charlie salvage and msnbc contributor. pam molini, mother jones. you heard him say all of the components in this deal are new. is that true? well, as we just heard, not really, but there s enough wiggle room that gives the white house an argument that this is more than a deal that allowed trump to get out of the mess that he had gotten into with the business community and his own party over the tariffs which would have had disastrous economic impact including in texas. an expansion of 600 troops for an agreement and put 5400 on the border to guatemala to 6,000. that s not nothing. i don t understand myself how much of an expansion to this existing program on asylum people staying in mexico while the cases are adjudicateadjudic. if the numbers are similarly sized, this seems like a very
thank you. with me herald ford jr. and our panel joining us for the hour white house reporter for the associated press jill colvin and author of power wars charlie salvage. talking about tax reform and there seems to be perhaps a hard lesson learned by this white house. that what didn t work with health care was bringing in some of these outside groups trying to get some momentum behind the plan before rolling it out. it seems as though they re taking a very different tack on tax reform having learned those lessons. will it work? i know they hope so. i think there are a number of democrats who would love to see some serious changes to the tax policy. i think in addition to bringing in some of the outside groups, i think this new strategy that kristen talked about that may be emerging around health care and mr. mcconnell and other leaders in the party are reaching out to democrats to do something in a small way to shore up the