Coming to life from what has been an extraordinary day on both ends of pennsylvania avenue. It began this morning with an exchange of nasty tweets between senator bob corker and trump and intensified this afternoon with the announcement from frequent trump poetic senator jeff flake that he will not seek reelection next year. So much for a day that was a buster center around a relaxed working lunch. We have coverage tonight. Well talk about whats in the tax plan and what we know is not as of tonight. But we start off right here with john roberts and the republican on republican rhetorical violence. It was really unbelievable but it was another day and another extraordinary moment in the trump administration, something that i have never seen before. A senator rising in the senate to rip his own partys president. I rise to say enough. It was a stunning scene in the senate. Arizona republican jeff flake who faces a tough reelection next year it took to the floor to say he is retiring and i
you ve talked about that many times, we ve talked about that. but there are people here who say that the gross is not going to make up for the numbers, that you re going to add to the deficit and debt in this plan. i just happen to think they are wrong. we ve got a chance here to grow the economy. we talked about this before, the chance to grow an american economy 3%, were already at 3% right now without this tax bill having passed. if we can get about 3%, the amount of money that generates to the treasury is fantastic. it could be two and a half trillion new dollars to the government. americans get wealthier, everyone gets richer, and so does the american government and that s how you close that deficit gap. there were some lawmakers in kansas who said the same thing. that a big tax cut. dina sykes said proponents of the planned use dynamic scoring predicting incredible economic growth. today we know which forecasts were correct. they may have paid less than