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Out. elizabeth: you were one of the first people on the storm, really just hours after the storm had touched down in your district which is in south florida, the naples area and into parts of fort myers. what did you see when you were just landing? well, the first disheartening thing i saw was we were landing in rsw, we flew over lehigh acres which is one of the more impoverished, disadvantaged areas of lee county, and there was a lot of flooding. a lot of houses were where you could see the hou...

Its not a litmus test for the democratic party. so sanders is going to talk about it and congress is not going to pass it and trump isnt going to do anything with it. and senator cassidy, that bill is more extreme than the health care bills that the house and senate passed over the summer. this bill would retain virtually all of the aca spending and do a huge revamp of it, turn more than $1 trillion over to the states for the states themselves to figure out how to regular state insurance and str...

Were encouraging our colleagues in the senate to do likewise, and lets get this job done before the end of the year. elizabeth: okay. you talked about the house and senate. i do have one more question for you because theres a lot of focus on the big six and one of them, obviously, is white house economic adviser gary cohn, but i want to ask you is there fluidity in the vision those leaders are seeing and also treasury secretary mnuchin? are they all on the same page? >> i think the president, th...

So whats different now? his answer? whats different now is that were out of time, that were out of road to keep kicking the can down. and he knows that there are military options but not a lot of good ones, so those kinds of options are the things that the trump administration are going to be continuing debating this weekend, and it will likely be -- actually, it certainly will be a focus of their discussions at the u.n. general assembly next week. liz? elizabeth: kristin fisher, thank you so mu...

So those are the things hes laid out as principle, but he has gary cohn and steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary and his chief economic adviser, working with the senate and the house on the specifics, to go to your question. leland: what are the red lines for you personally when it comes to tax cuts? because if its a deal with the democrats, massive tax cuts for the wealthy like what we saw from kennedy, like what we saw from reagan that spurred huge economic growth wont happen. but he may be a...

Thats something we didnt pick up, no. i missed that -- leland: then you could have had your own october fest with the outfit. elizabeth: thats true. i guess we dont need october -- leland: beers at the prann house later. tomorrow a lot more on the debate within the republican party about tax reform. are they okay to sort of go by way of president trump and perhaps sort of have middle class tax cuts or do they stick to the conservative principles and massive, across the board tax cuts? two congre...

Appropriations bills in the house and finished that appropriations work for the first time in 12 years. thats what you should do. you set the limits for the bureaucracy and kind of put the rails of the road up. and thats a big part of this process. and it gets us away from this continuing resolution -- elizabeth: right. >> -- which gives the bureaucracy that power. elizabeth: we talk about a number of critical issues when it comes to tax reform and, obviously, its dependent on what we see coming...