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You are saying this is justth budget in a sense. can you spend up to this amount. >> it's the budget framework. the question is. they do sometimes. but the question is what is the long game here? my sense is that they want to get the budget deal done. get the debt ceiling out of the way. clear the deck so to speak. and then the there will be a battle this year and next year about whether or not they actually dine crease defense spending by $80 billion. and increase nondefense spending by 63. there will be a continuing battle over this. this is just simply the framework, not the actual appropri...

Cuts in 2001 and in 2003. the individual mandate portion which i think has some savviness to it. you are losing democrats and you might not be shoring up the republican base. this might be one of the things we see but kudos to paul ryan. we hear complaints about nothing getting done. this is his third difficult piece of legislation passed, and it's a fewer number of republicans then pulled away from the budget framework which was sort of a precursor to this bill. at least he can get credit for some of what he's done. >> the individual mandate thing is clever and i think republicans when they f...

>> jon: a fox news alert from capitol hill where the house as we mentioned just voted to pass the senate's budget framework for tax reform. a key issue for president trump. let's dive into some of the possibilities with isaac wright. principle pro-clinton super pack in 2016. and lawrence jones is here and host of the lawrence jones show. isaac, there are some observers who have said this effort at reforming the nation's tax system is going the prove so unpopular that democrats will win back the house in 2018. do you think that's actually going to happen? >> we have to see. we'll see the plan o...

I say how and they say i have no idea. steve is right. the hard decisions have not been made. i heard the chairman this week. he could not come up with it. heritage foundation economist said it's a lousy process. not being able to learn what's in it. they won't have the time to understand it. it's going to be jammed through. it is perilous for the republicans but what they are telling me is what they are telling you. it's going to happen. >> there has been a lot of complaining about how little they have accomplished. paul ryan accomplished a pretty huge feet tonight. he managed to do it. peopl...

>> melissa: what could be a crucial piece of evidence in the las vegas concert massacre may be missing. what is it? and what could have happened to it? plus we're live on capitol hill where the house just approved the budget framework for tax reform but the tax cut plan may turn into a tough sell. we'll go in depth. >> president trump: we're really unified on what we want to do. we want tax cuts for the middle class. we want tax cuts for businesses to produce jobs. there is great unity. i don't know why i didn't get screened a long time ago.