gary cone and steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary, have been on the hill meeting, pushing some ideas, and president trump himself has been, as we've seen, tweeting out ideas through the process about essentially policies that he wants in or out of the proposal, and he's sort of also just been rallying senators from the sidelines. he was on the hill earlier this week to rally support for the bill. so they have been involved and expect them to continue to be involved. host: at this point, how are democrats playing out this process? guest: well, they're expected to be unanimously opposed to the bill. they see it as essentially much more favorable to large corporations and wealthy taxpayers than average americans, and we've heard a lot of fiery debate so far, and it's not likely to see any democrats peel off and support the plan. host: ryan, who reports on appropriations and tax matters for c.q. roll call joining us. his latest story looks at the procedural matters and the process that plays out. you can see it for yourself when you watch at c-span2. ryan mccrimmon, thanks for your time.

gary cone what's his title? whatever it is. >> whatever >> here's one truth he did say. the most excited group out there are big ceos about our tax plan. >> spreader of sibling bird which you think. despite divisions among republicans the house is expected to vote on the tax bill before going on recess for the thanksgiving holiday and president trump talked about the process tweeting i'm proud of the republican house and senate on cutting taxes and reform. now this is where the 280 characters kick in. how about any of the unfair and highly unpopular individual mandate in obamacare, cut top rate to 35% with the rest to going to middle income tax ruts including the individual mandate it could add votes in the house, sources suggest tying the individual mandate to the bill would lose votes in the senate. there's a very slim margin for robber. closer to home. a hateful flyers attributed to white ring extremists groups were plastered on the gop headquarters, the chairman said it was a trick aimed a mainstream republicans with extremist organizations. >> maybe this was a smear

. >> gary cone and steve manuchin say it may take past the new year 2018 they end up doing it and then you also have people trump obviously is the best person who out it saying we need this done by crying mass because they need it legislative win. >> lutely. thank you for coming up in. thanks for the push to have you. >> and we'll talk about the weather today. i went to my -- this is the first not a member of the "fox5" team and saw a game at fedex field it was cold and towards end get this over with. >> sue said it would be cold. >> i was bundled up. >> will this con sglin jim, that was probably warmest game until two or three weeks right and that felt rough. shawn i think we'll see temperatures staying steady as we go throughout week. and we definitely were below average coming in 53. we'll head for 30s tonight and be right back into the low 50s again tomorrow and we should have a fairly bright day. today started with showers. we don't have is any rain in the forecast until early on thursday. it's a brief shot of rain. next chance is saturday. all right. mostly dry and cool and prett

what is happening steve mnuchin, gary cone, who is the national economic counsel cleave -- gary cohn, and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and other big leaders of the senate are meeting now to discuss whether the senate plan, had all the cuts, all the simplification, was boiled down into the house plan which it was a lot less simple and a lot less supply side oriented, now goes to the senate where we're hearing it is being watered down to all kinds of ridiculous levels. that is where melissa picks it up for us. melissa: the swamp just completely taken hold of this plan, and turned it into something is it wasn't. what kind of postcard can you put seven brackets on. simplifying from seven to seven. thank you. david: no simplification. the delay in the corporate tax cut. usually a delay in any kind of tax -- melissa: look at that! david: this is the new plan, by the way what you're looking at right now. but it doesn't look much difficult from what we have right now. pause we have seven brackets right now. so go from seven to seven. the numbers changed a little bit smaller but not

we've seen gary cone go out and call it -- say it has trickle down benefits. haven't seen -- >> and the ceos are particularly happy with it. >> right. and when the president goes out and says this is going to be a big christmas gift, i don't think that's enough in terms of specificity although it's not as bad as the health care thing but we need to see republicans in congress sell this in terms of middle class tax relief and offer specifics. >> and republicans need this for 2018. next congressional investigators dig into team trump. their questions on one member's memory and another's security clearance. >>> before i get started here, any russians? anybody been to russia? got a cousin in russia or something? >> that was attorney general jeff sessions addressing the elephant in the room and pretty humorously on friday. his joke comes just days after a house panel pressed him on whether he misled congress on the trump campaign's russia contacts. and over on the senate side investigators now have more questions for jared kushner. the judiciary committee says what

. >> are you saying that gary cone faked a bad connection to get the president off the phone? >> i'm sorry? say again? >> are you saying gary cohn faked a bad connection to get the president off the phone? >> well, i wouldn't -- i don't want to throw him under the bus, but, yes. >> i think you just did. >> that's the bus. i think the bus just -- >> the bus is passed. >> they want to make sure they have have the kind of conversation. and that's what we need to do. there's areas where we can agree on stuff, but ask the right questions and be a good listener. >> ying, to you. you know -- >> i actually thought that was quite comicical, too, my first question was, was the senator faking a fake connection so that he could delay answering the questions from your colleagues earlier this morning. i think what the president is doing and what his team is doing is that they are focusing on tax reform, they've got big issues, and the president likes to talk. everybody knows that. >> but ying, but ying, here's what the other camp would say. you know the reports of his own secretary of state

we start with the director with gary gary cone. >> taxes is our always at the top of the councils agenda. you are very keen on understanding what's happening with policy making in washington. today we have the personal from the white house who is going to be the chief guide of the white house tax plan. through the congress. that's gary cohn. director of the national council. intervowed by jerry baker our editor in chief. please welcome them. >> morning. thank you very much again for being here. thank you, gary for joining us. bright and early. the topic is taxes, taxes, taxes. we'll start off with alabama. >> original. >> we had a lot of discussion about taxes with your colleague last night chl we'll go over that ground and more detail. and ask more some of the more longer term questions. let me start off with something i did ask secretary last night. see how you answer it. why is now a good time to be cutting taxes to be increasing the deficit significantly. know estimates vary. this is a $1.5 this will immediate tax cut. 78% of gdp. total revenue is about 17%. quite low. the economy is

will come pouring back into our country -- >> reporter: from the president's chief economic adviser gary cone to secretary of state rex tillerson, and ma nuchen, the paradise papers reveal some of the top officials had offshore investments. >> you did it to avoid any conflicts of interest, correct? >> correct, sir. >> reporter: it is trump's commerce secretary whose personal wealth may benefit from firms linked to the kremlin according to the papers. >> you know who that is, right? >> reporter: before wilbur ross joined, he divested his interest in 80 companies. but the leaked documents reportedly show ross still holds indirect investments in a company that transports gas for sibur, a russian energy firm owned in part by a russian oligarch subject to american sanctions and vladimir putin's son-in-law. >> i don't know any of those individuals, never met them, certainly not had any commercial dealings with them. >> reporter: ross said this morning that he was fully honest in his confirmation proceeding because he was not an investor in sibur, he says he did not need to disclose the links to the

we start with the director with gary gary cone. >> taxes is our always at the top of the councils agendayou are very keen on understanding what's happening with policy making in washington. today we have the personal from the white house who is going to be the chief guide of the white house tax plan. through the congress. that's gary cohn. director of the national council. intervowed by jerry baker our editor in chief. please welcome them. >>

we start with the director with gary gary cone. >> taxes is our always at the top of the councils agendayou are very keen on understanding what's happening

it benefit hedge fund manufacture so that's a big issue and gary cone promised that he said we're boingo address that numerous times over this year. so we'll have to see if senate goes back to that because one of the things that -- is going to have to be addressed is on the individual side. you are you know democrats come out to talk about how certain middle-class families are going to get an increase especially because the state and local tax deduction beg eliminated as well and -- the alternative minimum tax code come out pretty strong so up to the senate. >> i think you have to look at the plan in entirety because yes you do see certain portion of the things tax increases only if you look at just individual rates, and elimination of that deduction. yeah also want to put in there elimination of the amt. which hits some of those which is somewhat of an offset. >> they also raise child care tax credit to 1600. but again to my earlier point they're making slowly will make more of that refundable so again, it's income distribution. you're going to have more american who is pay no federal

gary cone and steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary, have been on the hill meeting, pushing some ideasand president trump himself has been, as we've seen, tweeting out ideas through the process about essentially policies that he wants in or out of the proposal, and he's sort of also just been rallying senators from the sidelines. he was on the hill earlier this week to rally support for the bill. so they have been involved and expect them to continue to be involved. host: at this point, how are democrats playing out this process? guest: well, they're expected to be unanimously opposed to the bill. they see it as essentially much more favorable to large corporations and wealthy taxpayers than average americans, and we've heard a lot of fiery debate so far, and it's not likely to see any democrats peel off and support the plan. host: ryan, who reports on appropriations and tax matters for c.q. roll call joining us. his latest story looks at the procedural matters and the process that plays out. you can see it for yourself when you watch at c-span2. ryan mccrimmon, thanks for your time. o

cone. have a listen. >> and i said gary, why did you do this? why don't you just take the phone from your cell phone back and just say, mr. president, you're brilliant. and but we're losing contact. i think we're going to lose you now. so good-bye. that's what he did and he hung up. >> are you saying gary cohn faked a bad connection to get the president off the phone? >> i wouldn't -- i don't want to throw him under the bus, but yes. >> well, definitive account there. i believe you were in the meeting, as well. what did you hear? >> well, jim, there were a dozen democratic senators who came in good faith to have a conversation with gary cohn and mark short about how we might find a bipartisan path forward on tax reform. i appreciated that the president took the time to call in to our meeting. and i'll say it's accurate that the president talked a great deal and there were a number of us who had suggestions we wanted to make about ways we could move towards bipartisan path on tax reform. >> i want to turn now if i can to the russia investigation,

we had the one-day delay last week, but i can tell you that your cone will be on capitol back --gary:ck on capitol hill today. joe manchin, the centrist them a craft lock in a tough 2008 midterm reelection fight, he is one of the democrats that organized this meeting. the divide amongst republicans in the senate, as well as the house, is forcing the white house to try to look for different avenues to get both. if they are able to convince someone like heidi heitkamp or joe manchin that this will be good for them in states where president trump does have strong support, you could see some more pressure on them, which will be interesting to watch. kevin, thanks for reporting with us throughout the program. still with us in new york, tony dwyer. as you described yourself, you ull.a permab the potential in washington, does that make you more of one question mark is it irrelevant? tony: the only thing that is left is the corporate tax rate. did a study for us that found that operating would be up 10.5% if you get a 20% corporate tax rate next year , by company. it was a terrific study that

gary. >> you can use lots of bowls but we're going to use this particular bowl. >> uh-huh. >> and this is called a dole bowl and i chilly put this arrangement together so i have pine cones some get them from safe way from whatever shop that you are used to shopping at. some dried pumpkins, some berries and so forth and this is a beautiful piece. >> real dried lemons or citrus here. >> that's right. this bowl is from the british pine mine. it's a large very heavy original bowl but you can use a glass bowl from home. you can use something that you have that's around the space. >> that's really neat. >> yeah. >> this is also rosemary so that's also giving the aroma. >> i can smell it its a good idea to take nature and fruit in bowl. >> that's righ harvest time you want some orange. so you're going to have that in. now, if you don't have all these things, i have apples, i got these from my counter this morning, you can have some fresh oranges and just throw them in and again as you're saying, if you don't have this lovely bowl you can use whatever glass bowl you have. >> absolutely. >> that's cute. >> the second thing is your dining room setting, right. so, the big piece day re

>> we've seen lot from gary cone and the treasury secretary. the president seems to be more comfortable with tax policy than he was with the health care repeal effort earlier this year. so the white house seem ooze be more involved. that said it's really up to the republican majorities in each chamber to make sure that whatever final plan emerges can pass both chambers and actually get the president's desk. so the white house will be involved. we've seen it president fweet out certain ideas. certain policy changes here and there. so we can expect tattoo continue. how much an effect that will have on the it decisions republicans on the hill are making is unclear because for them it's all about getting majority of votes and that's something they know better than anyone. >> and covering all of it is ryan mccrimen, an appropriations and tax reporter for cq roll call. follow him on twitter.