so they better get it right on tax reform and get a bill done. house will be able to do it. question is are we going to hold enough votes in the senate. 52-48 is a very slim margin. there s a huge difference from having 52 members of your own party and having 53, 54, 55. dana: what mark med dose and i were just talking about, senator bob corker of tennessee, who announced his retirement, he might be the least of his problems, because i think he ll vote for it. i think he will vote for it. rand paul will be a problem. there will be some others. this administration has a tough road on any tax reform bill. because somebody s gonna get gouged. there s no perfect tax bill that only cuts some people s taxes and doesn t put other people in a bad situation. dana: do you like that the president is going to talk to truckers tonight? i sure do. dana: interesting strategy. karl rove, thank you for being here. thanks foravin me. i feel at home dana: i love that. n the iran nuclear s
okay. thank you very much. i appreciate that. we ll take you live to switzerland where secretary of state john kerry has been meeting. we have not yet reached the finish line. but make no mistake, we have the opportunity to try to get this right. it s a matter of political will and tough decision making. it s a matter of choices. and we must all choose wisely in the days ahead. thank you and we ll see you next week. all right. secretary of state john kerry after meeting with european leaders talk building iranian negotiations. we will talk with john jar mouth of kentucky after the break with much more. stay with us. s deal? floor mats. clear coats. you re getting warmer. leather seats. and this.
managed to achieve for this year. you don t get lower than zero. i m sorry, lawrence, this is not stimulative. there is no way it was suggested by blanche lincoln. keith olbermann was blistering in his attack on this. nobody wanted this. it just suddenly showed up on the table. where the heck did that come from? this is i can answer that question. ezra, go ahead. it was the deal, the s-state tax deal. jane is right. it is one the worst policies you could imagine but it was a deal for the tax extenders. what the republicans said was if you don t do the lincoln s-deal which costs $10 billion against 09 which was a 35% rate and the $3.5 million exemption no way we re doing a two-year extension on earned income tax and on the child tax credit. those add up to $40 billion and for the poor. i do take jane s point here. but i would say there s a tension here between where what you think is more important is saying the rich are not going to
estate tax next year is going to be lower than what george bush managed to achieve for this year. you don t get lower than zero. i m sorry, lawrence, this is not stimulative. there is no way it was suggested by blanche clinic con. keith olbermann was blistering in his attack on this. nobody wanted this. it just suddenly showed up on the table. where the heck did that come from? this is i can answer that question. ezra, go ahead. it was the deal, the s-state tax deal. jane is right. it is one the worst policies you could imagine but it was a deal for the tax extenders. what the republicans said was if you don t do the lincoln s-deal which costs $10 billion against 09 which was a 35% rate and the $3.5 million exemption no way we re doing a two-year extension on earned income tax and on the child tax credit. those add up to $40 billion and for the poor. i do take jane s point here. but i would say there s a