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Spending morgue than $1.5 trillion over the first ten years of this bill. you re stlarting to see some republican resistance around that. jeff flake, the senator from arizona, republican, just on the senate floor a few minutes ago, saying look this just kicks the can down the road and will add to the deficit and that s a real problem. i think you re going to see this bill evolve and change over the course of the next hours even but definitely days. they re supposed to mark this up next week and vote it on before thanksgiving. that is an incredibly, incredibly tight time line for something that is going to have such a broad impact across the country, chris. yeah, and that presumably you want to give people actually more than a day or two to actually read through before they decide whether or not they re going to vote for or against. hallie jackson, kacie hunt, thanks to both of you. here s how republicans pitched their plan earlier today. this is it. this is a very important and spe ....
Of course, we say plan, it s more of a draft really. the tax cuts and jobs act is expected to go through a series of changes as republicans furiously try to find votes but the legislative clock tick-tick-ticking away. this is one economic event of many. the president earlier had an event to promote jobs. later today, he s scheduled to introduce his nominee for federal reserve chair. but it may be passage of this tax reform package that determines whether republicans hold congress in 2018. for more on the politics and what s inside the package, we have chief white house correspondent hallie jackson, kacie hunt of course as usual chasing republican members of congress all day on capitol hill. ha hallie, let s start over there, we re about to see the president with republicans at the white house. the last time this happened for a big ticketed agenda item was the ill-fated victory lap over health care. what s the president s role going to be pushing this agenda? you re talking about th ....
Presidents club, we ve also seen in the last couple of days george w. bush coming out, speaking out. and then this extraordinary gathering of five presidents to try to raise money for hurricane relief, that is the floor where they will be going into the mansfield room for this lunch. that is the second floor of the capitol. you ll see the president walk by the so-called ohio clock that was the stakeout position we could all stake out. it s right off the floor of the senate, michael, and you ve all spent so much time there. spent years just standing in that hallway, hoping to catch a glance. many soul, many shoes have been worn. yes. and as the president walks in, presumably some of the press, you see the advance of the press. i think kacie hunt is right there in the hallway, kacie, if you can hear me. he s there with mitch mcconnell. we all know what their relationship is. mr. president, do you have ....
What appears to be, again, appears to be, the same gentleman more than an hour earlier with our own kacie hunt questioning bob corker there. same shirt, same tie. again, appears to be the same tie. kacie hunt still on capitol hill for us. kacie, do we know anything more about who this guy was? well, you could hear it a little bit at the top of that sound you played as you came in there. ryan clayton from americans take action. our producer heard that in real time and it seems that is the same person who also threw russian flags at jared kucher e in an earlier incident. the question of course is how this gentleman i think you laid out the fact he was in an office building earlier. if you still have that still up on the screen. when i was talking about corker, we were over in the dirksen ....
In this case, he s behind those closed doors with president trump. i think we have some of the video of the actual incident. again, this is a very serious breach for this kind of a space. very unusual. this is the halway that s right off the senate floor. if you were to be able to look straight through me just a few feet behind me. that s what you would be looking at. we re actually not allowed to point our cameras direct at the at the doors that lead on to the senate floor for a variety of reasons related to tradition. if i m hearing right what s going on on the screen, you re showing him as a member pretty close to where i m standing right now. as the president and mitch mcconnell walked around the corner. mitch mcconnell has a ceremonial office just on the other side of this wall and the two of them, the president and mitch mcconnell spent a few minutes in mcconnell s private office before heading into lunch itself. again, craig, pretty unusual afternoon here on capitol hill for a l ....