someone far to the right? that is what worries the republicans in this town. what does the white house say about the visit to the white house? largely overshadowed. the timing of this was by design. the president was up on capitol hill for about an hour, 20 minutes or so talking to senate republicans. he did not mention at all this food fight going back and forth between him and senator corker. they did talk about tax renorm. this is reform. this is still a tough lift and harder today. whatever comment from jeff flake going out on the senate floor, will it be other republicans who find it within them to speak out against this administration. of course not many, loyalty is reviewed as an important character risk at the warehouse. the votes are so important. tax reform are the one thing
it is fractured. if they could find some kind of ability to start to see that process work, you could see some more ability to work together. tax reform. is going to be very difficult. charlie mentioned this is the chaos president. also the president last time we had this debate talking about maybe a shutdown is what we need. so you know, this is not a given. not going to be able to move immediately to tracks reform. and infrastructure is going to be a big one if they can get past these things. agreed. tax renorm is basically the must win for them. trying to put that through on the narrow partisan basis is going to be extremely difficult. not going to be a give me. tax reform by definition means there s going to be winners and losers. there will be a lot of people who pay more in taxes. that s very, very tough.
into further debt. we cannot have further deficits. the president said we have another way. we have another way, mexico will pay for it. when they said they won t pay for it and mexico won t pay for it, no other alternative came along. everything this week, tax renorm. he wants to lowter corporate tax rate down to 15%. that s lower than paul ryan s plan and the trump administration said economic growth is going to pay for, this house republicans that ran on cutting the deficit and cutting the debt say hold on a second. we re not talking about running up deficits by cutting taxes. we want offsets. paul ryan has a plan for offsets to corporate rates. trump is saying and his tres surery secretary says we re going to cut the, that cut the taxes and the economy will grow. thanks, shane. thank you. shepard: the first daughter, ivanka trump getting years from an audience while speaking about
won t build a wall. we may put up fencing, may do more in terms of surveillance in other places. we re not building a wall. trump says we re building a wall. we have bidders. take to mitch mcconnell, paul ryan. saying that s not on their agenda. that s not something that they ll be fighting about right now. they are trying to get the obamacare deal done to get tax renorm done. that s the cutting edge. as far as this stuff, it plays to the base. can you imagine how many times he said it s going to be a big, beautiful wall and asks the crowd who will pay for it? mexico. it will get built. and mexico will pay for it. yes. there s so many ways to make them pay for it. you can say i like donald trump but that wall is a fantasy. is it ridiculous? i still say building a wall will save america a lot of
votes for this healthcare rework. is that wishful thinking? what do you think? i hope it is. if he tries to do a federal infrastructure bill before we get the healthcare and tax done, it s going to split the party in half. we can fulfill his promise to get a trillion dollars in infrastructure i believe without one more dime of federal money. a lot of ways to do it by taking out of regulations, private partnerships, infrastructure banks. we need to get those ideas in front. meantime, we really need to get this healthcare done and we need to get tax renorm done. i m optimistic on the tax reform front, too. it may be just be getting the rates down, not a lot of reform that needs to be done relatively quickly. otherwise, the economy doesn t have time to respond before the mid-term elections. neil: we re done with the fed helping us. so it s up to the tax cut.