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He s back home from asia and promising the fruits from his long and successful trip will be for many years to come. he comes home to a tax cut battle that looks different than it did yesterday. it now has obamacare wrapped up in it. what does the president think about roy moore this morning? he has five statements on twitter so far but none of them about the senate candidate on the ballot accused of assaulting a 16-year-old girl. he has not said if he thinks roy moore should drop out of the race. but first let s talk about taxes or is it health care. reporter: we do expect to hear from the president. we expect him to tout his accomplishments following the marathon trip to asia, a very likely also to talk about asia, ....
This is an interesting moment in time for the president to be naming him as the pick. he s now talking about president trump that is in the recent tweets, clearly looking ahead to getting back home, which he will be midweek. looking ahead to not just the tax cut battle, the tax cut fight happening on capitol hill, but trying to tie that to some kind of health care reform. even as he s been talking about health care reform, he has nobody in hhs to lead the agency on a permanent basis. obviously, it is changing now with his naming of alex azar as his pick to lead the agency. tom price, of course, resigned after you know the weeks of questions and controversy over his private charter, government and military air travel. got him in hot water. he ended up resigning. the president accepted the resignation after, frankly, one of the bigger scandals we ve seen from the cabinet perspective here. it raised questions about other cabinet agencies travel, too. you have that going on with alex a ....
It could get bumpy. you think it distracts from the tax cut battle? a little bit. takes a little bit from that. but republicans are rallying around, trying to get a w. they need a win badly. so this may be just a speed bump. i do think you had a guy that knew the ins and outs of healthcare and knew about the regulations and how to kind of manipulate some of those things, even if you didn t have a law. so whoever you find going forward will have to have expertise like that. neil: thank you very much, my friend. bret baier, the host of special report . if you just tuned in, health and human services tom price resigned over the backlash of the private plane trips that brett touched on, whether this disrupts any of the trump agenda or clears the decks for getting ....
Fox business said the meeting included republicans and democrats. neil? neil: so maybe some promising developments. blake mentioned mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader there. he might have contributed unwittingly to the sell-off when he said last night remarks that would have been ignored. in this whole tax cut battle, he would prefer the tax cuts approved by revenue neutral. they don t make the deficits worse. that flies in the face of many republicans who have been advocating big tax cuts to prime the pump where you might have deficits in the beginning and see the revenue come later on. the leader of the senate is saying, no, no, no. not going to pass muster with me. a lot of folks said that is the sign that business tax cuts, the kind that could substantively and substantially move these markets might not materialize. all right. what if regardless how you look ....
an interesting outcome. this may be good news. plus, a school district that pays struggling students to go to summer school. talk about outrage. we re going to chat about that this morning. we re going to begin with the olympics and the night that was filled with so much promise and ended in so much disappointment for the u.s. men s gymnastics team after finishing first in the trials, they entered the finals last night as favorites. but a fall on the floor, two costly errors in the pommel horse and a fall on the vault undid team usa. halfway through six rotations they were in last place. last. but they rallied at the last minute to finish in fifth place. better, but still not great. amanda davies joins us from london. they were talking so big going into the finals. what happened? i think the mood in london at the olympic park today probably reflects the mood of the u.s. men s gymnastics team. gray and gloomy is the best way to sum it up. they were hotly tipped ....