steel, msnbc analyst and former head of the rnc. i thought he was talking about his campaign, i m sorry. that s right. i thought in the new my bad. in the new humanization of mitt romney where he talks about his family and spouse and time as a mormon missionary. that was the eureka moment. he was in a town of 250,000 and for five months didn t sign not sign, convert anybody. and said, you know, i learned to perseve persevere, it didn t affect me. this is why this guy is able to withstand months and months of people saying we re not going to put a ring on it, we re not sure if you re the guy. i thought it was telling. training for political rejection. it really is. absolutely. i just blov the blitz where he s trying to go out and convince people that are humans because most humans don t have to convince people that they re human. oh, bill burton. does it work? does the humanization push work? i think it does. sure, it does. because everyone has these
whether the president was mentally fit and competent enough to be in office. so, certainly, an attempted win for the white house with that to show that the president can negotiate with lawmakers on a substantiative level. well, it was at the very least very fascinating to see yesterday. kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you so much for that report. we have a lot to discuss. i want to bring in david drucker to break it all down for us. he s a cnn political analyst and a senior political correspondent for the washington examiner. so, david, what did republicans on capitol hill take away from this meeting yesterday, because the president and, quite frankly, a lot of white house officials, sounded pretty squishy on what they wanted. right. and so i think that republicans in congress are still going to try to negotiate some sort of a bill that they can actually pass. and what they still don t know entirely is what the president is willing to sign or what he won t sign. and i d
could sign this would be sometime next week, which would involve putting the bill on an airplane, flying it down to him in mar-a-largo, having it sign i m and fly the bill back up to washington. that i m sure would be frowned upon by some members of congress that would call it a needless waste of taxpayer money. the most likely scenario is the president will wait until he and congress gets back probably january 2 or 3 and have a massive signing ceremony to codify this to law. the president praising the house for passing this bill tweeting out congratulations to paul ryan, kevin mccarthy and steve scalise and kevin brady and a all the house republicans. the top rate is coming to 37%. the corporate rate will be 21%. the pass-through tax will be less than 30%.