indictments of the former president. look at the percentage of should be or should have been charged, you see it s all the same. it s 15 or 16%. it doesn t matter what he s charged with, most republicans believe he should not be charged in any of these cases and the numbers are consistent. that doesn t include the most recent indictment. it s the role for january 6th. without having read this. without having read this, it s beforehand, should she have been charged, 15%. you can see the numbers are consistent across the board. we polled previous before and after. even after they read the indictments, these folks minds haven t changed at all on any of them. how about the overall gap? if you look there s a massive divide in line between ru republicans and what you see here. amongst republicans this is the great dividing line in the
is this going to really make the customers happy enough to run on? i don t see that, brian. and i spent a good chunk of last week talking to republican lawmakers. a lot of whom said to me, we are having a really hard time selling this back at home. our voters don t believe this will benefit them. they believe it benefits corporations and the wealthy, but not their bottom line. so, unless the big turns out to be something dramatically different than the analyses have told us it will, republicans will have a difficult time running in 2018 and 2020 saying that they gave a big tax cut to working americans. two really smart guys to walk us through this really complicated 500-page-thick thing that was passed friday night. ali, jeremy, gentlemen, thank you so much. coming up, a national monument designated by president barack obama downsized by president donald trump. angering some native american
earners, but middle income earners use. their property taxes or their state taxes. a number of republicans, again, voted against the house bill and have said they will not support a bill that still has those deductions. the bottom line is there is very little political capital involved in taking away the state and local deductions when you re a senator because there are no senators from the places that are affected by this. so, those are the two things that are going to stand in the way. taking away state and local deductions and not satisfying some members that this is actually going to not be harmful to the deficit. senator corker was not convinced of this, which is why he didn t support the bill. they lost him. now, germanjeremy, we heard the president say christmas was found and it s coming back. he is calling this a huge christmas president to t christmas present to the american people. the question is are lawmakers going to go home and run on this? is there going to be pride an
talking about expulsion. he was saying, hey, you know what, you win this election, roy moore, you re going to face an ethics investigation, you re going to be expelled. now that is a very different posture. it suggests if roy moore does win this race a week from tomorrow, mitch mcconnell and senate republicans will say the people of alabama has spoken, that settles the matter. steve korn aki, fantastic stuff from the big board. thank you so much for being with us tonight. as promised we go to robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post, moderator on washington week on pbs also an msnbc political analyst. he s in tuscaloosa tonight covering this race. and, robert, what do you make of the number, the percentage of voters who are on the move, the vote that is migrating perhaps back and forth between these candidates, or do you think as steve seems to indicate, this is getting a little bit baked into the cake now? it s a significant move,
he has now fallen behind. maybe the bottom is going to fall out. maybe the floor is going to fall out for roy moore and he s just going to collapse. they weren t sure, they were keeping their distance. he didn t have mitch mcconnell sending the signals he s now sending. what happened since then? stabilization, this is not massive movement but i think it s significant. roy moore back into a small, but seemingly steady lead in the polling of this race. you see here about 2 1/2 points over doug jones. now, again, this is close, that is volatile. we are in uncharted territory here in a lot of ways. we re not sure who is, who isn t going to turnout for an election in the middle of december in alabama. so, this is not to say doug jones can t win this race next week. it is to say that republicans who two weeks ago thought roy moore might actually just fade out in this thing. they re now looking at it and they re saying, yeah, he absolutely can win. maybe he s the favorite to win and we don t