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Power of the presidency in terms of launching air strikes without the congressional authorization? >> well, i'm not concerned as long as we stay vigilant on committees like the foreign relations committee and we have not only held hearings on this topic of late but we are prepared to move forward and i believe that mark-up that's considered formally in a committee and authorization for the use of military force in coming weeks, so i think we are -- we are doing right by the american people, not only by having this conversation but by acting on it and it's my hope that in coming weeks we will h...

I'm entirely sympathetic with that line of argument there, sir. i know that you are not only frustrated by the contents of this gop tax bill but also by the process in how it passed. can you explain that? >> well, alex, you're right. i think if you go back historically, when tip o'neill as speaker of the house and ronald reagan was the president, that's the last time we did major tax reform. and through that process, everybody understood that there needed to be bipartisan cooperation. but as importantly, minimally, you needed to have hearings. we had over 30 hearings in the committee, 12 heari...

Cuts. that's not an unpopular thing do. by the way this is something we ran on. we didn't -- we didn't do like some of the democrat majorities of the past and pass a big huge thing on an unsuspecting country. we ran in 2016 on doing the tax reform. the president ran on doing this tax cut and reform. this is about fulfilling our promise to the american people. this is about actually improving people's lives and making a positive difference and i fundamentally believe we -- when we do this, make good on our word make good on our promise and make people's lives better we will be just fine politic...

Days there. we have a cure en route. i'll see you in manila. >> jon: enjoy your travels with the president coming to us from china. >> melissa: here at home the house ways and means committee expected to finish its mark-up of the gop tax bill soon. with senate republicans preparing to unveil their own tax legislation. meanwhile president trump weighing in referring to the senate plan the "wall street journal" reports he told democrats in a conference call you'll like it a whole lot more. joining me is bob cusick editor and chief of "the hill." what do you think democrats will like more about t...

Heather naurgt live out of washington, d.c. stay tuned on that coming up shortly. >> the house ways and means committee expected to finish its mark-up of the gop tax bill today. house republicans say they expect the bill to clear that committee and once that's done, the senate will unveil its own tax legislation later today. the big question will be will those two bills square up? and we'll have new reaction to all of this from top republican lawmakers, including speaker paul ryan who bill just spoke with. >> did the white house give you guidelines for this tax bill? >> yes. >> are you working...