week after being treated for brain cancer. the republican is set to lead a debate on a defense policy bill. senator mccain has been undergoing radiation and chemotherapy during the august recess. his office says the senator is looking forward to continuing his work for the people of arizona. >>> the fda has approved a new way to fight cancer. it engineers the patient's own cells and directs them to fight the cancer. >> linzie janis has the details. >> reporter: a new frontier in the fight against cancer, for the first time, the fda approving an engineered genetic system that reprograms the patient's own immune cells, sending them back into the body to destroy cancer. >> most of these patients remain in remission years later. that makes us think maybe it's a potential cure for some of our kids, and that's very exciting to us. >> reporter: 1

. >> now, the president took aim at missouri's democratic senator claire mccaskill telling the crowd if she doesn't vote to lower taxes they should vote her out of office. >>> breaking overnight a show of force against north korea. u.s. fighter jets flew over south korea this morning just hours after this, take a look. it's the u.s. missile defense test taking place. the military intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile off the hawaiian coast. >> the standoff with north korea is producing mixed messages from the trump administration. the president tweeted yesterday that talking is not the answer when it comes to dealing with kim jong-un. but defense secretary james mattis later said the u.s. will never run out of diplomatic options. north korea meanwhile, has called for more missile launches into the pacific. >>> we learned overnight from the pentagon there are now 11,000 american troops currently serving in afghanistan. that's nearly 3,000 more than previously disclosed. officials say as part of an effort to be more transparent, the new troop numbers now include those who are on

try to influence the outcome of that primary, as we have seen in past elections where democrat claire mccaskill, last time she ran was able to influence the outcome of the republican primary to her advantage? could we see something similar from you guys in arizona russian mark -- arizona? j.b.: a year and a quarter out, we will have to make a lot of decisions about right steps. we are interested in winning. we do what we need to in order to win. that said, there is an awful lot that is going to have to play out in arizona. i am not even sure i can tell you who would be the best opponent right now. senator flake starts with egregiously low job numbers, i think lower than we normally see for an incumbent. i could say something similar about dean heller in nevada. he is in a precarious place where he seems to be finding a strategic way to say that he is more conservative than donald trump. i think that will be a hard place. we don't even know if we are seeing all the republican candidates in at this point. as you know there are rumors about other candidates who might get in. as of this taping, it

claire mccaskill: they did not turn away ads selling children.ever, in january, a senate homeland security subcomittee on investigations concluded that backpage knowingly facilitated online sex trafficking. among the findings, backpage has knowingly concealed evidence of criminality by systematically editing its "adult" ads. and backpage knows that it facilitates prostitution and child sex trafficking. carol: there should not be a trafficking of kids so easy, like, hey, do you want to order a pizza? sure. hey, do you want to order a kid? just as easy. lisa: a 20-year-old law has made it difficult for critics to shut backpage or any similar site down. tucked into the "communications decency act" is a short provision known as "section 230" that shields websites and internet platforms like facebook, twitter, and backpage from liability over objectionable content posted by users. emma llanso: section 230 is really one of the cornerstones of free speech online. lisa: emma llanso works with the center for democracy and technology, which is funded, in p

about my husband's private plane that normal people can afford it got that democratic senator claire mccaskill thinks normal people can afford a two million dollar private plane and she's very upset she had to sell hers just for appearances she should just kept the day on plane because we all see what's really going on anyway. what you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those who are these your wife or. donkey. back now i could give you due to. lead. all the field we go through. every the world should experience the leg you get it on the old world. according to josh. welcome to. come along for the. i've got to do just. what you're watching feel. welcome to reject the idea of camp today out the incredibly hypocritical mainstream media for their a holier than thou stand against racism and white supremacy but first i talked with america's lawyer himself mike papantonio besides fighting and winning endless cases for victimized consumers against massive corporations and hosting the r.j. americas show america's lawyer pavin don't you know has also written a new legal thriller law and ven

example, the relatively new attorney general, josh holly, has indicated he is going to run against claire mccaskill. he would be a top-tier recruit. there may be a primary there. they'll be some efforts to get people out of that race. i think holly would be a great candidate. in indiana, both todd rokita and luke messer would be able adversaries against joe donnelly. that will be a primary where we will sort out who the better player is. also, in west virginia, we still don't know how strong an iconic stature joe manchin has. i am inclined believe he has a lot of support, but is not that strong. we two very credible candidates running there, the current attorney general, patrick morrisey, and the third district congressman, evan jenkins, who used to be a democrat and made the same journey the governor did just the other day to become a republican. i do think in several states we have good candidates. other places, your point is well taken, we don't have good people to have a shot for larger majorities. al: looking ahead to the maps in future years, do you worry about squandering this opportunity, g

and your senator, claire mccaskill,mccaskill, she must dr you and if she doesn't do it for you, you have out of -- vote her out of office. [applause] pres. trump: she has to make that commitment. she has to make that commitment, just can't do this anymore with the obstruction and . if we don't get tax reform approved, the biggest ever, jobs in our country cannot take off the way they should and it could be much worse than that. but at a minimum they won't take off the way they should. dems are looking to obstruct tax like theyax reform obstructed so many other things like administration appointments and health care, not one vote to try to fix health care and get rid of obamacare. the strategy of our economic rivals has worked. they made taxes lower and are lower in many cases than ours and jobs left our country. large corporations changed their business models i exporting jobs to other countries -- by exporting jobs to other countries and exporting goods back to the united states or they would make massive profits and wouldn't be paying taxes to us, either. we lost jobs, taxes, they clos

we have someone like claire mccaskill were president trump it just was says she may be inclined to workm on lowering the corporate tax rate. do you think there's any semblance for the democrats realizing worst fund-raising was seen in forever, very long time for the democratic party. is there any semblance were democrats might work with republicans on any of the stuff, tax reform or anything else. >> you would like to hope so, if you can get along with any republican is probably trump. he's a populist, he could probably cut deals with democrats on a per structure, health care, and tax reform. if she goes to the dark inside she's going to get primary, that's what they are all worried about. juan misread the pole about people saying trump is tearing the country apart. i think it they said tearing it up. >> juan: this is so important. tearing it up. in a good way. >> juan: on the old man at the table, tearing it up that's the way old people talk about dancing. >> kimberly: you just saw jesse got back together with >> greg: that's it for tonight, our thoughts are with everyone suffering fro

>> let's come together and pass the bill claire mccaskill filed that doesn't exist.floor, it is ready. >> i got to leave it there. good to talk to you. come together, it is time, thank you both. >> bipolar kindergarten teacher missing from northern california has been found alive nearly three weeks after crashing her car. her name is jamie, she was 33 years old, found in a field yesterday malnourished and badly sunburned but her rescue left a lot of other unanswered questions. claudia cowan is life with more on this fascinating story. >> very strange story with conflicting accounts whether this woman wanted to be found, the state of her mental health and spent the next 7 days wandering in a field, central valley. 33-year-old jamie is bipolar and stops taking her medication on the advice of her pastor, told her pills would lead to demons entering her body according to her family. on july 17th reportedly called her husband from the car in tears say i will never see you again and crashed the car, walked away and survived by eating toppers and hiding near a water take wi

lawmakers including claire mccaskill are calling for her resignation. no place for comments like that. >>> let's check cnn "money stream" this morning. global stock markets lower after the dow had its biggest decline in three months. u.s. stocks fell over political concerns and? disappoint -- concerns and some dig appointing earnings. all three losing at least 1%. business leaders broke up with the president putting his pro-growth agenda at risk. the sell-off began on rumors that gary cohn, trump's economic adviser, would resign. they fell further after some big-name earnings disappointed. yet walmart fell 2%, sales rose but largely because of discounts squeezing margins. the market hit the lowest spot after the barcelona attack. that news hit airline stocks particularly hard. the sector was one of the worst performers on the day. >>> ford will pay up to $10 million to settle a federal investigation. the charge, harassment of women and black employees. the equal employment opportunity commission says it found proof, proof of harassment at two illinois p

claire mccaskill come out in missouri, susan collins, up in and so we got a bipartisan group together. you are going to like this part, before the industry even knew what we were up to. download. -- down low. kept it quiet. and here comes the best part. health, education, labor, and pensions committee. it is one of the committees i sit in. and there was a bill that had to move, the fda reauthorization, and it is like a train coming through the station. this is how laws really get made. there is this train coming through the station, and we had enough people interested in the hearing aid bill, and we hoped hearing aidar, our bill, on the back of the train, as it came through. we said, as long as we are doing reauthorization, let's do this. so, we made it through the wemittee, and by the way, on thesome help house side, and joe kennedy said, i will take a piece of the houseit passes unanimously, and passes the senate, and it just this past weekend, donald trump signed it into law. [applause] can you get something done? .ou bet you can sometimes we can get something done in washington, r

. >> claire mccaskill had been viewed as a democrat who could work with republicans across the aisle.he president called her out any response from her office to the president's speech >> what she has said even before the speech was that tax reform is one issue where she might find common ground with the president, but she laid open the question of whether or not she woul break ranks with democrats and get on board with the republican effort. >> thank you in d.c >>> so here's where we stand with the trump agenda. 3% gdp in the second quarter we've got job growth as we saw from the numbers this morning and now, we are just missing tax reform what do you buy here, sell, we actually get some form of tax reform >> i think tax reform, market. >> no matter what it is! if it's a ten-year thing i don't think they get it done the republican party is too fractured. >> if they do get it done, you have to look at those with the highest rates. fedex. unp. altria >> see, it's interesting let's assume that the tragedy going on in houston helps. maybe they can bolt on a huge play that could happen. wi

and the president hit up claire mccaskill.t they have to get the republican party online just like on health care. we'll see whether they rally behind tax reform or tax cuts before bringing democrats. in. >> and the president met with leadership from capitol hill yesterday. but something tells me they've got a lot of talking to do. >> they've got a big fight ahead. >> and coming up, princess diana is being remembered today across europe. 20 years after her stunning death, we are live in paris. ♪ you think you've seen everything? ♪ let's talk about that when you get here. ♪ the united states virgin islands. pcountries thatk mewe traveled,t what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. so when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. i'm everything. i'm from all nations. i would look at forms now and wonder what do i mark? because i'm everything. and i marked other. discover the story only your dna can tell. order your kit now at ancestrydna.com. >>> a somber anniversary in europe this morning. 20 years ago

. >> reporter: taking aim at missouri democrat senator claire mccaskill up for reelection next year. >> if she doesn't do it for you, you have to vote her out of office. >> reporter: he wants to drop the corporate tax rate to 15%, arguing businesses that pay washington less will pay their workers more. >> it's impossible to evaluate, because president trump, during the campaign, and since he's been president, has not given us any details. >> reporter: that's up to republicans in congress. they meet with the president next week to figure out how to deal with taxes, the budget, and the debt ceiling all at once. vice president pence also aon te road selling the president's plan for a simpler tax >> you shouldn't have to hire a lawyer or accountant to figure out how much tax you owe the government. >> reporter: he's headed to texas today to survey damage from hurricane harvey. back here today, the president, after two days on the road, will stay in washington and meet with his budget director as they get a plan together for congress coming back next week. tracie potts, nbc news, washingt

stuart: the president went right after claire mccaskill from missouri, speaking to missouri and saidave office. pretty stark stuff and pointed the to congresspeople in the audience, don't disappoint me, get this done. really seems he is running against congress. not a bad political pitch because if congress does nothing the president can say it is your fault. if they do do something he can take credit for pushing them into doing it. >> latest fox news poll last night his approval rating is around 40%, congress's approval rating at 15%. that is not a bad bet to run against congress. there is a sense that republicans need a w, they need a win. house, senate control the white house and it will hinge on the next two months what they can get done. the harvey relief effort is going to take priority as is raising the debt ceiling. the national flood insurance program is in the whole $23 billion. that check is due in the middle of this month, september, when the debt ceiling is raised. stuart: this is extraordinary stuff. i want to ask about your grading of the authorities in texas and the p

senator harris, three other democratic female senators north dakota heidi highcamp, and missouri's clair mccaskill didn't ask you a single question about female genital mutilations which you were a victim of yourself growing up muslim, honor killings, forced marriages and this unwillingness to assimilate two western values which also persist, did you make the case that while these senators are so vocal when it comes to women's issues like pay gap, abortion access, workplace discrimination , they really don't have a lot to say about what i just mentioned. >> they seem to be scared and horribly inhibited by this because really, if you prioritize the kind of suffering that a child feels whose genital s are cut and it's now happening increasingly in the united states, we are told at least half a million women are in danger at risk of being mute it lated or have been mute it lated, and if you know this child marriage. my foundation deals with women who come to us. they've been forced out of school. they've been kidnapped and taken out of the country and forced into marriages they don't want. these are

today in a taxpayer funded speech about taxes, he took a swipe at claire mccaskill, the senator fromsouri. >> yeah, well, that was something that i guess got a lot of criticism just because it was a taxpayer funded speech but he's making clear that part of what he's going to do is not only sell his agenda but try to go out and begin campaigning against some of these red state democrats. he thinks that the problem really is the democrats even though what happened with health care and what is likely to happen potentially with tax reform is that they can't get the votes within their own party. and yet, he's going to try and assign blame to the democrats. part of the question will be whether he also goes after -- continues to go after some members of his own party, like jeff flake. but to the previous question about what to expect over the next several weeks, i actually think this hurricane harvey funding is gonna make things a little bit easier. because the president is the one who was threatening to blow up the process by insisting on the border wall funding. what's going to happen is

there's money they're not spending going after claire mccaskill, joe manchin or others that would be vulnerable otherwise. and flake and senate colleagues, every time this happens, they rally around each other. sure, you can change the conversation for a day, but you harden opposition down the line and making it more difficult to accomplish longer term goals for this short term transitory gain. >> we see him fighting with other republicans when it comes to health care and the border wall, we're not seeing what's going on behind the scenes. josh, you have fascinating reporting on this today, how the president is clashing with republican senators over russia related matters, something we haven't been focusing on in the news lately, but you're right. trump's chewing out of gop senators, according to people briefed on calls, reflected the president's frustration that fellow republicans would make moves that could damage him particularly on an investigation that he detests. josh, flush that out for us. >> sure. so president trump called tom tillerson, north carolina republican, to express

he did that, brianna, and then in the next breath he called on senator clair mccaskill, a democrat, to does not, the voters of missouri should vote her out of office. that is why he is here in missouri today trying to push the tax plan. brianna. >> right in her backyard. jeff zeleny, thank you. >>> this week has been a major test for the trump administration. so how is he doing? the report card for the week ahead. we'll be talking with our panel next. and i was wondering if your brokerage offers some sort of guarantee? guarantee? where we can get our fees and commissions back if we're not happy. so can you offer me what schwab is offering? what's with all the questions? ask your broker if they're offering $4.95 online equity trades and a satisfaction guarantee. if you don't like their answer, ask again at schwab. with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis? how do you chase what you love do what i did. ask your doctor about humira. it's proven to help relieve pain and protect joints from further irreversible damage in many adults. humira works by targeting and helping to block a speci

and your senator, claire mccaskill, she must do this for you and if she doesn't do it for you, you havete her out of office. [cheers and applause] she's got to make that commitment. she's got to make that commitment. she doesn't do, it just can't do this anymore with the obstruction and the obstructionists. if we don't get tax cuts and reform approved, potentially the biggest ever, we're looking for the biggest ever, jobs and our country cannot take off the way they should, and it could be much worse than that, but at a minimum, they won't take off the way they should. the dems are looking to obstruct tax cuts and tax reform just like they obstructed so many other things, including administration appointments and health care, not one vote. we got not one vote to try and fix health care and get rid of obamacare. the strategy of our economic rivals has worked, they made their taxes lower and far lower in many

he probably is better served to use that firepower on people like claire mccaskill in missouri, a vulnerablerunning for re-election in the midterms. those are the types of people and the people that maybe he could get to vote on tracks reform or infrastructure spending. -- on tax reform or infrastructure spending. nudge him more than you are nudging republicans. i think we'll find out in september. >> it's so fascinating to me that one day there were whispers that tax reform was moving forward. yesterday the president after the threat of shutting down the government for the border wall, people thought, oh, no. day by day we're wondering where we are on the legislative agenda and where the president is on this. i mean, i think also paul ryan, the house speaker, was careful ton criticize -- i think he was careful to not overtly criticize the president. he said -- >> he tried. >> he messed up post charlottesville. they need to get together to pass any agenda item. do you see him healing the wounds? >> yeah. tax reform is the be all, end all. he wants to get it done. that's always been his thing

donald trump is going to hit the road. ,hey give his first speech happens to be the home state of claire mccaskillty powerful democrat. told the financial times today a series of speeches after that. getting this done. donald trump. julia: there's no way this government isn't going to pay its bills. they will raise the debt ceiling. but go back to the report, a kind of shutdown event. it would are you hearing? , nervousness is there despite the apparent bravado and views of the administration that this is going to get done and it's not a big deal? >> there is conviction among the leaders and gary cohn who have their hands on the levers of the economy. the one person they need to convince is donald trump. , that youe a shutdown need sort of a massive event. a government shutdown to reset the table. of one. a minority the people in charge of that economy for him don't want that to happen. it's a guy in the oval office they have to convince. run out of time and we will be back on that point. craig gordon, bloomberg news executive editor joining us from washington. more on hurricane hardly still ahead

along with missouri senator roy blunt who's a republican the state's other senator is democrat claire mccaskill. she's up for re-election in a state that trump won big and conservatives have been pressuring her to support tax reform her response is that this could be one area where she could find some common ground with the president. so melissa, republicans do feel they are playing offense on this issue. ylan, thank you, ylan mui in d.c. i think a lot of investors are not pricing anything in when it comes to tax reform. let's say we get it. let's say it's not permanent it's for a set amount of years, ten years. let's say we don't pay for it. what happens with the markets? >> i think it's a positive at the margin it's all about the delta right now as you pointed out, there was huge expectation of fiscal policy opportunity that existed. i think that has faded of late and so if you get something instructive, i think markets are going to react favorably to that it's in the face of coming into some very important meetings, as it relates to the debt ceiling at the end of the month. and i actually, i

claire mccaskill in missouri, traveling there wednesday. this is not helpful to him. >> focus -- focus and discipline have been a question about this president. i almost feel like, need to apologize. you see president of the united states waving getting to an suv. other members. white house team with him. i feel i have to apologize to the people of texas we're adding any politics to this conversation. many of them are trying to figure out, is my family safe? is my home drestroyed? will i see my precious pets and the like. precious documents? it's a fact of life, that the money and help they need will get caught up in these washington conversations. will get caught up in the effectiveness of this president. 0 i don't say it critically. it's just a question. nerve her to deal with emergency funding bill, get it now. more next year, more the year after. look at this flooding and look at the map of the region and understand the area we are talking about here, the number of people we're talking about here and we have no clue yet the total scope

ben trump is launching this push in missouri he won it by 19 points home to democrat senator clair mccaskill. she faces a tough 2018 re- election fight right? >> very very tough and i think mr. trump will do extremely well there and pull the party along. i would not want to be i guess if ms. mccaskill is a senator she gets a good retirement money and can become a lobbyist but missouri is a solidly republican state for a long time to come. it's honor to be here and god bless the nice people in texas. hope things go well. >> liz: thank you, ben. we are less than an hour away from this story. the super fight weigh in. mayweather and mcgregor to take the stage in las vegas. we'll bring that to you live and also viewer discretion advised. we have a disturbing new video that's showing high school cheerleaders screaming in pain as their coach forces them to do splits. we've got the details and the fallout, but first the mayor of venice, italy ordering its police to shoot anyone on site who shouts in st. mark's square rather than risk a terror attack that's what he's telling his cop s. we have forme

actually look at what he delivered it was the campaign rally speech attacking trade, going after claire mccaskillt need to d that. >>, no he didn't. let's talk about what we know about the tax plan right now which is not a lot. what he talked about specifically was taking the corporate rate from 35% to 15%. >> most corporations don't pay 35%. >> exactly, which gets to the larger point of how you do tax reform versus tax cuts. but paint the backdrop. corporate profits, very high, stock market, very high. most polls s show that american think they pay too much tax, and he wants to do it in a populist way that cut ts tacs taxes for middle-income folks but he didn't give specifics on that. it's not clear he's in a great political position to sell a tax cut for corporation and do that in a populist way. as an average american, you dent know what you're getting out of it. >> something president trump said during the convention and a little from what he said yesterday. >> i alone can fix it. i am asking every member of congress. i'm calling on all members of congress. i'm calling on congress. i don't wa