white house in this capacity. all of the individuals that the president has been presented with through the proper protocol have been contacted through that process. sarah, just to follow up on the health care question. is it correct then to say that president trump does not support this deal in its current form? correct. and i think he stated that pretty clearly today. just as a follow-up on another issue. he had a conversation today with governor reynolds of iowa. can you tell us a little bit about what they discussed? did he make any assurances about the renewable fuel standard during that discussion? they didn t make any assurances on that specific issue. it was discussed. they re going to continue to look at that process but no definitive decision was made on rfs on today s call but it was discussed. justin? today secretary mnuchin was talking about the tax framework and he said, quote, it was very hard not to give tax cuts to the wealthy as part of the cuts
forward. let me ask you one on puerto rico and one on taxes. going back to puerto rico, you said with the debt, there s a process in place and that the process will play out. does that mean the president s comments of just simply wiping away the debt is no longer on the table? the president wants that to go through that process. that s the stage we re in on this. chuck schumer right nor or is scheduled to have a news conference about the state of local tax deductions being wiped off the books, how they should stay on the books. there s currently one republican senator, seven republicans at least in the house who want that to stay as a part of the tax framework. the president talked about red lines. is he up for negotiation on salt or is this something that is a red line. the president has laid out his priorities and the framework of what he wants to see in this tax relief package. i think one of the big things you have to look at is most
and, again, with he want to be part of the conversation on that moving forward. blake. let me ask you one on puerto rico and then one on taxes if you don t mind. going back to puerto rico you said that with the debt that there is a process in place and that the process will play out. does that mean the president s comments of just simply wiping away the debt is no longer on the table? the president wants that to go through that process and that s the stage we are in. and on tax reform, chuck schumer now or at least is scheduled to have a news conference about the state and local tax deductions being wiped off the books, how they should stay on the books. there is currently one republican senator, seven republicans at least in the house who want that to stay as a part of the tax framework. the president had talked about red line, is he up for negotiation on salt or is this something for him that is a red line? look, the president has laid out his priorities and the framework of
implied or otherwise, this suggests something of the character of this whole administration. i would say probably more like a rehe jigim regime, i don t mean that as a complement, than it is an administration. i think there is a distraction strategy too. because if you like the health care reform, it has collapsed again, and so the nfl takes front and center. he s just delivered a so-called tax framework, and that is likely to be a big giveaway to very wealthy people, going to be much better off as a result of it, than a lot of people on the political base. i think he does do this often to distract attention from other areas which are a lot more damaging to his presidency overall. pretty interesting, though, when he gave a speech, you know, early on in his presidency, his numbers went up, because he read from prepared remarks. he went to houston and got one on one with victims and showed compassion and support, he saw his numbers go up, but i don t know, one s got to wonder, does tha
basically? all right, as you said, i ve been neck-deep in the tax framework since its release yesterday, so i haven t been following every senator s response you and senators who haven t read the roy moore clip. i will dispute republicans are giving some warm bear hug to the senator, that the entire establishment opposed in his primary. it s been 48 hours since he has become the republican nominee for that race. so i would say there s been tepid maybe discussion about him, but this notion that he is somehow the crown prince for the republican party is just simply laughable. well, i mean, just as point of fact, he was embraced by ted cruz, who welcomed him. vice president mike pence had gushing words about him. the president called him a great guy, called him to congratulate him, also put him on twitter. corey gardner who runs the republican senatorial campaign said he s happy to have him to