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That if we were to repeal the individual mandate as part of a tax cut, i will fund the csrs, i will put some money into a high-risk pool. the collins/nelson bill, and that he would support a $10,000 property tax deduction. so that was a huge step forward in terms of meeting senator collins' legitimate needs. senator corker, i think, is very close to finding a trigger that will work in terms of his deficit concerns. i talked to ron johnson just before i came on your program. i think we'll find a way to give better treatment to pass-through entities. the bottom line is, 52 people are trying to b...

Very tight labor market right now in much of the country. i have to assume if you get a big capital investment, some of it will good to productivity and a lot of it will flow through to wages. >> that's in the data. historically if you get productivity growth, it flows through to real wages and that hasn't been happening in the u.s. because we haven't had the productivity growth. right now, we can have a tight labor market. it will get passed through in prices. you need productivity to make people better off. >> what about the deficit concerns? it's going to add $1 trillion to the deficit over...

Repeal on doing your campaign promises and the american economy will carry the day. this is going to a conference committee and inside that room it could get wild and we'll see what comes out on the other side. >> every time you say conference committee i fall asleep and get excited the same time. scott, just asking you, where do you see this process right now in the senate? forget the house. say this vote -- just assume that this vote goes through. all eyes are on the senate. what do you see happening? >> all eyes are on the senate, kate. if you thought health care was hard that was one sixth...

To support alexander murray. i don't know that what's left of the alexander murray planned this money to help, give a soft landing to the individual mandate repeal. if you look at polling, any further deterioration in the obamacare exchanges will be blamed on the republicans and so you have a math problem. apart from the concerns. senator johnson has small business concerns. senators corker, flake, and langford have concerns. i think they need to come closer to what the house passed because their bill is too problematic. >> i think they mandate repeal takes care of a lot of deficit concerns bu...

Important for president trump as he attempts to pass his agenda. and that disagreement about this particular -- the 401(k) question, as you rightly point out, they've doubted that senator corker would be a yes vote on the tax reform package because of those deficit concerns, and this was a way potentially to raise a little bit of money for the bill to help it essentially look less expensive, at least up front. so there is a real policy disagreement at the bottom of this. and corker expressed on the "today" show, you showed a little bit of that, he has tended to use more polite words than the p...