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Overwritten. do you in when it como a final tax reform vote that bob corker will vote for it? >> well, i thinke will. as you know, he's a deficit hawk. he's a thinking individual. the senator and i have had discussions on tax reform already. at the end of the day, he just wants to make sure that we deal with the deficit. as long as we do that, i do believe he will be a yes vote in the end. we've got to make sure that we build a broad co-layings. jim jordan and i are reaching out to democrats to say, where is some common ground that we can coming to so we can truly make this a bipartisan bill? ...

Makes clear there isn't going to be a rush of other senators that come out. in fact, what they would like to happen is this all go away. one aide told me, it's hard sometimes because of the administration, but this is the hand we've been dealt. this fight back and forth is simply not helpful to that cause, wolf. >> how does the loomic legislative battle over the president's proposed tax cuts factor into all of this? >> look, it's the big open question right now. but the senator has already raised concerns about the tax plan. he's made very clear he is a deficit hawk. he doesn't want the tax pr...

I don't know how senator corker will go. he's got another 15 months. he's always been a deficit hawk. not a dime added to the debt and all that. it's not a sure vote of support what do you through? >> yeah, i mean, yeah, certainly but i don't really understand what corker gains from doing this and talking to the president at this point. if you had 15 months in office, i wouldn't spend my time doing that. i would mound substantive -- >> neil: how did this go wrong? there was a time that corker was instrumental -- not to the same point that jeff sessions was, but providing international support ...

When the president has been trying desperately to get the 51 votes for some of these big pieces of legislation, the ones he's been courting, the ones he's been losing has been john mccain, susan collins, lisa murkowski. now add bob corker to the people he can no longer count on, who are free agents. bob cork eras chairman of the foreign relations committee has a lot to do with the appointment power and the -- if there is a new secretary of state, if rex tillerson is put out, he has a lot to do with the iran nuclear deal if the president later this week dessert identifies it as we are told he's...

Issue you were discussing and i interrupted you and forgive me for that and that is the issue of cost because senate republican budget plan calls for a tax cut that is going to cost the treasury 1 and a half trillion dollars over the next ten years and some outside experts say that the plan that was unveiled this week actually will add $2 trillion to the debt over the next ten years. back when you were in congress, you were a deficit hawk, what happened, sir? >> i think the 2 trillion number is coming from the same organization that did not score dynamically -- let's talk about because i've be...