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But raise taxes for some. For the president its a challenge of quintessential 2017 multitasking. Its can he slander and legislate at the same time . Cnn is all over this as senators await his arrival. Christine romans here in new york. Suzanne malveaux live. Where do we stand with the votes . Reporter its a critical task for the president and his party, and the Senate Budget committee will vote on this, expected to vote on this, and they have a dozen members of republicans on the committee and they can only afford to lose one of the republicans, and so far you have two that have been outspoken critics about this or at least about their concerns, and one is ron johnson and he is talking about the fact that he doesnt believe its doing enough for Small Businesses, they need bigger breaks. He has been in contact with the president and white house officials. They think that maybe ....
The white house. Live look at midtown manhattan. A large building on avenue of the americas. You are watching fox and friends first. Rob donald trump heading to capitol hill to meet with republican senators to pass tax reform. Can he convince all 51 republicans on board. Griff jenkins joins us with gop holdouts who could keep the bill from happening. Reporter let me put this as simply as i can, they have a real math problem, the dont have the votes yet for the second republican senator james montana because the same reason senator ron johnson of wisconsin opposes it, favoring large corporations over small businesses, both appeared to get to yes, saying, quote, i want to see changes to the taxcut bill to ensure mainstream visitors are not put at a competitive disadvantage against large corporations. The president is on capitol hill to join a republican policy lunch and was upbeat yesterday. It is going to benefit everybody, it will mostly benefit people with jobs because we are giving g ....
Hayes shows up here tomorrow at 9 00 i will tell you this im not going to leave him the office to have. I think chris can actually read that law that says that you are in charge of the 9 00 p. M. Hour and i understand that hes actually very happy in the 8 00 p. M. Hour. Well, you know, i think thats fair. I appreciate you starting this fight. B, i appreciate you taking my side. Looking ahead to the thing tomorrow like, i got to say, if i thought i was running an agency and somebody else showed up and said they were running it, first of all, i would never leave the building. And second of all, i would make sure that i was there earlier than the next guy. Like, if i was english, i would be at the cfpb at 4 00 a. M. As a former federal worker in washington, i was wondering things like how did mulvaney get an i. D. To the building and elevator . It is only Donald Trumps washington. Weve never seen this one before. It all gets weird in ....
Office event is raising questions about the president s sensitivity and judgment, and well get to all of that, with chris. Joining us is anthony scare phaoufpy. Where you have been . On the road, and working on closing my deal with sky bridge and that has been it. Been fun. How do you feel about what you see coming out of the white house and the general state of play with the nation . I think the president is doing a good job. I am not here as a trump loyalist but i am looking at it objectively, the economy is booming and the unemployment numbers is fantastic, and getting middle class and lower income wage growth, and thats the first time in 11 years you have seen that kind of wage growth and activity, so i think all of those things are positive. I think hes mired down in his legislative agenda because of what i call the political establishment on both sides giving him a hard time, which, im hoping, he will figure out a way creatively to figure out the log jam. How much of it is on him ....