donald trump himself. nbc analysis found the house version hands a billion dollar payday, a billion dollars to the trump heirs, to the president s family. that s billion with a b, plus about $20 million to the president himself. the house and the senate need to figure out the difference before sending the final version to the president s desk, leaving a potentially narrow window for the opponents to still to try to stop it. bruce bartlett, former deputy assistant secretary for policy under george w. bush, and author of the truth of the matter. jess macintosh, senior adviser to the hillary clinton presidential campaign there is a little bit of drama today as the house voted to send this thing to conference, and a little bit of balking by the house freedom caucus because they re ticked off the cr resolution, yada, yada. is there any chance to stop this thing? well, theoretically, yes. but in practice, no. it s it would be ridiculous for a member of congress to vote
potentially narrow window for the opponents to still to try to stop it. bruce bartlett, former deputy assistant secretary for policy under george w. bush, and author of the truth of the matter. jess macintosh, senior adviser to the hillary clinton presidential campaign there is a little bit of drama today as the house voted to send this thing to conference, and a little bit of balking by the house freedom caucus because they re ticked off the cr resolution, yada, yada. is there any chance to stop this thing? well, theoretically, yes. but in practice, no. it s it would be ridiculous for a member of congress to vote for this legislation and then vote against the conference report. i i don t see how they could possibly benefit in any way by doing this. so basically, it s just a done deal. it s just, you know, dotting i s and crossing t s.
clear and simple obstruction of justice case. the only thing he has going for him now is there is this open question about whether he can be indicted or not or whether it has to be left to congress where of course there is still a republican majority. but again, i think the more important case here is the conspiracy. the first order case. you think they re building a very strong conspiracy case. oh, most definitely. it goes back to april of 2016 when papadopoulos learns of the stolen dnc e-mails. it goes to june 4th when goldstone is writing about the important dirty dirt they have on hillary clinton. it goes into the june 9th meeting, and then out into july where these e-mails are disseminated gucifer 2.0 and roger stone. then all of the wikileaks. contact action we now have. there is a major conspiracy. one, to either violate the federal computer hacking law, the computer fraud and abuse act, or there was a quid pro quo
i just think this idea that deficits are going to be a winning argument or argument that republicans needs to do something kind of mental gymnastics around in order to prop them up as a way to cut entitlements, i think those days are gone. that s the risk you run. that s a great point. were these odd populist xenophobic republicans who decided that these people were going to put money and rights back in their hands when they had been taken by unnamed folks a while ago. and voted for guy who said i will not cut social security, medicare or medicaid. they don t care about the deficits. the mitt romney of the world are going to get the vapors over the fact that thing raises the deficit and they may see this as a means to cut entitlements down the line be. the people who are going to restand for election in 2018 aren t going to get that from their face. the game of deficits does become too worn out? well, we will see. but republicans have been getting away with this for 40 ye
is that republicans don t like deficits. they love deficits. it gives them a perfect excuse to slash spending for the poor and the middle class who are just going to waste the money on booze and things of that sort. and it ties the hands of a democratic president or a democratic congress when they are in power. because that is the only time republicans will actually do anything about the deficit. and if they bring down the deficit, it s like putting money into a savings account that republicans can later use to cut taxes some more. right. so the republicans love deficits. are people s memories long enough that this is going to be front of mine for folks that are running for office, making calls, volunteering and voting? especially if this is the only legislative achievement that they have. this is going to be the thing that they have to run on. and since this thing is passed on a piece of paper with scribbles on it and x s out and someone s handwriting saying ignore this sectio