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Beyond those who have been so outspoken to push back on that. Will we see other senators come out today and take a flake or corkerlike position on that . Well find out. But right now i doubt it. A standing ovation. I want to bring my panel in. Robert costa, National Political reporter for the Washington Post and bret stephens, an oped columnist for the New York Times and megan murphy, the editor of Bloomberg Business week. Brett, i want to start with you. One trump critic said the ice is beginning to crack. What were seeing with bob corker, with jeff flake, youre going to see more republicans ...

Do. it would extend the government funding until january 19th, it would also include $3 billion to reauthorize the children's health insurance program through march. include a short term extension of warrantless surveillance program that expires. also waive the automatic spending cuts that would come because of the deficit effect of the tax bill. also key to look at what this bill doesn't do. particularly given the grand ambitions of some lawmakers just a couple of weeks ago. it's not a long-term reauthorization. it doesn't touch much of the budget cap issue that will lead to sequestration, la...

Entities, these smaller businesses and partnerships. this is all huge for republicans and they really, really want this to happen. the problem, i think, that we saw this week, the only problem is that in getting it to the finish line in the senate, they pretty much negated the possibility that they were going to be able to get this back through the house without a conference, which was a hope among some white house officials, that they could sort of pre-bake a lot of these deals they would have to cut with the house republicans, and essentially have a bill that after passing the senate, could ...

Pass a budget resolution permitting them to increase the budget deficit, the national debt by $1.5 trillion if they didn't think that was necessary? i'm truly flabbergasted. >> john, there is also something that rachel was reporting on earlier in her program in the "new york times" today, one thing that republicans are counting on is treasury secretary mnuchin producing a report out of the treasury tax analysis department showing that this was possible, showing that there would be with what they call dynamic scoring a massive growth in the economy that would then generate so much tax revenue t...

Didn't think that was necessary? i'm truly flabbergasted. >> john, there is also something that rachel was reporting on earlier in her program in the "new york times" today, one thing that republicans are counting on is treasury secretary mnuchin producing a report out of the treasury tax analysis department showing that this was possible, showing that there would be with what they call dynamic scoring a massive growth in the economy that would then generate so much tax revenue that this deficit effect would disappear. not only is that not ready, it turns out they didn't do a minute of work on...