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241,000 acres. already destroyed almost 1,000 homes. we get word about how that firefighter lost his life. vladimir putin using his end of year news conference to deny accusations of meddling in the 2017 election. all that is throughout up by people that oppose president trump. it done without understanding that this damages the inside politics. they u.s. press the resources of the elected president. i means they don t respect the voters that voted for him. trace: u.s. intelligence agencies conclude russia did interfere in the presidential election. now putin throwing out his own accusation about the international olympic committee s decision to ban russia from the winter games. he said the fbi is drugging the russian whistle blowing that ....
We even had the president s own polster coming out in the last day or two saying people were giving the president bad political advice. the question is will the president throw in with other jump-start candidates, will he start with the traditional republican candidates and how much will they be looking for his support or will they try to put some distance between themselves and the white house going into this contest thinking that they might personally be more popular than the president is in these 2018 contests. trace: right. the donors and so forth going forward. i have to ask you. paul ryan, about him stepping down in 2018. you put any weight in that at all, josh? yeah, we re reporting that here from politco, a number of his associates believes that maybe not step down but he won t run for re-election as speakner 2018. he plans to return home at that point. seems like there s strong indications that that is happening. something of a succession process is already coming into ....
Not. they may pass a infrastructure bill, might pass criminal justice reform, might pass welfare reform and have a particular performance over the humming economy. if they are what they re worried about right now is the kind of energy on the democratic side they saw voting in alabama and virginia last month. the swing districts that are vulnerable in next year s elections. they don t know the tax reform package will get them over the line in november. trace: i have to get your take on this omarosa thing. the story that came out, it s one of those things that even if none of that happened, you know that something wild is going to come out of omarosa being led out of the white house. she s a reality television start and so is the president. these are two people that love drama. i m not surprised by it. the situation room details are quite riveting. yeah, it s another great trump west wing story. trace: another great story. ....
The water. and now a government shutdown is lurking. republicans need support from democrats. according to chad pergram, there s little agreement right now over how to fund the government. mike emanuel is live for us on capitol hill. let s begin with taxes. who are the senators that we re watching closely here? trace, we caught up with senator marco rubio that says he wants to do more on the child tax credit. here s rubio moments ago. consistently throughout this process, i outlined the refundable part for the child tax credit. it s only $1,100. a lot of people making $25,000 working cannot utilize as much of the credit as they need. two others on the fence, mike lee, like rubio is pushing to do more on the child tax credit. and bob corker was a no on the senate plan but he says he will ....
Labels radio on sirius a.m. if you go back to what john roberts is saying, can you imagine any time where any scenario where marco rubio says, i m just not going to vote for the tax bill because i m so indebted to having this program, i m not going to vote for it. do you see that happen something. no. i agree with john roberts. it would be impact scenario for marco rubio to forever be the vote that took it down. the long sought prize goal of a unified republican government, republicans and congress who have had majorities in both chambers have waited for a republican president to pass a package like this. i think he s going to make a lot of noise. there might be promises for further tax bills down the stretch. i don t see him getting a big change in the bill or voting against it. trace: yes. by all accounts, this thing ....