with the changes the republicans have offered. the second change the republicans made to their tax bill was to have many of their tax provisions for individuals expire while corporate breaks remain permanent. with this new proposal, republicans have put themselves between a rock and a hard place. the provisions for individuals that help individuals and not enough of them were helped -- middle-class folks -- expire by 2025. the corporate tax cuts to the wealthiest of corporations above all are permanent. why did our colleagues do this? well, for one, they favor the big corporate powerful interests over the middle class. but the second is they had a huge deficit problem. they had to figure out where to reduce the deficit. and so they took it out on the crumbs that they gave to the middle class in the earlier years in this bill. well, one of two things will happen. some of our republican colleagues say don't worry, we'll extend the middle-class tax cuts after 2025. that will create a huge deficit. so i say to my colleagues, particula

andcrats, (202)-748-8001 republicans, -- report -- democrats, (202)-748-8000, republicans, (202)-748-8001. >> today, virginia has spoken. today, we will not condone hatred and bigotry, and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. i want to let you know that in virginia, it is going to take a ,octor to heal our differences to bring unity to our people, and i am here to let you know that the dr. is in. host: give us a snapshot of ralph northam. guest: he is a pediatric neurologist. the washington post did a great line where he ran as a emotional moderate. he is liberal on a bunch of issues but he sounds very comforting and soothing. that was a very conciliatory message, last night, talking about unifying. that is the type of message that wins in a swing state. republicans did polling and some of these culturally diverse -- divisive issues work in their favor but post from, people wanted to hear a more conciliatory message. former obama ambassador. and very wealthy banker who was able to win the governor's race in a blue state. murphy is going to have some challenges. host:

what are republicans thinking? allrdless of the numbers, parties agree this is a tax hike on middle-class families and many of those hardest hit live in the suburbs, bedrock of the republican coalition for decades. passing a bill that raises taxes on the middle class while slashing them for the rich and wealthiest corporations is political insanity, plain and simple. the republicans are giving huge handouts to the wealthiest corporations and the other, they are taken away key suburban productions like state, local, medical sciences, student loans, and more. congressional republicans are doing their best to put their majorities at risk and if republicans thought was hard when elections last week, with the drag of an unpopular president, wait until voters hear about this bill as they are now. if republicans thought it was --d to win after passing trying to pass a health care bill that would raise premiums and kick millions off their health care insurance, wait till they see how hard it is to win elections after they

of the national republican that fractured between establishment republicans and those from the far right branches of the party is also playing out in the state of alabama where there's a high profile senate race. in the primary election republican voters here chose roy moore to be their nominee over an establishment candidate already serving in the u.s. senate here for the judge roy moore of and. this is a key race because losing here would endangered the republicans the majority in the senate. were getting ready to welcome the republican candidate for senate without further ado let's give judge roy moore a warm air fart that you well know. you've probably already heard of roy moore because of a scandal that's overshadowed his camp. in november news broke of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his thirty's allegations he's denied but even before that more was a highly controversial candidate assy got a thumbs up from the president saw guess something in her i think you came to hear him speak in late october when he was addressing the alabama federa

it's a moral crisis for the republican party. but somehow, a rallying cry for the alt-right. >> they're coming off judge moore. this was the politics of personal destruction. >>> plus, a big off year democratic sweep. nancy pelosi eyes the speaker. and republicans promise tax cuts soon. >>> and the big asia trip. cozy with china's leader, and then this. first, the president says he believes vladimir putin. then he pulls it back. >> what he believes is what he believes. what i believe is that we have to get to work. >>> "inside politics," the biggest storiesed sourced by the best reporters, now. >>> welcome to "inside politics," i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. a lot to talk about. the republican party torn apart by a morals crisis. its christian conservative senate candidate in alabama is accused of pursuing girls when they were in their teens and molesting one of them. but roy moore is ignoring calls to step aside. >> my opponent is 11 points behind. that

>> unfortunately for republicans it's not their call at this point. the primary is over, roy moore won in spite of heady opposition and lots of money spent against him by mitch mcconnell and his alleys in the republican party and he's running as anti establishment candidate and by definition is making the pitch that washington republicans don't matter what they want doesn't matter and he wants to upset the dynamic with the republican party, so everything is working against them, so you're seeing last-ditch efforts by republican party to cut funding to the race, to maybe get a write in candidate who could win or expel roy moore should alabama voters elect him. but all these things are causing a backlash among alabama republicans who see roy moore a hero despite the troubling allegations. >> this is a rare bird who is saying moore shouldn't quick, take a listen. >> so, that was hard to hear sounded like tap dancing, but basically he was saying, that was mo brooks, saying he believes that a democrat would do more damage to the country than roy moore do y

but it's what republicans promised people. it's what republicans promised people. now, we'll see what the senate comes up with today, what several republican senators have already confirmed that the senate bill has the same structure as the house bill, and in at least one way, we'll know that it's worse for middle-class families than the house bill, because the house bill would reduce the value of stloal deductions by 70% while the senate bill eliminates it entirely. my friend from ohio, senator portman, confirmed that a few days ago on fox business. so this should be a three-alarm fire for every house republican in california, new york, new jersey, virginia, washington, illinois, colorado, minnesota. senate republicans are telling house republicans there will be no compromise on state and local deductibility. it's full repeal for bust, because senate republicans need the revenue raised by ending this popular middle-class deduction. there are several deficit hawks in the senate. we have stricter budget rules for reconciliation. if the senate tax plan includes cuts

voting republican again. they'll all be thrown out of office between now. we understand the republican party right now is this is a party that just experienced shock. you know but is it a shot where they were taken over for say by something different in reality they were taken over by there were some three more words. hi ari if the party's life's blood is now trump and his base oh yeah the alabama senate candidate going more is also part of its d.n.a. you know the kitchen servant in late october as the election got closer more visited capitol hill to me just potential future colleagues and stood by his belief that a muslim congressman should not be able to serve because of his religion. and he also reiterated his views on religion and government. come here. come. here. despite all this he still had the support and even indorsement of senators here. the day after his visit which is a week before allegations of sexual misconduct came out we tried to talk to republican senators about their support of moore and i

in 2012 a republican governor and republican legislature in kansas passed through the staple thing. they said, -- same thing. they said, let's make sure that we have tax benefits for these pass-through corporations. by the way, donald trump owns 500 pass-through corporations. he will benefit greatly from this. let's make sure that we reduce the tax rates on the wealthiest. and in doing so, we will make sure that we're investing in the economy. that meant, by the way, all those tax cuts had to be paid for. so a $700 million cut to the kansas state budget, which resulted in schools not being able to operate full-time, resulted in roads being in disrepair, ultimately resulted in kansas' bond ratings going down. and in the end that g.d.p. growth that we were promised, the economic growth that was guaranteed if you were to put the money into the top corporations and the top income earners, that was supposed to somehow trickle down, that growth never came to be. so guess what happened, mr. speaker. the republican legislature in kansas rolled back those tax cuts. they said that trickle-dow

but republicans may have a real split. john, trump and untrump republicans next year?> first of all it depends on the economy, and if trump's popularity gets up to 40% or 42% -- i do think won't run with trump. localize the elections. >> what at 40%? >> approval rating. got to get up. below that, republicans in big trouble. >> that's where he was in virginia, 42%. >> that's why we lost virginia. >> wasn't good enough. >> generic ballot for democrats is 11 point advantage. donald trump is one-man wrecking machine and republicans on the hill are starting to figure to t out. >> better off passing tax reform? >> i don't think they get that much by giving tax breaks to corporations and rich people. >> round table is sticking with us. another major victory, new jersey voters overwhelmingly elected democrat phil murphy for governor and buried the legacy of chris christie deep. special edition of "hardball." i, and you can too. build a better website - in under an hour. with gocentral from godaddy. >>> this is not an election about me no matter what. if kim wins, it's not affi

no party has done this before, democrats, republicans, wigs, anti-federalists, democrat republicans, federalists. we've never seen this before. it's so wrong. it's one of the things that -- we see so many things that ail this country, and i have to say a lot of them stem from the top, from the president, and yet our republican colleagues are still fearful of ignoring him, of not listening to ideas they know are ludicrous. the rush is because my republican friends, fearful of the president and his self-imposed deadline, are trying to hide the bill that would transfer even more wealth to the super wealthy while raising taxes on millions of middle-class americans. now, according to the joint committee on taxation, of all taxpayers making less than $200,000 a year, 13 million would see a tax hike in 2019 and 30 million would see a tax hike by 2027. ryan and mcconnell said that we will not see a tax hike. they had to back off. for those who do get a tax cut, the average is so small to what folks at the top are getting. americans making $40,000 to $50,000 get an average cut of 8$0,000, 100

. >>> republicans woke up this morning clinging to the wreckage of trumpism and now republicans cannot honestly see any success in their future that involves donald trump but they're still trying to pretend that there is a future with donald trump. >> what happened last night all across the country is tired of this. >> you could smell a wave coming. >> there was a coalition of the decent in this country that rose up yesterday. >> the rejection of donald trump's fear and divisiveness. >> the margins of victory, the turnout, the energy are astonishing. >> it's important for republicans to self reflect. >> bing, bing, bong, bong. >> doesn't change my reading of the current moment. i think it means we have to deliver. >> what last night signaled was if you keep going on this path, you will be annihilated. >> this is a big deal. >> and really gratifying that our democracy still works. >> are you worried about next year? >> no. i like a good fight. >> republican friends better look out. >> last night we saw democracy in action. last year we saw the electoral college in action. the electoral

not a happy , i'm republican, those republicans in congress are a disgrace, i mean, god, that republican bill in the senate looks like something would write. riculous.d host: why do you say it looks like something the democrats write? caller: keep the estate tax, they certainly would, they are putting off bringing the money for a couple hore years. you know what, we're not in they in a couple years, will get rid of that. this is craziness, we have power now, use it. don't like e guys donald trump and i don't think they like be nothing power. be ink they would prefer to in the minority. nd i'm sick of this identity politics business. host: bob, i want susan ferrechio to jump in, what do bob's comments? guest: well, he sounds like some embers on capitol hill, there has been more divide among populous republicans who say more awmakers should move aggressively on this tax plan cuts should be no delay in and they should rely on economic rowth to bring money to the treasury to allay fear that debt ill get much bigger, through aggressive tax cuts, including the estate tax, which, you know, does

this is republican senate candidate roy moore. former alabama judge continues to deny the allegations against him as more women come forward accusing him of inappropriate sexual advances and misconduct over the past 30 years. during a news conference in birmingham, moore accused senate leader mitch mcconnell of trying to steal the election from the voters of alabama. mcconnell says he believes moore's accusers and suggested the republican senate candidate would face an ethics probe if elected. jeremy, i want to pull up something you wrote. it tells me so much about where we are. this is in the "new york times." this was theres after time you wrote when the question of whether to disown a candidate accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl was fairly straightforward. but the divisions in the republican party run so deep that it's now become a proxy fight. that's what i want to talk about with yo uh. this fight this question about roy moore. it's now become something about the base of the party versus mcconnell. it's not so muc

we're a year on from that triumph from the republican party, one year on from election day republicans in washington have passed zero major legislation, nothing, despite controlling both houses of congress and the white house. one year on, president's campaign chairman is out on $10 million bond and wearing an ankle bracelet and another trump campaign official out on $5 million bond wearing ankle bracelet, not counting the skpan adviser who has pled guilty and cooperating with the ongoing investigation of this president and his campaign and potentially his administration. one year on, republican party is on the hook for at least hundreds of thousands and many millions of dollars in legal fees for the president and his family. but it's not just them. criminal defense lawyers have been hired by everybody from the vice president to the white house communications director to even the white house counsel. even their lawyers have had to get lawyers this past year. but unlike the president and the president's son, everybody else in the trump administration is having to pay for their lawyers t

virginia beach area usually go republican.u just look at the map, democrats did what they needed to do after a competitive primary they put it together. after a very competitive primary, republicans are gung to be looking down here and looking at the turnout numbers. gillespie got the margins, it'll be interesting to study over the next few days the vote poll. >> lieutenant governor will become the next governor of virginia. go ahead. >> one other point, 67% with 70% of the vote. hillary clinton got 50% of the vote. this is a huge win for democrats. she won it four years ago for president, ralph northam matching the votes. >> anderson back to you. >> yeah, wolfe thanks. >>> john just said the republicans are going to be studying what happened in virginia. what's the lesson for sflats? >> they should celebrate tonight, certainly needed a moral victory so thank goodness for that tonight. he's a moderate, voted for bush twice, he fit the district. so this battle within the democratic party, one of take away is we need candidates

so democrats have to give a little bit to get the republican buyin, orbited the problem with republicans sometimes they think they need knock down a pillar in order to achieve the outcome, and that this challenge we face right now. >> so i think you said that we -- you think we'll be seeing another effort of repeal and replace in the first half of 2018. what do you guys think we'll see, if anything in terms of legislation affecting basically what we're most interested in around here and is the value movement? delivery model, form of payment. >> this is a crucially important thing that is happening in our healthcare system but there's almost no popular attention paid to what is happening, and you have this huge reg that comes out on implementing maccontract, and i-guarantee you there was zero coverage in the trade -- mainstream press, certainly not on tv. the short answer to your question is, at the legislative level, i don't see anything happening that would influence it. all the action is at agency, behind the scenes, and probably, frankly, better off that way. the more public attention

that's not bipartisanship with the republican -- that the republican leadership has done. i know there are republicans on the other side who wish we can work together. well, we can. and today at 11:00, i think more than a dozen, certainly a large number of democrats went to the press gallery and said we want to work with our republican colleagues to create a better bill. they came and visited me last night. i encouraged them to do it. this leader, this leader is not going to stand in the way of bipartisan reform that meets the goals that we've talked about, helping the middle class, reducing the deficit, not unduly or in any way aiding the 1%. bipartisanship and compromise, mr. president, are very possible on tax reform. it's an issue crying out for a bipartisan solution. there are a lot of areas we agree. we have to work to find a middle ground that's acceptable to both parties. i dare say it would be a better bill for the american middle class than the one we're looking at right now. finally, mr. president, and briefly, because i know my colleagues are waiting on the kat

coming up with a weekly luncheon of republicans and saying republicans keep calling it a middle class tax cut bill and he calls it a boom to big corporations that will hurt the middle class. the president up there to sell this bill in a closed door meeting. they want to have the vote and they are short the votes at the moment. before he discussed the tax bill, senator schumer explaining his reason to bow out with the house democratic leader, nancy pelosi, of a scheduled white house meeting to sit down with the top two republicans and democrats to meet with the president about very big year end decisions about spending levels. could they get a deal on the dreamers? that meeting now canceled. we will keep it up there to wait for the president of the united states. always posturing in politics and always showmanship, but at this moment, if you listen to the leader, he seems to think this is good for the democrats to end the year in terms of a negotiating position and let's not forget as we are in late november of 2017, next year is the mid-term elections and everything that is done in th

what are the republicans thinking? regardless of the specific numbers on one point all studies agree, this is a tax hike for millions of middle-class families and many of those hardest hit within the suburbs, the bedrock of the republican coalition for decades. passing a bill that raises taxes on the middle class while slashing for the rich and wealthy as corporations is political insanity, plain and simple. with one hand republicans are giving you huge handouts with all the corporations and the other they are taking away key suburban deductions like state and local, medical expenses, student loans and more. in trying to pass this bill congressional republicans are doing their best to put their majorities at risk. if republicans thought it was hard winning elections last week with the drag of an unpopular president weighing them down, wait till the voters hear about this bill as they are now. if the public and thought it was hard to win after passing the health care bill that would raise premiums and kick millions off

the republicans going for it all by targeting obamacare

we say to the republicans put your money where your mouth is. and if your claims that these tax breaks for big corporations will create jobs don't pan out, take back the tax break. we don't believe it's real. corporate america's flush with money already. the average tax rate for big corporations is 16%. one of the leading companies that wants this tax break is at&t. quiz. who knows what at&t's tax rate was over the last ten years? hint. single digits. at&t's tax rate was 8% and in that time they laid off over 80,000 workers. and now the corporate people who benefit are revealing their true colors. that they're not going to use this to employ workers. that they're going to do more stock buybacks, more dividends which help the wealthy and help the ceos bolster their stocks. i'd like to read two quotes from two honest corporate executives. robert bradway, chairman and ceo of a major pharmaceutical company. >> in california. >> it says based here in washington, d.c. but they must have moved their headquarters to be closer to new york. here's what he

so the republican strength increases. clinton gets elected president of when you look at the first few months of trump and we see the difficulties, clinton had similar problems. >> he had a democratic house and senate. he never won a majority of the american people. i had pollsters tell me it took 19% in many pollsters told me some said he took some from bush but clinton has no mandate. it only has 4043% of the vote. again he doesn't get the majority of the vote. democrats don't feel particularly loyal to clinton because he doesn't have much to hold over him since he won the election so narrowly. and republicans have enough votes in the senate for filibuster which bob dole does before clinton's big tax increase goes through in the spring of 93. things are quickly forming and there's a coalition of anti- clinton americans. where one group after another. >> the book a citizen. an excellent read. we go through the history of its lives in his persistence and moving ahead with adversity. we get to 94 republicans smell somethin

republicans suffer a one-two punch. first, democrats sweep elections across the country, including two governors' races. >> was it a referendum on donald? >> i think so. >> and fueling democratic hopes for next year. >> our republican friends better look out. >> then those bombshell claims about alabama senate candidate roy moore. >> shocking allegations against senate candidate republican roy moore. >> if that's true, i don't think there would be any place for him in the u.s. senate. >> elections. roy moore and the growing awareness of sexual harassment in politics. my guests this morning, republican senator pat toomey, democratic senator amy klobuchar, and white house legislative affairs director marc short. >>> and president trump agrees with vladimir putin about russian hacking, then says he's with our agencies. >> i believe that president putin really feels, and he feels strongly that he did not meddle in our election. what he believes is what he believes. >> but what does the president believe? joining me for insi

in republican districts. a. schumer: it shows you what pickle they are in, they even have to consider going back to health care, which was very bad news for them, because of this bill, they are trying to meet deficit numbers, give tax breaks to the rich and still protect the middle class. the loser in those three are the deficit and the middle class, the rich to not lose anything. but it is happening out there. in the next election, are democrats committed to [indiscernible] alabama senate race? mr. schumer: it is an alabama race. they are running it. if they ask us for things, we will help them, that it is in alabama race. the jones campaign is running itself. when they ask us for help, we will do it, but it is an alabama race. reporter: [indiscernible] nothe same time [indiscernible] letting them say this is national democrats coming in. how did he walk the line? mr. schumer: i just answered that, the bottom line is it is being run in alabama by alabama. he is raising tremendous money without help from the dem

it's why our republican colleagues have such problems. so i repeat my plea to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. take a step back. consider doing reform the right way -- tax reform the right way. bipartisan, through the committees, input from both sides. we've shown as in health care, my friend from new hampshire is on the floor, was one of the leaders in that, that when we try, we can work together. earlier this year we came to a good budget deal. senators alexander and murray put together a reasonable compromise on health care. we can do it again on tax reform. we democrats want to do real reform. but our republican friends must abandon this partisan, secretive reckless process that will lead to no good for them and for the country, and come to the table with democrats. and one final point on the matter, republicans repeatedly promised that the $1.5 trillion reduction in the corporate tax rate proposed by the ryan ryan-mcconnell tax plan will leave the average american family to receive a $4,000 raise. yet corporate profits a

what is the republican party do this? again, not entirely clear but the best answer probably looks like the following. the results of the 1868 election were way too close for comfort for republicans. ulysses s. grant, that preeminent war hero was elected president but only by a narrow percentage by the popular vote and he actually lost the white vote in the country. when congress was to meet for the first time because of a quirk in the original constitution, was not until december 18 69. it is not clear that republicans were going to have the two thirds majority necessary to adopt a constitutional amendment. republicans had lost seats in congress and it was not entirely sure they would still have two thirds. democrats were starting to regain control of state legislatures so it is not clear republicans would be able to get three quarters of state legislatures to ratify an amendment at they did not act weekly. i'd opting a black suffrage amendment, the republicans were breaking a promise to constituents. their platform in 1

republicans can only lose two

senate and david duke emerged as the republican candidate and you had republicans saying vote for the democratic. >> the question is who. those are not going to be the ones to make the argument to the people of alabama. they nevada someone down on the ground to start making that argument. i do think, if nothing else, we saw in this past election cycle in 2017, women are turning out. we may see a shift in turnout and there are enough of these charges. we don't need more. there probably will be more. women especially are going to be turning out against this kind of behavior. so that may be the way -- i mean, the question is right now, are you going to vote for a democrat or a child molester? to me it's very clear. i'd rather see someone vote for the democrat or will we see a very low voter turnout? >> and what happens if this is a one-on-one race and roy moore stays in it and wins, then he goes to washington and you have mitch mcconnell and you have republicans talking about, well, we'll have expulsion proceedings and put him under oath and ask him questions and make him answer them and

more more republicans are great -- you saw this in the last reiteration of the republican repeal and replace effort introduce the senators grandma cassidy. that focus on giving states greater flexibility in the loosing of the regulatory scriptures. that effort was too far too fast for a lot of people. his signals were republicans will be comfortable. if there's anything that debate exposed so republicans don't agree on a lot regarding healthcare policy. figurative exposed so conservative movement. if you were to pulled 100 republicans in congress, one thing that would get support his federalism, responsibility for states. whether foundation is the graham cassidy legislation or the loosening around section 1332 waivers. [inaudible] whether it's a broader or more narrow, i think we will see some effort on the right to migrate the discussion to the value of federalism and the importance of it in healthcare policy. i think it's an interesting time. healthcare is never that far away from the center of the discussion. even though attack by tax reform there's a question of what republicans

but it's what republicans promised people. it's what republicans promised people. now, we'll see what the senate comes up with today, what several republican senators have already confirmed that the senate bill has the same structure as the house bill, and in at least one way, we'll know that it's worse for middle-class families than the house bill, because the house bill would reduce the value of stloal deductions by 70% while the senate bill eliminates it entirely. my friend from ohio, senator portman, confirmed that a few days ago on fox business. so this should be a three-alarm fire for every house republican in california, new york, new jersey, virginia, washington, illinois, colorado, minnesota. senate republicans are telling house republicans there will be no compromise on state and local deductibility. it's full repeal for bust, because senate republicans need the revenue raised by ending this popular middle-class deduction. there are several deficit hawks in the senate. we have stricter budget rules for reconciliation. if the senate tax plan includes cuts

host: ron in tennessee, republican. caller: yes, i would like to make a comment about the sexual harassment. rs ago was ale lady, and she hit the mail on the head. up, america -- you are innocent until proven guilty. all this slaying going on against mr. moore, bring the proof and then do something about it. but to make accusations and tear a person down is wrong. it is totally wrong. and why didn't mr. trump, our president, say something about mr. moore? bring the proof, and i am sure if they bring the proof, mr. trump will be against him. host: ron, is their proven the al franken case? caller: ma'am, from what i have seen on your show, yes. there is a problem. ok? is the proof in that case versus the roy moore accusation? caller: if i am not badly mistaken, there is the picture of him standing with the beatty and his hands -- standing with the lady and his hands -- well, that do not look too good. it is a reason to start investigating to find out whether or not he is guilty or not. until they have that investigation,

from republican rule. president -- from republican rule. 1875, thel of administration made a calculation that further military intervention necessary to save mississippi from redemption would alienate too many northern votes and would specifically cost republicans the governorship and perhaps the electoral college votes of ohio in 1875 and 1876. freed from an external constraint, southern whites were going to do whatever was necessary to regain political power. black voting in the south, though it was reduced after the troops came out of the south, did not and with the fall of reconstruction in 1877. a majority of african americans still voting in the south in 1880. many blacks continued to sit in state legislatures and local offices. it really wasn't until 1890 that the precipitous decline began. formal disfranchisement took many forms. i won't run through all of them. residency requirements would penalize itinerants. secret ballot laws functioned as quasi-literacy tests because you had to be able to read

my guests this morning, republican congresswoman barbara comstock and democratic >>> plus, house republicans pass their tax plan. >> this is about giving hard-working taxpayers bigger paychecks, more take-home pay. >> now it's the senate's turn. >> i just think it would be nice just tonight before we go home to just acknowledge this tax cut is really not for the middle class, it's for the rich. >> is the tax cut really for the middle class? i'll ask white house budget director mick mulvaney and republican senator roy blunt of missouri. joining me for insight and a23458sz are amy walter, robert costa of "the washington post" and "washington week." joy reid, host of "a.m. joy" on msnbc, and rich lowerlowery, ed "national week in review. welcome to "meet the press." >> this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> and good sunday morning, i'm andrea mitchell. chuck todd is off weinstein first broke last month, many thought the outrage over sexual misconduct would pass like a summer storm. now it feels more like climate change, with nine women coming forward with accusations against alabama repub

but not before the republicans invested $50 million into a republican seat. if you look at just the congressional races and understand in the last 118 years there's only been three times about the incumbent president's party hasn't lost seats in the first midterm. this should be a moment where republicans are terrified in the house of representatives over losing their majority. instead what the speaker says is, we're with trump, clarifying it completely. we now look at the american electorate and see clearly out of virginia. you have all the democrats are against him. the majority of the independents are against him. and about 25% of the republicans are against him. so the democrats if they win in november, aren't going to be able to enact a progressive agenda. not while he's in the white house. there's one question on the ballot which is, do you want to have a check on donald trump because the republicans in the congress are completely incapable of exercising any oversight authority on any of the excesses in this administration from its malfeasance to its in

republican women, rise up and raise hell.be real loyalty, and to those who really are your own. what is the impact on >> i think it should have been incumbent on the republican party to give their voters a better choice. and that would have fundamentally president trump weighing in very heavily against roy moore and pressuring state party officials saying, look, you don't have a future in this party unless you find some way to leverage this guy out of this race. it didn't happen. now roy moore is running the only race he can, which is saying all these attacks on me are attacks on you, my supporters, and against mitch mcconnell. it goes to the cynical demagoguery of the likes of steve bannon. if roy moore killed someone with an ax, steve bannon would say it's mitch mcconnell's fault. >> there's a real challenge here for republicans because in washington, the republicans i'm talking to in the senate, they feel totally boxed in. president trump is not weighing in. he's not trying to get moore out of the race. and they know if ro

clearly if they're repudiating republicans, clearly they're signaling to republicans they want to moven from this issue. and republicans might have to fold in and go long with the president's tax reform, if they don't pass tax reform in this congress they risk being the anti-free trade, anti-climate change white house. >> paul ryan says the republicans need to deliver on their promises, but our poll shows only 40% think president trump is doing a good job keeping his campaign promises. how much will fulfilling those promises help republicans next year in the midterm elections? >> well, look, wolf, you can almost separate the two, you can argue that this is a paul ryan sort of ambition more than it even is president trump's ambition. that's why paul ryan was the house ways and means committee, that was his number one objective was bringing tax reform into legislation. the president obviously needs a win when it comes to legislation this year, didn't happen with health care, could very well be in jeopardy with regards to tax reform. but don't underestimate the power of a good economy. th

one year since donald trump's election, republicans are

it's the republican snake oil pitch. we reference what they say about the tax plan which is not true. speaker ryan told everybody that the middle class gets a tax cut, a brazen falsehood. now speaker ryan wants you to believe he misspoke. the gop tax scam is exposed. it's republicans true content for the middle-class and especially those living in america's suburbs. we want to make sure the voters understand this. this is the equivalent of what president george w. bush did when he said he would privatize social security. people know what that means in their lives. and we made sure that people knew about it. as i said, tuesday's elections frightened republicans. speaker ryan is about to brand them, some of the most vulnerable suburban members with a huge tax hike. so we have come again, although this, $1.5 trillion from medicare and medicaid in their budget. $1.5 trillion to corporate america. corporate america gets tax breaks to send jobs overseas. again, what did the middle class ever due to the republicans? those who w

coming up thursday morning, florida republican congressman matt gaetz will talk about republican tax reform legislation. then politico's victoria guido will discuss the nomination of jerome powell for federal reserve chair. ohio democratic congressman tim ryan will join us to discuss the trump administration's response to the opioid epidemic. and we're live in austin, texas, for the next stop on the c-span bus 50 capitols tour with wendy davis and texas republican party chair james dickey. he'll be our guest on board the bus. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning join the discuss. >>> the tax reform discussion proposal is expected to be released wednesday morning. next, the cato institute hosts a discussion on the prospects for the tax reform agenda. panelists include americans for tax reform president grover norquist, american enterprise institute fellow alex brill, and cato institute tax policies studies reported chris edwards. this is an hour. >>> all righty. i think we're going get started here. i want to welcome you all today. i'm

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