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>> i can tell you this much, it is 600 or smaller or medium size clients. and you know, leland, if congress cannot pass tax reform this fall, it will mean the end of the republicans governing in the next midterm election. and we are seeing that reflected in the market. it is flat and right now, we are heading in the fall and a lot of the business leaders i am speaking to want to see congress take action over a pit 55 attol. >> leland: he calls on congress. our plan will reduce income taxes for a...

About what can happen based upon this action, the reaction and the counteraction. when you look at iran and russia and china and the launchers that north korea are using, these are chinese trucks. >> harris: a lot. colonel, its great to have you here. thank you. if congress cannot fix health care, president trump may try to do it himself through executive action, but how much can he actually do without lawmakers? is it a good idea, what do you think? and eric trumpets the g.o.p. over lack of sup...

Congress cannot wholeheartedly take control of the national agenda that a president can. the president is elected by the entire country. congressional members represent different districts in different states. it makes it much harder to have a national megaphone the way that president trump can. he just hasnt been utilizing it. hes had only one solo press conference since becoming president. theres been no major address to the nation aside from his early joint session to congress which was well ...

Now many look back at that in hindsight and say that was not the right call. give you the last word on that, marie. >> it shows how tough these calls really are and that we have never seen a foreign government interfere in an election in the way they did. >> bill: did not change any votes. >> thats right. it should be concerning of americans if all parties. we struggled to deal with that in realtime as it was happening. did we do everything perfectly? no. we have a responsibility now to prevent ...

President, do you have this in romania, too? i dont know. >> leaving for his bed minister home. surrounded by his campaign crew. >> what we saw from him was visible, clear, relief and a sense that he could get himself back on offense by saying jim comey didnt take me down and a special counsel cant, either. >> that was nbcs hallie jackson reporting. joining me now, kevin vili from bloomberg politics reporting and jonathan allen, co-author of "shattered" about hillary clintons 2016 loss, thank yo...

Individuals who have not the best interests of the country at heart as they have taken the highest offices in this country. i mean, thats -- weve seen that movie before, and it looks like, you know, much of this looks like the beginning of that movie again, like the sequel, 2.0. and its very easy to make watergate comparisons, but we were just talking about the value of reading the history of watergate and really knowing what were up against. >> it forces the question of impeachment. theres been...

Investigation, what can they do about it? how can they revse this fortune? how can they get this special prosecutor that so many have called for appointed by the attorney general of all people? congress cannot appoint a special prosecutor. one of the points were seeing, first of all, youve seen chuck schumer many times. today but whoever the nominee, whoever that may be when donald trump gets around to it. a lot of talk pr democrats that they are going on block nominee. there will not be a confi...

Immigration system. even though this congress cannot get it done, they cant pass trump care at the end of the day -- youre going to have to pass this system. >> tucker: you are not a policymaker, you are a policy advocate pushing for a certain set of positions based on your beliefs. my question as an american citizen is how many illegals in this country is to money? have you given any thought at all? what should be a good number for us? what is your view of that? >> this is a country built on im...

That seems like a pretty reasonable argument. if you live at your parentsdo house and they say there is a curfew at 11:00, you shouldnt be surprised when you come home at midnight and they say get a new apartment. we have 11 million people living here illegally. how many should we have? >> this is the first time i can think of where conservatives around the country who have fought for state rights and thought -- all of thatug applies except for when it comes to immigration. >> tucker: im not tal...

Program, you were working there, wult thousands ofjustice he said the statutes passed by congress cannot infringe the pres inparent pow so do you believe that president bsh because the president, quote, inherent pow nfrmt to override her, to conduct national security very muches. >> as a judge before i even tried to decide a question like that, id want briefs and argue money and id want to throui wo