arwa, everyone here in the studio was watching with rapt attention. interesting to have you on the site. thank you very much for your reporting. republicans trying to shift focus away from the russia probe to push their tax agenda. can the president and gop score a policy win with this? jamie s all ab, helping small businesses. damage your vehicle? we got you covered. [ glass shatters ] property damage? that s what general liability s for. what?! -injured employee? -ow. workers comp helps you pay for a replacement. what s happening? this is carla. how s it going? and if anything comes up, our experts are standing by. boo!
and wolf, that full debate is going to happen in the coming weeks, we are going to see the first bill exactly the specifics of this tax reform pledge released next week by the house. the president, i m told, is going to become more involved in this to try and sell this plan. wolf, this is the biggest priority on the president s plate here. the biggest test for what he calls a unified republican party. we ll see if they are unified and if they can get this tax agenda moving forward. good news for the president of the republicans since the house passed the same budget. they will only need 50 votes to pass tax cuts, pass tax reform, they won t need 60, that s a major development today. jeff zelny over at the white house, thanks very much. there s more breaking news right now. top democrats have denied knowing anything about those payments to affirm behind the opposition research dossier on donald trump, let s go to our senior congressional respondent is joining us from capitol hill. m
the big item police did not find in stephen paddock s hotel room. and a big vote comes tomorrow on the hill behind me. will republicans get on board with president trump s tax agenda? house majority whip steve scalise is one of the people tasked can getting that through. he will tell us whether or not he s got the votes next. the tax plan is going to be incredible for this country. trusted battery for your son s favorite toy?t maybe not. maybe, you could trust he wouldn t leave the upstairs water running. (woman screams) or, you could just trust duracell.
course of this week, what has been largely absent is the president s tax agenda, which most people believe is the political crux of the entire season for him and the republican party. if you talk to folks on the hill, there s a sense of frustration verging on despair that they are now at a place once again like they were with obamacare repeal over the summer, and they were trying to push a boulder up a hill and now they are feuding with gold star families and now starting an escalating fight about russia. we will talk about the report next in a moment. one of the tweets came a week before the election talking about thousands and thousands of voter fraud issues being counted. that stuff matters, and you are going to retweet it and you are that close to the president, make you should know the source. trump talking about the stock market, obviously going way, way up. 23,000 for the first time. i love that hat.
the president would always listen to. we re about fixing obamacare. it s broken and it requires people to do lots of things that they just shouldn t be forced to do. let s turn to the president s tax agenda. the president expected to roll out a tax plan on wednesday. axios is reporting that the plan would cut the tax rate paid by the wealthy neramericans from almost 40 act to 35% as well as making dramatic reductions on taxes to big businesses and small businesses. when you were elected as treasury secretary, you made a very specific promise and it was quickly dubbed the mnuchin rule. any reductions we have in upper income taxes will be offset by less deductions, so that there will be no tax absolute tax cut for the upper class. can you reaffirm that pledge, that there will be, quote, no absolute tax cut for the upper class? is the mnuchin rule still in effect? i did say that and i want to clarify. it was never a promise or it was never a pledge. what it was and it is still,