cuts in 2009. people didn t really feel it. george bush passed tax cuts in the early 2000s. people didn t really feel it. those tax cuts were far larger than the pittance in the first couple years of this tax plan. neera, president trump said just today this is the biggest tax cut in history. said it repeatedly. once again, once again, he was wrong. obviously reagan had a biggest tax cut. this is a pretty large cut. the obama extension of the tax cuts, the bush tax cuts in 2013 were numerically bigger. the bush tax cuts. norm, it is kind of fascinating and all the time that you and neera and charlie have been watching politics, never maybe i don t remember a time when people could lie with this sort of impunity. when the facts i mean, you see me every day and i try to explain to people what s going on in the tax bill and then the president says something entirely different. at some point, norm, either the 66% that neera s talking about are going to just stick to the fact th
republicans, mitch mcconnell and president trump said today they want to work with democrats. something they chose not to do when passing their tax bill and trying to pass their health care bills. without a single democratic vote. here s what they said. i really do believe and i said on social media today, i believe we ll have a lot of bipartisan work done and maybe we start with infrastructure because i really believe infrastructure can be bipartisan. i don t think most of our democratic colleagues want to do nothing. and there are areas i think where we can get bipartisan agreement. all right. joining us now is charlie cook, editor and publisher of the cook report and also neera tan den, president of the center for american progress and norm orion steen, a congressional scholar and the coauthor of one nation after trump. welcome the all three of you.
explain to people what s going on in the tax bill and then the president says something entirely different. at some point, norm, either the 66% that neera s talking about are going to just stick to the fact that the president s wrong or his base is just going to continue to believe he s right. where does it end? i want to give you props to you and stephanie ruhle and almost only ones to track this and showed what was in the as it went along but, you know, we live in an era where the authoritarian and autocratic notion to turn truth on the head and try to simply ab secure what reality is, is an era upon us and pushed by the administration. before we go, though, ali, another factor to bring into this that ties into the election. lindsey graham said the checkbooks will be closed and dark money is a major factor here. now we see a huge sum put in by
trying to pass their health care bills. without a single democratic vote. here s what they said. i really do believe and i said on social media today, i believe we ll have a lot of bipartisan work done and maybe we start with infrastructure because i really believe infrastructure can be bipartisan. i don t think most of our democratic colleagues want to do nothing. and there are areas i think where we can get bipartisan agreement. all right. joining us now is charlie cook, editor and publisher of the cook report and also neera tan den, president of the center for american progress and norm orion steen, a congressional scholar and the coauthor of one nation after trump. welcome the all three of you. norm, i start with you. you wrote a book 11 years ago and the subtitle was how congress is failing america.
think. and mostly corporations and the reality is in my view, barack obama passed middle class tax cuts in 2009. people didn t really feel it. george bush passed tax cuts in the early 2000s. people didn t really feel it. they were far larger than the pittance that are in the first couple of years of this tax cut. neera, president trump said just today this is the biggest tax cut in history. said it repeatedly. once again, once again, he was wrong. obviously reagan had a biggest tax cut. this is a pretty large cut. the obama extension of the tax cuts, the bush tax cuts in 2013 bigger. the bush tax cuts. norm, it is kind of fascinating and all the time that you and neera and charlie have been watching politics, never maybe i don t remember a time when people could lie with this sort of impunity. when the facts i mean, you see me every day and i try to