downplayed president trump's role in freeing his son and two other players from a potential ten-year sentence in china. the president did play a role, according to our sources, by speaking directly with the chinese president xi jinping about the incident and shortly after that, the players were sent home back to washington. trump here already pretty upset about the way in which he's not been given enough credit. he's also been going after other folks on social media, including a republican senator, all of this happens while the white house, as you mentioned, is trying to push congress to pass taxes, and we ahead a bit yesterday from a senior white house official, the office the management and budget director mick mull mulvaney about this individual man dade and whether the white house wants it in the tax bill. here's what mick mulvaney had to say about that yesterday. >> i don't think anybody down where the white house is. we absolutely want to do it.