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Let's bring in tara westwood, politics and investigative reporter for for the washington examiner. let's start with the state of play first. how fierce of a battle can we expect next week, and what items are the in the bill are at the center of the debate? >> yeah, i think this could definitely be a more difficult journey for the bill now that's it's in the senate, and you have senators like bernie sanders who are not happy that the state and local tax deduction cap was lifted in the house. they think that is essentially a tax break to the rich, that's something that blue statehouse members wa...

Working on for years now. so i started the week at the white house really able to watch the president sign into law some of the key priorities we're facing, like the gateway project, really critical issues we've been so focused on for years and ending the week with making sure we were able to bring down costs for families in new jersey, make new jersey more affordable, make sure we're getting rid of or lifting the state and local tax deduction cap, investing in family, getting a tax cut for middle-class families, bringing down cost of child care, of prescription drugs, bringing down costs of i...

Kyrsten sinema, we see bernie sanders not happy with this state and local tax deduction cap that has been removed. there is some things that are going to have to be finessed here and a lot of procedure that is going to happen in the senate. the big news right now is that they have crossed this first very important threshold, it that to come out of the house first. and, jim and erica, you have been here all along as we have gone now for weeks and weeks and weeks as they have tried to thread this needle between the factions and this party to get to this very moment. this is a big victory for hou...

Of urgency. we need to now get to work, and pass this legislation. >> just quickly here, congresswoman, it seems like human infrastructure is now around 2 trillion, that's nonnegotiable for you? >> you know, when i look at it, there is a couple of things in that piece of legislation that we desperately need that is something is nonnegotiable is the state and local tax deduction cap, we have a huge affordability problem in new jersey and that is just another hit that unfair double taxation for our state, and then of course, child care, we are seeing this crisis, and these jobs numbers just pain...

Economy and do something about it? if you are running for office, if you are a private citizen which he was last time around, you can paint whatever picture you want to help yourself get re-elected but he is currently governing our nation interfacing with world leaders every day. if he's not being honest about the state that we're in what does that do to us? >> i think many americans know what state we're in. in my home state new jersey as you well know many of the economic moves by this administration have been incredibly harmful to us. new jersey was worst hit by the tax reform than any othe...