dana: judge roy moore cruised to victory last night in the primary runoff in alabama giving a major victory to the populist movement fed up with business as usual in washington, d.c. president trump campaigned for judge moore s opponent in the race but still seems happy with last night s election results. he came a long way and ran a good race. roy ran a really great race and i know what they did with mitch, they used him in the campaign. he worked hard and i m sure things will work out.. dana: joining us from washington for reaction is rick cline, political director for abc news. how does washington feel what happened in alabama last night? a localized situation or does it foretell something else? it s a big deal. the disruption has only begun. the idea that trumpism canit defeat president trump has huge ramifications for the 2018 landscape and for what goes onon in president trump s head when he is thinking about how he will conduct himself politically. the fact he chose the
mcconnell certainly andd governing implications to that and trusting his gut more about primarily challenges in the next couple months and through 2018. dana: let me ask you about that. he didn t have to endorse anybody in the alabama senatete race. would it be smarter for him to hang back, let the primaries play themselves out and then get involved in the general election?ng i think he is going to seene this actually in an opposite way. there was an opportunity here to lean in on the forces that propelled him into office and if you try to hold that back it will be counterproductive. that s the part he is regretting. if he had gotten behind roy moore from the start he would look like a big winner now. in a sense it will mean he will be unleashed and potentially joining forces with steve bannon going forward. i don t think you ll see many times where they are working at cross purposes in the future. i do think that president trump has lessons himself to learn out of this.
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the earlier iterations of healthcare. the problem for this president, though, the clock is ticking. the pressure is on. there is just over 30 legislative days in the year fo. him to get taxes going. i thought it was interesting senator bob corker of tennessee announced he won t run for reelection has a habit of giving people truth serum and sayingd things they might not have said before.ti if you think healthcare was tough it will be child s play compared to getting tax cuts through. it s a heavy lift. dana: thank you so much. let s bring in ari fleischer,an press secretary in george bush administration and the person who i first learned tax policy from. you were at the ways and means committee way back in 1995. what do you think about the substance of today s policy? i like it. i like it a lot. echo of ronald reagan s 1980s reforms. does it provide economic growth for all americans? if our economy keeps growing at 1.5% it did for the eight years
the biggest hurdle for the president may be taking on what he called the swamp in the campaign. the moneyed interests in washington who want the status quo for the tax.e the wall street journal reminding us today there are over 4,000 tax lobists right here in the capital. they want to keep their deductions to help their industries. dana: tax reform to me seems different. he has given a couple of speeches on it. this is the big meaty policy piece. the plan is to keep putting him on the road.an a few weeks back when the hurricanes first started hitting that he began this campaign in the middle of the country in missouri. now he goes to indiana. vice president penn s estate. he is going to the heart of the country selling it directly. you re right. he has his fingerprints all over this in a way he didn t have in