donald trump knows his verbal abuse will no longer be tolerated. his empty chair photo op showed he is more interested in stunts than addressing the needs of the american people. poor ryan and mcconnell relegated to props. sad. what happens with tax reform? the president optimistic it will get through the senate. it looks good but they are taking it a step at a time. if it passes the senate, then to the conference committee to reconcile it with the house version and back to both houses. if it passes there it hits the president s desk and we have tax reform. sandra: john roberts, thanks. bill: heard a lot of ifs in there. sarah sanders, live here. you can throw a dart on the board. there is a lot to get to on her. sandra: her latest tweet she sounds optimistic. bill: how far was paul ryan sitting away from the president yesterday? much more coming up on that. sandra: meanwhile top republicans were determined to
i don t see a deal! you saw the back-and-forth. house minority leader tweeting donald trump now knows his verbal abuse will no longer be tolerated. his empty chair follow-up shows he s more interested in stones than addressing the needs of the american people. poor ryan and mcconnell relegated to props. sad! using a tweet, sad. signature. bret: it was a bit of a back-and-forth but they have to keep the government running. tax reform vote is coming soon. to keep the government open, you need 60 votes and that means you need democrats. this whole thing was a bunch of ridiculous political theater. did he really think chuck schumer and nancy pelosi were going to sit on either side of him in that meeting? no. they re going to have to talk to each other because the government can t stay open without democratic votes in the senate and probably in the house
in case you missed it, the artist won best actress, best picture and best director. best actress went to lovely and amazing meryl streep. she had a wonderful pore trailer of margaret thatcher in the iron lady and as we just saw, comedian sacha baron cohen made good on his threat showing up in character and he did quite a splash when he did that. not in a good way. he spilled what he said were the ashes of north korean dictator kim jong-il on ryan seacrest. talk about the last guy that would be really cool about it. he was cool about it but he s a little pretty boy. he likes his hair perfect, his clothes perfect. poor ryan. what was he supposed to do? i literally said he was in shock. a lot of people were debating maybe the wardrobe malfunction that jennifer lopez got. that s getting a little play.
they ve been all talk and no action. and now it s even worse, now, it s not even talk. do you believe there will be a government shutdown? if that happens, we ll absolutely blame the democrats. if it happens it s going to be over illegally pouring into the country. crime pouring into the country. no border wall which everybody wants. i got elected partially because of the border wall. you look at the military, we want strong funding for the military. they don t. so many things. as an example, they want high taxes, we want cut taxes. all right. the president predicted that the missile launch in north korea would change the democrats minds but nancy pelosi reacted on twitter, donald trump now knows that his verbal abuse will no longer be tolerated. his edge chair photo op showed he s more interested in stunts than addressing. poor ryan and mcconnell relegated as props.
differences. they are weak on crime. they are weak on illegal immigration. before this meeting and before this missile launch, they have been weak on military in terms of spending. they are very hard to get the military. they want it for a lot of other things but the military is always secondary to them. the other thing is they want tax increases and we want major tax decreases, so they decided not to show up. they have been all talk and they have been no action. now it s even worse. now it s not even talk. sean: can you think of one thing nancy pelosi, chuck schumer have done to help since donald trump was elected? now, nancy pelosi tries to fire back at the president tweeting out, quote: @ real donald trump well he now knows that his verbal abuse, you are going to call that verbal abuse? will no longer be tolerated his empty chair photo op. shows he is more interested in stunts than in addressing the needs of american people. poor ryan and mcconnell