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Your home state, folks in florida who made up donald trumps base. does this help them. are they going to be happy with the final version of this? >> no, this bill is for the donor base of the republican party, not for the movement that made donald trump president of the united states. and, listen, there is economic peril in this bill, particularly when were looking at an increase in the national debt. i think there is significant political peril for the republicans as well. heres what i mean by ...

The final version of this? >> no. this bill is for the donor base of the republican party, not for the movement that made donald trump president of the united states. and listen, there is economic peril in this bill, particularly when were looking at an increase in the national debt. but i think there is significant political peril for republicans as well. and here is what i mean by that for the last three decades or more, tax policy has been used to reward certain social policies. you can argue...

Of the aisle? how do the democrats make their case plausibly? >> its a very tough question, because -- >> most of us dont understand these numbers. its very complicated. were not economists. >> i dont think its that complicated. this is a tax plan that shifts hundreds of billions of dollars to the wealthy at the cost of 1.5 trillion to the deficit. if this were running purely on politics, this plan would be dead. the more people learn, the less they like it. the approval rating is something betw...

Create jobs by putting more money in the hands of the job creators. first of all, let me get your take again on the tax plan, but how this plays in to 2018. >> what you just described there and youre right. thats how youre trying to sell it, pure trickle-down supply side fairy dust. its a sales job that isnt working with the public. the interesting thing i think in some ways the unfortunate thing, were still even debating the possibility of tax cuts for multinational corporations helping the mid...

Front of voters minds. you ask them what they are worried about. they are worried about health care and worried about having a job and not getting blown up by north korea. so the idea that this tax cut is something that republicans absolutely must ram through by before december is more of a concession to the donor base than it is to their actual voters. >> jeremy peters, dr. jeffrey saks, thank you both. happy thanksgiving. up next, plenty of eyeballs on alabama. it has nothing to do with roy ...

It doesnt look necessarily like it will affect them as far as the polling. but this decision, how much can this affect the funding of the race? >> they were putting significant money into the race. as you know, dana, the and -- they are a key player in these races. they are funding a significant role in terms of advertising in the final days. bottom line, if they are pulling out of this race, if they are saying, enough already, we are going to focus on the other 2018 races, that could have a sig...

The hurricanes. but typically were creating that many jobs in a month anyway. look, the thing that ive scratched my head about, and this again gets back to tims insightful thoughts about this, why do we need a tax cut that adds trillions to the deficit at this point in our economy? what the middle class really does need are jobs and wage growth. and the whole trickle-down sales job has been belied by every historical example of these type of cuts. most recently they tried this in canada, it blew...

Tim did, the yawning gap between what theyre talking about and what this actually does for working class people. who this helps is the donor base, not the voter base. >> we dont need jobs. we need wage increases. >> wage growth. >> we need wage growth. youre really right about that. >> good to see you both. tim obrien, jared bernstein, thank you two both of you. >> thank you. all right. >> stick around, everybody next were going to talk with a republican congressman buddy carter of georgia who...

>> do those meetings include the president? you talked to the president before a rally in phoenix back in august. are you going to see him when you go to d.c.? have you been in touch with him since that rally? >> not specifically, no. so this meeting will be more of a meeting of a number of operatives to make sure that we make good choices, as we look at all the facts and considerations as it relates to a senate race. >> you have name recognition. a donor base. you know your state from your time...

Out and said my job is to keep us in the majority. this conversation must have been an awful lot about steve bannon, about what bannon was doing because bannon was trying to get the republican donors to say those establishment republicans have done nothing for you and you need to come to us 37. >> he had a whole list of mitch mcconnell of republican candidates who one contested primaries who wound up losing to the democrat. to keep us in the majority, you have to nominate people who can actually...