Ralliedt bush really and held our losses to a minimal amount. It is too soon to tell until november 2018. Host give us one state or senate race that worries you the most. Guest obviously, certainly alabama with the moore case. Thesel have a lot of midwestern states were President Trump it better than republicans did in the past. Are we able to replicate the same situation like in indiana and michigan . Host what is more damaging . Having the democrats pick up a key seat, or have one more in the senate and republicans have to do with him that way or moore in the Senate Republicans have to deal with him that way . I think republicans can lose an election like in the state of alabama. , but losing the seat will be having the party being in an unacceptable manner. Race as you look at the and we heard from the campaign telling the national democrats, spend money, but dont get too involved. Why . Brand ise democratic not stellar in places like alabama. When the National Party comes in, it tends to rub people the wrong way. If you look at the results statewide and president ial levels, in states like alabama going back for decades now, it hasnt been close. Senateng the Democratic Committee comments, or others come in, it doesnt fit well with a lot of Republican Voters who say they cannot vote for roy moore. Lets let this one play out. Seems like we can still this one. Races on me put two the table. Mccaskill up for reelection. She had a closely watched battle winning over todd akin who had his own issues dealing with legitimate race, but if you look at that race in the state that has gone through donald trump, how do democrats maintain betsy . How do democrats maintain that seat . Guest when we look at the states that her up like missouri, indiana, montana, north dakota with senators in all of the season they are doing a great job in the have proven they have won before, but if you look at what cost goal if you look at mccaskill, they were heated by colorful statements by republican candidates. It is not to say they will lose, but these are really tough races, and theres not much Growth Potential for democrats in 2018. Heller andator senator flake stepping down in arizona, we will see what happens with the primary there and bob corker in tennessee. 2010 wherein republicans should have won. We ended up holding on to the senate for a couple more elections. Win back the majority on paper . Absolutely not. But could we . We could. Host lets talk about arizona with jeff flake announcing he is going to step down. How do you maintain those seats . Guest our biggest worry are both of the seats in the changing demographic with New Residence or not familiar with either candidate. That is always challenging. Hellerer what candidate, is a strong candidate who want to statewide. Whoever we end up with an arizona, they will have the challenge to introduce themselves to a good portion of the electorate. Host you cannot most here what the president is going to saying but the president is going to say to voters in 2018. He spoke to reporters from the white house, and here is part of his speech on our website. [video clip] i explained to all the World Leaders and asia, how well the United States is doing. Economic growth has been over 3 the last two quarters and is going higher. Unemployment is at its lowest level in 17 years. The stock market has made trillions of dollars in value since my election, and has reached record highs. We are massively increasing our military budget to historic levels. The house has just passed a nearly 700 billion defense package, and it could not come at a better time for our nation. Once again, our country is optimistic about the future. Confident in our values, and proud of our history and a role in the world. I want to thank every citizen of this country for the part you have played in making this Great America come back possible. In asia, our message was clear and well received. America is here to compete, to do business, and to defend our values and our spirit. Host you hear the. The dent, part of which you think will be his strategy you hear the president and a part of what you think is strategy will be in 2018 . Guest how my going to meet my bills, what is my future wife to look like . That is one of the top concerns. To be able to make the case in washington along with congress trying to lower taxes and make things better and get you more takehome pay and fighting for the u. S. s place abroad. Compellingawfully message to voters. Danger, heere a continues to pop about the stock market. The stock market goes up and down. If they goes down, does that make you more vulnerable in 2018, 2019, 2020 . Guest it is a nice talking point, but if you look at the statistics on how few people are invested in stock market, it is a nice marker. Financial tiess are not in the financial market. Host Stefan Hankin, what is your take on it . When he reads the teleprompter in his on message, it is a decent message. 2018 beingan go into their statement and we are doing this in the economy is moving think that will probably be the first probably be the best foot forward for the republicans. Just because he managed to do this for a couple of minutes during a speech does not mean that will be talked about tomorrow, let alone next november. 2027488000 is a lie for democrats. 2027488001 is the line for republicans. We can also read your tweets. Lets talk about the tax bill that passed the house. Two different versions. With the president has something to find by christmas . Guest i truly hope so. People really do fundamentally think they pay too much in taxes. There is substantial room for reform. When we look at how this will work, there is a real opportunity to get a big win here and give back to the American People to put more money back in the pocket. And make the tax system simpler and fairer. That is a compelling message after a tough year. Guest we will see, clearly the republicans are about the win and very little else. If you look back in 1986, the last time we had major reform, and i dont think what we can call here is reform, it was four years in the making, plus, not to mention the types of senators and congressmen working on that. Said,e else in washington the team they had in the 1980s, the people who are playing right en theuld not of even ridd bench for that team. If you start messing around with health care, you are taking one little piece in the repercussions of that could be massive and no one is thinking through this because it is trying to get things signed by december, but they have to pass a continuing resolution to keep the governmentdac. Daca is on the table and they has a limited time left to get all this done. Could it happen . It could. But i still think they are facing odds to get this done by christmas. Host centre al franken has a new book out and he is not participating in the miami book festival after canceling friday afternoon. How does this story play out for him and his democratic colleagues . Guest we will see. Look, a lot comes home to roost for men and a lot of industries. Men are men. It is not just the republican or democratic thing. Men had been doing stupid things for a really long time, and now people are getting called on it and rightfully so. Frankention and how al has handled it is a stark contrast to what is happening in alabama. They are calling for an ethics committee. I am the sure what they are looking into. Honestly, he should probably step down and set an example of how this is how you handle poor behavior as opposed what we are saying, not only in the white house, but also what is happening in alabama. Host so you think he should resign . Guest honestly, yes. It is tough. It is something who i feel has done a great job as a unit senator and i believe in a lot of great job as a u. S. Senator and i believe a lot of what he is doing. But on the flipside, if a republican did the same thing, it would be easy for me to say, he should resign. But it is tough when you have donald trump in the white house. So if thou resigns in the still have trump who has admitted to sexually assaulted women with 12 women who have come out saying that he assaulted them, it makes it tough to look at al franken and say he should step down, but he should step down. Host do you think he should step down . Guest i was appalled by some of the imaginations that went on with them finding both of the last minute and i have always questioned the legitimacy. But you know, this is something that we hold our elected officials to a higher standard, and he clearly crossed the line that is not acceptable, and he should step down. Host at what point do you accept an apology and at what point do you say you should leave . Even the apology he gave the second time, to say, i remember it different way than you did, that is like saying, i am sorry you are offended. That is not a true apology. Lead with your wrong. Host during the debate lester, President Trump also apologized. During the debate last year, President Trump also apologized. Guest he never admitted what has gone on, but i am appalled that he behaved in this way, too. We ought to look at our elected officials to be leaders in a look for loopholes when they are accused of something. Tweetede president about al franken but not roy moore. Why . Guest he survey has personal know whatnd i dont the calculation is on one of the other. From my perspective, you know, if you are somebody in your 30s trying to the 16yearolds, that is unacceptable and harassing adult women is not acceptable. Both things are unacceptable. Ahead at 2018 and talking about the Alabama Senate race scheduled for december 12. Independent line. Good morning. Caller yes, good morning, steve. Think this judge roy moore thing should be put to rest with him resigning, even though the governor, a woman, still endorses him. As for democratic representative there, he doesnt seem too optimistic about the upcoming elections. And that could be because the Voter Suppression in arizona last election with, what was it . 180 polling stations being closed. And kris kobach and his Voter Suppression that went on in pennsylvania, michigan, north carolina, arizona. And it is just a shame to see democracy undermined by a man going on ined kansas and that is what is going on in this country today. Heart,e no one with any sensitivity, this tax bill is absolutely repulsive. Host bill, thank you for the call. Stefan hankin . Guest i agree with a lot of what he is saying, everything from that there is a clear systematic effort to try to increase hurdles to voting, and you know, the pattern is there. When polling stations get shut down, they all tend to be in democratic strongholds. We look atow, when the voter id, which has been proven to adversely affect voters who tend to vote for democrats. The big problem is the move past supporting oneparty or the other. This is tribalism and away. This is tribalism in a way. We are basically, we are revering false idols. If you are looking at a roy moore, saying it doesnt matter if there is a republican in that seat, that is a problem. Same thing on the democratic side. Not that it started with the president , but clearly, maybe the pinnacle of it. When you saw the things that he said on the access Hollywood Tape and a myriad of other things, as long as it is not clinton in office, i would argue that is a big problem and not a good thing for this country. Host Stefan Hankin a republican Brian Nienaber at the table taking your calls and your tweets. This is from jodey. If al franken should resign, roy should step down in trunk should notgn, too, if one is better than the other. Box . Thoughts . Favor ofwould be in the president making a full apology. I dont know the facts of all the accusers. He issued a much different apology, but for the current cases, i think al franken should step down. Behaviornk roy moores warrants him stepping down as well. Host will there be enough republican support. Senator johnson is against it at the moment and there is talk to senator bob corker is concerned about the impact on the debt. Guest the good part for the senate is mcconnell is a good deal maker. And i know members have concerns about things. Individual senators have interest representative states. There is a good chance he can pass the senate because i think theres always the opportunity in the senate for them to Work Together and figure things out. I think they can get something passed. Host Stefan Hankin, is a going to pass . Dont know,estly but it is fascinating to see what we are dealing with. We have a party with part of the platform being a constitutional amendment have a balanced budget, and now that is being thrown out the window. Now they have approved going into 1. 5 trillion more of debt. Lets just throw the kitchen sink in and tried to get 50 plus votes and tried to get this through committee, and try to get this done by christmas, all for a win. To brians point earlier, health care they have not passed them is of the have to have some its talk about a 2018. That seems to be the motivating factor, not having a deal, but getting something passed. They are just trying to jam this through and that is incredibly scary. They have 12 to 14 working days left. I have my doubts they can get this done by christmas, but i have been wrong before. Host i dont know the answer to wins the if doug jones Alabama Senate seat, election is december 12 and if the senate hasnt voted on his final passage, will he be seated before christmas . Guest that, i dont know. The senate has leeway when they actually seat people. Remember when i was a senate staffer, they tried to hold up a and therer a senator was a rally behind her to get her seated sooner. They have a lot of tricks in a bag if they want to get them seated sooner. Caller good morning. The republicans are toast. People visit their tax person and they find out that they are going to be paying a lot more in taxes the republicans are stuck in the middle and giving it to the top 1 is what they are doing. Wisconsin and i wont be able to take my property tax to my tax guy anymore and have him right off and have him write it off. My state and local taxes are out the window. I tell you what, once people get wind of this tax plan, people who pay between 60,000 and 75,000 are going to be paying a lot of taxes. Representative in wisconsin speaker of the house caller he want to get rid of medicare and social security. He doesnt believe in any safetynet. He wants a dog eat dog world for everyone. Only the rich can survive in his book. Host thank you, paul. All, there isf going to be a changing of how the brackets work for the tax plan and the people at the bottom will be paying less. More of your income will be exempted and taxed at 0 . And state of local taxes, that is a normal Public Policy that too many states have really high taxes, and say to their citizens, you can write it off. Taxpayers inng other states the ability to pay way too much. In wisconsin, they do run a pretty tight ship to be in the state of subsidizing other states. It is bad Public Policy and not a terrible idea to look at this not beand say, we should subsidizing people in states with high taxes. Premise of there tax bill is punitive, right . The blue states that voted for clinton will have to foot the bill to help other states. Meanwhile, the high tax states are talking about california, new york, massachusetts were all net givers. Regardless of european on the state level, though states are paying more regardless of your opinion on the state level, those states are paid more. They are taking more in. Now, they are trying to make that more extreme. It is no longer you get to do what you want. We are going to take even more money out of your pocket to pay for what is happening over here. When you look at everything, not everything, but a lot of things the are trying to change, it is punitive. It is trying to make people pay for behavior the republicans dont agree with. This from a party that used to have the Heritage Foundation used to say, look, there should be no social engineering from the tax code, and now were trying to penalize people for decisions that mistakes are being made and elected officials are making. Host Stefan Hankin and brian chuck from alabama, republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. All these accusations to get judge roy moore did not originate in alabama. They are coming from the Washington Post there. And the main woman accusing this man is a democratic activist. Alabama, we do not hear about this thing until it came out of washington, which basically shows this whole thing is democratically being pushed through. Has not beenn substantiated other than the smearing this are judge. I wonder if this stuff will ever stop . Host i assume you will a vote for roy moore . Is that correct . Caller that is correct. Host will the win on december 12 . Caller i think he will. The people in alabama dont let people in california are washington determined our destiny. Clear, andk very ,hen you get into these places it is a smear campaign. Host the birmingham news today came out for doug jones. Did you read the editorial . Any reaction to that . Caller i dont read the papers because there is so much garbage. All of these papers are controlled by the democrats. Host thank you very much from the call. Other two things alabama local papers have recent other alabama , there are a few folks from washington that would benefit for having another diehard u. S. Senator. For him to say that the for him to say that he believes the accusers and something drastic should be done, is a pretty strong statement. Uest agreed Mitch Mcconnell, paul ryan said something, mitt romney made the point same look, innocent until Proven Guilty works in court, but when there is a wellfounded look into these accusations, this isnt just anonymous women saying something. Their names are on these quotes and in these stories. Look, i dont understand how anyone can look at this and say, it is more important for me to vote for a republican and i am fine with someone who is a 32yearold dating a 14yearold is totally fine, supposedly if it is a man of god. Mindboggling that this is the point we are at. Host this is the editorial this morning, and a number of newspapers in mobile. The election is a turning point for women to make their voices heard in a state that has silenced them for too long. The accusations against roy moore are horrifying, but not shocking. Ifs has become a referendum we are going to accept this from our electorates. A vote for roy moore since the worst kind of message to alabamians. There is only one candidate left in this race who is proven worthy of the task, doug jones, the voter must make their voices heard. Tony in pleasantville, new jersey, democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning, steve, and also to your guests. I want to get away with sexual stuff. A couple of quick comments i have is referring to tax reform. I understand about the Corporate Tax cuts and they want to bring all the businesses back, but i dont understand how that is going to happen when they are paying those people pennies over there, and you know the American People are not going to work for pennies. Our cost of living is higher here. Host do you want to respond . Guest we have the highest Corporate Tax in the industrialized world. You have to assume that that policy encourages people to do silly things like incorporating other places. In thes not incorporated United States to dodge Corporate Taxes. Will lowwage manufacturing jobs come back here . Probably not. It is good to look at corporations and saying, you have a home here. Host with regard to that editorial, they say the people from alabama will decide and all others need to shut up. Making reference to the Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell. This is his take. [video clip] with regard to the alabama race, roy moore should withdraw. The women who left come forward are completely credible the women who have come forward are completely credible and his campaign is collapsing. From a Republican Point of view, it produces a dilemma because the ballots had been cash and i have spoken with the president , he called me from vietnam about this and i talked to general kelly on saturday and the Vice President yesterday. Obviously, we are in discussion this seatw to salvage if possible. And it appears as if the only option would be a write in. Seldomt is very successful, although we have had an example of that in 2010, Lisa Murkowski from alaska lost the primary. Ran a write in campaign in the general election, and actually won. I think the last people to do that with Strom Thurmond in the 1950s. So why did she win . She was totally wellknown and extending popular. And the name be most often discussed not be available, but the alabamians who fit that standard would be the attorney general, who is totally wellknown and extremely popular in alabama. Host he is the attorney general, so under the hatch act, he cannot participate in politics. Your thoughts . Guest i think he is right. The best option is to have general sessions resign. Host lets put that scenario on the table. s on theve roy moore ballot and you have Jeff Sessions in the campaign, does that split the ballot letting doug jones win . Guest there are a lot of republican saying that they are going to vote for roy moore because they cannot envision voting for a democrat, but if you have more democrats on the ballot, like in the case of Lisa Murkowski. Here was a reliable person in the republican party. She won. There is a real opportunity to say, if you are in republican but frustrated with someone who was done bad stuff, here is a better option for you. Host lets go to dean in south dakota. Good morning. Dean, are you with us . Caller number one, he was talking about the republicans and having time to get all of the things that the republicans are trying to get done. Does he remember when the Affordable Care act was passed by the democrats . And nancy pelosi says we dont know what is in the bill, but we will figure it out after it has passed. The senate had to vote on impeachment, all 50 of the democrats stepped up and said to mauls all right women. And also when you are using a in the office that was young enough to be his daughter, deed that set a good precedent in congress . Host thank you, dean. , it islooking back appalling and it is not how it should have been handled. End of story. I will remind the collar about health care that the health care process took over two years. Think there were 60 hearings and we will have zero hearings in the senate on the tax bill. Zero. So, if you are fine with that, i guess you are fine with that, an this is not exactly openended process. You know, it is a shame where most of the deliberate body in the world has come to that we are just trying to jam these things through, and not even take time to sears a think about it. Take time to seriously think about it. I dont think anyone is arguing that the Corporate Tax structure is perfect nothing could be changed. But the fact that they are not trying to reach across the aisle, and again, when you look at obamacare, i mean, amendments, discussions, hearings were all happening with republicans. But with this, it is shutting one side out. We saw what happened with the health care and we have to see what happens with the tax bill. Tot you made reference apples computer stock rewarding people for tax evasion. Are not evading taxes, they are behaving under the silly rules we have, but it would be better if we had rules that rewarded companies for relocating there could quarter here. Their headquarters here. To run a terrible way tax policy and it is a bad idea to have such a high Corporate Taxes you force companies to make silly things like incorporating an island and other places. Host sessions resigning and running for senate is liberal bubble mentality. ,lthough we should point now Mitch Mcconnell. Guest it is not unprecedented to have someone leave a cabinet post to run. Host this tweet is from rick who says al franken apologized. It was accepted. The matter is over. This is from Breitbart News and outgoing Arizona Republican jeff flake who is not seeking a second term, saying the leadership is toast. He said, if they become the party of roy moore and donald trump, we are toast. Guest yes. The parties have been shifting over the last, i mean, it is tough to argue to know exactly where it started, but this has been happening. Trump has accelerated this and moore is throwing more gas on the party, and the republican is holding on by a threat right now. And the democrats are, too, but we are not in the limelight as much. Sees impossible for me to how these parties hold it together for too much longer. And you will be saying whether it is these two parties we may be seeing for the first time Something Else that this is shifting because these coalitions cannot hold together. What is kind of scary from our viewpoint is we look at where were the shifts for child, en in france,e le p which is all this right wing, populism, kind of movements. You see education as the biggest predictor of whether support is going, so if you are College Educated, you are much more likely to be against the rightwing populism. If you are nonCollege Educated, you are more like the two before fear thatat is my there will be a College Educated party any nonCollege Educated party. That is a terrible thing for this country. The Washington Post focusing on the Alabama Senate race. Alabama digging in for roy moore. Shirley is joining us. Welcome to the program. Caller hi, this is shirley and i live on the outskirts of dayton. What i would like to say is this if we are going to treat everybody the same, let the democrats and the republicans used the same rules for each one. , justtake the roy moore an accusation and you are supposed to be innocent until Proven Guilty, and if you want to go that way, lets all go that way. But if you do that, when you put hillary and bill up there and you look at benghazi, and you look at the uranium deal, and you look at seth rich and that teenagers thrown on Railroad Tracks over a drug drop in arkansas when bill was there. Look at all the murders and all of the supposedly suicides that nobody can prove. Why dont we get in there and clean all of that up and just lay the cards on the table and let him fall where they may . I was a republican and nixon was guilty and i say she should of gone i say he should of gone. Lets do it in the senate, congress, and do the same thing, and i will cameron to you we will be down with half of the people in their. Get rid of all of the crooks have put the tea party in, lets go from there and stick to the constitution. Do the fair thing, treat them all the same, and as far as the sex thing, everything that do and and the clintons the chopper not the and the child pornography, they have all the money and then they left. Talk to the president of that country there. Host thank you, surely. Thank you, shirley. Guest innocent until Proven Guilty is the legal stance. I think we have to hold our elected officials to a higher standard if they can be convicted in a criminal court of law. These are supposed to be people we look to to guide the country through pretty tough times right now. When someone comes in and they have had such appalling accusations, it seems to be highly credible such appalling accusations that seems to be highly credible. From rhode island, jerry, democrats line. Good morning. Caller hello, good morning. I would like to talk about roy hannity, saying the two girls that testified against him proved he did not have sex with the other girl who testified against him. That sounds like an admission. Said, trump came out and i treat women like this, and i walk into the girls locker rooms when they are getting dressed, and 14 people came out and said i verified your story. That is heavy treated me. In his response was, they are all liars. Al franken made a mistake and thought something was funny. Repented, apologized, asked for forgiveness and did the christian thing. I dont think any of them is the same i dont think donald trump should be there. And i dont think roy moore should be there. I think they admitted something and people came out and said they did it. Thank you. Host thank you, jerry. Guest i tend to agree. With the roy moore, that is just bizarre i cannot wait until we can stop talking about this guy, hopefully. [laughter] guest hes a lawyer. He was on the States Supreme Court and he gives weird answers like dating 14yearold when i was 32 was not my typical behavior. What kind of answer is that . He is parsing his words in a way that i dont see how anyone find anything he says really credible. But its like look, even begin it a seat that we had no business getting in the senate, or we have roy moore in the u. S. Senate and the ads start writing themselves for 2018. Host in summerville, south carolina. Welcome. Guest mr. Hankin, you are completely disingenuous with why should they vote for roy moore to get them a seat . Whopposed to the democrats have been doing anything but obstructing Donald Trumps agenda since he got into the white house. This whole thing about we are going to have the elitist some educated party versus those uneducated drags out there who dont know how to work a shovel, hammer, and a male. In my experience, the people i have met in my life who know how to shovel a pile of crap into a bucket, have a lot more sense that anything that comes out of washington d. C. Host thank you. Do you want to respond . [laughter] seemed to statement target steffen hankin. [laughter] host go ahead. , there are a couple of points in their. Republicans are in control of everything, so to say democrats are thwarting trump, great. I will also point you to obamas eight years in office and it wasnt like the republicans were working with him. On the college education, i am not making the argument that if you are not College Educated, you should not have a say. I say clearly that this is a bad thing for the country, but if you look at the results in virginia, the biggest shift was among collegeeducated white voters. Again, this isnt just in this the unitedis is then kingdom, this is in the united kingdom, germany, france. For is a bad direction where we are going, but it is understandable of where the draw is with this conservative scum economic populism given for the economy is going, where the jobs are growing, but again, i think the outcome is a bar a the outcome is a very that they for the country. Host now do you want to respond . Tefan has made a good point that the college noncollege split is bigger than it has been ever before. Coalition onhave a college nonCollege Educated, which i think is to their benefit of having people from all perspectives. If we did get to a split where there is much more College People in one party and nonCollege People in one party, it is close to having a party by classes. We are in an interesting time. Are previous coalitions going to be frazzled as College People have a much less kinder view of President Trump and others. Host two shirleys call from earlier, shirley said he put out 10 lies in the world in a row. Lets go to tony from littleton, colorado. Ahead at the alabama special election in 2018. Good morning, tony. Caller good morning, and thanks for taking my call. Mr. Hankin, i appreciate your view of the parties from both directions, and i like your candor. I guess my comment as i have been watching this for years and and when ides now, look at the history, and looks like we went from one Bumper Sticker president , governor is a problem, now we have trump and make America Great again, and it is my generation. I am 57. The last of the boomers. It is my generation, we are the ones that were afraid of blaming themays, for taking our jobs, beginning 35 turning a range on to an Assembly Line anymore, so we have to look for someone to blame. My generation is here. My question is this i missing data that said millennials and that i have seen data say millennials and women are going to be a bigger part of the voter pool in the 2020 election. That thisbe the shift country needs to move away from my generation that has been so damaging to our American Democratic system . I would love to hear your comment. Host tony, thank you. Guest we will say. Being gauge meant among millennials the engagement among millennials and women is higher than ever before and started right after the election and inauguration of donald trump. Weve seen a handful of special elections in congress. The democrats did not win any, but a lot closer than they should have been. And so, we will see how that translates. Weary of a little whether or not this is a wave that is developing, or, i mean democrats will win seats if we dont give up as a party and packet in because we do not deserve to be a party anymore, but if you use the virginia results, if you look at the districts were democrats shifted and won and ended up giving thed up getting a net, overlap between congressional districts is next to none. The only area that democrats grew in the 10th district. It is not looking like it will make a discernible difference in any other district in virginia. If that is the case around the country, do we get to a majority of the party . I dont know. Even if more millennials and women vote. Selfsort it as a country and how the lines are drawn up for congress, i am still not there. Where the democrats are going to win back. Host this was in the new york times, beside despite recent the, gerrymandering dim hopes for 2018. Guest it is not just gerrymandering even though gerrymandering is terrible and both parties do it. December 10 that they dont. Lets not pretend that they dont. It is also where we live. Most of us Living Communities were 70 if not more share similar views on politics. To get competitive district, we would have to do more gerrymandering to make that even happen. We should absolutely reform the system, and the way it is done now is ridiculous, but i dont really feel that if the sum gerrymandering, that somehow we would have more than 10 competitive districts that we are dealing with these days. Carolina, fred, you are next. Thank you for waiting. Good morning. Caller good morning. Want to say to the democrat, hey, i am a lifelong democrat. I watch the republicans fight obama the whole way and now im watching the democrats fight trump the whole way. I hate him as much as you, but this resistance has got me and my company in the middle. Everybody hates the tax cuts inhibit the health care. It seems to me if you work with the crazy guy, we could get better. Now they are trying to do reconciliation on this and they are so limited. Family then we punch fingers at him. Us voters are caught in the middle. You have to do what you can for me. Resistance only helps the reelection, not benefiting me. Host what is your business, by the way . What is your business . Tile install a business. We were 52 employees before obamacare, and now we are 12. And i was good with obamacare, but i am paying for my neighbors and that is 2400 a month. I mean, come on. If you are poor, it helps you. I started out poor, so it gave me a leg up, but this resistance host thank you for the response. Point we have got to a where it is tribalism. The other people are terrible and we are not going to do anything that they want to do, and then vice versa. And certainly, this was not invented under obama and i would argue it was heightened under obama, but this has been going on for a while now. This is also a part of the reason why it is hard to imagine these parties can hold on for two much longer because at some point in time in my hope is that an adult party formulates to get things done. It is a game here. It is. We all play it. Talk about horse races. We talk about horse races. For your average american, this has repercussions. The way that business is done in washington right now is not, i would argue, really good for the country. Host ari, you are next in the republican line. Good morning. Caller i do for the opportunity, gentlemen. People need to know that it is not the leaders who are important, it is important stay united. One side was brought to the elections because they wanted change. The other side they came in from vermont, nibbles a lot of people he brought in. Mock, and he brought in a lot of people. These crooked politicians, when they take money, they literally bomb countries and make new countries for the workers, especially the Illegal Immigrants. They want to block the borders for the latins and fill our cities with islamists. A bomb European Countries to make the newest countries in europe, which are islamic countries. If you follow the history of islam, youre literally going to see that this is one, big game and they are using the land they took from nonmuslims to pay for all of this corruption. Guest i think there is a lot of middle ground. I have worked on Immigration Reform since 20 oh five for various groups, and it is very frustrating i have for the Immigration Reform since 2005 for various groups, and it is very frustrating. There ought to be some way to allow people to come here temporarily and work to deal with Illegal Immigrants and to be that close on all those premises and not be able to go to the finish line is incredibly frustrating. Host i want to go back to an earlier comment about a democrat from connecticut, and telling the news that as much as i am appalled from the actions of the oval office, i have to admire the president s ability to keep us talking about things other than jobs and wellbeing. If we keep falling for that, we will pay a huge, political cost. Hes a democrat. You agree . Guest yes. Not this on whether or is smarts strategy or done walk, but trumps ability to wake up in the morning and throw in a few tweets that gets everyone off topic is pretty amazing. Now, it works for good or for bad. When are a lot of times republicans should be talking about what is going on in congress to get everyone moving forward, and then the president will throw a Monkey Wrench in the entire situation, but he can change the topic in half a second, or it used to be one for two characters now. Im sorry, 280, even better. Ist i am not sure if it strategy or it happens. Ont and political reporting a big republican donor, according to his spokesperson, they will not be supporting Steve Bannons efforts. They are supporting Mitch Mcconnell 100 . To infer otherwise is wrong. You that was tell very smart, i think that is right. They are savvy, political people. I think steve bannon has a burn it all down strategy. If you are someone who operates a big business, trying to find solutions that make things better for american businesses, a burn it all strategy does not sound good to you. Good morning. Caller good morning. My good morning. Why were businesses, u. S. Businesses allowed to go overseas and the first place regarding the tax situation . And why arent they required, not asked, but required to come back to the u. S. . Thank you. Host thank you, pamela. Taxes are complicated. What the real situation is, it is not about taking jobs overseas. That is a separate issue. What is being talked about is bringing money back in the u. S. Has a bizarre system that other countries used to have but everyone has pretty much gotten rid of these, where you make a profit overseas, but do not bring the money back, you do not have to pay taxes. For a company with enough cash in this country, like apple, there is no reason to bring it back and pay taxes when you insider when it can sit accounts, whether in the caribbean, all these other random country islands in the english channel, so basic way, other countries handle it differently, where you pay a portion of taxes or if you pay taxes and make money in the u. K. But you are the pay taxes, you do not have to pay additional ones, so the money flows more freely. The argument is, companies will invest more and this questions whether or not they will, but i think all parties agree this is insane. We have to change this, but clearly, that isnt enough to get this working together. Host Stefan Hankin, if people want to follow you, how can they . Guest at lt strategies. Host and Brian Nienaber . Guest at Brian Nienaber host heres what attorney general Jeff Sessions said write it. [video clip] is a must accuse the act before i get started here, any russians . [laughter] [applause] anybody been to russia . Russia. A cousin in anyway. Host that was this past friday. Guest i worked the u. S. Senate for a long time and i can tell you senators can do a lot of things, but telling jokes is not one. Clearly, a bad joke, and probably not meriting the attention it got. Guest the fact we are joking about the fact that a foreign country was trying to influence our election speaks volume to d. C. Is now. Host the senate bill repeals the individual mandate. Some people like it, some dont. Lisa murkowski