birmingham press conference. as you have more and more women coming forward with additional sex allegations against him. also today the senatorial franken is apologizing after this news anchor in los angeles accused him of groping her a decade and now they are being felt on capitol hill. here's the photo that's now being circulated. and yes indeed this was then private citizenal franken hands that quite frankly shouldn't have been there. she revealed this picture showing his hands over her chest as she was asleep. on top of all of that the white house today is holding first on camera briefing at the white house in two weeks now that the president is back from his big trip in asia. so we have all of that happening. but let's go straight to capitol hill because we have breaking news. moments ago house of representatives passed plan to overhaul the nation's tax system. this is the first step in what could be not just the first major legislative victory for president trump but historic act from congress. keep in mind the last significant tax reform was passed 31 years ago. so let's go straight to our guy on the hill, phil is standing by. phil hattingly this is huge huge news for house republicans, not a massive surprise but talk me through what's happening. >> yeah, you heard things like we have this locked up, no drama. and i think if you've been watching the republican congress over the past 10 ments no drama is bit after surprise when house votes. but 227 to 205. that was a lot of room. they needed 218 votes in the game where one or two votes is usually the margin of error here. having nine or 10, that's a big big step. but i think, brooke,you made a key point here. this is but one step of a multi step process. and while house republicans are certainly celebrating and acknowledging this is the first time in 31 years, senate republicans are trying to see what happens next. already seeing a lot of complications. >> all right. phil. we hear the hustle and bustle behind you. it's a big day for house republicans all eyes now onto the senate. i'm sure we'll come back to you. but i have a business analyst alexis glick joining me as well. everybody is turning to the senate. there are annul of names to watch who have myriad concerns based on different issues, right sochlt can you just talk me through some of the biggest sticking points on the senate version? >> yes. absolutely. so here is the biggest thing, right. you recognize when you look at the bill that just passed if you were actually, whether it's the cbo estimator any one of the estimates you've seen out there, the line's share of the tax breaks are advantageous for corporate america, whether it's a combination of reduction in the corporate tax rate or the rep repat ration of funds sitting overseas. >> forgive me, this is a big day here's speaker of the house paul ryan. >> powers of the status quo in this town are so strong, yet 227 men and women of this congress broke through that today. that is powerful. of course, i want to thank not just the members who made this possible today, i want to thank the president, his administration, and i want to thank our partners in the senate who are doing their work as well. from the very start we said failure is not an option. and the president and his team have worked so well with us, he's been tremendous partner. and i have to say how proud i am of this conference. tax reform is so very hard. but we know there are people really struggling in this country. we know that we are just coming through a decade of real economic anxiety. and we know that this is a nation that has so much more potential that is not yet been tapped. that's what this day is about. that's what getting this done is about. this is about giving hard working taxpayers bigger paychecks and take home pay. families struggling peace of mind. getting economy to grow faster to bigger wages, more jobs, and put america in the driver's seat in the global economy once again. it's about giving people hope and new opportunity. and it's about making sure that america continues to be the best place in the world, the best place in the world, to live, to thrive, to start a business, to create a job, to grow, to construct. we have a long road ahead of us, this sa big milestone. we have a long road ahead of us and time line to get this done by the end of the year. we have the senate right now working on this. we are excited going through the legislative process, conference and making the bill even better. but most importantly i'm excited on behalf of the american people waiting to see us get this done. last thing i'll say is this, we collectively asked the country in 2016 to give us a chance to work for them. we asked the people of this country who are struggling give us a chance to make good-bye you. give us a chance to make lives better for you. give us a chance to improve your life. this conference today did one of the greatest things we could possibly do to make good on that promise and i'm so proud. right now i just want to thank one of the women of our leaders of our congress. she has been at the forefront of making sure we get our message out, making sure we communicate, and have two ears and one mouth and use them in that proportion. ladies and gentlemen, our chair women of the conference, rogers. >> so we'll stay on this picture. let's go back to alexis glick. just to be clear, speaker ryan alluded to this. they have a bit of a road ahead. not a huge surprise this did pass the house. we know senate is working on their own version and that needs to pass and build the bridge between the two. we know that the house republicans want to be able to lock in a number of their members so that those may not have want to wiggle out of the yes vote the second go around once they take a look at what the senate passes. just to make sure everyone who is watching are all on the same page. but we were talking senate version. and you were talking sticking points before i had to interrupt you. please continue. >> no worries. yeah, so look if you look at this pass bill, about 75% of the house bill go to corporate america, go to businesses, wealthy individuals in this country. about a quarter of those benefits go to individuals who are the majority of this country. of course 92% of them would get a tax cut. but the issue is whether there is a phase out or not. as we head to the senate bill we'll be talking about whether or not the repeal of the affordable care act should be part and parcel of it. it's something that senator susan collins has come out if that's a part of it i can't vote yes. so one is this whole issue of the health care mandate. and that credit. and how that influences outcome. the other thing is there are other differences. for example, on the house bill you could only deduct mortgage interest up to $500,000. in the senate bill that remains at a million. when you look at medical expenses there are differences on what those deductions are allowed on the house bill ser versus the senate bill. here's what i'll say. it is a big day for congressman ryan. it's a big day because they are making a move in a direction because frankly whether you look across both members of congress or whether you look at wall street, the stock market, business leaders, there is an enormous sense of urgency that they get tax reform done. the question is will they get tax reform done by the end of the year and can that stimulate job growth. and ultimately how big is the cost going to be to the deficit? you know when you look at the cbo estimates of $1.7 trillion, that is an issue. right. that's issue number one. but also issue number two is we have looked at a stock market that has climbed north of 20% in anticipation of tax reform, if they cannot now deliver tax reform and give whatnot only americans are looking for, but what businesses and small businesses in particular, 95% of our businesses in the united states are small businesses. they create 70% of the jobs in the united states. they need this tax reform bill because we need to stimulate job growth. we need to get gdp well above 2%, and we need to ensure that everyone is sharing in ha piece of this tax reform strategy much like we saw back three decades ago in the reagan administration. >> sure. would it be a boom for larger corporations, yes. but talk to someone like senator ron johnston and he's no so thrilled how this would effect small businesses. you said collins hesitant although johnston says he wants to come around to yes. thank you so much. we'll come back to taxes in a second. but this other huge story has been breaking in washington as well. this recent ground swell of sexual allegations in hollywood and across to washington d.c. radio news anchor is accusing senatorial franken whil she was asleep. posted this photo from this incident when she was back on this uso to your back in 2006. she also spoke out publicly just a short while ago. >> he needs to practice the kissing scene. i'm like, i blew him off. we don't need to practice, it's a quick little thing. then he persisted, no, we need to practice the kissing scene, okay,al, you turn your head right i'll turn my head right. we got this. whatever. and he kept persisting. al, this isn't s nl, we are not really going to kiss, and he kept persisting, it reminded me of the harvey weinstein tape when you heard the girl for the nypd and persistent and badgering and relent less. so i was just like, okay, fine, just so he would shut up, you know. and just sort of came at me and we did the line. and before you know it you kind of get close and put his hand on the back of my head and mashed his lips against my physical and stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. and you will i can remember is his lips were really wet and it was slimy, and in my mind i called him fish lips the rest of the trip, because that's what it reminded me of, i don't know why. and he stuck his tongue down my mouth, and i remember i pushed him off with my hands, and i just remember i almost punched him because every time i see him my hands clench into fists, and that's probably why. i said if you ever do that again i'm not going to be so nice the second time and i walked away from him and walked out and i wanted to find a bathroom and rinse my mouth out. because i was just disgusted, you know. >> they give you cds as you leave that have, you no he, behind the scenes photos of you on the entire tour they give you when you leave. and i get this, and i open it up when i get home, i probably opened tt next day and it was a photo offal doing his, you know, this on my breast, like looking at the camera, just kind of smirking and smiling, hey, look at me. and i took that as the final like ha ha, i got the last laugh, you know. i mean he knew i wouldn't see it until i got home. and you know was away from everybody else. i mean, yeah, there is no reason i shouldn't accept his apology. you know, sure. >> so let's go to mj lee, cnn national politics reporter on this story. and so we know that senator franken initially put handout a couple line statement, and then you know sometime later several paragraphs, including the i'm sorry out of the gate. >> yeah, brooke, and first of all let me tell you we are standing outside offal franken office and we have been here all morning. we have not seen him yet. so we have heard so far from the victim, obviously, very vivid and disturbing details. we've heard those words directly from her. we have not seen senator franken yet. but, you are right he did put out a little while ago a lengthy statement apologizing for what he d i went to read a part of that statement. he said, the first thing i want to do is apologize, i don't know what was in my head when i took that picture. but it doesn't matter. will is no excuse. i look at it now and i feel disgusted with myself. it isn't funny. it's completely inappropriate. it's obvious how leeann would feel violated by that picture. he goes on to say, while i don't remember the rehearsal for the skit as leeann does, i understand we need to listen to and believe women's experiences. i am asking that an ethics investigation be undertaken and i'll gladly cooperate. now, the statement is significant for a couple of reasons. the first one is what you alluded to, brooke, is when he first, senator franken was asked about these allegations when the allegations first came out this morning, his statement was a lot shorter. now this new statement is much longer, much more extensive, and much more remorseful, and i think goes to show that he clearly recognized that that initial statement was not enough. and the second point, of course, is that franken himself is now saying that he'll cooperate with the investigation and he thinks it's appropriate. i can tell you having been here all day, this is the same message that we are hearing from all of franken's colleagues spoken out so far. they agree that his actions were clearly inappropriate and disturbing. and that an investigation is going to be appropriate. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said this, senator minority leader chuck schumer has said this, and others, democrats and republicans all agreeing that this investigation will be necessary. and, brooke, just to point out something that i know you understand really well. this is so important, because we now have a sitting member of congress being named by a woman for past conduct, for sexual harassment allegations. up to this point a lot of allegations being made, but often these members were not actually being named or these members were former members who are no longer on capitol hill. so the fact that this morning we haval name, that we have a current sitting member being named, that is potentially really significant. >> and by the way, you are the one, you know, who has been covering all this sexual harassment investigations on capitol hill and the cries for official training and how it just hasn't been done right for years and years and years. and it was congress women jackie sphere who told her own me too story, speaking other day about how two members of congress, and i don't thinkal franken is part of the two who are active members who have been accused of sexual harassment. and so in the wake of this al franken story we have reaction from the congresswoman herself. >> i think there should be an investigation. then we'll look at the conclusions of the investigation and make decisions then. >> do you feel this about ray moore? >> i feel they should both be treated equally. >> i think the president can't speak from a position of independence. >> what was your reaction when you saw that picture today? >> and there she goes, just an important piece of this, congress women jackie sphere. thank you so much. i have borger and emily jane fox sitting next to me. i want to get to what the congresswoman was saying about how the president is not going there because of his own personal issues with regard to allegations of sexual assault. but just out of the gate the fact that you have gloria, you know, mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer, right, from the left and right, both saying there needs to be ethics investigation. i realize that this was years and years ago, the story, and he was a private citizen at the time, but can he survive this? >> it remains to be seen. i mean, we should say leeann did not call for him to step down or say he ought to step down. when she was telling they were strg ethic committee investigation, she said that's on him. >> and he said yes i'll participate. >> yes. we have to look at the context in which all of this occurring, which is moore. judge moore. and that has been, you know, brewing and percolating, whatever you want to say, for days and days and days. so now then you have a democrat. and these charges. and i can be sure of one thing, which is this is not the last. this is just -- >> the last which? >> the last woman who will come out against congress. this is scratching the surface. he was not a member of the congress at the time this occurred. he was just a comedian. >> right. >> we'll see if her coming out gives other women sort of, you know, more purpose and allows them to talk about people who are currently in positions of power who could effect them. franken has no effect on her at this particular time in her life. it's a little bit more difficult for women who were working in the congress. but i think what you are going to see is more and more on this as we see around the country. congress is always a lagging indicator and in this it is as well. >> she mentioned when you read leea leeann's piece, i think one of the reasons she spoke out, jackie sphere was on radio show, okay if she can tell her story, i can as well. what do you think? >> it's interesting what you think about what judge moore and his supporters are thinking about as you watch this, if he does continue on in the election and win a seat in the u.s. election, this is the climate he'll enter into. and he's watching what they are saying on both sides in these allegations senator franken what are they going to do allegations against judge moore. and that's an important thing for the people that support judge moore. this is the compliment he's going to enter into and it's not for giving for anybody for any kind of allegation. and certainly the ones against judge moore are more serious. >> can i bring a legal voice in. joining us as well from a legal perspective, you know, this was something that when you looked at the statement, that the more lengthily statement that senator franken put out she doesn't remember the kissing incident that she was does, that was 11 years ago, two years prior to him becoming a senator. we've heard from the left and right ethics investigation. he said he would welcome that and participate. what do you make of the next moves and his whole i don't totally -- he apologizes but says i don't totally remember it the way she does. >> i think leeann tweeden today when she gave her statement she comes an across as credible. gives a lot of detail. but, brooke, in like most of these cases ayou are talking about statute of limitations has passed so there won't be criminal charges per se. so it's all about what happens now with his jb as sitting member of congress. and it's also really important, because you are talking about when people like gretchen carlson comes out and say we new legislation in the workforce, and you are talking about going before congress and ask for that legislation. so it's important that yes there is an investigation. and perhaps there may be other allegations against members of congress that come out. it's really important that these investigations take place. that members of congress are held accountable for their actions just like any other private citizen. >> yes. and what about the president? i guess i'm left wondering, and gloria here is my question to you, questions have been shouted at the president, as he was coming and going when meeting with the house republicans before the big vote on the hill. part of the reason he hasn't reported on the ray moore, as i mentioned his own personal, let's rip the bandage off, his own issue with women coming forward through the years alleging sessi alleging sexual assault against the now president. how long can the white house sit on this? >> you'll see sarah huckabee sanders come out and perhaps she will be the house piece for the president. >> especially as a woman. >> don't forget, during the campaign when he was confronted with all these women, who are now by the way come out again if they haven't already, and say what about us, are you for getting us? he said they were lying. he said he didn't believe them and it was completely fabricated. so it's very difficult for him to say to moore who was saying the same thing that this is fabricated, et cetera, et. it's very difficult for him to say, well you should have believed me, that they were lying, but, i want him to step a side. everybody understands this is difficult for him politically. however, i would argue this is about something larger than donald trump. and it is about the republican party. and it is about the values of a country. and it is about women and the way women are treated in the workplace. >> yes. >> and elsewhere. and that presidents are supposed to speak on these kinds of issues. and if he can't speak on that issue, his silence is very telling. >> agree. very curious to see how sarah huckabee sanders handles this. first press briefing since this asia trip. so what she says and maybe what she doesn't say will be quite telling. ladies stay with me. live pictures from inside the breaking room. also, as we have been talking about this senate candidate ray moore, he is also expected to step behind that very microphone there in birmingham at the faith leaders press conference. as 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the whole thing. but one we are watching is johnston rejecting the current plan although he has admitted to the president in a call after fact that he wants to come around to yes. the other senator we are watching is maine senator susan collins. she is concerned as well. she's against adding the obamacare mandate repeal because she says it will hurt the middle class while johnson says it hurts small businesses and favors corporations. >> i believe that if we start getting into health care issues with the individual mandate, that we send a very mixed message. >> i'm not for the current version. what i want to see is the information to prove the kind of economic growth we are going to get with all of our tax revisions. >> so we've got steven moore, cnn economic analyst and former adviser to the trump campaign and dylan is with us analyst. dylan, let me start with you, we heard it first from senator collins, concerns with the individual mandate, part of the plan stands right now that would mean that health care premiums would go up which would negate any savings from tax cuts for middle class americans. how big of a problem is that as a saling pint foint for republi? >> that's a big problem. really industrial policy. tax policy dictates how you want capital to flow, how you don't want capital to flow, how you basically deal with resources. and i think what's challenging about this particular piece of legislation, it's not hand es in approaching the taxation as what it is which is a policy for how we want capital to flow and reads more like a series of favors and ideas and policy positions that range from setting precedent for abortion to sneaking health care. it doesn't feel genuine to most people in actual intention to reform in a healthy way the tax policy. and that's not to get lost in a specific debate about middle income level or this or that. it's that this actual tax bill at least to me, steven, doesn't really read as a genuine effort to reform the tax code so much as it is a series of favors and out lays. i mean, am i misreading it? >> go ahead, steven. >> first of all i have to get this off my chest. it's pretty rich for democrats to say we can't have this health care change because it will lead to increase in premiums. brooke,right now i'm sitting in arizona where health premiums under obamacare has more than doubled. we have seen explosiveness in costs. anything that holds down will be a big improvement. >> being genuine, i'm not disagreeing with you, obamacare i agree with what you just said. i just find it peculiar that we are trying to layer all of this into a so-called industrial tax bill or tax reform as opposed to being honest with each other about, yeah, you know what health care is too expensive and obamacare did make things too expensive. but what are we doing? it doesn't feel honest to me. >> go ahead and respond. >> dylan the answer to that is this is a tax on low income americans. and average person who pays that obamacare tax earns about $35,000 a year. so it's a very regressive tax. i think republicans have the upper hand here. but let's not lose the big picture here, brooke. this is a big day for republicans. i've waited 30 years for this moment for big change in the tax system. now i think dylan you are right, this is not the sweeping tax reform that i might have liked to have seen. but it certainly does make american businesses more competitive by lowering the rates. the other thing it does let's not forget the average middle class family is going to save about 2,000 to $2500 a year, if you are making $60,000 a year that's pretty significant increase in your take home pay. >> what about small businesses, because you hear the concern specifically from ron johnston saying that, great, the larger corporations would benefit from this. but this hurts the little guy. >> yeah. so i think johnston has a point here. look, this is not ha finished product. it is something that is still being negotiated and debeated. and i'm with ron johnston, i'd like to see -- look t as he said 90% of the jobs are cree it aed by small businesses. so i'd like to see that rate lowered. and i hope as they move through this process, remember, brooke, heavy lift now is getting this through the senate. whereas you said there is only 52 republicans, and you've got two that are already voicing some skepticism. but i'm actually feeling somewhat confident that they are going to iron out a lot of this. i heard your interview with alexis talking about the differences between the two bills. there are differences, but they are not -- i think they are very easily compromised. >> what's unclear to me politically, brooke, how the republican party gets buyin from new york, california? there are states where these sort of the working millionaires, if you will, so people high earning, but not necessarily high wealth, really get nailed in the current iteration, whether it's with the salt exemption, which i know we'll see if that happens, whether it's the home interest deduction. and so you are asking republicans from new york, republicans from california, republicans from illinois, for that matter, from where there is that working, that particular category of people who are part of the republican base to basically take a tax increase in order for 10% of the tax benefit to go to 1-tenth percent of the population to repealing state tax. aspects of this that strike me as illogical. >> go ahead, steven, sorry. >> hold on, dylan. i'm the state and local tax deduction which certainly is there is a lot of controversy over this, by the way, not a single republican senator from the six states that are most adversely affected, california, new york, new jersey and illinois, and minnesota. >> but look if you look at getting rid of the state and local tax deduction, almost half of the benefit of the state and local tax deduction right now, dylan, goes to the top 1%. so if you want to make the system more progress, get rid of that state and local tax deduction. by the way, i think one of the effects of that, brooke, if it passes it's going to force the high tax states like new york and california, my home state of illinois, they will have to cut taxes unless people won't want to live in those states anymore. >> which would be a huge problem. i want you to weigh in on this. breaking news, we are tolding that the budget director mick mulvaney is likely to be head of the director, first dylan to you your reaction. >> the fact that the cfpb continues to function and have any relevance is a huge win. and i think that the fact that they are looking at somebody like him to do it i think is ultimately a dpood thing. i'm actually surprised there hasn't been a more aggressive move to dissolve this entity all together. >> i agree with that. brook, i know mick mulvaney, i'm a good friend of his. he's done a great job as budget director. i'm somewhat surprised that he would leave the budget director job for this job. because i think the budget director job is probably more important. and a lot of republicans would like to get rid of the consumer finance protection board. already eight other agencies in the federal government that regulate consumer finances. so we'll see how that develops. and by the way it will be interesting to see who the new budget director is. >> we shall see. pain they'll talk about this in the white house briefing. i'm sure someone will ask about the mick mulvaney move coming up in a couple of minutes. thank you so much. any moment now, as well, em battled senate ray moore is expected to take to the podium and speak up in birmingham. we'll take you to alabama coming up. what started as a passion... ...has grown into an enterprise. that's why i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. now, i'm earning unlimited 2% cash back on every purchase i make. everything. what's in your wallet? any minute now beawe are expecting to hear from ray moore in alabama. senate can date. now you have two additional accusers coming forward against ray moore telling their stories to the "washington post." so let's go to a woman covering this from the ground there in alabama. anna claire is back with us together investigator reporter with media group. so anna claire, thank you for being with me. i know you have talked to women, the accusers up to the "washington post" i believe up to seven. but he's about to speak. and we know he got a huge vote of confidence ens from alabama republican party. do we have any idea what judge moore is about to say at this press conference minutes from now? >> no, we don't. he has showed no indication that he is interested in stepping down. i mean, alabama politics, you never know what's going to happen, but i think he's probably in this for the long haul. so i'll be interested to see what he has to say. >> what are the -- you've read all these different "washington post" pieces, i know, of course as i have. what are some of the common threads, themes in these accuser stories? >> i think a lot of them is he seems to be willing to talk to any young women he starts out flirting with them, telling them that they are pretty, that they have nice eyes. he moves on from there. i mean, there is a variety of behaviors he's been accused of doing. people i talk to said even when they seem uncomfortable or don't seem to reciprocate his advances, that he just keeps on. >> and one woman, which we haven't talked about enough is his wife, kayla moore. i have been reading as much as i can on her. of course she is standing by her husband through all of this as she has for years and years through other controversies more on local level in alabama. it's my understanding they met when she was 24. although i met something that he had eyes for her years before. tell us more about his wife. >> yeah, he says that he saw her some years before they got married. he's not very clear and he didn't spoke how many years. saw her dancing in a dance recital. as far as we have been able to piece together, might have been in high school at that point or junior college because recital was at a junior color near gadsen and she was 24 and he was 38. and she has stood by him. posted on facebook in support of him. she's released a list of pastors that she said supported him. so she just been very, very supportive this whole time. >> anna claire, thank you so much. i have emily jane fox here with me as well. again, waiting for ray moore to speak. waiting for sarah huckabee sanders to speak over at the white house to hopefully address this story as well. the president has been silent. his daughter has not. talk to me about ivanka trump. >> so yesterday she said in an interview with the associated press that there is a special place in hell for people accused of crimes like this. and no reason not to believe the women. it was a very strong statement. >> special place in hell. >> yeah, that is also a line that almost said on verbatim to meet the press. which i noted was interesting. it's a very strong statement but some statement that someone who she works with also gave several days before. it's a great thing that you came out so strongly against this. certainly only person in the trump family who has said anything about these allegations. sthees a senior member of the administration. so it is notable that she said something. it was seven days after the first report. she has given an interview on fox news. she had been at several events pushing tax reforl and hadn't said anything. this is someone who has spoken her opinion about things like the charlottesville protest on her own twitter account and she didn't do that, she waited seven days on this. i myself have asked for comment and she waited until yesterday. >> here's my question, if ivanka trump was sitting in front of me, why believe the accusers in rau ray moore story but not with regard to her father? >> what is the answer to that? this is not something that you can square as a logical thing. you can't believe certain accusers and not other accusers. her emotions and attachment to her father is not logical. so who knows if she believes the accusers against her father. she certainly would never admit if she did. and i think that there is obviously some familial blinding going on when it comes to those allegations. >> faith jenkins, we know that ray moore's name cannot be removed from the ballot. what happens if he wins? >> well, there is the option, brooke, that the senators could vote to expel him. that hasn't happened in recent history, but it is an option. requires two thirds of the majority vote. there is a question. the alabama voters are well aware of the allegations and the controversy going into the voting booth next month. so there is this issue of are senators in washington going to over turn the alabama electorate the decision, the decision they made, and so there is the issue there. legally they could. but would they do that? so i 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