days there. we have a cure en route. i ll see you in manila. jon: enjoy your travels with the president coming to us from china. melissa: here at home the house ways and means committee expected to finish its mark-up of the gop tax bill soon. with senate republicans preparing to unveil their own tax legislation. meanwhile president trump weighing in referring to the senate plan the wall street journal reports he told democrats in a conference call you ll like it a whole lot more. joining me is bob cusick editor and chief of the hill. what do you think democrats will like more about the senate plan versus the house plan? well, i don t think democrats are going to get on board with this bill. it will be different than the house bill and they ll unveil it in the next hour. there will be differences on the state and local tax deduction as well as home mortgage deduction. this will be a different bill. if it passes the house and senate they will have to
he can t possibly vote for that. that makes sense if you re a republican. that s right. the republican leaders are saying listen, we re raising taxes in some areas but overall we re doubling the standard deduction. overall that most people are going to get a big tax cut. but there is a lot of confusion, there has been some analysis from different think tanks and cbo and joint committee on taxation. a lot of questions about what this would do for middle class families and that s where the p.r. battle begins. melissa: i don t know what postcard. what we ve seen so far is fitting on. it doesn t seem like that s happening yet. there is still time. a lot of debate left. bob cusick, thanks for joining us, appreciate it. jon: vice president pence visiting texas to comfort a community in mourning. he participated in a vigil last night honoring the friends and neighbors lost when a gunman opened fire in a church.
office and he relates more to working-class americans than hillary clinton, mitt romney, many, many, many others. that is right, trish. mitt romney didn t want to talk about his wealth. president trump and candidate trump love to talk about his wealth because he s successful. he s hiring people who are successful develop the government. that was smart politics and that s why he won. trish: i don t think any americans resent that. americans want to see people prosper. and they want the opportunity to prosper themselves. it s an important message. you got to keep hitting it. we ll keep hitting it on fox business. bob, thank you so much. that is all we have time for this evening. tomorrow, we ll be talking about dow 23,000 and a whole host of other things on my show, the intelligence report at 2:00 p.m. eastern on the fox business network where i am
billionaire, more money than anyone else overhead to run for office and he relates more to working-class americans that hillary clinton, mitt romney, many, many, many others. that is right, trish. mitt romney didn t want to talk about his wealth. president trump and candidate trump love to talk about his wealth because he s successful. he s hiring people who are successful develop the government. that was smart politics and that s why he won. trish: i don t think any americans resent that. americans want to see people prosper. it s an important message. you got to keep hitting it. we ll keep hitting it on fox business. bob, thank you so much. that is all we have time for this evening. tomorrow, we ll be talking about dow 23,000 and a whole host of other things on my show, the
good news under their trump administration. joining us with reaction from washington is bob cusick, editor and chief for the hill newspaper. i know i m a business reporter, but 23,000 is a big, big deal, and the network evening newscasts completely ignore it? yeah. that s right. this is something on the president has talked about. he should talk about it. honestly, most voters care far more about the economy and tax reform than any russia investigation. this is something that i do think that some of the media have been antagonistic towards trump and not give him credit no matter what. but it s something that he needs to keep talking about because as we get into an election year, this is important. this is what people vote on. trish: it s not even that they don t give him credit. bob, it seems as though they are deliberately ignoring these important pieces of news. i mean, this is a major news headline.