Why rob portman is hopeful. Mick mulvaney is warning. And steny hoyer is fighting mad. Theyre all here and only here. We begin with blake burman with the latest. Blake . Its 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. Theres 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 passthrough profits would be taxed 25 . Growth. You had big deficits. It wasnt tax cuts that did it. Cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil but you left out Ronald Reagan. I know. Deficits didnt grow with him. The first two years were high because we ph
really long conversations with him, and eventually the project fell apart because he wanted lots of money from us, and that s a journalistic no-no where you don t really pay for stories. by the way, i m not sure the ethics committee would allow him to take outside income. there s all sorts of reasons that might not work. i want to be clear about how he got them. that s part of the story. gives you a sense a how he s looking to monetize the office. in terms of this news, can t say i m surprised. i will tell you, though, george santos, i learned from my many meetings with him, is extremely confident. i would be i think many people would be scared with all the negative press you get, but some people for them, infamy and fame are the same thing. you might have seen in the gaggle he did today, he was taking questions, holding court. he was not in the way i think many other people would react, he did not look sad or chagrinned or worried. going to be interesting.
she comes in or if she s in new york or places a call. neil: we can do a remote. she s in vegas. yeah, we have the beige phone. any time neil: thank you for that. [phone rings]. hello? no commissioner gordon is not here. neil: thanks for that startling development. when someone says it s not possible, i can tell you from experience breaking news happens here. neil: it s possible. sure. thanks very much. i want to go to greg palkot at buckingham palace. he s on the other famous britt that will be coronated tomorrow. he s no adele. certainly, greg. but i m sure he s a little chagrinned that adele is not going to be performing at his coronation. what is the latest? that s another story, neil. i can try to call from here, too, if you want.
conversation here. this is what it will look like for the next 18 months as the house republicans try and leverage their house majority, but also do so not just pushing on their policy priorities, and they have been talking about things like education, and the pending fights on the debt ceiling and on tiktok being a point of bipartisan agreement and certainly on china, and all of these issues came up and so too did the former president. what was interesting to me, mccarthy was asked during that press conference whether he thought trump was the leader of the party, and mccarthy dodged on that, and he said if you ask the press he clearly is, and chagrinned at the idea that we keep bringing up the former president, but the house majority is linked to the former
strategic locations with surveillance and a dedicated border patrol can be a last line of defense against transnational criminals and the potential for trysts to use what is in some places a very porous border. from my experience at the cia, i think we need to get out front of this and work with our mexican partners. we have had some pretty good collaboration with them and hit the cartels pretty hard to reduce the drug flow into the united states. separately, we need everify so illegal aliens can t work here and a visa tracking system. ruffle 40% of illegal aliens are overstaying their visas. as a citizen, i m schagrinned a the breakdown of the legislative process. comprehensive reform is about $5 billion. i don t understand why we can t get it done and do a little