many does a benefit of a tax overhaul really outweighs this. if you re the president watching, the market is up about 220 points right now. yesterday the trade conversation marked it down a little bit. we have this tug-of-war. the president s team have tried to slow him down. have tried to not let s negotiate a single thing. the way trump treats its u.s. allies, we could soon be out of friends. trump s steel destruction. he starts a trade war with his best friends. the op-ed makes me think more and more that he s right. he undermined allies and helped others, and that s what s going on. i think it s this toxic mix of
eastern policy when it comes to syria. at some point i would like to see some of our allies and partners step up and take part of the ownership here. i have think the u.s. will maintain and be the leader. melissa: thank you. jon: americans are getting a little extra time to fill out their tax returns with the deadline falling today. is the president s tax overhaul making this day a little less painful? the benefits some are already seeing and what we can look forward to next year. we ll get some perspective from senator john thune who joins us live next. today marks the last day that people will have to file under the old tax code and it is out with the old and in with the new.
he is by far and away the estbiggund raiser in a party. this i a party that in a tough midterm cycle needs the money. over the course of this cycle, he s transferred $40 million over to the nrcc the republican campaign. he s extremely valuable in this regard. if he leaves, that fund-raising would drop. the other issue is whether this sets up some type of leadership battle in the republican conference again in the middle of a difficult midterm year. however, what s obviously the most important thing here is speaker paul ryan made the decision that he is going to leave congress, why this has been assumed that at some point it would happen over the last couple of months. first and foremost, when it comes to things that speaker paul ryan wanted to achieve, obviously the tax overhaul in 2017 was probably the one thing he came cared about and focused on more than anything he is throughout his lengthy career, not just as a congressman but a congressional
troops to help secure the u.s./mexico border. the president insists troops will remain on the border until his proposed wall is built. the president on thursday repeated a debunked voter fraud claim. in many places like california, the same person votes many times, you probably heard about that. they like to say that s a conspiracy theory. not a conspiracy theory. millions and millions of people. again, this was to talk tax overhaul. he claims millions of people voted illegally in 2016. despite producing evidence to back up the claim. the president argued democratic states refused to turnover data to the commission. president trump finally broke his silence about his
event across the country. a lot of people are now talking in terms of 2018. safe to say they delivered on quite a few things they said they would. the tax overhaul, regulations and the supreme court justice. i want to ask you, what is your prediction for 2018? we heard this week and they want an immigration reform, gun reform. are republicans going to be able to deliver? well, i hope so. we have been delivering. i believe all elections are local. you ve got to be talking to your communities, the issues that are important to the people in the constituency represent. tax reform. people keeping more hard-earned money is important. actually, finding the score just sex trafficking with st. louis in the top 20 sadly in the nation is important to my constituents. fighting for his strong defense is important. the opioid epidemic of the things we been able to do to