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Chuck shumer, senator from new york and minority leader, said the treasury is using fake math and that basically it is going to blow up the deficit and generate almost no economic activity to make up for it. i don't know if that's just a partisan argument, but where do you stand on the treasury analysis? >> certainly not the case that there's going to be no additional economic activity coming from this tax bill. all the nonpartisan analysts agree this tax bill will boost growth. you're going to see growth from acceleration. this bill will generate growth. the question is how much. the treasury...

Influx of workers coming into this country. >> gene? >> first of all, the one thing donald trump has done right is follow barack obama. because he inherited a strong economy. >> what about the immigration point though, gene? do you give that to the senator? >> i give him absolutely nothing. wages were already going up. the idea -- you no he what would lep wi help with wages is if you had more people undocumented right now feeling they had a path to citizenship and come out of the shadows. that would help wages go up. that's what would help. but the real issue is that there is no connection her...

Plan that just passed the committee in the senate. it's senator brown, correct? >> it's two things that are bad for the middle class. it repeals the individual mandate and the official score keepers in congress, it gets a little complicated and scored that as a tax increase on the lowest income americans in the country. the reason for that is if you take away the requirement that people have health insurance, they won't be getting it. they will see a tax increase. republicans argue that's a major problem because if they are not getting tax, they are choosing not to have health insurance, that'...

Economics. this is about emotions for the american people. and this affects everybody differently, which is why people are left in limbo wondering what happens next with all this? so we've got the final vote in the house tomorrow. as far as the votes they sound very optimistic. is it going to take the president to push this over the finish line? >> i think the president has the biggest microphone in the country and the message that the white house can push out is independent score keepers and sort of math folks have come back and looked at these bills and said every single tax bracket, every s...

$3,200. cbo is filled with lots of well-meaning people and they're good with certain kinds of analysis. but analyzing long-term highly complex social diagrams, they've almost never been right. remember when they scored in the 1960s, scored what medicaid would cost in the next decade they were off by almost 1100%. regally score keepers underestimate cost and over estimate coverage. but if not, we should unbundle them, republicans gave their word they were going to repeal. we should do it. we should delay its implementation date and all 100