florida, where the president has been spending his thanksgiving holiday for the last couple of days or so. of course, the president on this sunday evening heading back to the white house from washington, d.c., to get started on tax reform. and a lot of other stuff that he has to deal with in the next coming days leading up to the christmas holiday. so with that, as we take a look at these live pictures, let s turn now to what we re talking about. the republicans are going to return from thanksgiving break, as well, with a full agenda. and not a lot of time to get it done. first up, trump meets with congressional leaders this tuesday to review year-end legislative deadlines. the president and the gop are hoping to pass an overhaul of the tax code and the necessary spending bill needed to avert a december 8th government shutdown. the fate of that tax bill is in the hands of about seven republican senators, who have either opposed the plan or who remain undecided. joining me now are jeff
welcome to all of you. what is trump s agenda with congressional members this week? i think they re talking about what you just introduced, that tax bill, it has moved into the hands of the senate and republicans are eager to pick up from where the house left off with their own bill. and talk about strategy, talk about some of the details and talk about what happens next. you re right, there are a ha handful of senators who will determine the future of that bill, and president trump will no doubt weigh in on how to move it forward and how to get those particular senators to back it. seema, senator ron johnson was the first to take sort of a firm stand against the republican tax reform bill, but six other gop senators have cited issues with the plan, as well. and have not yet promised to vote for it. does this bill have a chance, do you think? i think it does. they re going to be under incredible pressure from both the president and their cla colleagues. they haven t had a big leg
hasn t been great. it is important to note, though, that the context of this first year of president trump s term compared to the first year of obama s term, there are a lot i think that president obama in the beginning of 2009 had 60 seats or so in the senate and of course, mitch mcconnell does not have that many. and it s much tighter, which is why every single seat is important, every single voice in that republican caucus matters. so, seema, on top of daca, on top of tax reform, on top of everything else that we ve been talking about, there is sort of this looming thing, as well, which is a possible government shutdown. do you think that s going to happen? i don t think so. i think they will actually pull it together. and also, just to add on the mitch mcconnell front, i think one of the things that for eight years, republican voters were really angry at president obama. they don t have anybody to be angry at. they don t have anybody to be angry at, so now they re ang
i m afraid that if there s any one thing that would cause the trump base to leave him, that is for him to grant amnesty and any kind of a deal when having such a strong campaign promise to end the unconstitutional daca program. republican congressman steve king in an interview this mer morning. this in regard to him crossing the aisle to broker a deal with democrats. joining me now, seema meta and josh dorsey. seema, we re seeing people burning their hats over this, but they knew he was wishy-washy from the beginning. why is this collaboration with democrats upsetting them so much? that s just his ardent supporters. above all he viewed himself as the consummate deal maker.
nbc s kelly o donnell. thank you. for more unless. seema meta, and heidi przybyla. another busy saturday shaping up. good afternoon to both of you. good afternoon. thank you. heidi, no one has talked no one talked after the meeting between fbi director comey and members of the senate intelligence committee, however, we have been talking about the fact that marco rubio sent out that tweet. what can we interpret from that? we can interpret the senators believe there is something there that needs to be looked at closer and that members on both sides are committing to this being a bipartisan process, with i which is good. remember, flynn and his ouster and the phone call is just one thread in this story which has been going on for at least six months. we have had, basically going back to trump s then-candidate trump s final news conference that we heard