Staff, fox news contributor and syndicated radio talk show host, leslie marshall is on set. thank you for being here. i am going to start with you leslie, during outnumbered, we wondered, how is it possible that you can make your voice known as leadership, not just for the democrats in the senate and the house but all those people who voted for you if you don t take a meeting with the president. i agree with you. i am a democrat but i am a realist and if you want something and you want something from the dealmaker, you have to meet with the guy. here s the problem i have. i feel both sides are acting juvenile. the president with his tweets, about what i don t deal with democrats. he has before and if you want to get things done, some democrats, republicans, some other, you have to meet with democrats. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi should have met with him because to me it is just doubling down on the childishness not to go in
Their tax reform frame work. let s bring in chris plante, syndicated radio talk show host. leslie marshall is also back with us. chris, i ll go to you first. are they making their points clear? are they selling this? honestly, i think they ve probably got some more selling to do. you re gonna need to fill in the blanks and provide details. this may not be the appropriate setting to go into all of the details of tax reform. always an exciting topic. but the details i expect will come out this afternoon and they ll be hotly debated and the democrats will pretend that they are fiscally responsible and only concerned about the middle class and we ll have a big food fight over it. honestly, can i just say t democrats have put themselves in a situation where not only are they hell bent on obstructing whatever it is president trump wants to do, but they also want to impede economic growth.
Dinner at the white house tonight. the president s push for a bipartisan tax plan also came up and the latest in the repeals of obamacare. senator sanders single payer healthcare proposal and throwing shade on hillary clinton s book. that also got thrown in there. let s go to chris plant, syndicated radio talk show host. chris, on that dinner tonight with chuck and nancy, she said the president wants to work with anybody that wants to move america forward. that was the white house response. well, seems reasonable, doesn t it? there s two parties. the president is in the white house. the other two parties are at the end of pennsylvania avenue. the republican leadership and mitch mcconnell are not helping much with the republican agenda. the president is going to need at least 60 votes in the senate to get any major tax reform through. therefore, he has to have
The often violent protests against the current president s rule. those protests began three years ago over chronic shortages of basic goods. daily clashes have left 90 people dead and hundreds more injured. republican lawmakers getting an earful over the holiday about efforts to repeal and replace obamacare. maine senator susan collins saying healthcare was the only big issue voters were talking about. other senate republicans facing pressure and protest ahead of a vote that would come as early as next week. chris plane is a syndicated radio talk show host. cindy marshal is a syndicated talk show host as well. this is battle of the syndicated talk shows. chris, do you believe this is the only issue she heard about over the holidays? lot of people were talking healthcare. that s true. healthcare has been a front burner issue in the media. i don t think the people showing up at susan collins town hall
if the g.o.p. health care plan fails, is the plan to let obamacare implode? we are focused on planning. that is repealing and replacing obamacare, and the president is fully engaged as well as his administration and working with house and senate members to make sure that we repeal and replace obamacare and put in place health care reform, make sure that the service that is se. julie: let s bring in a syndicated radio talk show host, and the founder, president, and ceo of a strat gnomic company. also a former hillary clinton staffer and dnc advisor. let s talk about what we just heard from this press briefing which, by the way, was off-camera today. yesterday, as you all know, it was on camera, it got very contentious, and sort of a reminder as to why the