policy. on the tax cut thing, he said you should call it tax cuts rather than tax reform. i don t understand he understood the different ideological spreads and divisions in the republican party. that s what s happened. it s also true that he never really was attached to this bill. the details of it. i don t think he understood it well. the republicans didn t have a good selling point either. grassley said the idea that we would be better if governors took over. i don t think anyone complaining about health care is if the governor was in charge. they complain about prices and access to care. they never had a firm footing on how to make it work. if you were starting for scratch, a federalist let the states decide this would be a logical approach to do this. they are trying to deal with an infrastructure in place that has
they re not sounding the alarm just yet, neil. neil: this would be integral to getting the tax cut things done. revenue from this you could use from the tax cut thing, right? quite a possibility. something they are hoping to do get healthcare down to get on to tax reform. we ll see. neil: it s about getting the votes. thanks, mike emanuel. lisa murkowski could hold a key to whether this healthcare bill sees the light of day and passes. she says she s undecided. the governor for her state has signed a letter opposing it. senator dan sullivan, good to be back with you. thank you. where are you leaning? i m looking a tractor trailer data. i m looking at how it impact as alaska. most senators are doing that, getting the details. the overall idea here is compelling, which is federal
all you liberal silicon valley friends? neil: to be fair there is an openness to that so adam you think the tax cut thing this will go through? no, i think it s going to be very difficult to go through. i think it s the right policies to pursue despite harvey. neil: meanwhile coming together at a time and need the people of texas are lifting each other up. is it time for politicians to look at that and in watching the exact same thing.
choice. they ve got to get a hail mary pass, right? and that might be on the tax cut thing. and somebody said, might have been lee, a legislative victory could change everything. like when the yankees, my team, was going through a streak and a couple of wins and people got off their back. what do you think of that? i agree. i think he needs a legislative win. right now i think i feel like i m watching meet the parents and de niro says i must have trust. anyone who doesn t get that trust is outside the circle of trust. [laughter] and like that touche , that s actually very, very good. thank you. neil: how do you do that, lee? that s easier said than done. i can understand the president s frustration, he came from outside the system. he has to work within it. he wouldn t be the first businessman turned politician at the presidential level who has expressed frustration with that sort of thing and even when they come ahead in the
scott and others, the quasi leadership role here saying we can t move on to the tax cut thing, which looks like a hurricanian leap. we re going to sort this out and they can t when two senators are opposed to a procedural vote next week, this is getting diceyer and the markets that we trumpeted might be running ahead of themselves. what are people saying? it is going to be somewhat dicey. the thing that i m encouraged about, when you talk to analysts on wall street, they re saying the way they re pricing the market right now is because earnings are so positive. they have taken into account that tax reform and healthcare won t get done on a time line that they promised us. that s not to say we ll have problems if it doesn t get done. i m encouraged to hear people saying we re watching what is happening and we re seeing the