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Power of the presidency in terms of launching air strikes without the congressional authorization? >> well, im not concerned as long as we stay vigilant on committees like the foreign relations committee and we have not only held hearings on this topic of late but we are prepared to move forward and i believe that mark-up thats considered formally in a committee and authorization for the use of military force in coming weeks, so i think we are -- we are doing right by the american people, not on...

Im entirely sympathetic with that line of argument there, sir. i know that you are not only frustrated by the contents of this gop tax bill but also by the process in how it passed. can you explain that? >> well, alex, youre right. i think if you go back historically, when tip oneill as speaker of the house and ronald reagan was the president, thats the last time we did major tax reform. and through that process, everybody understood that there needed to be bipartisan cooperation. but as importa...

Cuts. thats not an unpopular thing do. by the way this is something we ran on. we didnt -- we didnt do like some of the democrat majorities of the past and pass a big huge thing on an unsuspecting country. we ran in 2016 on doing the tax reform. the president ran on doing this tax cut and reform. this is about fulfilling our promise to the american people. this is about actually improving peoples lives and making a positive difference and i fundamentally believe we -- when we do this, make good ...

Days there. we have a cure en route. ill see you in manila. >> jon: enjoy your travels with the president coming to us from china. >> melissa: here at home the house ways and means committee expected to finish its mark-up of the gop tax bill soon. with senate republicans preparing to unveil their own tax legislation. meanwhile president trump weighing in referring to the senate plan the "wall street journal" reports he told democrats in a conference call youll like it a whole lot more. joining m...

Heather naurgt live out of washington, d.c. stay tuned on that coming up shortly. >> the house ways and means committee expected to finish its mark-up of the gop tax bill today. house republicans say they expect the bill to clear that committee and once thats done, the senate will unveil its own tax legislation later today. the big question will be will those two bills square up? and well have new reaction to all of this from top republican lawmakers, including speaker paul ryan who bill just sp...

Still, though, not clear if there is enough support in the gop to give it a green light. garret haake is there watching all the action live. this is the so-called mark up. a lot of folks might not be familiar with that process. but, bottom line, what are you looking for? what are you expecting to happen today? >> yeah, sure. so, today is the final day of this markup process which makes it the most interesting day and some point today well get the manag managers amendment. take all the input and ...

We visited about tax reform. how the mark-up is going as well. >> bill: do you want to pass this before it gets back to the white house? >> it is our goal to pass it next week out of the house. >> bill: the reason for that would be what? >> to get it to the presidents desk by the end of the year. >> bill: i guess just to put a fine point on this. do you want to pass this bill before the president comes home so that there are no more changes to the bill that you see now? >> no. our goal is to get...

Working hard every day. rob: first of all, its an aggressive desire by the president to have this done by the holidays. i want to ask you if thats feasible and also for the purposes of budget reconciliation, did you guys have to give up much. i know you had to stay within constraints there. >> that was the big key, $1.5 trillion on a static basis, thats important to know that static basis means it doesnt take consideration for growth. we had to get down to that number. work a number of things to...

Us, and words are not enough. we want to see action. this is why senator toomey, a republican from pennsylvania, and i have introduced legislation modelled after the iran sanctions legislation that doesnt just impose sanctions on north korea. weve already done that. but in order to enforce those, we need other countries to comply, especially a china. so our bill would impose secondary sanctions on banks and firms and china, wherever they are in the world, that are doing business with north korea...

War powers in the congress are reserved to congress in article i. we dont have to play mother may i and ask permission to the administration to fulfill our constitutional duty. senator flake and i have a bipartisan proposal that says after 16 years of open-ended war all across the globe, and americans were surprised when they read the news about four green berets in niger, about news recently that a green beret was killed, potentially strangled by other colleagues in mali. the footprint in afric...