rona romney mcdaniel. melissa: get right to it. blake burman standing by at the white house where the president wrapped up a celebration for passage of tax reform along with republicans from the house and senate. blake, what is it like there? reporter: a lot of lawmakers filing out of the white house, a lot of republicans here because this was a massive as the president often likes to say, victory for not only republicans on capitol hill but also for the president, husband first major legislative victory so far in the first 11 months in office. the president had senate republicans, house republicans along the south lawn behind him here. house speaker paul ryan they touted this as speedy promise kept. no we haven't even been a year and we did the largest tax cut in our history. >> what this represents is a promise that each and everyone of us made to the american people last year, is a promise that is kept today. reporter: now this tax deal for republicans and the president comes after they failed earlier this year repeal and replace obamacare but the president started to unroll the argument today because this tax bill gets rid of the obamacare individual mandate, in essence as he said, this is aç repeal of obamacare and he also acknowledged that part of his strategy was essentially to tell folks, within the administration and elsewhere to keep that on the sidelines until now. >> essentially repealed obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate which was terrible. [applause] and that was a primary source of funding of obamacare. reporter: senior white house official telling me part of the strategy was to push merits of the tack bill and then talk about the repeal of the individual mandate and also opening up drilling in alaska in the anwar region. by the way, melissa, david, the white house did not get everything it wanted in this. gary cohn, the president's chief economic advisor acknowledging if they could get one thing out of this tax bill it would be getting rid of the carried interest loophole. cohn says they tried to do that upward of two dozen times and he posts the blame on capitol hill. dave, melissa, back to you. melissa: interesting. far fewer companies or firms actually qualify for that than used to but it is an interesting debate. blake, it was also funny to see all the lawmakers behind the president who in the past have hated him, not supported him. to see the crowd around him, you picked out faces who said all kinds of stuff over time but they did come together. go ahead. reporter: one of the things witç this president leading up to the presidency how are republican goss egg to embrace him. you know what the primary was like. today they were all about just to a person standing hine him. melissa: getting what everybody wanted, by winning. they're not tired of winning yet. they have a lot more to do. blake, thank you. david: everybody is a winner in victory like this. market spectacular rise taking a slight paws over the past two days but the president's chief economic advisor gary cohn says stocks have not yet priced in tax reform. take a listen. >> look what is going on in the stock market. i don't think a lot of tax reform is in the stock market. what i think is in the tax, what is in the stock market right now is what is going on in the economy. if you look at what the tax plan is going to do, i don't think that is factored in. david: let's hope he is right. nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole, despite the spectacular rise since the election, since we look like we get tax reform, he says there is a way to go. what do traders say? >> interesting he says that. they agree this market is headed higher. i don't know that they necessarily agree it doesn't have much to do with tax reform. we had such a great year here on wall street. we've seen 5,000 points in 2017, and right now, we're down 28 on the dow jones industrial average. not too far from off from dow 25,000. they still feelç optimistic. interestingly enough to gary cohn's point this will unleash more in our economy, in our stock market everything, across the board. we're hearing from different companies, at&t $2,000 bone suss to employees because of tax cut. fedex said they couldn't raise wages until they got the tax cut. boeing talking about company matching, company education matching for employees. companies coming out with positive comments how they make america better for women and men, the working class, and middle class. so we'll see, but right now feeling pretty optimistic overall. david: by the way you said 5,000 points for the year which is true. but of course the president would say 6,000 points since the election. that is when things really turned around. nicole petallides, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: ceiling -- sealing the deal on the tax reform despite criticism from democratic leaders. >> as republicans head to the white house for their back-slapping and high-fives to celebrate passage of a bill against the will of the american people, we have a simple message for our republican friend, republicans will rue the day they passed this bill and you can bet democrats will make sure ofç that. melissa: here now is senator steve daines, republican senator from montana. are you afraid you're going to rue the day? is there rueing in your future? do you have that on your calendar, i will be rueing the day? >> melissa, i think those words will come back and haunt chuck schumer one of these days, here is the proof point. there was a lot of false information shared during this debate on massive tax cut for the american people. but look what happened in february of next year, when the american people open up their paychecks and see my word, i'm taking home more money. taking money to put in my pocketbook, that will be a great day are to the american people. the people who won last night were the american people. that's the victory on behalf of folks that sent us here. melissa: these are the kind of things when you get out there and make quantifiable promises, mathematical promises kind of like when president obama said with obamacare, your health care will go down per family $1250 per year, every year, and of course it went up instead. that was something that could really hold his feet to the fire. democrats say when they don't see their paycheck go down and bring it back to the republicans to say what happened. do you feel confident in your math people will really see what you've promised? >> absolutely i do. in fact iç received analysis fm the montana department of revenue. it shows that montana will receive over $700 million a year just for individuals in tax relief. average reduction, $1600 per family. that is coming out of our department of revenue. so it is very quantitative. they always talk about pocketbook issues. could there be a more central pocketbook issue literally putting more money in your paycheck. melissa: senator warren is on record, out saying that corporations are going to take this money and buy back their stock, that they are not going to hire more people, they're not going to raise wages. she is at record saying that. of course now we're hearing ceos in their conference call when they're talking to shareholders, that is what counts, that is when they're on the record with their earnings, making predibs dixs they will be -- predictions held to much like you are, that they are going to invest in their workers and they are going to -- they think their profits will go up, their stock price, all those sort of things will go up and expand and invest. will you keep an eye on that, hold them to that? do you believe it? >> well i believe it. it is already happening, the reports are coming in the president referenced at&t in his speech today, putting 1000-dollar bonus in every employee's paycheck. boeing already had the announcement. the president hasn't even signed the bill yet. >> i'm confident, i worked for large businesses, i worked for small businesses, i spent 28 years in the private sector. i guarranty you will see the american worker prosper because of the tack bill. they will see lower dollars in paychecks, increase in wages. that. melissa: worth noting at&t is trying to get a merger through. looking to make the government happy as well. we love them doing it. senator steve daines, thank you. >> thank you. david: how will the gop tax plan impact economic growth? here is scott hodge from the tax foundation. scott, great to see you. first talk about that issue whether the corporate tax cuts will lead to growth. we heard about at&t. fedex yesterday reported terrific earnings and their cfo came on the line to talk to investors. we have a little clip of what he told investors. let's play the clip, get your reaction. >> u.s.gsdcould increase materially as result of u.s. tax reform -- gdp. if this occurs we likely increase capital expenditures and hiring to accommodate additional volumes triggered from this incremental gdp growth. david: scott, as you know, critics say if they get more money from the tax cuts, they will buy more stock or raise the ceo's salary. they don't agree with what the cfo of fedex is saying. is he lying? >> actually our models confirm exactly whatç he's saying. when we modeled this tax plan we find at least next five years we'll see a boost in gdp. not just because of a cut in the corporate tax rate, historic in of itself, the bill offers five years of full expensing for capital investment. businesses in particular will be spending a lot on new equipment, on machinery, new trucks. david: most important on personnel. >> and personnel,. >> it has to be said when you have unemployment rate low as ours, we haven't had a unemployment rate this low since the '60s, only way you hire more people is offering more money. >> that is exactly right. david: i imagine wages will go up? >> wages will go up. see people come out of unemployment lines. people who have been significant out, been disaffected or discouraged, they will come back into the workforce as well. all of that is going to be great for wages and product tivity and new jobs. so this is a win-win for both for workers and also for businesses. david: now one of the reasons as you know well, you've been dealing with lobbyists inside of the beltway for decades now, that is why we haven't had tax reform this comprehensive for some years. because lobbyists come out of the woodwork, thousands i'm sure have been trying to knock down the doors, get their little piece of the pie. i know not all were successful. first in, first out, selling stocks, a lot of mutual funds watld that, but lost that debate. carried interest could be argued, they won that one. how do you weigh successes and failures in terms of lobbyists writing the bill for themselves? >> i think overall, chairman brady and chairman hatch put together a very comprehensive tax reform plan. yes, they could have eliminated more of these loopholes but i think they eliminated a lot. i think that it goes to their credit. after all they're bringing corporate rate down from the highest in the industrialized world to one of the most competitive. you don't do that simply by without, ruffling some feathers. congratulations to them and i think the lobbyists lost at the end of the day but american workers and the american economy are the big winners here. david: at one point i thought think lost an opportunity to scrap entirely scrap the amt, the alternative minimum tax. that tax originally was meant for couple dozen people. it expanded enormously as taxes do to include tens of millions of americans. instead of getting rid of it, they changed the point it kicks in. you know if democrats get in they will raise it back to where it was before the tax reform. why couldn't they kill it? >> well, i think in part they needed the additional revenues that came with it. now they did eliminate the corporate amt. so that is a good thing but unfortunately the individual amt is still there but that just means we have to be everç vigilant so that future congresses don't come back and undo a lot of good reforms that were done in this bill. david: scott, i'm getting a wrap but very quickly will have part two of tax reform during the trump administration to scrap things like the amt? >> there is a lot left to do and i hope they get to part two. this is a great bill but could be made even better with second round of tax cuts. david: scott hodge, thank you very much. appreciate it. melissa: republicans celebrating a big win with the passage of major tax reform. will they see big wins at midterm election next year? democrats slamming the tax bill, saying prepare for a reckoning. the head of the republican national committee, rona romney mcdaniel will respond. david: bombshell new report accusing obama administration giving hezbollah a pass in order to get the iran deal done, one of the lawmakers, demanding an investigation, congressman robert pittenger will be with us. melissa: charges of bias at his agency and doj, he will go against the house judiciary committee tomorrow behind closed doors. florida congressman matt gaetz serves on the committee. he will tell us the questions he will be asking next. >> we need to insure we have an fbiç going forward that is transparent, subject to sufficient oversight and redundancies to insure we know what is going on. remember sales event.xus do lease the 2017 is turbo for $299 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. whatever it takes, wherever i have to go...i'm beating this. breast cancer treatment is continuing to evolve. ctca is definitely on the cusp of those changes. we really focus on taking the time with each individual patient so they can choose the treatment appropriate for them. i empower women with choices. it's not just picking a surgeon. it's picking the care team, and feeling secure where you are. visit cancercenter.com/breast appointments available now. wifiso if you can't live without it...t it. why aren't you using this guy? 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>> we need to get sworn testimony under oath in public because the american people deserve to know whether or not their taxpayer money was used to fund a dossier to discredit the president. we have to know whether that dossier was dressed up as an intelligence document and used to spy on americans and we certainly have to know why nelly ohr, the wife of bruce ore, one of top officials at department of justice was getting paid by the very company, paid by the democrats to give money to the russians to dig up dirt on the president that wasn't true. these are critical questions that go to the fundamentals of our democratic institutions in this country and i think that the best antidote is a whole lot of sunshine and everybody needs to know the answers to these questions. david: you know, congressman, there is another member of this cabal, if you want to call it that, the justice/fbi department, that is peter strzok. we saw his text to his girlfriend who was also in the fbi, that focuses on what might be andrew mccabe. he said i want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in andy's office, that there's no way he gets elected. talking about trump but i'm afraid we can't take that risk. it is like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40 of theç was he referring, once and for all to and mccabe in that? that would mean a kind of conspiracy to keep trump out of the white house? >> absolutely. that email makes andrew mccabe a witness to potential conspiracy to undermine the duly elected president of the united states. soak in the arrogance of those text messageses these people at fbi establishing a insurance policy in case they don't get outcome they want out of this election. this government doesn't belong to the fbi or department of justice it, belongs to the american people. voters make decisions. we have to have transparency and oversight in the future we never have a circumstance the deep state undermine somebody people elected. david: was the trump dossier that insurance. >> absolutely. look the insurance was to discredit the president, and unequivocally the ties between this trump dossier, the democratic national committee, the fbi and thin the very wife of one of the top officials at the department of justice make very clear that this was a coordinated effort to undermine president trump and if we allow this to continue, it casts a cloud over the entire presidency, and it leaves in place institutions that aren't truly serving the will of the people. david: very quickly, let's leave on a bit of good news which was passage of the tax cuts. you were meeting with the president and the other leaders today. you were applauding that. i guess you're just goingç to have to wait and see what happens. if there is a economic revival as a result of these tax cuts, do you think that will sweep you in in 2018? >> it list are happening. we had over 3% growth in the trump presidency. trump announced at&t will use revenue from the tax cut to boost wages and boost the opportunities that they have for their employees, more investment in this country. this should be what we are judged by. do wages rise for the american people? do opportunities increase and is there more of a path for people to achieve the full extent of their prosperity? we tried it democrat way for eight years. we didn't see wage growth. now we will under president trump. david: got to see government cutbacks too. that is part of the problem. >> that is next. david: that is the past equation not here. congressman gaetz, thank you for coming in. appreciate it. >> thank you. david: melissa. melissa: he is fiery. officials in mexico saying eight americans among those killed in a tourist bus accident near cancun. eight other people died. more than a dozen got hurt when the bus flipped on its side yesterday. they were heading to see mayan ruins as part of a royal caribbean cruise excursion. officials are not clear what caused the accident, but detained the driver for questioning. terrible. david: a lot of americans go there every year. well, did the obama administration give a terrorist group a pass in fear of jeopardizing the iran nuclearç deal? 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[cheers and applause] melissa: president trump following through on one of his biggest campaign promises and americans are eager to see their paychecks come the new year. here is rona romney mcdaniel. republican national committee chair. it was interesting for us to see all the republicans behind the president who weren't always behind the president today? >> today is a great celebration and i just want to congratulate president trump who led the way. mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, all theç congressional leaders that came together as a team and delivered for the american people who are now going to see bigger paychecks, more jobs and higher wages. this is a great day for america. melissa: in the wake of this there are still pundits and even republicans who are talking about a really tough slog in the midterm elections, especially in the house for republicans. what do you do about that? >> well historically the party that holds the white house does have a tougher time in the midterms and we are ready for that. at the rnc we raised record money. we're already investing in our ground game. we have 21 people on the ground, state directors across the country. we recognize that the democrats are coming with resist and obstruct message. we're coming with a different message. we're coming with message delivering on promise, from the judiciary, gorsuch, to the court of appeals, to the deregulation, to veterans we're taking care of, higher military spending, lower unemployment and consumer confidence at all time high. this great gift of tax cuts for the middle class. we have a lot to run on. we'll have great accomplishments. more importantly we have done things that make lives better for the american people. melissa: to that end, to advance that goal, what would you like them to tackle next in the midterms? you don't want them to go after something they can't get. then have sort of negativity having lost something, but you don't want to lose momentum either. what do you think would be the smartest thingç to go tackle next? >> well the president has since january reached his hand across the aisle to democrats and said let's work together. i will tell you, in my polling, americans really do want to see republicans and democrats work together and i think something will bring them together is infrastructure. we saw this horrific accident in washington state. there are things we need to do across this country to repair our bridges, our roads, our grids, our electric grids and our water. this is something that should bring republicans and democrats across the aisle and also it will help bring jobs and grow our economy. this is a good thing. i think it could get bipartisan support. melissa: you're right, i think it could, because it is spending. everybody likes spending and doing -- one of the toughest problems to tackle the spending side to bring it down. that is something that, some people feel could be done in the wake of a economic growth and victory on taxes, that maybe you know, if you have all three, that, senate, you have the house, you have the presidency, you could tackle that issue of the out of control debt. too dangerous? >> well, you have actually already seen that start to happen, with the deregulation, president cutting more regulations than reagan, you started to see our economy grow. people thought we could never get beyond 2%. gdp we've seen 3%. melissa: you have toç tackle entitlements. >> they will have to tackle getting tax reform done and ways to be more efficient, ways to cutting costs in government but also to expand our economy and steps they put in place today are ways that we'll kick-start the economy and get it growing again and helping the american people. melissa: so not tackling entitlements though? that is probably, too far down -- it is a tough thing to do, i know you're talking about growing the economy and that does bring in more revenue, but the spending side so scary to a lot of us, but it is very difficult to deal with? >> well, the president has said he is not going to touch social security and medicare and medicaid. i do think there is ways to look at making, shoring up the system, making sure they're more efficient. there is other government waste we can cut. they will get to that. melissa: okay. >> infrastructure will be the next thing we'll tackle. it should have bipartisan support. melissa: great. thank you so much. congratulations on this big day. >> thank you. it's a big day. david: got to cut spending, it is clear. melissa: hard though. david: there is a lot of waste and fraud, just in medicare, $100 billion in waste and fraud a year. from a legislative victory to looming government shutdown, republican leaders are facing their next big hurdle passing a temporary budget resolution before friday's deadline. melissa: why congressman andy biggs says it is time to stopç kicking the can down the road. we were talking about that the house freedom caucus member sound off. that is next. accumulations up to 8 inches... ...don't know if you can hear me, but [monica] what's he doing? 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once again watch. >> just as we've done in the past we need to pass a routine paygo waiver to avoid a draconian sequester. americans are counting on us not to inflict cuts on medicare and other essential operations. i look forward to working together the coming days to fund our government in a manner that does right by the american people. reporter: so each party certainly has their issues. the democrats also being pressured to do something about the "dreamers," undocumented immigrants who came here as children. doesn't look like that necessarily will hold this up, david, but i can tell you from house republicans speaking to fox tonight, this is not a done deal by any stretch. a number of rank-and-file republicans who are skeptical, who are saying this evening supported the leadership on taxes doesn't necessarily mean they fall in line here. a long way to go until friday at midnight. david: with all this going on, not surprising so many members are deciding to retire this year. it is hard work. it is our money but it is hard work the connell, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: here is republican congressman andy biggs from arizona. he is a member of the house freedom caucus. sir, i have to tell you when our audience hears the report that came before you and stopgap spending and can't have sequester their eyes glaze over and this is so swampqi. we're watching people sort of hamstrung by the rules they themselves created and it is frustrating. your thoughts on that? >> yeah, i'm with them. you know this is just crazy to me. we passed out 12 appropriations bills more than three months ago. sent them to the senate and they have been sitting on them. now we have the false deadline couple weeks ago we passed a kick the can down the road spending bill. we'll do it again to take us through january and we have done over 100 of those the last 20 years. the result? we almost quadrupled national debt because we don't seem to get a full budget done. that is really tough for anybody. melissa: is there any hope of any of that happening, real responsible adulthood on that front? we've been asking the whole show. now that we have tax reform which is fantastic, we can see the economy grow. you know people talk about revenue coming in as a result of that. we all know the real problem are entitlements, until we take a serious spending we have ballooning problem. is there any chance much politcally bravery out there to do something about it? >> first thing we have to do, do exactly what you said, deal with spending side of things. we have last two months record federal revenue, yet we'te been underfunded by $100 billion because of entitlement programs, and our spending programs. first thing, pass the balanced budget. i don't think this will happen this week. we'll do a short-term spending plan. we have to get action from the senate on budget we sent. once we do that the speaker assured us we'll work on entitlement reform coming up and that is a big issue. first thing, start moving towards a balanced budget. everybody else has to balance their budget. melissa: you said you will work on entitlement reform. i'm afraid to hear that and believe it is really happening. is that really going to happen? is that one of those things and you say nobody took it up or one reason or another? give me some hope. >> i want to say that a year ago, i think most people said we're not getting tax reform done. i will just tell you i was on a number of shows a couple months ago, people said will you get it done by christmas, i said, yeah, i think so and we did. melissa: yeah. >> i have to believe that even though this is a bigger issue, quite frankly entitlement reform is bigger issue than even tax reform. melissa: the biggest. >> i think we can get it done. it is doing to take courage and a lot of hard work but, but i believe we can get it done. will we get it done next year? no guaranties. melissa: come back to tell us more, congressman. thank you. >> will do. david: you used an oxymoron.ç you said political bravery. there is no political bravery inside the beltway. it is hard to find. i shouldn't say there isn't. very hard to find. meanwhile the ceo of amtrak speaking publicly about the company's deadly crash earlier this week. what they are promising to do to make sure something like this doesn't happen again. i used to have more hair. i used to have more color. and... i used to have cancer. i beat it. i did. not alone. i used to have no idea what the american cancer society did. research? yeah. but also free rides to chemo and free lodging near hospitals. i used to maybe give a little. then i got so much back. i used to have cancer. please give at cancer.org. david: amtrak is calling its deadly derailment in washington state a quote, wake-up call. the train was dangling over rush-hour traffic monday morning killing three people after it was speeding on the tracks apparently 50 miles over the speed limit. dan springer is live in dupont, washington, with more. hi, dan. reporter: yeah, hi, david and the big push now is to get this crash scene fully cleared up, cleaned up and reopened. all these lanes of southbound i-5 which have been closed since monday morning. it has been a major headache for this entire region. a lot of progress has been made. the train is all gone. the final piece was the biggest and toughest to move. this 270,000-pound locomotive. what is left, cleaning debris and makingç sure pavement is safe. as for the investigation, the ntsb expects to interview the engineer today or tomorrow. there was in-training conductor was in the cabin with him. they will look he may have been distracted and why it appears he never applied the brakes before speeding into a sharp curve. >> in reviewing the event recorder, it looks like in our preliminary analysis that the emergency brake was automatically activated after, when the accident was occurring, rather than being initiated by the engineer. >> excessive speed and distracted engineer were the causes of the amtrak derailment of 2015 that killed eight people in philadelphia. amtrak paid out $265 million to settle claims. heavily-government subsidized company has come under fire for not installing the positive train control system on this new 15-mile route which opened monday. the project was on an aggressive construction schedule. in order to receive federal matching fund. some routes already have the system which slows down trains moving too fast but as amtrak points out, ptc is not a requirement yet. >> i know everybody is talking about ptc, positive train control. i want to clarify this point. federal law requires ptc to beç operational on this route by december 31, 2018. all the parties have been and will continue to work together to make it happen. including siemens, the manufacturer of the locomotive, bnsf, amtrak and the washington dot. so we're on track to meet that deadline. reporter: ntsb investigators will be on the scene for another week or so but a final determination is not expect the for self months. david. david: unbelievable. not much solace what the guy had to say. dan springer, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: no, terrible. firing back, investigative reporter firing back accusing the obama administration going soft on iranian terror. why he is defending the validity of his scathing allegations. congressman robert pill -- pit 10 gear called for investigation into the matter next. is this a phone? 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is there president obama himself? there is speculation it might have been cia director brennan, john brennan? >> that is why we need to have the investigation. we need to know how it happened. what we do know a senior individual from treasury and one from dod, both stated that this was being done, that they were prevented from pursuing this investigation. david: now, north carolina, the state that you represent had, back in 2001, it was overshadowed by the 9/11 attacks but there was a hezbollah ring, they were actually smuggling cigarettes, that was busted in north carolina. do you think that there are more hezbollah rings right here in the u.s.? >> yeah, we're told that. we do believe that. they have been utilizing their relationships and their influence throughout the country. i think there is a lot of open source information that points to that. david: there's a guy named imran awan who our viewers may recognize the name because he was the i.t. specialist working for democrats in congress who is under suspicionç of fraud and some other charges. now there is indication that his family ran a car dealership that may have been affiliated with hezbollah. >> thousands of cars, used cars were sold and sent to africa. this is part of the trade base, money laundering efforts, and they have used every means possible to transfer money. part of what i do on our financial services committee, we have a list of funding of the subcommittee, we work with the governments around the world. i just got back from argentina where we had 220 members of parliament and government leaders from 15 countries. hezbollah has been active in south america for over two decade. david: yeah. >> we've got to bust up and be able to prosecute people in the source there in south america. david: congressman, we're glad you're looking into it. thank you for coming on. let us know what happens, all right? 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