congress has outsored the issue to the executives. senator flaek is writing a bill that will nullify these tariffs. senator mike of utah has talked about this as well. but does anybody have an actually chance? if you look at the president and the actual policy and the number of republicans and pro-trade democrats that oppose what the president is doing, maybe. if they have the stomach to go against the president and their own party that s something i do not see. right. i d say it s probably unlikely. if you to the math on the people who might agree with it you can get to a number where it would be possible but the stomach is the issue. these are republican leaders on a number of issues who have had a disagreement with the president and rarely shown that ability to make ledge legs. the rhetoric is a step but we have not seen that from this, the ability to go above and beyond that and i d be sceptical
stepping down. i think this might be the prime type of situation where voters can decide whether this means their criteria for what they want in a congressman or not as opposed to just using the mob to get rid of him. shannon: on the other side of the aisle, congressman break they are told, a republican, already in the house ethics investigation based on a settlement he had with a staffer. we have not had a former male staff are stepping forward to say that he was making really disgusting, inappropriate conduct on my comments, so much of the male staffer felt like it was a hostile environment. he put in his notice. this is not something that is about party and people who are trying to combat this problem, elana, say there should be nothing partisan about it. there has to be consistency across the board with how these cases are handled. absolutely. both parties recognize that. the problem is, they have so far to come in terms of writing a bill that can tackle this problem. it s clea
type of situation where voters can decide whether this means their criteria for what they want in a congressman or not as opposed to just using the mob to get rid of him. shannon: on the other side of the aisle, congressman break they are told, a republican, already in the house ethics investigation based on a settlement he had with a staffer. we have not had a former male staff are stepping forward to say that he was making really disgusting, inappropriate conduct on my comments, so much of the male staffer felt like it was a hostile environment. he put in his notice. this is not something that is about party and people who are trying to combat this problem, elana, say there should be nothing partisan about it. there has to be consistency across the board with how these cases are handled. absolutely. both parties recognize that. the problem is, they have so far to come in terms of writing a bill that can tackle this problem. it s clear that training won t cut it. but do you disman
a shouting match erupted late last night during a senate hearing for the republican tax plan. senator brown of ohio accused republicans of writing a bill that favors corporations and the rich instead of middle class americans. and those comments clearly got under the skin of the chairman, republican senator orrin hatch. when republicans are in power, the first thing they want to do is give tax cuts to the rich. it s in their dna. it s what they are going to do. i resent anybody saying i m just doing this for the rich. give me a great. true, it s nice political play. i get sick and tired regular order, mr. chairman. [ overlapping speakers ] [ banging gavel ] listen! i ve honored you by allowing you to spout off here, and what you
commentator scott jennings, and former deputy labor secretary chris lew who ran president obama s transition team. scott, first to you. republicans control both houses of congress. is canceling the august recess really going to be necessary to get their agenda moving forward? i think it s too early to tell. and i don t think the health care process is totally dead right now. i think there s movement going on this weekend. i know the data nerds and the spreadsheet junkies are sitting in the capitol building working and i know other leaders are working the phones. so we ll have to see what happens. of course it would be a devastating blow, i think, to the republican agenda if something doesn t happen by august. there s an old saying that time kills all deals. i think the more time that passes the less likely it is we get a deal on this. probably part of the reason mcconnell wanted to get a vote done as early as possible too. no question. the put up or shut up strategy i like becaus