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This is not the way to do tax reform. we should do bipartisan tax reform, but this takes us in the wrong direction, andrea. >> in the near term, people may do better, middle class people, but come time ten years from now when those tax cuts expire and the corporate taxes dont, the deficit will balloon even farther. were hearing $2.2 trillion might be the big impact. there is big impact on homeowners, on college students, a number of sectors, and certainly high-tax states. so will republicans act...

You know, any more on that side. there is a possibility of picking up some democrats who like some parts of this tax bill. now, what has he done in blowing up the meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi? >> he obviously has made it much harder to win over democrats on what could otherwise be a bipartisan opportunity for him to get particularly those democrats in the united states senate who are facing tough reelection campaigns in 2018. there are a number of democrats who represent states th...

Mansion or clair mccaskill or any of these red state democrats who could conceivably be coerced to support this bill in the past, thats pretty much over now. democrats are going back in their corners and making this as a health care issue does sort of unite the liberal base in a way that the tax discussion on its own merits didnt really. there is an added emotional element that gets put into this, but again, republicans feel like theyve found an attractive-enough vehicle to carry this across the...

And fellows. right now they are not covered. and as you know we have a lot of young people working in the capital. theyre bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, anxious to succeed. and when something like this happens, their careers careen. and many of them leave. thats not fair to them and its not fair to the institution to allow this to fester. and for the congress to, frankly, be complicit in allowing sexual harassment to continue in our offices. >> ill say. i mean, claire mccaskill was recounting yester...

Mccaskill to be coming up with a better pushback on immigration issues. on trade, there are a handful of issues that will determine sort of the fate of people like clair mccaskill, joe mansion, joe donnelly, all those red state democrats, that they do need to figure out a better economic message that unifies their coalition. they have one now, college-educated whites coupled with women, coupled with minorities, younger voters. you see the coalition there. the same coalition that hillary clinton ...

Strategist on with sean hannity last night. he had a tough message for those folks down in washington. hes trying to drain the swamp one person at a time. whose the target this time? mitch mcconnell. listen. >> the house has actually voted on i think its 180 bills that the senate has not taken up, including many bills that would be a very difficult vote for joe manchin he and clair mccaskill and joe tester and heidi heitcamp and red state democrats we need to take down in 2018. and mitch mcconne...

Tuesday and wednesday, winners and losers, democrats winners, but there are also warning signs that they shouldnt jump to conclusions about 2018. >> its interesting and ive seen some hand wringing saying the greenbergs of the world, that democrats have done a good job. they still dont have a message. or they dont have a cohesive message that allows them to not have to make every election a microtargeting election. looking for a midterm election, its possible that njust not trump might be enough....

Passing a tax plan. get, this they narrowly passed a budget framework. ainsley: the president tweeted this the budget passed late last night 51 to 49. >> we got zero democrat votes with only rand paul: he will vote for tax cuts. voting against this now allows for the passage of large scale tax cuts and reform which will be the biggest in the history of our country. here to weigh in on this is rnc chair woman ronna mcdaniel. great to see you. >> always great to be here. i think its the great as a...

As a middle class tax cut while also trying to attract democrats who has a lot of balls in the air. i talked to clair mccaskill yesterday, and she said, look, the president is talking about tax cuts skr, and thats somethi could get behind, but what were hearing from the republican senate is not about tax cuts. so they still have to get behind it if indeed theyre going to try to attract any democratic votes on this. >> good luck on your holiday season, garrett. garrett hague on capitol hill. coul...

Be swayed. they are in tough fights. good luck getting those votes, but its gi add effort to try as they come up there. its not the first bipartisan dinner. the real is she republican votes. they have to get the budget passed. is this helpful? is it a distraction? what? >> i dont think it hurts. and speaking to all three of the lawmakers, they dont mind it. they like the ability to converse and they think they are on friendly ground. it brings by partisan senators together. thats never a bad thi...