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that wraps it up for me. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," president biden boosted by the fed forecasting rate cuts in the year ahead and the chance of curbing inflation without riing rates. vladimir putin closing the year at his marathon press conference, showing no sign of abandoning his invasion of ukraine, counting on international funding for kyiv drying up. >> translator: coming back to the goals, they remain unchanged. today ukraine virtually produces or manufactures nothing. they have been importing things for free -- freeloading. it will come to an end, sooner or l...

I thought, who is that? checks out, that's what my house old budget's like! >> not exactly a norman rockwell depiction of the typical middle class american family. chris, they're straining to try to justify putting forward this kind of legislation and trying to convince people that it benefits them. the truth is, we know what this was, this was a corporate tax cut bill that was done without much consideration at all to middle class families, no consideration to the deficit. chris, you were talking to john tester about whether or not he was a gettable vote when it came to a discussion about tax...

About how he was a gettable vote at the beginning of this process and wasn't at the end. >> i was an easy pickup, very easy pickup. i had a couple, two or three other democrats would have been very easy pickups if they made an effort. our republican friends wanting to use the gimmick of the budget reconciliation, they got to make some choices. it shows you where their values are, their choices were that the corporations get the greatest cuts. >> were you a gettable vote on, in theory, a tax bill at some point? >> chris, absolutely. i mean, i sent letters to the administration said, look, i'd l...

Amazing moment of messaging from john cornyn, who's in leadership in the senate. under tax cuts and job -- the name's been changed -- a married couple earning $100,000 per year, 60,000 from wages, $20,000 from their noncorporate business, and $15,000 from business income, will receive a tax cut of nearly 24%. i thought, who is that? checks out, that's what my house old budget's like! >> not exactly a norman rockwell depiction of the typical middle class american family. chris, they're straining to try to justify putting forward this kind of legislation and trying to convince people that it ben...

All right. health care wars are back. it never goes away. ramesh, we're down to john mccain and lisa murkowski. does one of them vote this down? and adding cory gardner to the mix before a place holder. i think more real now. where are you on this? >> have to bet against this happening. >> still bet against? >> i think so. a will to get it done, but you can't afford to lose more votes. already lost collins. lost rand paul. doesn't look like either is a gettable vote, giving them just one more -- leaves no marge be for error. >> this cbo issue is a good excuse if looking for a way out? >> not s...