you can see them there with the friendly greeting. we ll see how the rest of that conversation goes. at this point, they ve been speaking for about 20 minutes now. bide frn the white house, putin from his home in sochi. we ll bring you more as we find out. back in the u.s., senate majority leader chuck schumer says he s confident that democrats can pass their sweeping social safety net bill by christmas. but once again, two key democrats are skeptical they can deliver the bill to the president s desk by year s end. erica, i feel like we ve heard this story before. i was thinking the same thing, jim. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju joining us from capitol hill. you know that better than anyone. what is the thinking this morning? is there a real chance that democrats can get over that remaining hurd until the next two weeks? reporter: it s very slight. there s a chance but it seems highly unlikely according to multiple democrats just because of the proesz. they need
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candidate. lost in the tweets this morning, the republican tax plan. what s the white house saying about the prospects of that tax plan? we know the president s on a plane right now headed to missouri to try to sell it. reporter: he s on his way to month. he started this tax push in missouri for two reasons, one he wanted to get to the middle of the country and sell it to what the white house calls real americans, and the second thing is the white house is trying to put pressure on claire mccaskill, a democrat from missouri, a state president trump won handily in 2017. the folks feel confident the senate will vote on this tax plan by the end of the week and get it to the president s desk by year s end. geoff bennett. you have not been on with me at 1:00, so welcome to the team officially. good to have you on board. thank you. i appreciate that. let s bring in michael steele now, an msnbc political analyst. he s former chairman of the republican national committee. and adrienn
talk to your rheumatologist about humira. this is humira at work. this is a know or never moment. we come to the talking heads on tv and special interest who want to maintain the status quo or we can work together to seize this moment and do what the american people sent us here to do. paul: calling gop push to overhaul the tax code and now or never moment but for vulnerable republicans facing reelection in 2018 it could be a do or die moment as well as they look for a legislative achievement to run on, can congress deliver a bill to president trump s desk by year s end. let s ask wall street journal dan henninger, editorial page, kate bachelder oh dell and mary