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line up and the weight that most are pledging to tax cuts if they win. and the way. also on the programme. a week of very high temperatures ahead for much of the uk, as the met office issues an extreme weather warning for the weekend. train drivers at eight rail companies have voted overwhelmingly to go on strike in a dispute over pay. and england s women are the first team through to the euro quarterfinals after a stunning victory against norway. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel, a five star performance from england. it s a five wicket win as they dominate south africa in their first one day international. welcome to bbc news at ten. it s official the united kingdom will have a new prime minister by the 5th of september following an election to find a new leader of the conservative party. that process will begin tomorrow. so far, no fewer than 11 conservative mps have entered the fray. they ll need to be backed by at least 20 colleagues to be on ....
Commerce on all these tariffs and gave examples of how companies are going to be hard-pressed to plan and get their pricing right. so there s a strange situation, eric, where a lot of the democrats in the senate are for these tariffs, support president trump on higher paying jobs and a lot of the more moderate republicarepublican senators op. it s the reverse of the immigration debate or the tax cut debate. eric: how will this play out? clearly it s hit wall street. it may hit wall street again this coming week. does president have a point? he s known for throwing big numbers out and coming out and getting a deal. do you think that s the end goal? i do think that s the end goal. i don t think he ll be able to get the european union to cut to zero all tariffs on all products. that was the original goal as you recall back in 1945, to prevent war, we were supposed to have a zero tariff world and ....
Investment to raise the gas tax? it s a viable option. i don t support it. i don t support raising taxes. i try to find a way to use the current revenue stream we have and use it more effectively and efficiently. where was that argument during the tax cut debate? i m not for raising taxes, period. no, but using the resources we have to pay nfor it when the jct, the joint commission on taxation says that the tax bill even dynamically scored will add a trali itrillion dollars to th economy? look at the economy right now, look at the unemployment rate, i know you factor that all in. look at the jobs markets. and i ve never seen so many budget hawks in all of my life when obama was giving out phones. continued to give away and $8 trillion and now $1 trillion, it s really not going to happen, ....
Rate for the corporations in this country that are already doing, recording record profits, in exchange for that, they raised your taxes, because 47 million households in the united states of america, according to the tax policy center, will see a net tax hike under this bill. to me, it s political suicide. the only pressure that they re really responding to here is from their donors. can i throw out one dynamic that i think is being overlooked, that i think is really interesting in the senate. you have two republican senators who have decided to retire, right? bob corker and jeff flake. and they in their retirement speeches, they basically said they re going to spend the rest of their term being a check on donald trump. and i think when you re lacking at the vote counting in the senate, one of the questions you have is, how did two senators who believe and vhave said that trump is basically a threat, how do they position themselves on this tax cut debate? because corker likes it. ....
Too. good to have you here in person. ken doesn t visit us all that often. he is nbc news intelligence and national security reporter. i m going to have more on this. i m going to stick with the story so you can understand it well. there was breaking news on the tax cut debate and whether a repeal of the individual mandate is going to be included. kasie hunt has the latest from the hill. this is a late development in the midst of everything else we are covering. it turns out there is yet another attack on obamacare, on the affordable care act. ali, this is something we were watching for very carefully. we taughtly thought it was more like will he to start over on the house side because they were having some trouble making sure that the cost of their bill stayed under $1.5 trillion, which is the requirement based on the senate budget rules. so they were taking a look at it to see if maybe it would save them some money. you might ask why does this potentially save money? why would ....