worth, tax reform, to you? is roy moore worth it, 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.
at more than plus 30 points in early march to now minus 40 points. with almost no legislative accomplishments to show from eight months of unified republican government, mcconnell doesn t just risk losing control of his conference to insurgents like roy moore, he risks losing control of the senate altogether. senator john thune put it, we got to start producing legislative results or we re going to end up in the minority two years from now. which brings us to tax cuts. the last remaining big-ticket item on the republican agenda and the party s last real chance to reward its tone nors and give the base a win before the end of the year. republicans are trying to sell their tax framework as a populist initiative, a strategy that could backfire as it did with health care once the public learns what it actually does. the tax cuts on the table, the gop apparently willing to stomach just about anything to get legislation passed. white house economic adviser gary kohn, who is jewish,
for the year in which the tax reform is enacted. and it s certainly true that corporations have a lot of cash right now. and it s certainly true that borrowing conditions are good right now for corporations. and profitability is very good for corporations. that s not necessarily going to be true over the next 20 or 30 years. it s been since 1986 since we did the last tax reform. and we ve and that s accrued to our benefit over the last several decades. but you are living to establish a tax framework that helps businesses over the coming decade. and focus on whetherhere are currently a lot of earnings on the sidelines thisear i missing the point. in the coming decades, we have to examine the type of business that s growing. and it s automation. it s technology. we re not going to lower taxes and suddenly start manufacturing more. for example, there is no industry in the united states that manufactures clothing anymore. and i m not saying you should or shouldn t have a bo
harris: not every democrat, let s watch this with nancy pelosi. democrats have always been willing to engage in bipartisan tax reform. republican tax framework is not tax reform, it s a framework that gives away the store to the wealthiest a while middle class with the bill. judge napalitano: sounds like bernie sanders. this is the issue, a president cannot do this. marie: and not a lot of time to get it done. judge napalitano: i want everyone s taxes to go down, but i m trying to articulate the political obstacles to this. you need 60 votes in the senate and he needs though conservatives in the house to be persuaded that they re not going to have to follow more money to run the government because they re collecting fewer tax dollars. harris: this it s almost every category. people won t be happy that the wealthy aren t getting anything at all. katie: if you look at the
optimistic. the feeling here now is generally better than we ve seen in recent weeks. as a president approaches is is what her day mark, there s a lot of angst about what he accomplished? what did he show for his first 100 days in office and i think they feel the health care bill moving along with the tax framework put forward that they are in a better position to say he s made some advances on these key promises that he made as a candidate. jon: puts wind in their sales. thank you. jenna: not far from the white house, we are expecting house bigger paul ryan to take the podium in just a few moments row for his weekly news conference as the critical deadline approaches to keep the government up and running. plus, lawmakers brief on north korea describe the information shared as sobering. we ll talk to one senator who attended that briefing next as we hear this from one of our top military leaders in the region. as president trump and second