got the gist of what you re saying. it s cold. snow day for bill. may have been right about the high winds. only predicted 4-6 in new york and we got a heck more than that. did i say nine? no. you said four to six yesterday. i didn t say nine. calling bill out. i have to check the tape on that one. check that frozen screen behind you. still ahead. potential high level talks between north and south korea taking a big step forward. pyongyang s decision to accept the talks. what that could mean.
hardball roundtable. tell me something i don t know. mitt romney, the 2012 republican presidential nominee, is interested in a senate seat in utah. the problem is orrin hatch is still in it. the president went out to endorse hatch yesterday. yet still some republicans would like to see mitt romney run even if hatch doesn t retire. oh, just go for the top prize. by the way, trump does not want that guy in his senate. ginger? the republican party lost a talking point they were hoping was going to come in today, the mueller investigation put their first bill out, cost $3.2 million. a lot less than many thought, $5 million or $10 million. that means they re not going to be able to complain like they were about the cost of the investigation. the rich can handle the pocket change here. the retiring representative john conyers set off a family feud within herewith party, body his son john conyers iii is running for the seat, but his great nephew ian conyers is also running respect
ainsley: what is your reaction to that? senator flake is not running for reflection. he clearly doesn t support the president. then susan collins she has healthcare that she is concerned with in her state. i m very happy that senator collins is coming forth now and expressing some of the ways she thinks that the bill-out the final bill can be improved, including leaving in some of those provisions from the house bill that she says she personally prefers. we prefer to have those conversations and those debates now than just have somebody show up and be a no vote. that s why the president himself went over to congress last week. that s why my colleagues and i are there nonstop out in the things out. bringing the case to the persoamerican people. taking their input and ideas and reflecting that in this bill. in the end, especially with people like senator johnson who is concerned about small businesses, it comes to explain to me what s in there for small businesses? 25% rate? the lowe
ought to be investigated and charged with anything. back in that famous july 2016 speech as an example. steve: absolutely to. name other things as well. before did you go, got to ask you, the president is of the united states is heading back to the united states. he has some big announcements tomorrow. did he tweet out something about he is going to be happy to see y all working on tax reform. what is the status there? do you feel that the senate is going to pass something? the senate finance committee that i used to chair and now a member of will have a bill out by late thursday afternoon or evening. the house had theirs out of ways and means last week. the house will pass a bill by thursday or friday of this week. so it s halfway through the congress by the end of this week. the week after thanksgiving the senate will be taking it up. we will pass it within one week. it will go to conference between the house and senate. we have a bill to the
house in conference. the senate had a giveaway here. because the problem is for the house, to have all of these numbers from the states but there s not a single member state in the republican caucus in the senate. so they didn t have to worry about that as a political issue. but it is a big concern for the house republicans and so probably what you see as a compromise, something along the lines of how the or where the house was heading anyway. okay. but is the big picture here that this is the members of both houses now really on board to pass something? this is not the same kind of dysfunction we have seen at least so far in healthcare and then this has real momentum behind it. yes.the stories that came out this week showing the differences between the two bills, they matter. but the big story was the remarkable progress that was made. the house ways and means committee passed this bill out,