tone. two how many times the georgia dome has imploded. sound round of explosions going off overnight at the former home of the atlanta falcons. crews needed to bring down last remaining pieces after the original blast that we had live on our show last month. pete: didn t really work. well, a fox news alert, overnight the senate making history passing the first major tax rewrite in 31 years. now, it s up for the house to revote on the bill and get it to the president s desk today. steve: joining us right now on a very busy morning on capitol hill is house speaker paul ryan. mr. speaker, good morning. good morning. good morning steve, ainsley and pete. what happened to brian up too late. too much winning. steve: too much winning. just like you. i saw you with a big hammer. i saw that it passed. why do you have to redo it today? because we had such a good time yesterday we just wanted to do it again today.
it s certainly not going to have an impact on obamacare. that s right. it s not popular. and republicans are facing this gargantuan task, one, they have to explain to the voters what this tax rewrite does, explaining to the american people the intricacies of the tax system isn t easy to begin with. on top of that, they re facing, you know, the fact that it s unpopular. climbing out of that is going to be difficult. it s something that democrats are definitely going to grab on to. they re not going to stop talking about this. outside groups are going to be hammering this home, on top of what republicans have to throw on republicans including their attempts for obamacare some of which they did successfully in his tax bill including the russia probe. all right. let s turn to daca on that as we know and remember democrats sort of backing away from the idea
has come out of the shutdown or talk about the shutdown or threats of a shutdown. i would make one caveat to that. it wasn t necessarily a shutdown but over the debt ceiling agreements or discussions under obama that s what led to the sequestration and from my perspective, a libertarian perspective, cutting defense spending year on year and happened once, you know, in 20 years, happened because of that which for me is good and people were motivated to have a shutdown and we are seeing the normal exkres yus. fantastic word. by the way, when there a s threat that the market is going to drop, great. the market drops and they use it as a buying opportunity. that is an absolute no biggy. let s turn to taxes. politico reporting that the gop s tax rewrite is still filled with so many loopholes and mistakes, this thing can easily be gamed. it is the devil s playground. if you re a tax preparer, a
might soon learn what is in it now that it s been approved. this comes as senate republicans release their own tax rewrite, and it s different. changes are abound. the bottom of the hour coming up, top of the news. stay with us. i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424.
missouri on taxes. a tax code that is simple, fair and easy to understand. that means getting rid of the loopholes and complexity that primarily benefit the wealthiest americans and special interests. our last major tax rewrite was 31 years ago. that was surprising for people how did that rate? this is one of the best messages the president of the delivered, republicans gave a plus, you couldn t even see them the line so off the truck, independents gave in and even democrats gave it a c-. this is extraordinary given how poorly he did was independents and democrat over the last two weeks, he couldn t say anything without dials falling to the floor so everyone responded to his message, his tone, they liked that he was disciplined and liked what he had to say and democrats said this was something they could get behind,