Announcer. Harris news director said stick with news. Dagen i dont know about that. I set i was going to be a singer, my mom said it wasnt going to happen. Harris maybe she will sing for us this hour. President trump again is headed for maralago for christmas. Before he left the white house a few minutes ago, he signed two big bills into law. A bill to keep the government running through the middle of january, january 19th. And the historic tax bill that marks his first major legislative victory. Here he is. I watched the news, you know we had the largest tax cuts in our history just approved. I was going to wait for a formal signing sometime in early january but i watched the news this morning, will he keep his promise, will he sign it by christmas . Will he sign it by christmas . I called downstairs and said get it ready, we have to sign it now. Bottom line is this is the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country. This is bigger than president president reagans many years ago. Im very honored by it. All of this, everything in here is tremendous things for businesses, for people, for the middle class, the workers. Harris big day, john roberts live at the white house. It was a big day, good afternoon to you. This was the president s biggest legislative issue item, the thing he campaigned on, obamacare when first because he wanted to get extra money to put into his tax reform package. Tax reform, the big kahuna for President Trump. He got it done in record amount of time in terms of going from congress down to the white house. Its a huge bill, the white house had to review it but they got it in time for him to put pen to paper this morning and assign it before he took off her christmas break. Listen to more of what the president said. This is the bill right here and we are very proud of it. It will be a tremendous thing for the American People. I didnt want you folks to say that i wasnt keeping my promise. I am keeping my promise, i am signing it before christmas. I said the bill would be on my desk before christmas and you are holding me literally to that so we did a rush job today. Not fancy but its the oval office. No democratic support for this bill, the president would like to change it next year. Hes got big legislative items, some of which will need democratic support. One of those is rebuilding americas infrastructure. The president tweeted at some point for the good of the country we will start working with the democrats in a bipartisan fashion. Infrastructure will be a good place to start after having foolishly spent 7 trillion in the middle east, its time to start rebuilding our country. The president has talked about the positive effect of tax reform already, boeing, at t, comcast, wells fargo all either giving out christmas bonuses are increasing their minimum wage to 15 an hour, boeing actually saying it was going to increase charitable contributions because of that. While it is possible the president could get bipartisan support for infrastructure, a couple of other agenda items, it will be much more difficult to attract democratic support. Immigration reform, though he does want to get that daca fixed on, and welfare reform. Not likely a lot of democrats will want to sign on to welfare reform but like president clinton did in 1996, President Trump could use the reconciliation process to get welfare reform through on a simple majority. We will see where that goes, no question a lot to come for 2018. 2017 was a busy enough for you . Just wait a while. Harris youve got it. Add water and stir. John roberts, thank you very much, Merry Christmas, my friend. You know what im noticing is kind of a trend, the president isnt looking to just get daca. Hes not looking just for tax cuts. Its a reformation. That makes things more difficult to get. Youve heard immigration reform, welfare reform, why is that . Reform as above his as a bun washington, changing the law to make it what you wanted to be. Thats the framing of it. The thing that struck me watching the video from the president as it came in, we talked about this this morning, i was a little bit confused that they were going to have this not to live, not dramatic signing ceremony with the president by himself in the oval office, it seemed like a big missed opportunity. For the white house and then we heard what the president actually said, his explanation made perfect sense to me, i wanted to get this thing signed as soon as possible, keep the prechristmas promise, get this thing implemented as soon as possible and then they said theres going to be another ceremony coming up in the new year to remind everyone about tax reform and my recommendation for the white house, go out and find a middle class families from across the country that are going to benefit from this tax reform bill, it wont be hard to find them because 80 of americans, have them surrounding the president and drive that point home. Harris i wonder if the republicans arent in the risk of looking at the Mission Accomplished banner. You heard the president say, others among lawmakers who helped pass the tax legislation, february 1st is when you start to feel that. Why dont you do it on february 2nd . Have everybody with their paychecks, open up that paycheck and start to see it. Lisa if i were the republicans in President Trump i will be pushing this as the massive local win that it absolutely is because the media is not going to give them credit. They need to go out there, claim that because this is a huge banner win. This is something theyve been trying to get done for 30 years. Its something proponents have been trying to get done for 40 years. The repeal of the individual mandate, something republicans have been promising for eight years now. This is a massive win and for president who the media has continued to criticize, this is a president who has demonstrated he keeps his promises. You can go down the list, immigration, moving the embassy to jerusalem, pushing back on isis, confirming neil gorsuch. The list goes on about him keeping his promises. Dagen the Regulatory Reform has been a huge thing driving the stock market this year. One new regulation, 22 regulations gone. Talk about a government takeover of student loans, the internet, essentially health care in this country. A lot of that had been rolled back. Harris my question is specifically about risk and when i hear you saying, you dont buy into that at all, just go out and get it done. Dagen this is such a huge win, i followed each baby step of them putting this plan together starting with that adjustment tax that there were so many dumb ideas that were thrown out, producing 401 k contributions, changing the way Capital Gains or handles for retail investments. Those things didnt end up in this and the fact that they coalesced around something that is progrowth, that hands are tax cut to 80 or more american americans, it is astonishing. Harris jessica, before i come to you is when did democrats jump into the water is now . The president talked earlier just moments ago about what he has learned in terms of working with people in congress and shaping relationships. Lets watch that. Its been a process, a pretty great process. I do believe that the fact that i have gotten to know so many of these people, many of these people i have to say, i am not saying all but many of these people are great people. That truly love this country. I think that helps. I think youll see that in this legislation. Harris you saw the president talking about when the time is for bipartisanship. He fully anticipates infrastructure, he said that will be the easiest thing he does. When did democrats jump in. Jessica i think they certainly jump in if infrastructure is whats next. Well have to talk to paul ryan who wants well welfare reform. If you get into a fight with democrats about entitlement reform after youve had this arguably huge win on the tax bill, i think that doesnt bode well. Donald trump knows, he has an infrastructure guy, he works with democrats his own life, he is a new yorker and we are full of democrats. To your question to lisa about the risk here dagen i want to Say Something about infrastructure, this is critically important. You have several trillion dollars, of money, of profits overseas that with a 15. 5 repatriation tax and the tax reform bill, if that money comes back here, its taxed immediately and has been talked about by major politicians, thats one way they could pay for infrastructure and that is why the democrats wont get on board with it. That would hand the president e win. Lets get ready for a nancy pelosi pothole. Jessica we are all acutely aware of the fact that we have ten democrat senators up for reelection in states that when blood red for donald trump. Heidi heitkamp got on air force one and stood up there on the same stage with donald trump to appeal to north dakota to say i understand you voted for this man and some of his agenda does appeal to yo you. Dagen she is proposed 9,000 tax hike jessica do you know how many lies come out im pretty confident that she can read numbers and we know what we need to do to win and some of that might be to stand on stage with donald trump and Work Together on infrastructure. Guy she voted stood on stae with him and voted no. Harris it looks like democrats have their work cut out for them in 2018. They have failed to deliver on ethics for daca, the Obama Era Program that protects thousands of undocumented immigrants from deportation brought to as chil. Members of the hispanic caucus, a 31 member group of the house and senate gathered in Chuck Schumers office. Trying to push him to do more for those socalled dreamers. It reportedly got pretty heated. Congressional leaders have signaled they will revisit the daca issue and the new year. The program ends march 5th. You have another looming deadline. Lisa . Lisa march 5th is forever in congressional terms. We are so far away from that, its like a year away. I think thats why this isnt getting done right now. I would have to guess that speaker ryan and Mitch Mcconnell gave assurances to nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer that something will get done on daca but if you are President Trump, this is the opportunity to leverage daca and get some of his immigration priorities it done. Do not push for funding for the border wall, not push for some of these principles he campaigned on and sever his priorities. Guy i think the contours for a deal on daca are there. When this first arose as an issue, i went back and looked at that bill that passed the senate but not the house during the end of the Obama Administration. In that bill which bill which all of a sudden democrats supported, it called for 700 miles of completed fencing, a physical barrier and a doubling of border agents. I think if you are going to say lets do this, which i think is fair and the right thing to do, lets get some Border Security as well. Heres what democrats are already on the record supporting, i think thats how this gets done. Harris heres how we know the president has that in mind, when he spoke at his last cabinet meeting, we think for the year, we never know. He specifically talked about how he wants to go down and visit the wall and see the prototypes theyve been working on. In arizona, we had it on outnumbered overtime about a month ago, they were choosing, we got to see those prototypes. The president has said thats next on his todo list and wouldnt it be its kind of sequential for him to pull that into the legislation they are working on. Dagen whats going on in mexico to give him support for his idea to crackdown on illegal immigration, with this is going to be the deadliest year in modern history for mexico in terms of murders. You have stories of bodies hanging off bridges and tourist destinations. This teenager killed because he said something negative on social media about her drug cartel kingpin. I think that resonates with the American People and to Nancy Pelosis point, daca, i said this on this very couch, she literally was more concerned about 700,000 people under daca than the 140 Million People that tax reform impacts. I think in terms of optics, that kind of says it all. Its a sliver of people in this country versus giant swath of this country that she really harris at the same time, as much as that may be true, the dreamers dont feel that way at all. Remember when she was bumrushed at the lectern almost two months ago now, they were not happy with her focus and what it has been. Even though you may feel like theres a sliver, the sliver isnt even happy. Jessica what we do know which rarely happens, politicians on both sides of the aisle are making daca their priority. Jeff flake said when he went into negotiations to get out yes vote on the tax reform bill, he wanted the provisions for daca and he got a little steam rolled that front. I do see this happening, i agree that it should be a pass for republicans. For the safety of americans and messaging for democrats, we do o to have some enhance Border Security measures that we can say hey, we heard you. We know how you reacted and we know whats going on in some of the sanctuary cities. Harris that would be a little revisionist history. We didnt hear from democrats when that was going on. Lisa Hillary Clinton was criticized for not addressing illegality during the campaign. Jessica donald trump certainly won in part to the harsh rhetoric about Illegal Immigrants who come here to hurt people, not the 11 Million People who are here and working hard and want their kids to have a better life. Harris they may use it as i am hearing because there is some shifting and so how they handle issues like families. 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Dagen a growing number of republicans demanding answers after investigative reports claim the Obama Administration gave a free pass to has blessed Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering operation. Ended it to make sure the Iran Nuclear Deal stayed on track. Nebraska republican added in his letter if the administration did so in order to shore up this foolish nuclear deal with iran, it was a mistake of historical proportions. A mistake the consequences of which reach from the battlefield of syria to the streets of omah omaha. These are incredible charges but i think for anybody who feels like this was a bad deal to begin with this makes it smell even worse. Guy you start to wonder, where there are no depths to which the Obama Administration was unwilling to go in order to pursue this terrible nuclear deal with an Iranian Regime . That cheats all the time, it was a lopsided, terrible deal and apparently the Obama Administration was able to let hezbollah, a terrorist organization off the hook for a Drug Trafficking ring which they used to call money for terrorist activity and we turn to apply d eye to it deliberately. Which is extraordinary. Thats the Foreign Policy side of it. Part of the reason this story really bothers me, theres a great column today in the new york post, tracking the Media Coverage or lack thereof of this particular story, it came out in politico, a meticulously sourced, multiple name sources, documents that back up this story and it has been greeted with near silence for most of the mainstream media. Dagen is except for the wall street journal editorial page. And obama treasury official telling the House Foreign Affairs committee that under the Obama Administration, hezbollah investigations were tamped down for fear of rocking the boat with iran. Harris this is the administration they gave us the talking point look how long it took us, not the decade some democrats said it would take to take them down, but look how long it did take us. We were under