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Sides of the aisle, both sides of the capital to do something significant. we have not touched the user fee that we pay at the gas pump for 25 years. and it's a federal -- it's a standard -- it's a function of the federal government. >> congressman i want to ask you about that gas tax because you are exactly right. it hasn't been raised in 25 years. looks like president trump is floating the idea of raising it 25 cents. is that enough for you? >> well, i'm open to it. absolutely it's now have for it. but i'm open to any other ways we can figure out how to dedicate funding -- this is different ...

♪ >> tucker: a trump administration just signed a significant tax cut for a lot of the middle class but now there are calls to claw a lot of it back. some in the administration are pushing for a major spend on infrastructure to be financed with a hike in the gas tax that would fault heaviest on rural americans while leaving most of the wealthy urbanites who voted for hillary untouched.. pete and marie is an economist, i know the gasas tax is somethig that academics love commits tidy, it's a user fee, it seems fair. i wonder if it is fair becauseus the people who pay it are not the ones who b...

>> right. why, then, should cars be reregistered? >> you mean going from one person to another and paying for the license, paying a licensing fee that goes to the highway systems themselves? it's a matter of picking up the dollars. it isn't a matter of suspicioning. we aren't licensing them because they are a weapon, we're licensing them because that's the way you pay for your road systems. people license those victims because that's what goes into maintaining our road systems. it's a user fee. it's entirely different than suggesting you want to keep a national registry of individuals who have...

Saw dr. zhivago until the moment you drank vodka with a guy named boris, you list everyone of those and we'll turn it over to the special counsel. this drip, drip, drip is undermining this administration. >> this was one of a range of republican reactions including utah senator orrin hatch who called the e-mails overblown. one man in washington had an immediately pragmatic reaction. mitch mcconnell appeared to recognize a clock is running on this administration with hours of the release of the e-mails, he pushed back the august recess so as to jam through as. business as possible as quickly as...

This would be a big no-no. but if you look at somebody like francis rooney saying, hey, well, we'll give don junior a bit of a break because he's a businessman, that's where i think they're trying to distance themselves on it. >> i hope that dr. zhivago and vodka -- all right. great to have you with us. switching news on capitol hill, the senate is delaying their august recess for two weeks as lawmakers face a packed legislative agenda including the obamacare replacement plan. majority leader mitch mcconnell made an announcement yesterday. take a listen. >> we've got defense authorization. w...