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Americans are not and dont believe that. two-thirds see the bill as doing more to benefit the wealthy than middle class. joining me to dive in, two commentators margaret hoover who worked on george w. bushs political staff and keith boykin, a former clinton white house aide. the president is calling this a big, beautiful christmas present. great way for him to tie up 2018. following through on a campaign promise. margaret, 66% of those polled say this is a gift only for the wealthy. theres a pro...

Church, is synagogue or chambers, his message was the same. he wanted to come to washington to bring folks together and fight for the bread and butter issues that matter to all alabamians. my district overperformed, as you said. and part of that was we worked really hard on a ground game that included local elected officials and community activists doing the gnawing on the doors the persuasions in the churches. incident was really a great combination of efforts by the campaign, dnc, dscc. we hav...

Lets get back to capitol hill right now because check your calendar, like a federal holiday, mark up monday. just hours from now the senate finance committee will be marking up the senates version of the republican tax plan, the first step on the senate side to see an actual vote on their tax priorities, this as the republicans face a bit of a messaging problem at the moment. the senate majority leader said last week that nobody in the middle class would see a tax increase. mitch mcconnell, thou...

As both house and senate rep res are in a frantsic rush trying to find an agreement on the tax bills. theyre marking up the senates version of the tax plan and that is the first step on the senate side to see an actual vote of their version, but the gop has a messaging problem and the senate majority leader said last week that nobody in the middle class would see a tax increase. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now telling "the new york times" he misspoke on that and you cant guarantee tha...

Come to "fox and friends" studio. we have more than enough to go around. you wont have to >> is coming down. how many more pounds can i put on today. i love it. reporter: more surprises coming throughout the morning. abby: more coming up. did the democrats have more? "saturday night live." >> in a message from the democratic national committee. >> now one thing is clear. we are back, baby. >> debating whether they have a messaging problem. >> the former army ranger quite literally announcing his...

Were not mentssaging on foreig policy, et cetera. we have a messaging problem and we had an obamacare face-plant in the senate. weve got to correct that and move forward. and we failed to do that last night. >> but ed gillespie did run on some of the issues, some of the cultural issues that have been most important and prominent to this president. like immigration, like confederate statues, like the nfl, you know, kneeling or standing for the anthem. he did run on that stuff. i think what were t...

Venting of the spleen. good putting all your frustrations out there. it is not consensus. maybe at some point they will be in a room together if they have an extended group of people hashing out some other different plan. but right now they are voicing the two sides of the debate. if they strike a balance in the middle it wont likely be them striking it. youre right. the republican generally do have a messaging problem here. they are trying to get this budget resolution passed so they can is jus...

Play an important role here. it is important that it do that. not merely because the athletes protesting but because sports bring the country together. the nfl commissioner recognizes that. certainly players do. this is a particularly good moment to do that. >> ben? >> have you a huge -- the nfl has a huge problem. huge messaging problem. they have an identity crisis as a league. this league used to be filled with roles where if you had cleats that were honoring those that died on th9/11, fwo tw...

Perhaps a top bracket that comes down. i dont know how many democrat, going to vote for this. certainly not very many. you did the right interview which is the folks are going to matter in this debate are the freed caucus in getting this done. >> joan? >> democrats will matter, because theyll probably sit it out. i was struck listening to him and listening to all of this for the last two days, chuck. it reminds me of the very beginnings of obamacare repeal where you would talk to different congr...

Interview ive conducted with somebody touting the tax plan and keep learning new, different things that all dont quite come together. yesterday kevin brady everybody gets a tax cut. mark meadows today trying to say, the wealthy isnt going to get the cut everybody thinks. seem to have a messaging problem. >> i dont know what metaphor they use, but use common in sports. everybody has a game plan. work perfectly. kickoff comes rules change. i cant tell you how many tax plans ive seen come and go ov...