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A tax increase from this plan while people 80% by 2027 of the benefits of the tax cut will go to people in the top 1%. so thats hard to defend. secondly, their credibility problems for the administration. they are the same things that hurt them on health care, saying to average people, youre going to get a great deal from this, better health care, cheaper health care and theyre actual plans did not do that. if hes telling people that theyre going to be much better off and the wealthy are not goi...

Class voter says my taxes will go down $100 under this, that is good. but if they also hear that president trumps taxes are going to go down a billion, they may not be so many about it. so they have big fairness problems, they have credibility problems. they have internal republican dissension problems. and they also have a time problem. because they hope do this by the end of the year, but that lobbying that we talked about will get very rough very fast. >> very rough, very fast. welcome to the...

>> this will be the largest audience to witness an emmys, period, both in person and around the world. >> wow, that really sooths my fragile ego. i can understand why you would want one of these guys around. melissa mccarthy, everybody, give it up. >> having melissa in the crowd was crucial of course, having her react to the real-life sean spicer. right now spicer is looking for work, getting public speaking gigs, consulting jobs. hes been looking for a tv commentator deal. cnn said were not int...

Even prosecuting james comey, is that actually under way? going anywhere? >> your guess is as good as mine, i cant get anything out of the justice department. i think this is more of a p.r. move, suggesting there could be real credibility problems. it does seem a little inappropriate for the white house press secretary to be talking about this and sort of suggesting from that position that there should be a prosecution. i have no idea if theres any prosecution under way but i will say this very ...

Presidents credibility problems and what that would mean when it came, when an actual national or international emergency happened. heres his first test. so far, so good. as you say. all of the signs are positive here. it is going to be a long time coming. they sent out mike pence. maybe the administrations best messenger on a series of interview, radio interviews this morning in texas. he was on point. and speaking in specifics. right? for a president who likes to talk in superlatives, this is ...

Official decree in the press release, doesnt report to him, reports directly to the president, and had been causing, from kellys perspective, all sorts of problems, both cultural problems and, you know, credibility problems, by the comments hed made to the press. so this was a signal that kellys in charge, hes been fully empowered in a way that reince priebus was never empowered. so this was as much a symbolic act as anything else. >> but you mentioned the question of who anthony scaramucci woul...

That the trump women somehow -- this was some sort of apostasy and they all rose up in anguish. thats just not true. in realtime, with we know from our reporting that the president found the remarks amusing, at first, and then later in the evening, as the negative coverage pailpiled on, he got q angry and told anthony scaramucci and told him off a little bit. but the next day, he was joking about it. this was really john kelly. and for general kelly to take the job, he made the demand that he ge...

>> no, i dont think so. hes just a private citizen at this point, goes before the senate intel committee and testifying not even as a federal employee anymore. hes just a private citizen. >> but he was making cya files basically, that if he did get canned, here is what ive got and ive got this con tame rain yously that im making these memos because he thought about th that. >> certainly he has come under attack for the past year and a half, on the campaign trail both sides were angry at him for ...

Letter, and that what rosenstein said today on the hill was true. i think what is stunning though is four months into his presidency theres this huge lack of credibility. it didnt have much capital going into this and he has squandered it. where does it leave him. >> and republicans are reacting to that. you are listening to what theyre saying. >> yes, and you heard them today on the hill, lindsay graham talking about it was a criminal investigation at this point, privately really complaining ab...

In the way ofthe critics and your dreams. >> harris: the president at the top of the hour just moments ago made the reference to the media, and the mainstream media is not letting up on him. that in the wake of "the new york times" report saying that president trump pressured then fbi director james comey to shut down the michael flynn investigation. watch. >> what weve learned is that the trump administration will i hope you can let this go, is what theyll say. those will be the smoking gun. >>...