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As mitch mcconnell can only afford to lose two republican votes. this as senator warren demanding to see the treasury department's economic analysis after steve mnuchin promised the american people this. >> we think there will be $2 trillion of growth. we think this tax plan will cut the deficit by a trillion dollars. that's a large number. >> reporter: the inspector general launching a probe after receiving this letter from warren questioning whether mnuchin misled the public or refuses to release the report because the analyses would contradict the treasury secretary's claims. >> it is almos...

Are two members in particular. and that's john mccain and jeff flake. i think things will start to narrow a bit on these two senators, and in terms of just them being major holdouts in the end. they will say it's over principles. the president and his team will say it's personal. but according to lobbyists i was talking to, those are the two they're worried about the most and they were saying they could forsee a situation where mike pence would have to be the tie breaker. >> bob, there's so many moving targets here. you have jeff flake, and you have john mccain. imagine john mccain voting for ...

Talking about it would blow $1.5 trillion hole in the defic deficit. now some estimates have it over $2 trillion. how does susan collins support that? it seems to me holding all but two republicans in check is a pretty tall order. >> so add to heidi's smart points, when you think about the core problem here for senate republic can leaders, there are those who think the tax plan is progrowth. others think it adds top of the deficit. speaker ryan said put aside your concerns about the deficit. we need a growth bill for 2018. the other problem they have is even if they can reconcile the problems ...

It's why i left my investment firm and resolved to use my savings for the public good. but here we are nine years later and this president and the republican congress are making a bad situation even worse. they won't tell you that their so called "tax reform" plan is really for the wealthy and big corporations, while hurting the middle class. it blows up the deficit and that means fewer investments in education, health care and job creation. it's up to all of us to stand up to this president. not just for impeachable offenses, but also to demand a country where everyone has a real chance to su...

Said this for 30 years. the economy moves like a very lumbering aircraft carrier. what's happening now is the result of policies that were put in place seven years ago. bill clinton -- >> that's important to make. >> george h.w. bush turned the economy around. george h.w. bush did the things required to get the economy growing again and take care of the deficit. bill clinton benefitted from that and grew on it. >> president trump is going to take credit for what happens next year regardless of the back story. >> yeah. he will. and so will the democrats, bob, from what you've seen on the campai...