important than the policies. at this point, republicans still really aren t even united on even this issue of tax reform. kelly, to you. what does speaker ryan, for example, need to do in the house to make sure that republicans essentially come together on this? because they really do need a win. it s fascinating. you know? the senate leader, mitchell mcconnell gave an interview in which he said we have to do tax reform for the republican party but the president he says has a different profoil on the party. maybe two or three republican parties right now. i found that striking admission of the sort of dissheention in e ranks. the mortgage interest deduction is something they want to get rid of and getting a big pushback from people like the homeowners association and some of their own donors, of course. i m thinking i personally, i m a
charged environment or could we break new ground here with this story? i think this last week, the administration has clearly undergone a big campaign to try to switch attention to this uranium deal, to the dossier and leaning to release the gag on the fbi informant was part of this. the problem is the news that broke on friday. because the big story here is the mueller investigation and i think when the news is officially released on monday, that is where attention is going to turn. so the republicans might double down and ramp up this investigation, but i m not sure that will be the most productive path for them. they are worried, the republican party, about what is about to come in the next, not just week, but few months, once these indictments start. so, kelly, the new york times, they spoke with donald trump s white house lawyer and he essentially said the
journalist in d.c. i can t afford to own my own house so why am i subsidizing people who do? the republican party are trying to represent so many people and they have their own interests. people who have the lobbyists, the ones getting to talk to paul ryan and his friends. your average american, they don t have a lobbyist in washington to help them out. so they are really debating on they have to pay for this somehow as well and, you know, trump has already taken 401(k) off the table. they really don t seem to have a very specific among and even amongst themselves, they can t agree on the details. kelly, thank you so much. as lindsey gram said, it s do or die for them so we will see how this shakes out next week. thank you both for joining us. thanks, rene. don t miss state of the union with jake tapper this morning. he is talking to senator angus
weekly standard. kelly jane torrence. he thinks president trump will try to fire mueller. what s your take? so president trump by statute can t fire mueller. the only person that can fire mueller is the attorney general and that person is now recused. so the only person who can by statute fire mueller is rosenstein. rosenstein said there is only one way to fire special counsel is for cause, if they ve made a misjudgment, miscalculation, anything like that. it strikes everyone that rosenstein would resign rather than fire mueller which would leave it to rachel brand who s the associate attorney general who s been on the job for three weeks. i think this is a lot of talk but it strikes me as being just that. i can t imagine in legal terms he would do this, that he can do this, and your other guest will
and i think it is a revolution, i think it s going to help the overall economy, and probably help president obama, even though he has very little to do with it. i ve got a headline in the wall street journal that says an energy boom in the u.s. is deepening splits within opec. ins a huge story for the u.s., there are three upsides for economic growth. one is the housing market and you talked about that earlier and the other would be vehicle sales picking up and the third, one we can count on the most is the energy story, it not only helps domestic jobs, the jobs come first and the energy later. it s the global oil shocks something that plagued the u.s. for decades. it s an important story. stuart: do you think we can get to 4% growth in a couple of years if the trends you re talking about keep going? i think those three would help and then you d have to take off the table, politically. the jobs are not there. the earning power is not there. it politically doesn t look g