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Ronald reagan, it took them over two years, multiple hearings all around the nation, 30 hearings in the ways and means committee, more and more, and they had the experts in. what does it mean if you reduce the tax rate? what does it mean if you take this or that deduction make it bigger or smaller. what is the effect of it. none of that. absolutely none of that has taken place. its all done very secretly. theyre trying to ram it through before the american public has any idea whats going on. the...

Proposition and theres lots of house districts in the suburbs of pennsylvania and -- philadelphia, rather, and in suburban areas where i dont know that you can do the two-step, run with trump in the primary and then run against him, you wind up like ed gillespie. telling kim jong-un not to try us. jeff zeleny is traveling with the president. what is the latest from there, jeff? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. donald trump arrived a few hours ago, and hes no doubt on the most cimportant stop...

Do this and you get to stay. i dont get the sense that rex tillerson needs this job so badly he would do something extraordinary to be able to stay in the job. i dont get that sense from him. >> if he were to be out now, it would be another unprecedented removal. we have never seen anything like this, except for alexander hague. the iran deal. the president hates the deal. he wants to decertify. what would that mean? >> what this is, its a trump two-step, chris. all hes doing -- theres two cer...

It is. but i blame it on the republicans in the sense they went seven years, right, and they did not have a plan. if there was an election fraud, that was it. you have to have a plan. and theres nobody communicating what a plan is. this is politically untenable. >> those states you talked about, those were states that chose not to -- there are states, im on a federal exchange because my state refused to set up a state exchange. this is what obamacare was supposed to work by states actually doing...

Business practices. so much so that he is willing to basically trash one of his closest allies and take on the entire establishment in washington because he thinks that might be a better course for him than allowing the mueller probe to continue. thats a very, very telling indicator. >> john, maxs point couldnt be more important. everything that the president does in this arena is the behavior of someone who is completely guilty. if youre looking for logic to it, it is logical that he gets rid o...

It, it is logical that he gets rid of comey. its logical that he tries to fire the special prosecutor if hes guilty. >> logical that he explores pardons if hes guilty. all of thats right. the one thing thats not rational, and its interesting right now because im told that allies of sessions are trying to argue to the white house, trying to say, you know, if you want to get rid of mueller, you dont have to fire sessions. just dont fire rod rosenstein. the president can fire the deputy attorney ge...

Replacement, or does not count. paul is probably on the side of the president and will come against the core component, the two-step, prop it up now, and pull it out later. >> julie: a great way of putting it. joining me now as well, chris standby too. on a talk to. charles kane in the studio, a host of "making money." first, one talk about what the democrats have done. they have scared the bg the ght out of people. debugging lose their insurance. they will die. i have that congressional budget ...

From ongoing russian investigation and entirely having to do with their judgment about jim comeys misconduct, why not await findings of the independent inspector general investigation that is already under way, already taking ind pintant look. this administration is deciding to not await findings of that independent report. they could have awaited that report and cited findings to justify any action they wanted to take with gyms comey. this proves that is political in nature. secondly, if they t...

Economic outlook because people are less certain that regulatory reform and tax reform and infrastructure bill and repealing obamacare can be accomplished in part because obamacare came out of the gates and the president cannot unite his own party. that is the problem. that is why he is returning to it. the legislative agenda and not much movement there. the president has areas where he can work with congress. that is what is hanging overall of this. the supreme court and the travel ban botched ...

If china is determined to do what it has said publicly for 20-plus years and that would be fine. the problem is china says one thing to one audience and another thing to another audience. its excellent at doing the two-step. it never actually puts real pressure on north korea. there is a charade turning ships with north korean coal away. that will be great two months from now when the ships get going again. i hope this reflects a real chinese change. the next step for the united states is the ve...