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Phasing in certain provisions and putting sunsets or phase-out dates on other provisions. one of the more popular tax credits they are putting in the bill, a family tax credit, they are putting the idea of putting a sunset on it and daring future congressing not to extend what they think is a popular provision. and this again gets more complicated on thursday when the senate will introduce their version of the tax bill and trying to get everybody on the same page with that 1.5 trillion price tag, which has to be the rule on the senate side but doesn't necessarily have to in the house. so begin...

About donald trump's agenda and the republican congressional agenda as two diagrams as where they overlap and there are places where they overlap, repealing obamacare, cutting taxes, rolling back federal regulation. you're going to see a lot of forward movement, particularly where they can use the so-called reconciliation technique to defang the ability of democrats to hold things up with a fill buster in the senate. the challenge is there is a lot else that is kind of outside of that diagram. his protectionism, infrastructure, some of the more edgy proposals on the immigration side where it's...

Wrapped up by the end of march. you were quite critical of him about the fight over obamacare which led to a government shutdown. let's take a listen. >> there's no honor in charging a hill that you know you can't take, only casualties, although maybe ted cruz got name recognition along the way. president obama wanted this shut down and ted cruz played right into his hands. >> do you think ted cruz would doom the republicans' chances in november? >> first let me explain why i said that. because at the time we didn't control the senate. and we didn't have historic majorities in the house. so wi...