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Kick the can down the road negotiating with democrats doesn't normally produce outstanding results. >> bret: mollie, mark meadows there. the democratic statement "look forward to working together on many issues come december." is there really a sense they are can be some kumbaya moment or democrats are really going to play the game up until pushing the limit of what when they wao go home for christmas. >> there is room to negotiate in the center and donald trump has figured it out. if he's not going to get anything from republicans anyway, why not try to get some of the agenda passed. he is no...

What the cost is. when you go to the doctor for an x ray or cat scan, you don't care what the cost of that is. you care what your out-of-pocket expense is. that's the only product or service we buy like that. it's a tremendous distortion of the market. that's probably a longer conversation. >> nobody spends the time on this like we do. that's why you're always welcome here. let's talk about taxes. your time in congress, you were a deficit hawk, you were a movement politician. you put out a statement after the initial budget proposal where you said i'm not really interested in how tax reform ha...

Idea that we could get to 3% and if so, i completely concur. what you can't do is pick rosy assumptions to make the numrs fit when in fact they don't. fundamental will if you look at this budget, that's what it does. which is a real disservice to everyone of us. republicans and democrats, we may have different priorities but at least let's talk about real numbers and then have the food fight as to what the real numbers might be. if you base the assumptions on numbers that aren't real, we end up with a baked up debate that isn't real and doesn't serve anybody. >> let me ask you, you're a defici...

Anger-inducing or not. who knows? the next big fight after health care is tax reform. a big question has been how will the cuts be paid for so not to add to the deficit? this is obviously -- i mean, if you say the word deficit hawk, you mostly think of republicans, right? yes. well, listen to the vice president just yesterday and what he had to say about it. >> you are going to increase the deficit. >> well, you know, maybe in the short term, but the truth is, if we don't get this economy growing at 3% or more, as the president believes that we can, we're never going to meet the obligations th...

And we thought that was going to get a deal done. and we have not heard anything from them today. so now i'm not sure what's happening. i would be curious to ask the democrats where they stand on a shutdown right now. because we thought we had a deal as of yesterday. >> let me ask you about tax reform. the president's proposal expected this evening or maybe tomorrow. on lowering rates, maybe not detailed but some broad strokes. lowering the corporate tax rate 35% to 15%? >> yeah. i don't want to confirm the actual numbers. but i can tell you that number's pretty accurate. the official rollout ...