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To mitch mcconnell, who says that his caucus will not vote for it or the compromised bill reportedly coming from democratic senator joe manchin. so that leaves the john lewis voting rights advancement act yet to be taken up by the senate. some calling it as important or more important pieces of legislation. there's arguments on both sides, i will say to that, because it restores the pre-clearance requirement to changes in the state voting laws and of course mcconnell called the bill unnecessary. i hate to ask to you choose and i know you can explain both, but which would be the bigger win legi...

Win legislatively, but i don't think he knows what that looks, like, i think we're in this situation you're showing right there on the split screen. >> we're watching the vote happening now on the senate floor. as soon as they have the votes and we know what the grand sum total is, we will bring it to you, i have another polling question for you. 56% of americans believe it's more important to avoid a government shut down that protecting the dreamers. what does that mean for the democrats? are they playing this right? >> this is the thing, although polls show, the cnn poll shows that overwhelm...

Didn't us iodize the rest of the country. >> maria: it is true the republicans have been the party of lowering taxes and here you do have increasing taxes for a portion of the people and the republicans have been the party of fiscal discipline and i don't see the fiscal discipline in this budget and in certainly in this plan in terms of getting your arms around the debt at some point so let me ask you this congressman, because you had a really tough year. the entire party. i mean you tried to get healthcare done. you came right up against the edge to get healthcare done and it blows up in the ...

Again, john mccain first -- screwing over the president because he accomplished something he could never accomplish. >> legislatively, charlie, what couldn't he accomplished? >> steve: to be fair, legislatively on the things he was able to do, he's been able to do through executive action. for example pulling out of tpp, paris accords, border enforcement, these are all things that clearly are of result -- you can call it nationalist if you want. >> these are executive actions, orders, think that conservatives for years hated about the obama administration. >> steve: what's wrong with the actua...

The swamp. at the end of it, and looks like if things go the president's way, he's finally going to have not just the biggest tax cut in american history but the biggest win legislatively. as you know, he has done all kinds of executive actions but has not had the big legislative win on capitol hill that he can lock in and go into the end of the year saying "i had a big win." >> steve: you sound really upbeat about it. just a day ago, we were at the press conference with the president and mcconnell. it was all well, we will try to do it next year. a bit depressed about the chances of this happ...