talking tack cuts with senate republicans. while the top senate democrat warns the plan is going to hurt the middle class. with any more changes, it s virtually certain you will be voting on a bill without any expert analysis and its impacts. you will be voting without any estimate of whether it will grow or shrink the economy. you ll be voting without a good sense of the long term impact to the changes you re making to the tax code. dana: karl rove is a former senior adviser and chief of staff to president trump george w. bush. i should at least know your title since we worked together there. what do you think of schumer s warning to republicans? is this gonna fall on deaf ears? yeah, absolutely. there have been study after study after study on the house and senate versions to give us a general sense of what this will be. if they continue to fine tune it, they ll only be minor
dana: republicans feel like, at least in the house, they could probably get this done. of course t senate is where they always run into a little bit of a road block. seven republican senators who are sort on on the fence. they re going to need help to get to a yes vote. democrats have a strategy to try to get them to not vote for the bill? i think our strategy is just to keep promoting the truth. as you might have seen, there s been recent analysis that s come out that shows in like five or six or seven years more than 50% of middle class americans will actually get a tax increase under the senate proposal. that is the individual tax dana: they want to keep it in that $1.5 trillion window. of course, the tack cuts will continue. i hear what you re saying. again, wouldn t it be better to not get rid of the estate tax which affects a few thousand americans. dana: you could make that agreement. wouldn t it be better to not
he admitted his positions on immigration and trade issues were out of step with the republican base. i think we need to take a step back and look at the full picture here. with regard to senator corker i think it s important we point out really who he let down today. he let down his constituents in tennessee who elected him to fight for tack cuts, but i think he also let down his fellow colleagues in the u.s. senate. this was a launch today where the president was coming in to try to work with the republican skefrlts to move with this agenda and senator corker woke up, booked himself on t.v. and wen around doing the dirty work on the dmc. many politicians turn the page at this point and forget who flake and corker are. that s what most renpublicans will be talking about. all there talk about a civil war
cuts done, but reading these tweets, it would be hard not to have the sense that the president has had his feathers roughl ruffled this morning. i think anyone would be does it sting at all? anyone would be annoyed here s a day we will get together and talk about tack cuts to lead to paycheck increases to for american workers this one rogue senator decided to take a position that s completely out of line with the rest of the republican party. look, i think that speaker ryan had the exact right tone. which was he was upbeat, he was enthusiastic, wants to talk about the agenda and what we re trying to do for people and where post republicans are. look, the economy is doing great, i think we re reasserting our standing on the world stage and i don t know what the heck was in senator corker s oatmeal this morning, but it s completely out of sorts with where i think the rest of the party is and again, i got to go back to the point especially with those comments he was making to manu
of coffee, the democrats accuse us of tax cuts for the rich. this bill hasn t been written yet. how do they know it s tack cuts for the rich when the details have not been written in? there s some on that side that clearly they simply want trump to have a defeat. they don t want republicans to be successful in governing. and so they will oppose anything we do. but that s not gonna describe all the democrats. so i m hoping at least some will work with us and help us pass something that will be really good for our economy. dana: do you have concern about the deficit? absolutely. i think this tax reform plan that we are working on is going to reduce the size of the deficit. because it s designed to encourage, really, very significant economic growth and a bigger economy means that much more economic activity to tax. so i think we re going to have more revenue, not less. dana: earlier today, nine of your colleagues suggested maybe the senate should stay open maybe 24/7. they re askin