experience. we ve seen a change in tone from this president. it will be interesting to see if it persists. he s talking about these deficit issues. this has very much be on his mind for several months. once republicans are in control of the house, the time for rhetoric will be past, and it will be time to cut deals and get real about people s claims they want to do something about the deficit. he s saying, look, the chickens are going to come home to roost and we re all going to have to figure hout tout where the toug are made. savannah, thanks so much. we ll go to kelly o donnell now. kelly, the president made this mention saying when he talked about the tax cuts for the wealthy he referred to it as the holy grail for them. explain to all of us as we go into what s going to be a new change in washington as the new
represent where other senators are, too, that are still on the fence. for ron johnson about pass through income, business entities that pass through their income and taxed at individual rates. ron johnson wants the cut in the senate bill, kind of through a credit, to go deeper and to be expanded. he wants it to be more parody wise when it comes to the corporate side of things. here s the rub on that, that costs money, like a lot of money, more than $100 billion. that s $100 billion not only do republicans not currently have to work with based on the budget rules they re working under but runs head long into what senator bob corker wants. bob corker representing people like jeff flake, james langford, very concerned about deficit issues. doesn t want the $1.5 trillion package it to add to the deficit over the long term. so you re adding money to appease one senator and potentially lose another senator. this is the balancing act they have going on. to take you behind the scenes a lot of
completed. before one even went through committee, let alone a house floor. this is a major achievement. talk about the senate and that s where all eyes are turning. not to give short shift to the house or president actually coming over and rallying the troops here, but it s the senate where things are already growing more complicated and that s not exactly a new thing. we saw that in health care, very almost visserly on some level, but if you look at what s going on here beyond ron johnson who came out yesterday and said he had problems with this bill there are numerous lawmakers who right now aren t fully ready to commit to the process that s ongoing right now, the committee moving through the bill, marking up the bill right now, should finalize that in the next day or two, but if you want to tick through them, susan collins, you played the sound about her talking about her concerns about the individual mandate, very concerned about the state and local tax deduction that the senate r