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want and i will vote yet. dean heller is the only republican standing for reelection in a state that went for hillary clinton. and he has a fellow republican who is the governor who doesn t like this bill. he s in a tougher place. i m not exactly sure what mitch mcconnell could come up with that would move mr. heller into the yes column. his rhetoric has been pretty emphatic. if you have got rand paul who is the least likely of the 10 at the conservative end and dean heller at the more moderate end, if heller thinks it s too frugal, the more you push it one way and make it more generous, you will lose the frugal folks. arthel: let s take a listen. this is still a work in progress. though the leader of the united states senate is very good at establishing coalitions to see that legislation passes. but it s still a lot of work to be done to determine whether it gets to 51 votes. maria: what is your gut? do you think it happens this week? my gut tells me this is very difficul ....
that s a closed session but it s significant for several reasons. first, you mentioned he s the president s personal lawyer. he s known him for years, they go back in terms of business dealings. this is a person who s been in a lot of private, personal and confidential conversations with the president so it will be very, very interesting to see what kind of information he s going to be able to reveal. and then of course it s a sign of a potential escalation or widening in the russia probe given there have been other significant interviews. of course, jared kushner met with the senate intel committee as well. but this will be a very interesting interview to watch and again as the headlines play out with that on the hill, on tuesday, while the president is in new york, trying to focus on things like the threat from north korea, the current iran nuclear deal and other pressing issues. he will be trying to make this a global debut on the world stage where others may be talking about s ....
fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. now, let me tell you what else they want to do. they want to nearly double the standard deduction. $12,000 for individuals. $24,000 for married couples. that s the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10% to 12% that a whole lot of people aren t actually going to pay for. the plan also calls for the elimination of the so-called marriage penalty. raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. and look for a new $500 tax credit for non-child dependents. that replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim non-child dependents. in addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. what a lot of republicans call the death tax. this benefits generally speaking the wealthy. it also repeals the alternative minimum tax. at lot of you might say i pay the alternative minimum tax. here s the problem. it was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. wasn t indexed to inflation so a< ....
who is our person of the week. good evening and it s great to have you with us on a friday night. we end the week with the breaking headline from the white house. president trump demanding the resignation of tom price, the secretary of health and human services is out. he ll be replaced at midnight tonight comes after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money on luxury jets and that list of cabinet members under fire for spending is growing. epa chief scott pruitt. treasury secretary steve mnuchin, interior secretary ryan zinke and top republicans are demanding an investigation and mary bruce on how much of your money taxpayer dollars has been spent and the questions now mounting tonight. reporter: as he boarded air force one tonight, it sounded like the president had made up his mind about health secretary tom price. i m disappointed in him. he s a good man, but i m disappointed in him. reporter: just minutes before, abc s jon karl asked the president if p ....
the storm. we re doing whatever we can to help. shepard: let s get to it. good friday afternoon from the fox news deck. we re tracking hurricane irma. florida s governor says the window to escape the path of the storm is closing. with each updated forecast, the chance of a direct hit on some part of south florida and then up the peninsula of florida are increasing. this as the head of fema says i don t know anybody in florida has experienced what we re about to get. the florida says we should expect life threatening conditions from coast-to-coast. he says this is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen. over 500,000 people there from mandatory evacuation orders, including miami, miami beach, the keys. rick scott telling people to be patient when dealing with crowded highways. he says more troopers are on the road to help with the flow of the traffic. he says the state has sent school buses to get residents out of dangerous areas. some gas stations have long line ....