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Anti-newt gingrich told me that he thinks there is a 50% child that we get it done. of those are not great odds. >>e let me emphasize a couple of points from the text speech today, number one, the president said that he wants a big, big tax cuts. tere are some republicans in congress that are talking about tax reform revenue neutral. that means that they are not cutting taxes, just moving money around from one bucket to another, we do not need revenue neutral, we need a big tax cut on you, on families who are struggling. a small businesses. we need a reagan tax cut that unleashes incredible gr...

The budget rules. we will have hundreds of amendments go out, vote after vote after vote. it will be fast and furious, exhausting. in terms of substance, likely not much there. the key we are watching, when republican leaders decide to put the prosew sal up, what it entailed. that's the state of play right now. as we know, things can be fluid. keep an eye on the floor. >> we will. thank you very much. you won't sleep. you keep us informed. thank you very much, my friend. breaking news on president trump's ban on transgender military members. the chairman of joint chiefs did not know it was com...

Next. >> reporter: yeah, wolf right here in the senate debate. we're seeing republicans and democrats jockeying back and forth about what will happen next. they are scheduled to have a vote on the repeal only bill, one that they expect will actually go down, won't have the votes to move forward, but they made promises to their members about why they will have that vote. in order for amendments to only have a simple majority threshold, they need to comply with budget rules and those rules are pretty strict, and one issue that has continue walally popped up on this has been efforts to defund pla...

So what does that leave them with? as senator bob corker called it, the wild west. in a situation like this, you essentially walk into a process where any senator can offer any type of amendment so long it's germane and in the budget rules. so senators are being asked to move forward on something where they don't know the endgame. there is an politically risky move but also very risky on the policy side. whether it's conservatives on the regulatory side, moderates on the medicaid expansion, they would be going into this debate with no commitments that they could be getting any of these things ...

Question it remains. >> what exactly are they voting on? does anyone really know the details? >> reporter: at least in terms of a final product that they expected to get to, the answer is no. what we do know procedurally is they're voting to start the debate on essentially the house-passed health care bill. but the idea has always been, anderson, we've talked about this repeatedly, nobody in the senate likes the house-passed bill. they wanted their own version. so throughout this lengthy procedural and amendment process they wanted a backstop of sorts, a final product that we've seen multiple ...