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Care taken care of in regards to the first stage of the process. health care is going to be a longer issue, we have to keep that in mind as we go forward. >> we spend a lot of time talking about a health care bill getting out of the house. we dont spend as much time clearing the upper chamber, the bill that youre talking about right now, is it the kind of bill that would clear the senate, as well? >> i do believe it is. weve been working hard to fine tune it in the house and knowing that we have...

Permanent tax code. >> neil: but you have to give on something. either scale back some tax breaks that are popular today like for state local taxes. would you be open to that? >> the blueprint -- the house blue print puts a lot of those sacred cows on that table. >> neil: such as? >> state and local, for example. >> neil: such as charitable deductions? >> no, not -- >> neil: what about mortgage interest? >> too sacred. some but not others. you have to dial them up but not dial them back. as a th...

Making progress. but the reality is this compromise thats coming together isnt that different than the initial plan that we saw when this was sort of revived several weeks ago and then wound up going nowhere. so, its not clear that this is going to get enough votes to pass the threshold this time around, greta. >> kristen, thank you. heidi, you know, the president denies that this is important, this 100 days. hes taken the bait but hes trying to hustle getting something done in 100 days. hes the...

And rebuild our country. thank you all very much. i appreciate it. thank you. >> neil: all right. youve been listening to a joint press conference between president trump and the italian prime minister of italy, paolo gentiloni. hes only been in office since december last year. the prior government had to quit when an attempt at a referendum where the prime minister could have role or more concessions to make to creditors and the like failed. he lost that control. and that was a reference that t...

Go to the run off on june 20th. >> thats a #flipthesix thats been trending on social media. do you know when we might have this outcome to be more certain about it? >> were waiting for more of the results from fulton county to come in. thats really the last piece of the puzzle here. once those do, don, we can probably get cloegsser to makin projections. most watching this closely do expect a run up, they do not expect mr. ossoff to clench it out right. if he does not reach that 50% threshold its...

Level. you have to convince a judge -- its probable cause. its a technical matter. you cant just go in with some unconfirmed dossier like the steele report is and say how about it? you have to have more than that. theres been times in my career when i said, come on, we to get some sort of coverage on x, y or z. the judges go, not so fast. we have a threshold here. you have to get by it before we can allow this. >> phil, even if the fbi had corroborating information about some things in the dossi...

Reelection or any other office in 2018. the veteran utah republican writing on facebook he has long advocated that public service should be for a limited time and not a lifetime or a whole career. he suggested he might run for public office again, but for now he plans to return to the private sector. meantime, more on our top political story. georgia democrat, jon ossoff falling just short of the 50% threshold he needed to win a special election from the house seat vacant by now health and human...

Tuesday night with over 50%. they came up short of their goal. they put all of the money they had, all their firepower and they came up short. so its a loss. >> what is it, chris? democrats came close to the threshold in a republican deekt but david points out its the same margin as hillary clinton. is this a loss or or a win? >> sean is right that democrats thought in the week leading up to this that they might be able to get ossoff over 50%. so the fact they didnt, its a defeat in that way. th...

Youre watching cnn newsroom live from los angeles. >> im john vause. our top story this hour, live coverage of this hotly contested u.s. congressional race in georgia. jon ossoff came very close to the majority he needed to claim a seat in the house. instead, hell face karen handel in a run-off in june. cnn is there at campaign headquarters in atlanta. >> jon ossoff falling just short of the threshold he needed to win this race outright, getting less than 50% of the vote in this republican-heavy...

Deep red district came up just high of the 50% threshold needed to capture victory. this morning well talk to dnc chair tom perez. good morning. its wednesday, april 19th. with us on capitol hill, pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of "the washington post" y. >> good to have you all with us this morning. >> first impressions here from last night, gene, i thought they needed to get to 50% last night weve seen too many of these elections where brian bill bray gets 15% in a speci...