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>> all eyes are on congressional races currently polling as tossups and many will determine whether republicans maintain control over of the u.s. house of representatives. one particularly close race is happening in new york's 19th district where republican incumbent congressman john sasso will face lawyer antonio delgado. we've reached tout to the delgado campaign and haven't heard back. thank you for being with us, congressman. >> thank you, laura, good to be with you. >> yours is considered one of the most closely watched house races in the state of new york. right now the poll numbers so y...

Courage" was one volume and a fairly short book. the "profiles in courage" in this the era would almost get to the newspaper story, but maybe not even that. >> and you wrote the biography of bush 41 and when you think of george herbert walker bush and not discounting 1988 and some of the campaign tactics that were use and lee atwater and in 1992 and elsewhere, there was a level of respect for what is proper in politics, and political discourse discourse. >> absolutely. on the other side of the campaign, governor michael dukakis fired his campaign manager john sasso for leaking damaging informa...

>> two weeks to six weeks i assume he knows there's a lot of scrutiny on this case and will act as fast as he can. arthel: thank you very much. we'll talk to you in the decision comes down. turning to the senate expected to vote on this tax reform after thanksgiving. after the house passed the bill last week, despite the 13 from these guys. they object to limiting the state and local tax reduction and study showed taxpayers than most date use that. new york congressman john sasso is here to explain. plus, history of new orleans. the great city a? its first female mayor. >> i will not let you d...

For my sake, for all of our sake. i want to bring in a republican from new york, john sasso, one person voting against the bill. congressman thank you for being here. i want to be clear why you're a no vote. you're concerned about the state and local tax deductions essentially for people in new york? >> that's correct. while there are many things in the bill that are good. and many things in the bill that are better than i voted against initially in the house, the precipitous nature of changing the deductibility of state and local taxes, for people who way way more than $10,000 in state and lo...