you know, any more on that side. there is a possibility of picking up some democrats who like some parts of this tax bill. now, what has he done in blowing up the meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi? he obviously has made it much harder to win over democrats on what could otherwise be a bipartisan opportunity for him to get particularly those democrats in the united states senate who are facing tough reelection campaigns in 2018. there are a number of democrats who represent states that the president won by large margins. you would think clair mccaskill, joe donnelly, these would be targets for a common sense mainstream tax reform proposal. that is not what republicans have tried to do. there is not a proposal they ve put forward in this senate. they have been passing these proposals behind closed doors. every time we get a report about a change, a quote, unquote
situation. either we re saddled with a democrat in a seat that ought to be republican or a brand anvil that is going to drag down the president, the senate, drag down the party and plunge the senate into immediate turmoil when he gets there. is it worse for the republican party, senator portman, if roy moore wins or loses? i don t know. look, the talking heads like scott talks about that. what i do think is that, you know, it would be best if he were to step aside. and, look, we have an opportunity as nancy pelosi just said to pass tax reform. i think she is misrepresented everything in that tax reform proposal as an example, but we ve got some great opportunities here and we ll move forward with these regardless of what happens, but i do think it would be best if he stepped aside. the senate senator franken, one of your colleagues, obviously on the other side of the aisle. he called for a senate ethics investigation into himself. i think you concurred with that. what do you beli
federal machinery of putting out red tape this is a remarkable performance and it has a lot to do with i think growth picking up investment corporate investment picking up. maria: they re loosening the purse strings but they need every vote this is through executive order. they need every vote in order to get a win on the board and now we re facing this senate race in alabama and roy moore jessica, so we don t know where that vote is. no, we don t. the polling right now looks good for doug jones and he was up about eight in the latest fox poll and another poll as well, but you don t know what happens and hillary clinton was up in a lot of polls in certain states and that didn t work out. the big shift has been apparently with republican women i think it s up to 20% and alabama are now saying they re not going to support roy moore anyway, any more. kellyanne conway was on tv saying we need this vote because of the tax reform proposal, president trump seemed to say the same thing whe
you are good friends i understand as well. ron, i ll start with you. they ve got only four weeks to get this done. will they be able to get this done in conference? it is beginning to look like they will, richard. there are forward movement. lisa murkowski has said this he would along with the repeal of the individual in this budget or tax reform proposal. it is open question as to whether or not ron johnson could be brought along or jeff flake or the others that you see here with respect to the size of the deficit and the treatment of small business. those are belong to corker and johnson respectively. so there is still work to be done but they do appear to be making some progress. some progress and it sounds like what we re seeing here braendon is a political impetuous that could not be topped as opposed to an economic impetuous like this is a great plan. well absolutely. i think we make the mistake of making this too much about donald trump. it is easy to do. he s a magnetic
their ideas into the bill. democrats called the republican tax plan a scam that helps the rich and hurts the middle class. back to john roberts at the white house. john, more on this tax plan. yeah and now we move on to the senate. looks like the president will face the similar problems with tax reform as he did obamacare. six senators say they re no votes or sitting on the fence. among them, ron johnson who says he cannot support the bill in its current form. he does want to make fixes to it so he can support it. we re hearing from bob corker out of tennessee. john mccain and jeff flake from arizona say they have a problem that it looks like the tax reform proposal will add red ink to the deficit and the overall debt. then you have rand paul of kentucky said he will support tax reform but he s not sure it s the right thing to do in the current form.