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Set of deadlines and all the news today is about russia, russia, russia yet again. >> and ryan, if you look at the polls, if you believe the polls, the american people pretty equally blame president trump and the democrats for the shutdown but it seems like the republicans at least the republicans in congress have gotten if not a pass, probably get blamed half as much as those other too. does it make them mad when they see how this keeps going in this direction? >> probably some. i think that there is pretty wide agreement at least in the commentary that people on the hill read that democrats ...

Anyone who would think that both bodies would come to the exact same place at the exact same time, the first shot, i think, is unrealistic. >> for those members who thought they would be done with this issue today, when we conclude this vote, it's coming back. you can't do what we are doing to harm the middle-class and america all for the purpose of concentrating greater wealth at the very top. >> dana: ryan streeter, american enterprise institute director of policy studies, he joins me now commit ryan, you don't think it's that big of a deal the house and senate are far apart because you thin...

Need to deal with. so this isn't the magic elixir, but this is a really important step for a more -- we went where you put the chances of the bill passing? >> i think the chances are high. the biggest challenge, of course, if they can come to an agreement on this lower business tax rate, they have to figure out still have to pay for all of this. that is where which deductions to eliminate coming to play and what you do with the higher income earners in the tax rate that they have. they are treating richer americans a little bit differently in the two bills and they will have to figure out who ...

Bullying, blackmail or whatever, that it's going to work. >> ten bipartisan governors are saying we're opposed to the skinny repeal. it may be a first step but we don't even want to see congress take that first step. is that type of pressure going to have an impact, do you think? >> i think that type of pressure matters for the senators, which is really what matters right now, that vote. how many times can senators say i'm just voting yes so we can move to the next step? eventually you're going to be voting on something that, could rgd to every score so far, will be costs millions of people th...

Which was chosen because you need 50 votes as opposed to the normal 60. to get what they said they want, which is control costs and keep coverage fairly broad. reconciliation will prove to be a very difficult vehicle for technical reasons and so they may very well find themselves in a situation like kelly said where they're back in a more traditional approach and thinking of how to do this in a bipartisan way. >> a number of senators already weighing in on this notion of skinny repeal. this is what senator cassidy had to say. let's listen in. i'll get your reaction on the other side. >> it doe...