guys. should happen next week. ed: doug mckelway appreciate the details. pete: not quite the postcard that kevin brady and others talked about but still a big win. rachel: i would say paul ryan is absolutely right. the final bill is better than the individual house bill, than the individual senate bill. i really think they did really take the best of both and put it there. nobody is going to be happy. tax reform is hard. if it was easy it wouldn t take 30 years to do it. ed: to your point chuck schumer says this is not going to help the middle class at all. guess what marco rubio pushed hard in the final negotiations to get a child tax credit bumped up to 14 $1,400 a year not the rich low tore middle class families who don t pay any taxes at all and were not going to get that credit because they were not paying taxes. they don t make enough to pay taxes now they are going to get credit. pete: let s not mince words this is a huge win for president trump and the g.o.p. when you set a red
he tells his story raising money for the organization. that, my friends, is an american hero. ed: that is really awesome. rachel: those are your headlines. pete: rick, give us your impression. rick: that was all for you. it is still cold outside right now. this isn t going to last very long. we will start to see a warmer pattern move in this week. if you have been annoyed by this cold here, it hasn t been that bad. it certainly is december here. it should be a little bit chilly here. we are also going to see at love moisture pulling in across parts of the south in through texas. get ready. that will set up the stable for a lot of rain across the south for a lot of this week. all right, guys. pete: come on over. we have help for you. viewers have noticed your voice. and endless source of wisdom for those of us in need. they are. pete: couple emails come in. jack daniels, hot tea with lemon and honey works all the time. rick: i like it.
package done, which he pledged on the campaign. it s a promise made. look, hillary clinton may not like the tax deal because maybe she has to pass her taxes. she has made her money off the backs of the taxpayers for the last 25 years. pete: hopefully they close those loopholes in the tax plan. rachel: at the risk of people saying in the audience she looks good in leather. i saw her close up in person and she didn t look good then. rachel: i tried to end on a positive note. let trump be trump, hillary u that s what happened. that s a positive note. rachel: thanks, corey. ed: corey lunged, thank you. rachel: turning four to headlines, the u.s. army special forces are now responding to one of their own. anonymous person alleging to be a quote green beret posting a harsh letter online the group s regular georgia s and credibility is slipping. military leaders say they are aware of the letter but stand by the unit s
hesitating on the ideas of a second special counsel. i have got to tell you and it pains me to say this a little bit. but i don t think the attorney general is up to the job that he is doing. he is absent from. this the reason there is a special counsel is because he had to recuse himself from everything. and i just, my own personal opinion, i think it s time for the attorney general to go. because you need leadership there, some deep systemic problems there. i don t think there should be a special counsel. how is the first one working out, right? that s not going so well. i put a lot of weight on michael horowitz, the inspector general, they have 450 employees working for the inspector general. they have been working on this in a year and a half. you haven t heard leaks. i think think will come up in the most definitive report in the january, february time frame. ed: i hear what you are saying up to the last part. these inspector generals as you know they play stall ball. a year and
rachel: boston university professor claims jingle bells is rooted in racism. ed: wow, professor saying the racial history of the song has remains hidden behind its local and seasonal affection. black face and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed of from its history. carol swain is the author of abduction thousand liberalism steals our children s hearts and minds. what a better book title than stealing christmas from our families? what if the world is going on? academia, we get rewarded for coming up with ideas and the more extremes. we know with jingle bells it doesn t matter how it was originally performed, what matters is that it transcends time and race and place. it s a christmas classic we all love it. why take it away? rachel: absolutely. pete: why the reflexive desire in academia but to go