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Draft plan for that tax reform before the august reset. -- recess. is that still the case and do you expect to get tax reform done this year in light what we learned about the healthcare bill yesterday? >> were still very focused on moving forward on tax reform, its still a big priority for the administration. that has not changed. >> in terms of getting it done before the end of the year? >> we want to get the biggest tax reform as possible. tax reform plan in place. and well keep you posted on...

>> i was in the briefing and i asked how does this obamacare repeal and replace failure affect their agenda? they said they expect to get a draft plan of tax reform done before august recess. were looking at with the schedule now and it doesnt seem like that would be possible. they said they thought they would get the tax reform package passed by the end of the year. also doesnt seem like that will be possible. sarah huckabee wouldnt put a timeline on that and wouldnt put a timeline or obamacare...

Want different things, so its making negotiations really difficult. and the longer this goes on, the more of a chance there is that the bill will be dead because time is not something thats helping them with negotiations. >> and senators john mccain, bill cassidy, they were saying without changes this bill is stagnant. heres what they said. >> if you shut out the adversary or the opposite party, youre going to end up the same way obamacare did when they rammed it through with 60 votes. only gues...

What bill cassidy, republican senator, said yesterday about appearing to be, again, this is a smart guy. a doctorate, right? confused about whats in the bill. >> we dont know what the plan is. >> wait a minute. it was submitted. >> well, the draft plan has now been serious rewrite, and so we dont know what the serious rewrite -- clearly the draft plan is dead. is the serious rewrite plan dead? i dont know. ive not seen the serious rewrite plan. >> so this is not a commentary on a senator but on ...

Chris: as it now stands cruz is a nonstarter for you. >> i dont know the amendment. if it turns out its two plans -- chris: thats what he has described. >> thats okay. with two risk pools then thats bad >> thats what he described. >> he hasnt designated whether you have a single risk pool or two risk pools. if it is a single risk pool, that works. if it is two risk pools that is just obama care recreated. we need to do something different than that. chris: at least ten republican senators have n...

Care next week? >> i think my view is its probably going to be dead. >> the draft plan has now been serious rewrite, and so we dont know what the serious rewrite. clearly the draft plan is dead. >> obama care is failing. whether or not we can come together, i dont know. mitch is trying. i would support the proposal before us, but you got different camps in the republican party, but obama care is going to fail. my advice is if it does fail, work together in a bipartisan fashion to replace it. i d...

So how do you get people like that on board? >> i think the idea that were discussing what was a lacked draft is irresponsible. it inresponsible journal -- i would push back on that, governor. this is a draft plan thats been circulated around as possible proposals as to how to implement something that the perez ran on for 18 months -- >> it is a possible draft, but the point is there are many possibilities. we wouldnt still be having these discussions if that was definitive but it is not the pre...

Fully funded as congress believes appropriate because, if you dont fund the state department fully, then i need to buy more ammunition ultimately. so i think its a cost/benefit ratio. the more that we put into the state departments diplomacy, hopefully the less theyll have to put into a military budget as we deal with the outcome of an apparent american withdrawal from the international scene. >> even though that was a couple years ago, gives you an indication of james mattis thinking about all ...

Washington. why? a by launching a shock andce awe campaign against the status quo and the establishment. hes only been in office for a little over three weeks and a heres a list of what heshe accomplished so far. o he ordered federal agencies, to ease the burden of obamacare. hes taken action to freeze new impending regulation spread he kept a promise, he withdrew the u.s. from tpp. he instituted a federal government hiring freeze. hes banning nongovernment organizations from receiving federal f...

President trump he said hed shake up washington and actually get things done for once in washington. why? by launching a shock and awe campaign against the status quo and the establishment. hes only been in office for a little over three weeks and heres a list of what hes accomplished so far. he ordered federal agencies, to ease the burden of obamacare. hes taken action to freeze new impending regulation spread he kept a promise, he withdrew the u.s. from tpp. he instituted a federal government ...