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General population, ashley, has never been favorable for this president. are they concerned about these polls or are they looking very narrowly at republican numbers? >> i can tell you the way the president has governed so far has clearly just been playing to his base. but there are are people around him including a number of senators on capitol hill who are trying to get him to understand that for him to win re-election certainly in 2020 and even for republicans to be able to do well in 2018 in...

He says the number is between $25 million. they had to split tens of thousands of passengers up at hotels in atlanta. there will be a companytation he says with himself the powers that be at hartland jackson airport and the people oofk at georgia power. >> that controversial accommodation is one id love to be a fly on the wall to be honest with you. >> im sure that would be extremely interesting. thanks so much. we both have flown out of atlanta. we can tell you how busy it issings not just beca...

Understand why the liberals dont like it. its just not liberals. many had to wrangle back and forth. i think there were 12 republicans who voted no in this in the house. they represent mostly suburban districts that democrats are targeting in 2018. how big of a factor do you think this could be you think for the mid-terms? >> well, is of the 12 people, youre right, 11 come from states that hillary clinton won in the last election. and the reason why they voted against it, these 11 members is bec...

Mattingly just moments ago saying theyre going to have this revote. they cant break out the wine here in washington just yet, john. they are planning for this ceremony over at the white house. wont be a bill signing ceremony as phil just explained, but the white house is very happy about this. you can just see it on the faces of officials here. they do have more of a spring in their step normally than they would say the russia investigation is in the headlines. but they do have a political probl...

Increase if their state or local income tax deductions are curtailed or their mortgage deductions are curtailed, may may have to actually pay more in taxes in all of this. >> so is the white house worried at all about the consequences in the mid-terms? >> not at this point. you see the president pointing to the stock market insisting this tax cut plan is going to result in the stock market going further up in the new year. keep in mind during the campaign then cannedicate trump was talking about...

Corporate rate cuts. the middle class cuts are modest and last seven or eight years. theyre a little nervous about the end of the deductions and they are looking at republicans that are looking nervously at the polling on this. its almost always in that range. the opposition of mid 50s support. low to mid 30s. these are worse than obamacare numbers in 2010. president trumps approval numbers are worse than obamas in 2010. >> everyone remembers in mid-terms what happened to the democrats. >> unles...

You have seen the president is comfortable previewing the next commercial break and stay tuned and teasing his audience which is now the american public. and he had a lot of these promises over the past year. we will get to this in a few months. we will extend this for a while longer. the first it was thanksgiving and the lawyers are talking about it now at the end of the year. then it will be valentines day and fourth of july and i think they have a way to sort of keep this. >> i think it depen...

Salt language, this should be a big winner for president trump nationally but not in his district. he says trump voters in his area wont like it much until local leaders try to lowter taxes. >> so the local leaders are trying to lower taxes? thats not what is happening. its expensive to run this city as it turns out. peter, nice to see you. the tax bill could be a gamble for the gop. republicans are betting it all on 2018. so could this plan help them win over the mid-terms? or could it backfire...

When the dow jones industrial average went up 16%. unemployment hit a 28 or 29-year low. the result, people expected democrats to be clobbered in the mid-terms, in fact they gained a number of seats in congress. so if you actually see some whether you call it a sugar high, whatever you want to call it, some stimulus in the tax bill in terms of hiring, wages, democrats will have a hard case to make. people wont care about the presidents tweets or high crimes an misdemeanors. >> bill clinton wasnt...

This morning. but i do see what youre saying. theres some other interesting political news, caitlin, while we have you, on the new congressional ballot test. showing the democrats with a g big, fat edge. like the type of lead you havent seen since the last time they gained 40 seats. significant and can it last a year? >> it is significant. because when were trying to sort of parse through and predict what will happen in the midterms, you look at first the presidents approval rating and then that...