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Lot of talking with local and state officials, and a lot of compromises even before they get to saying, okay. this is our proposal. then haggle with congress over that. thats not something weve seen the white house do yet and something the president will have to get done in very short order. they dont have a lot of time. >> and perhaps arm twisting, if he wants it quickly, an emergency package. not offsets or full offsets and conservatives say, no, mr. president. >> thats an interesting point. w...

Steven moore, you know, the public rebuke, how much of a blow do you think this was for president trump, this near resignation? >> i think the good news is that he is going stay on the job. lets face it, the one thing donald trump has to get done is he has to get this tax cut passed. he is front and center on that. certainly he has the right to say it. it is appropriate donald trump keep him onto finish the economic agenda because he is very valuable. he is one of the gang of six thats putting t...

Trying to press him, who is the senate foreign relations committee chairman to not go forward with the russia sanctions bill. corker told him, frankly, it has bipartisan support. this bill is going to get passed and trump was very, you know, angry that this power -- it would crimp his power because he wants to be able to set the agenda with russia. >> for a guy who penned a book titled "the art of the deal" the president has been criticized for not doing enough, for not getting out there, for no...

Given what he has said, he will have to launch something sometime somewhere soon. but they dont believe he will point it here. also, the chairman of the joint chiefs is headed to south korea and japan for military planning and hes going to china as well for some arm-twisting as tensions rise here in the pacific. back to you. julie: william la jeunesse in guam, thank you very much. eric? eric: a fox news alert, vice president mike pence has touched down in columbia starting a week long latin amer...

Court, the stock market is at all-time highs. he does need a legislate ty victory. i thought that would come up with health care. he needs to go short, do some arm twisting and deal making and get that deal through. >> does this all come down to what john mccain said earlier in the week, that its radio hosts and tv hosts that will support the president at all costs, that wont show the shades of gray that john was referring to, as long as there are those voices that are so loud and vitriolic that...

She was one of two republican senators that voted no. theyre voting on a democratic pressure. but as what happened, as theyre on the floor, thats when final arm twisting happens. >> is it fair to say the general mood there is -- you know, as you said earlier, it sounded like they werent happy about it. mccain and graham were sitting alone. grahams phone rang and he left for a minute. im not sure what that means. no republican senator would approach mccain while he was there to talk to him. and h...

This. that was about the interior secretary trying to put pressure on here. we cant see her on the floor on the camera angles, but the producer in the room said there is a large group of republicans around her on the floor potentially working on her as one of the other people who was thought to be a likely or possible no vote and trying to get last minute arm twisting from her. i cant help but think this is part of where the presidents handling of congress and handling of these senators and thes...

Down to take their votes. i mean, all the milling around and arm twisting stopped. it was one of those moments weve seen. a moment unlike any other in that it was a seven year effort and it was asking them to vote for something that they were promised would never become law. >> what did you expect? what i find interesting, and i think a couple of less covered parts of this, john mccain is not getting criticized by many -- any senate republicans as far as i could tell today, publicly or privately...

Kasie hunt, bring us up to speed, some arm twisting, some alaska style -- should we call it pressuring, intimidation. i dont know. tell us whats going on up there q. >> look, nicolle, the pressure is so intends on the republicans to do something, anything. the interior secretary called the two senators from alaska after lisa murkowski voted against starting debate and essentially said, look, were going to hold up all the things you want for alaska if you go through with this. senator murkowski h...

Greatness lately. and right now, they arent producing much for the american people. both sides have let this happen. we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. thats an approach thats been employed by both sides mandating legislation from the top down without any support from the other side with all the parliamentary maneuvers that requires. we are getting nothing done, my friends. were getting nothing done. i voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to contin...