cut vote a moot point. i think republicans recognize they don t have a guaranteed 52-seat majority heading into january when roy moore is expected to be seated. he s not expected to be seated this we re if they wins. that i have a symbolic dead lin of the end of the year. president trump has described tax reform as a christmas present to america. not only would they be falling short on a symbolic deadline, but falling short on a very real procedural deadline that could gum up the wheels of their plan if doug jones headed into the senate? january. they would have less wiggle room with the bill coming out of conference. i ll be talking to kevin brady. a lot of scuttlebutt around washington that they re entertaining changes that i m not sure that guy in the house behind you would support. for example, a higher corporate rate. he s hinted at it. sticking with the senate delay in that rate to 2019.
this the other night but i ll say it again, a lot of catholic priests, good ones, felt ashamed because they are part of an organization, the priesthood that had bad apples. a lot of bad apples. too many. and i wonder if the republican senate caucus will be happy to have a guy like roy moore among them with the pages and interns and the kids watching, but you could be there will be scuttlebutt among the interns. what is up with that guy. are you keeping away from him. and you could tell even from senator mcconnell who opposed roy moore, tried to get him to pull out, is now kind of reluctantly acknowledging se semi reluctant support said we have to seat him and there is an ethics investigation. we ll see what happens. but they do not want him to be a part of this. they don t want him to be the caucus but he will be in their caucus. i was struck listening to steve bannon. i thought he was going to say
i.e., the president. well, i think it does put him in a difficult position. you re right. he did call on franken to step down. and he was also a big opponent to roy moore. in the beginning. of course now the in the beginning, right. now the republican party is sort of shifting its strategy on that and putting money into the race. and the president has endorsed him. so if roy moore does win, that will be a big question how senator mcconnell deals with that in contrast to how the democrats have dealt with this among their family, among their colleagues. and we re seeing this is tape of al franken arriving at capitol hill just moments ago. he s headed to the senate floor where we are going to hear him speak moments from now. you could see there were some questions shouted out which he has not responded to. garrett, what s the political landscape for minnesota and al franken if as expected he resigns? reporter: well, it s interesting. the scuttlebutt here is that the
sandra: amy kellogg is live with the story. she is in her element. this is her third big high profile solo engagement this year and this in the world s largest democracy. there had been scuttlebutt the state department was snubbing her not sending a high-level delegation. there has been a rising chorus of analysts that won t proof that factories around the world that produce her clothing line follow ethical practices. there is massive security around her today and hundreds of beggars were cleared from the streets. the event is called the global entrepreneurship summit. day one winds down with a feast at the palace. ivanka gave the keynote address today praising india for its rapid growth. the prime minister for his rise
senator al franken to step up. we plan to members of our team to try to see what the scuttlebutt is. what people are talking about, outside of what al franken sent to minnesota media yesterday, we don t know what the planned statement will be. jake sherman of politico is telling us that he doubts we will see the senator resign or step aside but we don t know. he got on the record quite a bi bit. my next guests are back from the outnumbered couch. jessica tarlov, senior director of research for brussel.com, and steve cortez is back. they are both fox news contributor s. you got a situation in congress and a senator who was about to step up to the microphone and tell us something about allegations against him, misconduct allegations. this has got as far afield from