gaskins disagrees. he argues in the u.s. there are 160,000 steel jobs versus more than 6 million that are related to companies that consume steel. it s very hard to make the case that this generates more jobs. and sure, there is concern about the potential for a trade war or for higher prices for cars or for beverages that come in cans. but conservative grover norquist is weighing in on trump s tariffs as well. from his perspective as a tax reformer, he tweeted this. tariffs are taxes. and he tweeted it not once but five times to drive the message home. grover norquist is the president of americans for tax reform, and he joins me now. and you made that point again today on twitter before joining us, grover. tell me, explain to me from your perspective why tariffs should be looked at as nothing more than taxes? they are, they re taxes at the border. in the history of the united states, from washington until lincoln, most of the time, the
Potential damage to donald trump by dent of getting into this race and his endorsement which then of course triggered to gop to jump back into the alabama? and how will you measure the impact of this race on the entire house of representatives being up for election or re-election in 2018? look, i think what happens here is if roy moore loses this race, that s going to be a huge punch in the gut to the president who s really going out of most of the party s comfort zone here and endorsing him so vocally. the president first endorsed luther strange in this race. he s of course lost. he s 2 for 2 losing. donald trump is a man who doesn t like to lose, also. if you get a republican losing in a state like alabama, that s very bad news when it comes to 2018 as a tax reformer, the tax bill is kind of working its way through congress. if you have a republican congress that has nothing to show for itself after all of this, it s going to be a
Tomorrow we ve got the house coming back from the april recess. on wednesday we ve got the president unveiling his new tax reform plan. on friday, of course, we re talking about the shutdown, the deadline for congress. and then president trump marks his 100th day in office on saturday. probably doesn t want that to be crowded out by a conversation about a government shutdown. a lot to get done. you remember when they first took office, they spoke of rolling thunder. we ll do a lot of executive orders. we re back to that and ty got into trouble the first couple weeks because they tried to get things done too quickly. tax reform hasn t been done in 30 years. it is really hard to do. when you re trying negotiate to deep government open, you re trying to start the tax reformer and looking for a vote an
Apologized and acknowledged hey, it was the wrong thing to say. i shouldn t have made that analogy. let s move on to, i don t know, north korea, syria, healthcare, tax reformer. the big issues that this presidency is tackling right now. they breathlessly tried to bring him down. colossal error of historic proportions? one comment from the white house podium? are you kidding me? what they have done is continue to expose themselves because they can t hold back on their dedication to tearing down any single member of the trump administration. any one. it doesn t matter. sean spicer is front and center opt front lines taking it from the opposition party. the left-stream media, legacy media, whatever you want to call them. there is no news division and opinion position inside these places. it s all opinion masked as information. the american people know that trump has exposed that. this example shows it yet again. brian: no one is excusing sean spicer even sean spicer. he came out and took
That are already pointing the finger at paul ryan. and the winds of blame are heading back to the other end of pennsylvania avenue surprise you at all? no. look. there is going to be so much blame and blame mongrg and fingerpointing if this thing doesn t go the right way. the white house is going to blame congressional, congressional republicans. but the problem for that is it already it will put a strain on a relationship that already has a lot of tension and really needs to be a symbiotic one if they re going to enact the very aggressive agenda that they have laid out. not only with health care reform, but with tax reformer and everything else that s on their agenda. so, that congressional white house relationship has to be much better so the blame mongring and the fingerpointing won t help anybody. if there s one guarantee i can offer you outside of whether the