hopes have to lie with marco rubio. i think he had a slinky implanted where his spine was. maybe he had it taken out and he has his spine back. it will be fascinating to watch. when i heard it was marco rubio, mmm, i don t know. you re questioning the calcium content of rubio s spine. yes. i would like him to have some warm milk tonight. you are one of the candidates we hear so much about. diddy said, i don t have to talk it because i live it. you are out there living it. maybe you can give us your view from the ground on all these issues and whether the alabama result, the tax push, the obamacare gutting. is any of that playing out in michigan where you are seeking to win a statewide race snflt i can tell that you all of it is playing out in michigan. i live in a state where the population is primarily democratic. unfortunately, right now, the republicans have taken over all
candidate. lost in the tweets this morning, the republican tax plan. what s the white house saying about the prospects of that tax plan? we know the president s on a plane right now headed to missouri to try to sell it. reporter: he s on his way to month. he started this tax push in missouri for two reasons, one he wanted to get to the middle of the country and sell it to what the white house calls real americans, and the second thing is the white house is trying to put pressure on claire mccaskill, a democrat from missouri, a state president trump won handily in 2017. the folks feel confident the senate will vote on this tax plan by the end of the week and get it to the president s desk by year s end. geoff bennett. you have not been on with me at 1:00, so welcome to the team officially. good to have you on board. thank you. i appreciate that. let s bring in michael steele now, an msnbc political analyst. he s former chairman of the republican national committee. and adrienn
because when is you meet donald trump one-on-one, he s very charming. and everyone will tell you that. when he counterpunches, he s not so charming. i would argue that it s not always a counterpunch. very often it s an attack. as opposed to a counter punch. that s part of donald trump, as well, and you cannot pay no attention to that as jeff flake told us in his speech yesterday. but he came out there today to say to us, yeah, what these guys said i get it. but it doesn t matter. it doesn t matter because it s my party. hold on for a moment. i want to point out when he was recalling the conversation he had with the widow of la david johnson, did he say i have one of the great memories of all time. he remembered it precisely. stand by. everyone stand by for a moment. we have a lot more to unpack. we re going to be watching the breaking news including a possible concession on 4001ks in the tax push. a lot more on the dossier, the
the iran agreement until we bring iran to the table to let us know what goes on in a military basis. they stopped their ballistic missile program. we need a little tough love and the president and secretary tillerson have given that. let s talk about the main subject of this luncheon with the tax cuts. on the tax push by spontaneously taking various positions on twitter, is the president and some of his critics are suggesting actually undermining the process with the house and the senate? well, first of all, i m he not sure what the process is. we re supposed to be working on a bill over here that no one has seen any details of. i keep hearing rumor here, rumor there. i want to see what we re doing. maybe some specifics will come out as to what the president would agree to, what the senators would agree to. the president as you know over these past several days and weeks, he s taken several
piece to the 2018 midterm puzzle, right? so why would you go if you re a republican who is looking at the 2018 map go, wow, we have to get tax cuts done. why would you go out and be with the next president? i was at the top presidential official yesterday who said, we are the party of weeks. this is party defining. we will cease to exist as a party. that is probably overstated but that is what some people believe. there s also the question of the president s position here. any minute now, we expect to see paul ryan take some questions. the house speaker from reporters. this is him delivering his opening statement in the weekly news conference. we ll jump back in as soon as he begins answering some of the questions. but i want to talk a little bit about what you left off at, which is this tax push, this tax cut push. senator shelly moore too old politico, it s safe to say the president has been unclear. john cornyn said he s with the president when it comes to health care, which is