earlier, i spoke with cbs news political analyst jamelle bouie about who benefits most from the plan. >> the biggest winners of the tax bill just plainly are large corporations, wealthy individuals, owners of large and wealthy estates. the vast majority of the tax bills benefits goes towards those groups. it is true that middle class earners and working class earners, low-income earners get some benefits, but they are relatively modest in comparison to what the highest income earners and large corps will -- corporations will gain under the tax bill. >> quijano: and jamelle, we know it's important, but just how important is it for president trump's agenda to get this legislation passed? >> well politically it is important for him to have some semblance of a win, a victory or whatever you want to call it on his docket. if the tax bill passes, it likely will, and he signs it, it will sort of be the only piece of major legislation that he will achieve in 2017, and that meaningful. it's worth saying though that this bill is brutally unpopular >> quijano: jamelle bouie, thanks so much for b

jamelle, the polling for this tax bill is not good. mcconnell's argument going to get wet once people start feeling that tax cut, do you buy that argument? >> time not sure that i do. reminds me quite a bit of the democratic party's argument, once voters understood the benefits they got they would like the bill. and as it turned out it took a good three or four or five years for the public was ever positive about that law, and they largely became positive about that law because of the prospect of losing that law and losing the medicaid expansion. although republican tax bill does deliver some benefit, it doesn't deliver anything as concrete as something like medicaid expansion did that might create the problem with voters. if you look at polling so far, even suburban voters, people would support this kind of tax policy are skeptical. i'm not sure, i appreciate senator mcconnell's optimism but i'm not sure it will play out. >> dickerson: ben, your thoughts generally and also playing off of what jamelle was saying, senator sanders said t

we're also joined by "slate" magazine chief political correspondent jamelle and ben dove niche.ion about senator mccain who is your father in law. how is he doing? >> well john i'm happy to say that he's doing well. the truth is that as anyone knows whose family has battled cancer or any, are side effects that you have. senator has been through roundhb of chemo he was hosp at walter reed. our thanks to the doctors at nih and walter reed who have been treating him, he's doing well in good spirits, he's looking forward to heading back home to arizona for the holidays, our thanks to everyone who has been sending thoughts and prayers to the sector this week. we greatly appreciateit. he remains one of the toughest men on the face of the earth as you know. >> dickerson: that we know. send them again, our prayers to him and family. thank you. all right so now to this week let's start with the tax bill, jeffrey is going to , get funded by the president unless something really crazy happens. >> which is not impossible inxf this america. >> dickerson: right. >> you're right probably pass.

what donald trump is doing when he attacks football players only attacks the media when he attacks jamelle hill when attacks frederica wilson there is no a coincidence that he consistently attacks black people has he attacked them again no question why not eminem as white but he will happily attack on and capture nic so as as folks who are part of the resistance as folks to a culture makers who artists who have platforms we have to consistently push back from a cultural level not just from a policy level but from a cultural level is that the meat to movement as an example is a incredibly inspiring movement led by culture led by women who said enough is enough inspired by the women's march to see a man so vicious and so nasty against women to say if we can't be true in the polls we're going to speak out loudly about sexual assault and harassment and you to donald trump have been accused by nineteen women of sexual assault and harassment and we will make sure the world knows that. so let me just let me just say this again michel you tweeted this out a little while ago thirteen women have acc

and 7-year-old jamel forgets he even doubted santa finding him this year.enough proof, for at least a few families on the island to believe santa--manny rivera/ "santa": "ho ho ho. como esta." is real. let's take a look outside right now... meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with the four zone forecast. lawrence karnow: we enjoyed a mix of sunshine and clouds on this christmas day. temperatures remained cool to mild as well. as you can see on the doppler radar there are more clouds streaming across our skies but not enough energy to squeeze much in the way of rain out of them. all of the ski resorts are open. and even though they haven't seen much snow as of late there are plenty of lifts and trails open to ski on. on the satellite image you can see as these storms continue to run into high pressure over california only to fall apart and leave a few clouds behind. that pattern will likely continue now until the end of the year. highs tomorrow will be similar with 50s at the coast and mid 60s in the warmest inland locations. temperatures may actually warm a little toward the mi

and 7-year-old jamel forgets he even doubted santa finding him this year.enough proof, for at least aies on the island to believe santa--manny rivera/ "santa": "ho ho ho. como esta." is real.ho. como esta."is real. (grant) coming up... if you didn't get quite what you wanted for christmas... we have some tips before you return the gifts you don't want. it's the thought that counts ... but sometimes the gifts you open ... are not exactly right. (vicki) in today's consumer watch -- mary moloney has tips...on how to return the gifts you don't want. not every gift is a winner. but you shouldn't feel bad about returning a dud. especially if you can relate to rachel from friends."oh i love it.""really? you're not going to return it?""not this second."according to the national retail federation -- nearly two-thirds of holiday shoppers returned at least one item this past season. some stores are better at returns than others.consumer reports highlights some of the best they've found:nordstrom handles returns on a case-by-case basis.there's no time limit -- no receipt needed -- and for most it

. >> and 7-year-old jamelle forgets he even doubted santa finding him this year.ugh proof for at least a few families on the island to believe santa is real. and, pamela, it was actually quite refreshing to see that last night. i got to tell you, in the last week as i've been going around the island, there are quite a few people who say christmas is just another day. they are not putting up christmas trees, and if they do, they are bummed about not having power, so they don't even put lights on it. so very, very refreshing to see the christmas spirit as we did last night in the interior part of the island. >> it's just unbelievable, though, layla, to see how many people there are still without power more than three months after the hurricane hit. when can they expect the lights to turn back on? >> right. and the fact is, we really don't know exactly how many people have power. the government is putting out power generation numbers, but that doesn't reflect how many clients, how many people actually have power. when you talk to the u.s. army corps of engineers, the

jamel hill being excellent as she usually is and telling the country is that our president sympathizeswhite supremacists. this president is incapable of functioning under criticism. >> have a peaceful protest, you need to get fired and get thrown off the field. >> this president is denigrating our discourse and setting new low standards for all kinds of people in a way that, frankly, will endure with us and lurk in places we can't even see for much longer than he's even alive. >> this administration is doing the work of white supremacy, so whether or not we want to call them white supremacists is, you know, irrelevant really. i think it's about the fact that they are doing the work, and this is part of the work. it's about delegitimizing protests of what is going on in this country and so, you know, if you can make it about the flag, you can make it about things that you're generally supposed to agree with, then, you know, it becomes something different. >> yeah. >> and a lot of people unfortunately because it's low information media, whatever, they are buying into it. >> houston texan