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Why rob portman is hopeful. Mick mulvaney is warning. And steny hoyer is fighting mad. Theyre all here and only here. We begin with blake burman with the latest. Blake . Its clear here in the halls of the capitol as House Republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. Theres a host of issues to work through. Earlier today, the club for growth, an influential Republican Group put out a note saying they have issues with four Different Things on the individua...

>> yeah. well take a look at that analysis that youre referring to. every analysis, every fact that weve checked, shows that theyre going to see that relief and well double check that to make sure because the intent is to provide that relief for hard-working americans. thats why we kept the 39.6% rate on the books the bubble rate you heard a lot of folks at the 44% that will get impacted by it. dealing with the corporate rate we are reducing corporate taxation because we are the highest taxed na...

Higher brackets. is this hillary clinton in office? >> we are not for higher brackets. everyone across the board enjoys a tax cut. the bubble rate says the millionaires dont get the tax cut aimed for low and middle-class people. it is saying we want to preserve middle-class tax cuts. a person in the top bracket, [overlapping talking]. they still get lower tax. thats the point. we dont like high tax rates either. we are trying to make all of this work. getting taxes down on businesses and jobs ...

>> laura: thats the big issue. >> it has to pass the house. >> laura: this is what happened with obamacare. you got it through. it dies in the senate because you have two people, senator mccain and senator flake who do not donald trump to an be a successful president. thats my belief. how concerned are you that for all of this work you have been doing, some people still dont like it, you did something. goes over to the senate and guys? how worried are you? >> i should have brought my other chart...

Sign it. so thats an easy answer for us to give here at the white house. our principles remain the same. we want lower taxes in the middle class, simpler and fairer in the middle class and we want the low corporate tax rate. >> neil: so youd say if it passed the house and the senate and there were people that could make a case that its going to raise cases on some in the middle class, the president wouldnt and shouldnt sign it? >> your caveat is "some people say." some people will always say tha...

The bubble rate are because we is to follow the senate rules and heres what we did differently than health care. we agreed ahead of time what this would look like. ha this tax relief would look-alike like. >> laura: what about flake and mccain? >> they are part of the discussion. its important that we deliver this for the american people and the fact we agreed ahead of time gives me optimism we will get this done. >> laura: congressional approval is 22%. why is congressional approval this low? >...

Higher brackets. is this hillary clinton in office? >> we are not for higher brackets. everyone across the board enjoys a tax cut. the bubble rate says the millionaires dont get the tax cut aimed for low and middle-class people. it is saying we want to preserve middle-class tax cuts. a person in the top bracket, [overlapping talking]. they still get lower tax. thats the point. we dont like high tax rates either. we are trying to make all of this work. getting taxes down on businesses and jobs to...

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