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Keep saying, oh, if i take you out to dinner and i pay for your tab, isn't that a gift? no, it's not. >> okay, i got a lot of friends. luxurious vacations, private jets. with menendez in a position to lobby government officials to help this guy's business. come on now. >> yeah, well, the thing is the prosecutors do have a high burden. they have to show was this quid pro quo. and we had a recent supreme court decision last year where they narrowed that definition and said that official acts have to be actual acts. it cannot be phone calls. it cannot be meetings. it cannot be, you know, just mak...

Doesn't want this delayed. here's the thing, just from a pure legislative standpoint. we've never gotten any indicator and here we are a year since he was elected, nine months since he's been in office that donald trump is a good negotiator when it comes to any legislation. we don't know what they need for the house or the house change and what they need for the senate. they don't have incentive to do something this radical before next year's elections and that's fundamentally the problem. unless he's having those meetings and can convince people he will have their back no matter what the cons...

Actually holds a senate seat? >> right, roy moore has been saying incendiary things for the known decade, sort of the known commodity. a lot of republicans here on capitol hill did not want to see him in the u.s. senate seat. almost every republican on capitol hill backed luther strange who's been sitting in that seat since jeff sessions was called up to the justice department. so they wanted another guy. they may still be stuck with roy moore, but i have not seen up here any reaction quite so swift as republican senators trying to distance themselves from roy moore like we saw yesterday. take...

Colleges who offer scholarships to kids will now be taxed for trying to provide an education for regular people. that's just one area. this bill politically is a killer for next year. every single republican who will possibly vote on any version of this is going to get hit in 2018 midterms. >> we know there are blowback in some things, the adoption tax credit for example. you saw that the house and the senate were in agreement. what other areas could they be in agreement that yes, when gary cohen and steve mnuchin came out with their plan and it was all trickle down, we now see changes already...

Party and the country's most liberal newspaper would come up with a fabrication of this kind. this garbage is the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation. well, it can hardly come at a worst time for moore or his party. polls indicate he's leading doug jones in the special election for alabama senate seat and election day is just 32 days away. this morning, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders issued this statement from air force one. take a listen. >> like most americans, the president believes that we should not allow a mere allegation in this case one from many...