9 00 in the east, 6 00 a. M. Out west. Heres whats happening. Taxing situation. The battles that lie ahead, the gop gets ready to rewrite the u. S. Tax code. Were going to tell you about one idea that could keep high earners from getting a big break. Gone but not forgotten, the lives of four american soldier were remembered this weekend while the search for answers intensifies. New insight into why so many troops are in africa and what their mission is. You knighted front. For the first time in years, five former president s gather on stage at the same time. What prompted the gathering and how it helped so many in need. But we begin with politics and President Trumps ongoing feud with democratic congresswoman Frederica Wilson, entering the sixth day with the president ramping up his attacks in a tweet again this morning saying wacky Congresswoman Wilson is the gift that keeps on giving for the republican party, a disaster for dems. You watch her in action and vote r. In a series of twe
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you could at least be bargaining on all levels here. everything is up for debate. he sat down with senator schumer and speaker pelosi. they couldn t get to step one, which was border security. obviously we need border security. over 70% of americans are in favor of a merit based system. we re moving away from the days where a c plus student gets to princeton because they know the right people, they were born to the right family, this is a country built on ideals of merit. somewhere there s a 22-year-old girl studying mathematics and engineering in mexico that can t get into this country because of the discriminatory policies that we have where she s discriminated against because she doesn t have an uncle pulling strings. it s wrong. the president recognizes that and the american people do as well. neil: there s a distinction between the legal immigration, which i said and what you touched on, robert, in the
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people that come to the united states in the history of our country are without merit because they don t have an engineering degree? nope. that s not what they re saying. as you know, there s a number of countries that have merit-based immigration systems. among them, australia, canada, germany, south korea and others, this is frankly about as much as the president can do to get the gop on the same page. there will be some push back. the idea is still the same. we have to fix the problem and it begins here and now. neil? neil: thanks, kevin. the president says a merit system will have america succeeding just like it has in all of those other countries that kevin suggested. nancy pelosi has been calling it condescending. so where is this plan going? we have kelly here, ken chase, democratic strategist robert. robert, what is bad with just saying you come to this country, we prefer that you have
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injuries. back to politics, and the white house remaining optimistic about its timeline for tax reform. here s what omb director mick mulvaney said in an interview moments ago. we re hearing now that the house may go ahead and either take the senate amendments or move very quickly to accept the senate amendments and we may save as many as 10 or 12 legislative days, a big deal, sounds like not much when you re here the end of october, but in the congressional calendar, that s a long time and it really does buy us more time and more opportunity to get this done before the end of the year. okay. and let s go to the controversy that started with president trump s condolence call to a gold star widow earlier this week. and joining me now, republican strategist robert trainer and marjorie clifton, welcome to you both. robb robert, you first here, would you say the president got off on the wrong foot with this call to start la david johnson s family? these are tough calls. clearly the
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