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Make some should he see fit, martha. martha: steve centanni at the pentagon, thank you. bill: 33 minutes past the hour, beltway backlash now. while you were sleeping, a group of republicans in the senate with the key jobs bill that included the extension of unemployment benefits, democratic labor groups hammering republicans and the republicans say we need to stop spending. question today, is congress turning off the money faucet? dick harpootlian, of the south carolina democratic party, and justin spacy, former spokesman for george w. bushnd good morning to both of you, justin, has congress r...

In that direction. kristin fisher was with the vice president earlier today. she joins us from deer born, michigan. kristin the push was that. tax cuts work, right? >> that's right, neil. today the vice president promised to pass the largest tax cut in u.s. history by christmas. of course, there's still several outstanding questions. one of the biggest is how exactly does the trump administration intend to pay for what could be trillions worth of tax cuts? i had the chance to ask the vice president that question today. here's what he said. >> as the economy expands, we'll more than pay for the...

Especially on the night where all of this was going on. what about the issue of the president and the russian reset, e flexibility once i get re-elected? what happened to the once great relationship that he was supposed to have with putin? >> well, i asked josh earnest that question today. remember in 2012 the president said, look, after i got re-elected he would talk more about missile defense and have more flexibility and be able to move forward with putin and the russians. i pressed josh earnest. he said the problem is not the president but vladimir putin and all of his provocative action. ...

Today. i thank you so much for sharing a little bit of your perspective. i wish you the best of luck. >> thank you very much. >> of course, wisconsin was the first state to pass a comprehensive collective bargaining law in 1959. so my big question today, will other states follow suit, ending union negotiations to save money. i'd like to hear your thoughts. you can reach my on facebook. my e-mail is contessa@msnbc.com. a still-developing situation in bahrain. right now, four people are dead, 16 missing, hundreds hurt after riot police tried to drive protesters from a man square in bahrain's c...

>> is the president concerned about that backlash? >> reporter: on balance, as a political matter, they think this is a plus-plus. anything they can do, there's the phrase, there's a lot of money on the sidelines, it's not jumping into the economy. part of how they're selling this is that this is an encouragement to improve the business climate, to try to get money back off of the sidelines, try to get these businesses to start investing in business and they think they can do that by jawboning and making nice at least as it's represented here in washington and the president is now halfway acro...