tax reform is it. but i think it s a problem in more ways than one. not the least of which is the fact that tax reform isn t as mobilizing as gavel newsing an issue for the republican base. it may excite their corporate interests and their donors, but where s the villian in tax reform? the republicans always do best when, like with obama care, they had a very clear enemy. and someone they could go against. and that s just not the case with tax reform. i don t know where that ground swell of grass roots energy comes from on this issue. i don t know, mike, barnicle, that will will be a ground swell, for support on tax reform, but i do know that there are a lot of small business owners, mid-sized business owners, large business owners that believe that the corporate tax rate should be cut in america because it makes american businesses less competitive across the world.
what are you hearing? reporter: tax reform is something they want to do. they need some wins on the scoreboard very soon but before they get the tax reform they have a couple issues they have to grapple with. by the end of april they have to fund the government, a controversial issue and raise the debt ceiling this summer, you can see where you get a conflagration by another artificial timetable the treasury secretary laid out, trying to do tax reform by august but they have to get through the first two fights of funding the government and raising the debt ceiling and talk about paul ryan, trent lott, former majority leader in the senate, when you get into leadership you gather barnacles. paul ryan gathered a barnicle yesterday but whether he can shake those barnacles and pile through tax reform, keeping government open, raising the debt ceiling, these are tough issues, the good thing about tax reform from the republican perspective is they can get some democratic votes.
at sane progressive they were posting the same warning. at bernie sanders is my hero, the administrators there were posting their own version of the warning basically saying something is happening here that is not native to our community. they were warning that these bogus postings were developed to be appealing to berners, to bernie sanders supporters, but they were not from an american or bernie supporting point of view. example, running the facebook pages in support of him by and large they were trying to stop this when they realized what it was. we see the evidence of that now looking back at it but even they seem to have realized their sounding the alarm was futile. people couldn t hear it. a few days before the election, john maddes posted got all that get news from this page, be advised that groups from macedonia have planted fake headache stories about hillary.
reporters in his life and here he is with andrea mitchell. it way more than he s prepared for. andrea mitchell will be a barnicle on him like he has e r never seen before in his life. she s going to the biggest tillerson word count of anyone. well, dronald trump, big, scary donald trump, every republican member of congress was supposed to be afraid of crossing donald trump, of disagreeing with donald trump because he would tweet them to death instantly or, if necessary, fly into their district in air force one and terrify them into voting any way donald trump wants them to vote. that just isn t working for donald trump. we had a great meeting and i think we re going to get a winner vote. i m not sure. i n ink ther are the votes. we re going to have a real
extraordinary figures in america. so when we think about courage in the 21st century, courage is not being unafraid to have a negative story written about you or have people say nasty things about you, courage is the willingness to stand up for your principles no matter what the consequences may be. you know, mika, after barnicle started doing this show, ted kennedy called him one time and said, barnicle, you look like he goes, you look like you just fell into a tub of butter, which was his way of saying you lucky dog. right? marco rubio looked like he just fell into a tub of butter. little i ll give you little. i have a vote. i have a vote for you. i ve got a vote and a voice. and it s a vote no. yamiche, this is one thing the president-elect is going to be learning as he goes forward.