cutting medicare and medicaid, social security. people really don t want to see it anymore. if they do get look, the biggest thing trump has is his platform. what i m hearing you re saying is the best thing he can do is actually ignore republicans and come up with his own messaging. that gets cut through when you have those door-to-door conversations. that s why we re seeing this volunteer army that hasn t been activated since the obama campaign in 2008. this is even bigger now, of people saying we have to have these conversations and break through the noise. when voters hear this is going to be a back door cut to entitlements, they really do not want to keep those republicans in office. i will say for republicans who have been trying to sell this tax cut, josh holmes, a former mcconnell top guy, was quoted as saying that if the president doesn t say it, then nobody actually hears it. i think that helps explain what the president is trying to do here anyway. emily, david, thanks to
increase interest rates which would reduce investment or cause more foreign borrowing which would increase the trade deficit. also the house has a lot of bizarre, misguided tax increases on higher education that would hurt graduate students, and a source of our, you know, comparative advantage is having people get good education and good degrees. they re actually making that harder rather than easier in this tax bill. there s also a new york times analysis estimating the senate plan leaves 13 million people without health insurance, causes 9 million more to spend at least 10% of their income on medical care and do untold damage with spending cuts to medicare. is this a back door cut to entitlements? yes, that hasn t received a lot of notice. when you increase the deficit that will introduce cuts in medicare. in the senate bill they re repealing the individual mandate which risks health insurance for 13 million people and would raise premiums for many of the
the driver lost control. 36 students were on board. six had to be taken to the hospital. investigators are not sure if the driver was intoxicated at the time of the crash. they re waiting on test results. now to tennessee. wow. a cop uses his own cruise tore stop a wrong way driver. the woman was going south on a northbound lane. the officer and the driver were hurt but are okay. the crash is under investigation. 11 minutes past the hour. let s talk sports. lebron james reaches a milestone. he scored his 24,816 point against the knicks. he surpasses the hall of fame center. stanford and miami ended in an overtime thriller. he finds reed on a back door