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Clear possibility that the house clears this next week. that clears the way for the ways and means committee both to release the tax form bill and the timetable for the mark-up. so the first action in 31 years since president reagan's reforms in 1986, that begins very quickly. >> bill: could it be, then, that americans see what's in it for them in a week? what are the brackets, what's in it for them, why should they support it? when will that be public? >> it all pivots off the budget when that is signed, sealed and delivered we'll announce the both for the date for the tax reform plan and the...

Of them don't actually care what it is they're doing. >> when you defeat a bill by one vote in the senate it -- every vote is a decisive vote and most cast last time by john mccain and this is what he told politico today. nothing has changed. if mcconnell wants to put it on the floor, that's up to mcconnell. i am the same as before. i want the regular order. asked if that means he is a no vote mccain said i want the regular vote and i want the regular order. and near -- what does that mean? >> well, if this is not regular order. let me just say again, there is not going to be a cbo score. the'...

Mccain was asked where he stood on this bill. what did he say? >> process. process process process. they can focus as much as they want but if they don't get senator mccain along this bill fails as well. he's made clear from that july speech on the floor one he came back to now. he believes this bill should move through committee, mark up, then the floor, house and conference. his concern haves not been addressed at all. i'm told senator mccounsel made a request to the chair next year, hold a meeting, see if it will check a box. mccain making clear as of now that's not enough. still a lot of w...

Asked if that means he is a no vote mccain said i want the regular vote and i want the regular order. and near -- what does that mean? >> well, if this is not regular order. let me just say again, there is not going to be a cbo score. the's not going to be an official referee. we have data points, like billions of dollars that will be lost by arizona and alaska and other states. but there's no regular order for this. there's no mark-up. this is just jammed through as julie said. let me say three people who held out before but there are a lot of people who made statements who said they got some...

Side. four or five of us huddled around him, and he had a question about the third rule. that is, we were contesting or potentially contesting the last section of the eight-page bill saying it didn't seem to fit the rules. we told him we would set that aside. he asked some questions about whether we would be willing to proceed to the defense authorization act and facilitate that so that we didn't have a long drawn out mark-up of that act on the floor. we said we were happy to do that. that felt pretty positive, and he -- it sounded like he was about to go with us, but we still weren't 100% sur...