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Often joins us during normal times on our broadcast. erica warner has surely chosen the night shift tonight for "the washington post." she's just off the floor. erica, what have you seen that kind of fills in the picture of what we've been covering on the floor tonight? >> well, as you heard senators schumer and mcconnell speak there just after the vote, this is all about messaging, trying to get the upper hand with the trump administration and senator mcconnell trying to brand this the schumer shutdown and senator schumer and the democrats calling it the trump shutdown. so how long it ends up...

Unsubstantiated. but i will tell you, david, i think this was orchestrated in back rooms by democratic operatives because you saw thereafter talking points. senators schumer and warner went to the floor of the senate saying we are having a constitutional crisis. nancy pelosi wrote to speaker ryan saying you must stop this. and they were aided and abetted by the liberal media giving to this nonsense. so unfortunate because it obscured real stories that those other outlets never covered on things like uranium one. the dossier, and this hezbollah opiate scandal. >> david: deneen, it reminds me of...

Unsubstantiated. but i will tell you, david, i think this was orchestrated in back rooms by democratic operatives because you saw thereafter talking points. senators schumer and warner went to the floor of the senate saying we are having a constitutional crisis. nancy pelosi wrote to speaker ryan saying you must stop this. and they were aided and abetted by the liberal media giving to this nonsense. so unfortunate because it obscured real stories that those other outlets never covered on things like uranium one. the dossier, and this hezbollah opiate scandal. >> david: deneen, it reminds me of...

So it's untruth after untruth after untruth as bob corker put it when the president talks about the republican tax plan. untruth one, it's aimed at helping the middle class. untruth two, it's not a plan for the rich. untruth three, it lowers the deficit. this plan is a disaster for america. no wonder our republican colleagues want to rush it through in the dark of night, because the more it's exposed to sunlight, the more rot ten it smells and the american people will know that. senator carton. >> thank you, senator schumer. the more we're learning about the tax proposal that the republicans w...

Be created with the tax proposal. but in addition we know there's a lot of gaps, even reaching a $1.5 trillion deficit. secondly, we know that it will benefit higher income families. the wealthiest are the ones that will get the big tax cuts. senator schumer mentioned estate tax repeal. mentioned the issues concerning the alternative minimum tax which will benefit wealthy families. that's all clear. one thing is also clear to me. that is middle income families will be asked to pay more. they're not gonna get a tax cut. they will be asked to pay more. when you start looking at the way they'll b...