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A schedule. rand paul sent this tweet out last night. nearly all republican senators just failed a litmus test on cutting spending. he is the only one who voted no. he also sent out this tweet about tax cuts. i'm all in for tax cuts at real donald trump responding to the president. the biggest and boldest cuts possible and soon. >> bill: what do you tell to your constituents $20 trillion in debt not good enough for us. when will you do something about it? your plan relies on growth in the future years. >> it relies on two things, growth and eliminating a lot of the special interest loopholes a...

Legislative agenda plans that the congressional republicans have. >> lawrence, winston churchill used to tell a story about a negotiation within the british government around the time of world war i. the admiralty wanted to fund four battleships. sorry, the treasury wanted to fund four battleships. the admiralty wanted six battleships. so churchill said, we compromised on eight battleships. that's the sort of deal that we got done today. this is not surprising. mr. trump has no intellectual ballast in the form of traditional republican beliefs. he is to apply a phrase, all sail and no anchor. ...

Leverage point to cut spending. mr. trump has no interest in cutting spending. he ran on a promise not to touch the entitlement programs that are the great drivers of federal spending. so this is really not surprising, and it is in a way condine punishment for a party that has allowed itself to be rented by him. >> today senator bob corker on this very day, when this strangest of oval office meetings occurs, bob corker was asked does he still hold to that position about donald trump's stability. let's listen to that. >> do you stand by what you said about the president about how he hasn't demo...

>> mike: expecting president trump to take action tomorrow on daca. deferred action of childhood arrivals. giving congress a chance to get it right. >> that is a little bit harder. i think harvey helps politics because it gets people to vote for things like the debt ceiling. daca is another matter. i don't think congress is looking forward to six months of solving the daca problem or else you'll have this terrible political problem on their hands if trump pulls the plug. that's a real difficult problem. harvey made it worse because not only were daca recipients people who were hurt by the floo...

President trump to take action tomorrow on daca. deferred action of childhood arrivals. giving congress a chance to get it right. >> that is a little bit harder. i think harvey helps politics because it gets people to vote for things like the debt ceiling. daca is another matter. i don't think congress is looking forward to six months of solving the daca problem or else you'll have this terrible political problem on their hands if trump pulls the plug. that's a real difficult problem. harvey made it worse because not only were daca recipients people who were hurt by the flood. you have had dac...