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and the important health care item that was blocked by republicans. plus, another loss for supporters of abortion rights. indiana becomes the first state to pass a near total ban on the procedure since the overturning of roe v. wade. and it was a big weekend for maga world in dallas. well have the recap of cpac just ahead. good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this monday, august 8th. im jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. senate democrats have done it. after more...

Public. >> the price tag is tough for some democrats to swallow. john berman, mey co-anchor just spoke with one of your colleagues from new jersey, the differences suffered a lot on the cap of state and local taxes, right? that salt tax provision in the last tax bill that was passed by president trump has hit them very hard. and so they may not be on board with this price tag. do you think this is going to get -- i mean, how much smaller do you think this is going to get? it could be considerabl...

Districts. they tend to be, you know, pro lbgtq abortion, pro-choice on abortion issue, social issues, what do they really care about? boy, they read their tax bills. and some of these members that you see heading for exits, theyre the ones that are really going to take it on the chin with this salt provision and tax bill. so thats one thing to watch. also when you look at the composition of the member was are retiring, theyre going to be hard to replace, because they represent specific district...

But in the white house they seem to have some standard they havent laid out and thats why the roy moore crisis, i think, is making things so challenging and uncomfortable for them. >> so listen i want to get to chris jansing standing by for us in the philippines in a second but want to ask about tax reform, the house ways and means committee chairman brady said this morning he would not accept the total elimination of the state and local tax reductions from the final tax reform bill. take a list...

>> one more election question before we get to taxes. some people thought the election return on tuesday may shake some republicans like yourself in swing states loose. are you committed to running for re-election? >> i am committed to running for re-election. the congressman will have served 24 years, and i certainly commend his public service but he has served here for 24 years. >> but to be clear, this is not shaking you, you are running again. lets move on to taxes. you are here sitting with...

Aside from that, we learned the g.o.p. suffered a keyed defection on tax form. congressman darrell i said announced he cannot support the hospital because of the provision, a cap on local and state tax deductions. democrats are salivating at the prospect of more g.o.p. defections. >> if you dont get this done, you might as well give up the majority because you aint coming back in the majority. >> thats a taste of the acrimony at the ways and means committee markup. lasted eight hours on monday, ...

Them in the next year midterm election. sunlen serfaty is joining us on capitol hill getting new details about the tax plan. sunlen, as we wait for the official announcement from house leaders what more are you learning? >> i can tell you memberrs were briefed on the contours of the tax bill moments ago and they are learning the nuts and bolts of what is actually in this massive tax bill. we know some details, this reduces the number of individual tax rates from seven down to four. it permanentl...