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Draft plan for that tax reform before the august reset. -- recess. is that still the case and do you expect to get tax reform done this year in light what we learned about the healthcare bill yesterday? >> we're still very focused on moving forward on tax reform, it's still a big priority for the administration. that has not changed. >> in terms of getting it done before the end of the year? >> we want to get the biggest tax reform as possible. tax reform plan in place. and we'll keep you posted on time line and announcements for that happening. >> one other topic, i wanted to ask about the le...

>> i was in the briefing and i asked how does this obamacare repeal and replace failure affect their agenda? they said they expect to get a draft plan of tax reform done before august recess. we're looking at with the schedule now and it doesn't seem like that would be possible. they said they thought they would get the tax reform package passed by the end of the year. also doesn't seem like that will be possible. sarah huckabee wouldn't put a timeline on that and wouldn't put a timeline or obamacare repeal and replacement when other reporters asked her about that as well. >> it depended on ge...

Want different things, so it's making negotiations really difficult. and the longer this goes on, the more of a chance there is that the bill will be dead because time is not something that's helping them with negotiations. >> and senators john mccain, bill cassidy, they were saying without changes this bill is stagnant. here's what they said. >> if you shut out the adversary or the opposite party, you're going to end up the same way obamacare did when they rammed it through with 60 votes. only guess what? we don't have 60 votes. my view is it's probably going to be dead. >> the draft plan has...

What bill cassidy, republican senator, said yesterday about appearing to be, again, this is a smart guy. a doctorate, right? confused about what's in the bill. >> we don't know what the plan is. >> wait a minute. it was submitted. >> well, the draft plan has now been serious rewrite, and so we don't know what the serious rewrite -- clearly the draft plan is dead. is the serious rewrite plan dead? i don't know. i've not seen the serious rewrite plan. >> so this is not a commentary on a senator but on the process and the fact that it is, look, it's a moving process. at the same time, when you ha...

Chris: as it now stands cruz is a nonstarter for you. >> i don't know the amendment. if it turns out it's two plans -- chris: that's what he has described. >> that's okay. with two risk pools then that's bad >> that's what he described. >> he hasn't designated whether you have a single risk pool or two risk pools. if it is a single risk pool, that works. if it is two risk pools that is just obama care recreated. we need to do something different than that. chris: at least ten republican senators have now said have come out formally you have not although you have expressed doubts about it have ...