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Bertrand and phil matingly is still here. lets start with the reporting that laura just gave us and others saying excuse me, you have to defend people. that is your job. what they are referring to, we should remind our viewers if they can forget what the president of the united states and a few days and the fbi agents and its fuzzy and clinton going to the other fbi agent in charge. after years of phony with the phony and dishonest clinton investigation, this is the key here. its reputation is i...

Him make this speech and wondering when he said some of these allegations are not true, is he talking about me? in the past he has sort of generally apologized and said he is embarrassed and ashamed, but he did not apologize in this speech. im curious about the women who accused him of certain behavior will make of that. >> thank you so much for the reporting. we want to bring it now around the table. gloria borger is here. phil matingly. gloria, what do you think? >> there was no admission of g...

Minute, phil, whats the actual timeline? i mean, what happens today, tomorrow, and might there actually be the vote happening friday? >> reporter: yeah, i think thats extremely possible. look, right now everybodys in a holding pattern and walking you through behind the scenes right now. there are a couple of issues. i was talking about that deficit trigger. bob corker, jeff flake has been huddling multiple times behind closed doors trying to figure out how to structure it. look, its a complex id...

Senator number two john cornen said theyre in a good place, theyre trying to finish issues and theyre going to get that eventually. perhaps by tonight, likely by tomorrow, right now, that looks at least somewhat in doubt. or at least, wolf, they need to figure some things out before they actually finish this vote that again, was not supposed to be a problem for republican lead percent. >> yeah, sent it back to committee, that would be a very, very big deal. major setback for republicans. well st...

Millions of dollars on life insurance. back with our political specialists epts to go back to capitol hill. the latest drama on the senate floor. republicans ran into a roadblock. what are you hearing, phil? >> reporter: the issue thats frustrating republicans all day has come to almost a head right now. im being told that the deficit trigger, the issue that republicans were huddled in the senate well talking about why that amendment vote almost went in a very bad direction for republicans who...

Matingly. hes right in the middle of all things over there. whats the latest, phil? >> reporter: wolf, the senate floor right now. what were seeing is something that was not expected by senior republican aids, it was not expected by republican lawmakers, walking into the vote. right now, there is a vote on the senate floor, its largely a pro forma vote, it is a democratic motion to send the tax plan back to committee. these are the types of things that are expected to fail. they failed already m...

Are feeling confident, were told, about their upcoming tax votes. supporters received a major boost from none other than arizona senator john mccain, senator mccain saying that he will vote in favor of this bill, even though he called it far from perfect. the white house says it is optimistic, given senator mccains decision, phil matingly is our cnn congressional correspondent who is live now for us on capitol hill with the update here. you just got some new numbers on what this bill will cost. ...

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Comes with phil matingly and we have reporters here who are well sourced and i can tell you before i go to you that the president we are told was joking about his occasional battles with house republicans and said of the members he was gathered with, about 30 to 40% are fine people. this is according to a member who texted that to cnn. i think we have phil back. lets try that more time. >> its not always the best of cell phone coverage. you guys saw -- [inaudible] i have to stress that -- [inaud...

John mccain who helped sink health care over procedural reasons. he wants to make sure its moving here too. you get into the details of the bill, there is a significant tax cut. by 2021 in large part because of the appeal according to this analysis, those making between 10 and $30,000 a year would see an increase. anyone making under $75,000 a year because of the rate cuts phasing out would see an increase. republicans are pushing back on that analysis. you better believe democrats have seized o...