Mark preston is up live with me now. Mark preston, why . Well, when it came to the issue of immigration, senator flake represents a state along the border and him and as well as senator john mccain did not agree with Donald Trumps vision of building a wall and others that he was trying to crack down when it came to immigration. Now, we should say this about jeff flake. A longtime member of the house, first elected back in 2000, this was his first term. He was elected to the senate in 2012, somebody who was a conservative conscience of the senate, in many ways, tried to stay true to his conservative beliefs but you have to wonder at this point, brooke, has he had enough . And weve seen that with bob corker, that he was going to step down after two terms. And could there be a door opening where they decide to leave the chamber or even across the capital in the house of representatives where weve seen republicans not seek reelection in 2018. Phil mattingly is with me and covers capitol hi
Get this thing done, to have it cost no more than 1. 5 trillion so they can pass it with a simple majority. So there are different plans on the house and the senate side. As we said before, with on the senate side, youve got the repeal of the obamacare mandate. Not included on the house side, on the house side, in terms of tax brackets, reduced to four income brackets. On the senate side, that is a little bit more expansive. Seven income brackets. On the house side, calls for a full repeal of the estate tax. A little bit different on the senate side, doubling the estate tax examination. A and then on the house side, reducing the Corporate Tax cut. And then on the senate side, delaying that and facing it out a little bit. On the senate side, well see wait until after thanksgiving for a vote on that. Theres still some questions whether or not they can convince folks who were against repealing obamacare, replacing that. Senator john mccain was one of them. He says, yes, he could possibly,
Everything and now i got to figure out where to go from here. And Harvey Weinsteins trouble going global. Police in london are investigating claims against Sexual Assault as one of his famous accusers speaks publicly about her claims. After many, many decades, what feels like many decades in this industry to have felt the support and the coming together of everybody this week, so thank you very much. We begin this morning with President Trump. Is he ready to make nice . The president set to meet facetoface with senator Mitch Mcconnell in just a few hours after blasting the majority leader over health care this summer and a whole lot of other things. Can these two men mend fences to get tax form through . Youre in luck. We have an Incredible Team here to kick off this busy monday morning starting with the white house and kristen walker. Vice president pence is also going to be attending todays lunch. Are are you kidding me . Whats at stake for the president . Trump loves these uncomfort
Quality of the candidate in the race, talking about roy moore, of course. He said this, if last nights election proved anything, it proved that we need to put up great republican candidates to increase the razor thin margins in both the house and senate. Implied in that was that roy moore was not a good candidate. Never mind the fact that the president defied all political advice from republican advisers here at the white house, on capitol hill, at the Republican National committee, and went all in for roy moore. He followed Steve Bannons advice, and that burned him today. Anderson. Do we know what was said between the president and doug jones in the call . Reporter anderson, were told that call, which came midafternoon or so, right before the president gave his tax speech from the oval office, he spoke with doug jones. He offered his congratulations we were told, and he talked about moving forward, working on this agenda, moving forward for the alabama people. Its interesting because,
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