and so people may see a bump in their take-home pay but may not notice it or may notice these other things that are going on and they certainly are coming after medicare and social security next year. that to me, david, is there just is no by bik big takeawa there s no popular constituency for ryanism. yet here we have this bill that is a paul ryan special. when they come for medicare cuts next year, i think the politics of that are going to be even worse than this bill. i m not sure they re going to do it right away. interesting. i suspect that the revenue losses will be worse than the preliminary projections show and they ll wait until after the 2018 elections to do that. i ll tell you a headline we ll see in the future, it s going to be a profile of congressman lance, who you had on earlier in the show. and it will be the last budget hawk. last thing, five of seven
paying at the polls. democrat ralph northam won the governors race last month. doug jones won a senate race in alabama, of all places, a stubbing rebuke of the republican party. republicans say if they pass the tax bill, voters will learn to like it. but will that gamble pay off? joan walsh and david cay johnson author of it s even worse than you think, what the trump administration is doing to america. david, let me start with you. as someone who covered taxes and tax policy for decades, what do you think the politics of this bill look like? well, the bill should be wildly unpopular as the polls are showing at the moment but i think the republicans have actually done something very politically wise here. a lot of people who have seen their wages slipping over the last 15 years are going to now have $20 or $40 a week more after-tax income because of this bill. unless they connect that to in the future they re going to come
explained a lot of people focusing on this issue. of course he didn t know. there s no way. we re going to do a lot more felix sate on the show, we want to give you the little tease since teasing is the theme of the day, we ll do more on this and these three folks will be back to do more of that on another show. tamara and david, david cay johnson will be back later in the hour. coming up in the next hour, a republican congressman is here to tell us about trumpcare and the he man woman hater s club is back. more a.m. joy after the break. [vo] what made secretariat the greatest racehorse
so the returns are the beginning a stage in the process, but it s the books and records that really need to be gone after. the state of new york has plenty of authority to audit his books and records right now. and final quick question, david cay johnson. since receiving the anonymous material. have you gotten hints or dribs or drabs of more coming your way? i have not. one always hopes. i have always published my home address for the last 50 years, and occasionally people send me things. they usually turn out to be good stories when they do. could be a new segment we have. you ve got mail with david cay johnson. david, brad and david, thank you so much. appreciate it. ahead, she cob the kuld be witness in the russia inquiry tomorrow. sally yates breaking her silence. up next i am joined by chris matthews hosting the live coverage of president obama receiving the profile of courage award at the jfk library.
anything other than him just signing an executive order, they haven t been able to execute really anything, it seems. daniel, i want to talk to you today about the tax issue for this reason. rachel maddow got her hands through david cay johnson on those two pages of the 1040 from 2005 and to me it s sort of focused the attention on the fact that everyone is going to file in less than a month and the fact that this white house the one document that would let us know what the status of conflicts are, and this is something he did not discuss tonight as far as i can tell, those tax returns are not going to have the excuse they have for the other ones, that it s under audit, right? well, that part is true and in theory he should be filing the financial forms that are required of candidates as swollen to in addition to the tax forms, we should be seeing additional ones as well i don t know, though, that s going to give us the confidence we need even if we do get those documents because