confronted the russians in syria, for example, u.s. command commandos pitched battle against russians mercenaries. the u.s. position has been very robust and this is an opportunity i think for president trump to stand up to vladimir putin. the russians are not our friends. they re not our partners. they re our adversaries. and president trump must project real strength and determination in the face of what is america s biggest ad adversary on the word stage. liz: also, thank you so much. leland? leland: welcome back to traverse city and the shores of lake michigan. we keep waiting for the blue angels. they will be here in a minute. we re monitoring all the rallies underway across the country under the banner families belong together. those have certainly made a lot of noise over the past couple of hours and the new hashtag,
member who s are looking to get to yes. we re going to pass the bill. reporter: but it s in the senate where a pitched battle has broken out between democrats and republicans over late-night changes to the republican proposal. it addresses problems noted by members on both sides and it will give americans bigger paychecks, more opportunities and a moore prosperous economy. there a summary anywhere? i mean, we got 100-page document and a table, but surely somebody on the majority side has a list has an aabbreviated list that you made. what is making you do this do us? reporter: at the heart of the fight, whether middle class taxpayers will actually see relief in the bill. republicans now relying on the repeal of obamacare s individual mandate to finance just that, $338 billion to target things like an increase in the child tax credit and reduction in the plan s rates for middle income
he s interested in openness. that the white house is cooperating. he s basically saying the white house is obligated to comply with requests and he is complying with them. turning over e-mails, making witnesses available for interviews and so forth. if we were to have, say, a steve bannon universe defense team where the white house in essence went to war with bob mueller, that could lead to some very interesting results. as we ve seen the last couple days, mueller is playing for keeps. indicting without first speaking with defense counsel and it could become a very fierce, pitched battle if the defense strategy inside the white house changes. and it has been to cordon off certain individuals. also, take a listen to him speaking with chris hayes.
they want it to be more like president trump not less. that s a legitimate struggle over what it means to be a republican. it will be a pitched battle. it s going to cost them support, distract them from what the president says he wants to do. tax reform is one of the hardest things to do in washington. it just got harder. you need everybody pulling in the same direction for a year to get that done. you can t also carry on a guerrilla war against your own party. it s just not going to happen. shows he s not fit. he doesn t even know how to do the math. it s just not going to happen right now. will corker support that tax reform? no. he was saying before all this that it s impossible to do. is he going to give him benefit of the doubt on really bad elements in this tax policy? no. it s not going to happen. also there s a lot of pushback on the state and local tax deduction elimination, principle source of revenue for the tax bill.
world trump came of age in? even worse than that. his father, remember, was arrest in the 1927 flfs a pitched battle between kkk in hoods and the police. trump makes the point that his father wasn t prosecuted. he was only arrested. trump flird with a run for president as the reform party candidate. that was ross perot s party. he denounced him as a neo-nazis. what do you see as the biggest problem with the reform party? you have david duke just joined, a bigot, a racist. these are not the people you want in your party sflfl so here s the thing i m a little confused on. if you go back in time, donald