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Thousands and thousands of dollars to their workers. and now you have almost 3 million workers that are receiving thousands of dollars. >> that was president trump speaking with cnbc during his trip to davos this week for the world economic forum. and with trump slated to deliver his first state of the union speech this week, hell likely keep that focus on his economic achievements. since his tax plan was passed, 40 companies from the s&p 500, including comcast, announced they are giving bonuses...

He said hes the one who makes the decision. >> it is donald trumps world and we are all just living in it. >> but thats shocking. we really -- we just take that sort of at face value. we have a president who is living in another reality that has nothing to do with law, nothing to do with our constitution. >> thats where we are going to find out from bob mueller potentially because hes building an obstruction case. youll have to hold it for a second. because when we continue, well ask the former ...

Now, it could be on any number of topics that some may not be covered in the speech, but i think thats the thing that hurts this presidents momentum oftentime when he does the after action to take away from what was a very good speech the night before. >> what is your reporting showing on how the white house is preparing for this behind the scenes? >> they are putting a lot of effort into this, obviously. and to marks point, they really want to make an uplifting positive speech. and i think the ...

Want to ask you about the vice president and his role in the midterm elections coming up. its potentially a tough map. what do you think the vice president could bring to the table to campaigning for republicans that perhaps wouldnt be a strongsuit for the president? >> well, i dont think its a question of what is strong for the president and not. >> so lets just go with what are vice president pences picks? >> well, i will tell you, hes going to be very busy in the first quarter. i think hes go...

Tested as the presidents legal team negotiates conditions for an interview with the special counsel. joining us now mark lauder. he is the former press secretary for the vice president. he is also a former special assistant to the president. sir, good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you for having me on. >> thank you. youve seen the reports that the president ordered the special counsel fired, though he was eventually forced not to do that. his white house counsel rebuffed that attempt. th...

Something of this magnitude. look at obamacare. look at the effort of george w. bush to fix social security. if you want to change something, if you want to use your political capital and implement your partys agenda, and they do believe that tax cuts are going to stimulate the economy, theres going to be backlash. >> it cost george w. bush and barack obama politically. >> when have tax cuts been unpopular. this is unusual, actually. if youre cutting taxes for people -- >> paul ryan claimed the ...

Distributed as opposed to that which gets invested into new business formation, cap x. >> hang on, mark. when ceos have been polled, he asked ceos to raise your hands if you are going to do anything than reinvest these wages and buy back dividends and no one raised their hand. no one he heard from is saying this is necessarily going to back into the economy. >> because its missing the final piece, john, which is the incentive to invest the money. >> this tax plan also includes an incentive that ...

Around 11:00 p.m. its a foregone conclusion in terms of the votes. but procedural issues have popped up because of the budget rules. republicans are using this to pass by a simple majority. there are provisions that will be stripped out because the house passed a different version, that means the senate will have to send the bill back to the house. the house will then pass the bill again tomorrow morning. at this point its just adding a couple hours to where everybody knows this is going to end ...

>> harris: interesting day on capitol hill, at least 21 senators, 13 of them women calling for fellow democratic senator al franken to resign after a fresh allegation that he forcibly tried to kiss a woman a decade ago before he became a senator. the disturbing details laid out in a political report. while al franken is denying the latest accusation, his office sent word that he will make a statement on this matter tomorrow. we are back with our power panel now, we saw this in the last hour and ...

For jews, christians, and muslims alike. president trump, thank you for todays historical decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital. the jewish people and the jewish state will be forever grateful. >> harris: that was the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu with his response to what our president of the united states did today by recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel and promising to move forward in a substantial way that his predecessors in the white house have not do...