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why rob portman is hopeful. mick mulvaney is warning. and steny hoyer is fighting mad. they re all here and only here. we begin with blake burman with the latest. blake? it s clear here in the halls of the capitol as house republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. there s a host of issues to work through. earlier today, the club for growth, an influential republican group put out a note saying they have issues with four different things on the individual side of this house republican plan. here they are. top tax bracket for millionaires with the possibility that those that make in the low million dollar range can see the top end taxed north of 45%. they take issue with a portion of pass-through profits would be taxed 25%. growth. you had big deficits. it wasn t tax cuts that did it. cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil: but you left out ronald reagan. i know. deficits didn t grow with him. the first two years ....
Daca illegals. and there s talk as well that a lot of democrats holding their nose would be open to some sort of, you know, border wall funding, physical or whatever. so therein lies the deal. not so fast. because both extremes and both sides are still picking on the other and saying each has caved or each isn t caving enough. it s a mess. eric mcpike can make sense of it. erin, it would seem you have the makings of something right there. if the president is open to citizenship, thereby alienating his base if chuck schumer re-visited potential funding for a wall that he took away. you re off to something substantial. what do you think? remember, this is his opening bid. neil: whose opening bid? the white house s opening bid with this big frame work. these frame work that the white ....
To e get back to we want folks to contribute to the economy and move away from chain migration and towards a merit based. we are interested in folks coming into this country who can contribute. i don t think that ever qualifies. so that world view is coloring the overall debate. i would just add we re 37 hours into this shutdown. we re 37 hours into the shutdown. president trump was working the phones yesterday. but today we have no guidance yet from the white house press staff about how president trump is spending his day. we don t know who he is calling. we don t know if he s going to meet in person with lawmakers. even as we can see the senate con seens, the house is set to gavel in an hour. it s been radio silence from the president s press staff. thank you very much from the white house on that. we re going to start discussion now with eric mcpike, adviser for media group of america, and jeremy peters, reporter for the ....
Contributor and white house correspondent for the pbs news hour charlie sykes, msnbc contributor and author of how the right lost its mind and eric mcpike, from the media group of america. the headlines today used the word racist more times today than we ve probably ever seen across this country, if you don t mind me mentioning your haitian descent and what you may be thinking about these statements as well as putting on your other hat as a reporter. the outrage continues, this is essentially day three of people sitting back and thinking about what the president said. it was very hurtful for haitian americans, not just people of haitian ancestry, but also haitian officials. the haiti ambassador told me specifically that the haitian government summoned u.s. officials to come before them and say, what is going on, what did the president mean by this? and today i got i letter from a ....
The democrat, the lieutenant governor, this attorney, justin fairfax who is exciting a lot of democrats could win it. could be a split state office slate there at the top in virginia. neil: we ll watch closely. fast-moving times. eric mcpike, thanks. what will happen for you and your money? we re covering this at 8:00 p.m. tonight. as long as it takes, including president of the united states speaking from asia on north korea. a lot happening concurrently. nobody gets better the intersection of wall street with your money and politics. we think that it matters to you. we all pay taxes more than get involved in the markets. we marry both. we will cover both. we ll be there as late as it takes because water told that pizza will be on the company. all right. plenty of pleasant tries back and forth in japan and south korea. china is a crucial player here. what is the president getting out of china in those talks? ....