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Caucus and without the leadership of president biden, who has been tireless in making sure that he's talked to all of us and that we all understand what's in the bill, feel good about it and are ready to vote for it as soon as the cbo score shows it will be deficit neutral. molly: there's some touting of a swift timeline on this, congresswoman sara jacobs, thank you on a saturday afternoon, we appreciate it. >> of course, thank you for having me. molly: tomorrow bill hemmer filling in for chris wallace, he will be with james clyburn and liz cheney, check your local listings for time and channe...

I think at the end of the day, we are going to be able to find a way to take this through tax reform on the kind of things you're talking about, but also on the corporate tax side enclosed in these loopholes that multi-national corporations have employed by parking their assets overseas. but bottom line is we have to get to "yes," because every member to have the democratic caucus recognizes the failures. >> but we say in general terms, these things have to be ant table, but they're not. carried interest is still in there. 1031 is still in there. do you think something is going to change betwe...

>> you know, we tried to see it. if you go back to kind of the early efforts, speaker ryan was clear that he wanted this to be deficit neutral. there was an effort to include a border adjustment element to the tax proposal. that would have brought in enough money to drop the corporate rate by 15 percentage points. that effort didn't work out. and so, you know, what ended up happening was, what happens? we started out with some good ideas and then the legislative process took hold. there's a lot of political pressure to get something done. and we ended up with a bill that has many strong featur...

Establishment is basically a conservative establishment and a lot feels like anger or transmitted anger over mitch mcconnell for not being able to pass legislation that most of the country actually opposes like repealing obamacare. >> all right, i want to go around really quickly once to each of you because it's friday and we not. give me a percentage, what are the chances that we see tax reform passed by thanksgiving? >> better than 50%. >> really? >> susan? >> one in ten. >> nick? >> deficit neutral, kind of one in ten. some kind of tax thing called a tax reform 50%. >> okay, we're going to ...

Flake voted with the president more than 90% so far. so this is not a philosophical difference when it comes to policy, it is a character and a values question here. but there are some real implications when it comes to policy for the president. >> for sure in taxes being at the top of the list. and bob corker said before he may not support tax reform if it is not, if it doesn't turn out to be deficit neutral. that's one of the bigger questions about the tax reform package that we're waiting to get details on. if you're alienating important senators like bob corker and jeff flake, even if they...