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Is it smarter to wait until after the first of the year when you can get a better bill, the criticism is they didn't do enough to try to push it through, why not wait? you don't have midterm elections in january. >> you don't want to enact legislation in the year you are ready in middle of, then it doesn't pass until january, february, you are already into the year so you have to make everything retroactive. the right thing to do is what they always used to do, do their jobs and do them on time. if they can pass this in december and take advantage of the momentum, they will get it done, no nee...

If you are looking at a 2018 electorate is if tax reform doesn't get done or obamacare is not repealed, is the answer more democrats? democrats are not going to -- you can go back and say if i had three more republicans in the senate, obamacare would already be gone. if i had a few more republicans in the house, maybe we didn't have to negotiate on this or that. i think the president has set this up very well going into 2018 and i think tax reform is going to get done. >> very briefly. republicans are in control of both chambers. how can you argue it's not a referendum on republicans if it doe...

Their version of tax legislation today. what happens if it doesn't pass, if they don't pass the bill? this is lindsey graham. >> if party fractures, most income that's in 2018 will get a severe primary challenge. a lot of them will probably lose. the base will fracture. the financial contributions will stop. other than that, it will be fine. >> joining me now, democratic congressman joe crowley, member of the house ways and means committee and chair of the democratic caucus. congressman, thanks for being with us. first on the house bill, what are the chances of that passing? >> i think they pr...

Everybody that has information on criminal convictions could upload that to the background check system. how about we do that? if that doesn't pass by a voice vote tomorrow, that's outrage. >> kimberly: more time has passed since the horrific murders of these innocent lives, and we are learning more about this man, about the killer. about his background and about where the system failed these families. >> jesse: the air force has blood on its hands. all they had to do is do their job, and they failed. the inspector general is now launching an investigation. the air force is a great institution...

President's addressni and his tax plan we're doing tonight by fox chief political analyst brit hume. thanks for joining us. c it seems like taxes may be the last issue that most republicans in the congress can agree on. they are all for tax cuts, that's part of what it is to be a republican i think. is there anyway that this this doesn't pass? >> a very narrow majority in th? senate, there are benefits in this tax code now that would have to be stricken to make room for the cuts, so you don't have a big blowout in terms of the budget and so they will be fiercely supported and defended by those...