denies paying any journalist to publish favorable stories. we also know that glenn simpson met with russian lawyer. she s the woman at the very heart of the controversial from tower meeting with donald, jr., jared kushner and others. but simpson s lawyers say his clients knew nothing of the trump tower gathering. watch. he was shocked and surprised when this matter appeared in newspapers, in the news media this summer. keep in mind the house intel committee is still seeking fusion gps bank records to follow the money. martha: that s how you figure out the story, thank you very much. joining me now republican congressman sean duffy, and matt bennett, former deputy assistant to president clinton. good to have you you here. congressman, let me start with you. what you make of the latest revelations regarding fusion gps and glenn simpson? it reeks to high heaven.
give any wiggle worm to perhaps kick some of this money back? because we know who people who live in these areas may look like they make a lot of money, but when they pay what they pay for their housing and transportation, everything in the states, it really does not make you a rich person to make a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. it doesn t. the senate knocks out salt altogether. the house has knocked out most of it, the senate has knocked out all of it. doesn t leave much negotiating room in the conference. as far as the individual mandate, that will be interesting to follow. i don t know if we should be reforming health care at the same time we are doing a tax bill, putting it all together in one. it can have unintended consequences. right now i m not that helpful when it comes to salt in the state income and property tax deduction. martha: congressman peter king, thank you very much. always good to talk to you, thanks for being here tonight. coming up next, president tr
longer. thank you both, great to see you, jessica we will see you in a little bit. still ahead tonight, roy moore scandal creating some of the reckoning to and democrats. and how they reacted to the past allegations of the allegations to bill clinton. many of them piping up and writing articles and going on television saying they believe juanita broderick. why no? than, the man behind the anti-trump dossier is now speaking out explaining how the media got their hands on it, and it was unfounded. they blame comey. that s one of the questions we will talk about. we will speak about that coming up. house lawmakers are debating. also tonight, what could be a historic, they hope, tax reform bill. the war of words heats up between budget director mick mulvaney and congressman peter king on the elimination of what is known as the salt tax, deducting your state and local taxes has a lot of congressman
colluded, i said he s acting incredibly weirdly with the relation to russia, and he matters a whole lot more than she does right now. martha: we will have to agree to disagree, have to leave it there. we will pick it up another time. still to come tonight, president trump helping to secure the release of these three college basketball players were held as criminals for shoplifting in china. so today they stepped in front of the microphone and we are going to play for you what they had to say the president trump. and happening right now on capitol hill, lawmakers are debating the final details of something that will be very important to you in your life and your tax returns as they get ready for the vote tomorrow. new word of words between congressman in the white house is heating up. new york irishman peter king tweeting this. from sandy to tax reform, mick mulvaney tries to screw new york. he writes on twitter. probably feels inferior because new york subsidizes his
peter, that was fun. martha: he is not a happy man, and he s hearing it from his constituents and we are hearing it in new jersey as well. my home state. where people feel like they get such a huge amount of their tax dollars to support the country. the largest tax college from new york that is put in by the state of new york and they feel like why should they have to take it on the chin by losing the state and local tax deduction, which wasn t part put in place to kind of balance things out a little bit. a couple different things. first of all, i m sure that as candid as peter is, i appreciate that, i worked with him, i very much enjoy doing that. he and i probably agree more than we disagree. he s got a job to do representing his folks and i got a job to do trying to explain some of the things the white house perceives any existing tax code in one of those things, went to the heart of this decision, at least the position we have the state and local taxes again, this is really m