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United states senate. you lose more than two, you're done. bob corker is a big question mark on the budget. they need the budget vehicle to do tax reform. they can't pass a budget, they can't pass tax reform. he's a question mark. rand paul is a question mark on the budget. >> john mccain. these names sound familiar. don't they? then you have the other pieces. the iran deal, budget issues, also the canadian prime minister here today. a lot of establishment republicans are worried the president will blow up efforts to renegotiate nafta. the president seems to treat them separate or if the repub...

>> a commitment to absolutely work with senator scott to look to do exactly that and for the two of them to continue to have those conversations for his viewpoints to continue to be expressed directly to the president. >> certain issues or certain people as related to the topic of bringing new -- >> specific people didn't come up. blake. >> let me bring back to taxes and a couple questions there. the president campaigned on corporate tax rate of 15% however steve mnuchin yesterday said i don't know if we'll be able to achieve that given the budget issues. you were asked about mr. mnuchin's com...

Rates to 15%. take a listen. >> the president has made it clear, since the campaign, ideally he'd like to get it down to 15%. i don't know if we'll be able to achieve that, given the budget issues, but we're going to get this down to a very competitive level. and what the exact number is less important. and what's more important is making sure we have a competitive system. >> if it's in the mid-20s, is that a win? >> again, i'm not going to comment on what's a win and what's not a win. as i mentioned this is a pass/fail enter skis, so passing that in 25 years that's a win. >> and prus house se...

The president has made it clear since the campaign, ideally he'd like to get it down to 15%. i don't know if we'll be able to achieve that given the budget issues, but we're going to get this down to a very competitive level. and what the exact number is is less important and what's more important is making sure we have a competitive system. >> perhaps a little realism broke out there today on live television on cnbc. welcome back to our broadcast. treasury secretary steve mnuchin today casting some doubt on whether the administration would be able to lower the corporate tax rate to 15%. somet...

Cutting the corporate tax rate to 15% from the current 35%. understand a couple things. we're not really at 35%. the rate that people pay, companies pay is between 14% and 25% depending how you are. and a lot of people including the president are backing away from getting down to 15%. that's hard to do. not impossible, but hard. and extended reduced rates for small businesses. this could be interesting. treasury secretary steve mnuchin is saying this rate could be in jeopardy. >> the president has made it clear since the campaign ideally he'd like to get it to 15%. i don't know we'll be able t...