but i see the senate rising to the occasion. i've been so proud of the most recent hearings we've had. we've had a meeting with tillerson and mattis. outstanding. we just had one a nuclear issues, it's outstanding. i feel the senate moving back to the place we would all like it should be. where is my standpoint many standpoints, and inappropriate way even reconciliation to do big issues that's not the best way to do it. generally speaking i see the senate taking out some of the vacuum where he might have things come out of the white house. >> that was an understated assessment of the executive branch. been more candid in recent weeks about your feelings is open to getting him out of the country by the way? >> i like a promise. so in terms of your personal journey shall we say, you played a inside outside game if you will. you do so back on your criticism but everyone knows you were on the short list, the president asked if you wanted to be secretary of state. we'll get back to that. and he spoke to the president often and tried

we have the senate budget rules that we have to be mindful of. we want to make sure when we passed a bill of the house, it adheres to the senate rules so we can use reconciliation tool that we need to use to pass tax or form. those sunsets are things that are done to make sure that this bill conforms to the bills we don't personally like, but we need to follow up. >> there is this expectation that congress will extend those. doesn't that imply then that it will be greater than what's being done? >> we are concerned that the dynamic scoring would not be allowed in the senate again because of the rules. based upon lots of research, lots of economic modeling that you will see faster economic growth result from this bill. you will see higher wages, more jobs, bigger paychecks, bigger gdp, and if you see a bigger economy, you get more revenue. we are confident that are two things you need to do to get our fiscal house in order, roll the economy, get people think texas, and deal with spending. we have more work to do on that front. the house is passed

it simplistic to say the senate does the trial, the charges?ngs the guest: accurate, the house is prosecutor, like though it made independent, kind of judicial decision impeachment appropriate and house helps anage preceding in the senate, which has to convict, by two-thirds majority. we have in our constitution, two big safeguards of the president against let's say losing his job because congress doesn't like them. the first is high crimes and isdemeanor standard, we've talked about how that can be met liberty like invading or abuse of the pardon power or countriesg with other in certain ways, high standard and there is institutional rotection, majority in the house, two-thirds in the senate. host: cass sunstein of harvard author of citizen's guide," thomas in ohio, go ahead. steps to at are the get to the 25th amendment? a fabulous question. the 25th amendment is another avenue by which the president be relieved of his of his ons and here duties. different are two ideas. the first, the 25th amendment is perform the to job, rather than about b

senator john thune: it is a hub. about techi talked and financial services and agriculture but we have a tremendous health care footprint here. it is a huge driver of jobs in our command -- economy. we have two major health-care systems that are very regional. we have become a hub in terms of shopping. when i was a kid, i came down here for basket tournaments. i think at that time, sioux falls was 75,000 people. and therelly growing is a great workforce. or corporate income tax, a great place to do business and a quality of life that is second to none. that sometimes in the winter, there is 40 below wind chills. you have to get through that but if you want to raise a family and you want to have access to a lot of things, you don't want to do with the headaches and traffic and things that come with a big city and have all the opportunities to do the things that you do in a big city, this is a wonderful place. we are proud of it. i am proud of my entire state. we have a number of cities in the state that are doing well

we had senator mccarthy on this show a few days ago. what is your general appraisal of senator mccarthy and his work? senator mccarthy: he is the most -- hays: he is the most dangerous man in the united states. isnk: do you think that he dangerous because he is attacking communism? without sufficient evidence, he is smearing innocent people. frank: do you think there are communist in the state department? mr. hays: they do not do as much harm as suspicion stirred up by mccarthy. what specific harm you think senator mccarthy has done -- mccarthy has done? when you throw suspicion on those who have been in government service for years, you do a great deal of harm. the most dangerous thing the communists can do in the united states is stir up hatred, suspicion and fear. frank: do you think there is any grounds for suspicion and fear among the people of the united states? mr. hays: no reasonable grounds. hisan should be deprived of standing without a fair trial. don't you think the american people have some reason to suspect there is a stat

senate has none at all. you prefer the house or senate measure? hit very hard who pay a lot state and low and taxes. >> it's not a proper characterization. the question should be is do the bills deliver middle class middle income tax relief? the answer to both is yes. how they get there is different. remember, the house went with four tax brackets. the senate went with seven. remember the seven has a 10% bracket. house a 12% tax bracket. they're finding different ways to company sate for the different issues. the only way to grade whether it's tuck seszful or not is to look at the table, look at the distribution. say does this do what we want it to do and does this deliver tax relief to hard working american families? and the answer to both bills is yes, it does. yes they attacked it different ways. they fwet get to the same answer. >> your message to the republican congressmen in new york sdp california and illinois. and new jersey. who are worried about this is sorry too bad. you'll get middle class tax cuts and those people will get hit in your

>> senator, our investigation continues. so i would have to say no certainly not with certainty. >> no. we are still working on this. >> we have done a comprehensive investigation but these are ongoing issues and we continue to investigate. >> let me start again with facebook. you have identified 470 accounts from one troll farm in st. petersburg. there have been plenty of press reports of other troll farms in russia. there have been reports of other activities that were russian controlled in central europe and eastern europe. in meetings with your leadership as you became more aware of this problem, aggressively promoted the fact that you took down 30,000 accounts around the french elections. you say not all were russian related. have you cross-checked those russian-related accounts that you took down in france to see if those were active in the american election? >> senator, the 30,000 accounts that we took down -- >> the accounts that were related to russian accounts that you took down, your leadership bragged about how p

>> the good news is, both the house and senate bill have the absolute same objectives. i think we're looking forward to this week, house passing the bill. obviously we would prefer if they kicked in sooner rather than later but we're going to work with the senate on that issue and one of the things that's very important, even if they don't kick in, expensing will kick in right away so companies will be able to take advantage of expense at a higher tax rate. but i'm confident that this is one of the issues that when we get to conference we'll resolve between the house and the senate. >> dickerson: is there an economic if the corp pratt tax breaks don't kick in faster, you suggestedded it might hurt the market, hurt growth, what is the economic impact if they don't kick in faster? >> i commented if we don't get tax reform done but i'm highly confident we'll get it done. you see that in the market. as it relates to the specific impact of one year, we're studying that carefully. again, there's offsetting affects in both directions. >> dickerson: you ran tout to california t

but the senate candidate, not backing down this morning.. plus - donlad trump junior in the spotlight. the newly released private messages with wikileaks.. as the russia investigation returns to capitol hill today. good morning washington. toss to eileen - patchy am fog - remaining unseasonably cool - rain chances; wednesday night & saturday - big temperature swings this weekend today: mix of sun and clouds. unseasonably cool. highs: 50-53 winds: n 5 mph tonight: clear to partly cloudy. cold. lows: 29-35 winds: n 2-5 mph wednesday: increasing clouds. cool. highs: 51-54 winds: n to se 5 mph

sessions lov ed these a united states senator. he went into this job with the idea that he was going to be able to remake the just advertise department in his own image and bring a lieutenant of things that he wanted to push when he was chairman of the senate judiciary committee. clear clearly as we have seen the last year spell out things have not gone the way jeff sessions had wanted it to go. nobody could have predicted what has been going on with roy moore right now. so if there is an opportunity for possibly jeff sessions to return here to the national i would not totally dismiss that at this point. >> really in. >> clearly we've had -- well, would you be surprised by that? does he want to be the nor or be the attorney general? i think he wants out of this entire mess . thank you rch. shawn, we've had a situation where the president of united states has openly discussed firing him. so if you could exact yourself from that situation maybe that's if you're yef sessions you'll take seriously. ultimately. thanks always good to ta

the senate -- republicans have been saying stpeults adeficits have held back the economy. they are authorizing $1.5 trillion although they say it will be smaller because the economy will grow faster but most projections do not say it will grow fast enough to pay for itself and you have fiscal hawks, bob corker, john mccain and you could see them insisting on scaling it back to make it more fiscally conservative. >> i don't know if you heard this but i talked to people who think it could cost more than the $1.5 trillion because of some of the budget game in this case and way the taxes would be used so how much more debt are these fiscal hawks willing to put up with. i want to switch gears and talk about another big story this week, russia. on friday the president began a critical 12-day trip to asia where the main focus is on the rising nuclear threat from north korea and on trade. but all week the trip has been overshadowed by the russia probe and special counsel robert mueller's indictment of two former trump campaign officials including former campaign chairman paul paul

the senate will move on it after thanksgiving. we'll end up in conference, and we'll fine-tune this. so, again, the problem is the tax code is so complicated that literally everybody may take advantage of a different piece. and we want to make this thing simple and fair and provide middle income tax relief. and i'm comfortable we'll end up doing that. >> are you committing to saying that you want this to be fine-tuned. you want this to be changed so any middle class americans who would have their taxes increased, which is a minority, but it's still a chunk of middle class americans, that you want that fixed before president trump signs it to law? >> what i'm saying is, there are slight differences between both bills. the good news s both the house and the senate and the administration have the same objectives. and that's about middle income tax relief. that's about fixing the business tax system so that we're competitive. and the slight changes between both bills i'm comfortable will iron out in conference so we can get something

franken and the miss trial on -- >> on senator franken, it appears the senate is looking into that which they should and we feel it's an appropriate action. i haven't asked him about senator menendez. >> could you talk a little bit about the decisionmaking behind -- mick mulvaney to go to the consumer financial protection board, he's been a long-standing critic of the board -- in the first place. what signals should we take from that in terms of the future of that board? >> i don't have any announcement on that front at this point. but we'll follow-up with you in the coming days over any movement in that area. francesca. >> thank you, sarah. china said they'll spend a special envoy to north korea tomorrow. the president was just in beijing. is that something the president talked to president xi about while he was there? is that something the president favors? >> the president certainly favors china taking a greater role in putting maximum pressure on north korea. this is one of the things he and president xi spoke extensively about over the course of our visit and certainly any effort in

they became a big issue during the senate run when her opponent scott brown accused of her lying to get a leg up. warren, who knows where tv cameras are had this to say >> it is deeply unfortunate that the before you know president of the united states cannot even make the through a ceremonies honoring these heros without having to throw out a slur >> the white house doesn't consider what the president said a racial slur and there were a lot of questions about the rashes during the press briefing >> i think the president is certainly finds an extreme amount of value and respect for these individuals, which is why to come to the white house and spend time with them, recognizing them and honoring them. i think what most people find offensive is senator warren lying about her heritage to advance her career. >> racial slur. she said it was a racial slur. what is your response to that >> i think that's a ridiculous response. >> his jab wasn't the only feud the president dredged up. he took time to tweet about the media. tweeting we should have a contest as to which of the networks, plus cnn

saying to the senate listening to their concerns. you had a few of them coming forward and talking about small businesses and what relief they will get. the president listened very patiently to those concerns. others are talking about the deficit. so he went the senate today to say thank you for working through the process. encouraging them to come forward. bring their concerns to reconciliation and get this tax cut on his desk. the democrats have spent all of 2017 talking about the presidential election in 2016 and the presidential election in 2000 20. >> sean: can you name one policy. >> i can't. i wish i have could tell you it were differently. no, zero. >> sean: $10 trillion more in new spending and $11 trillion in new taxes. >> that's why they are the minority party, sean. that's why they lost 1,000 seats in state legislatures in the house, in the senate, in the governorships and, of course, the biggest prize of all the white house. it's based on the policy. donald trump and mike pence prevailed on policy and they are trying to

the bill now heads to the senate floor for consideration. before that final committee vote earlier today prork testers against the tax bill interrupted the hearing with some of them being removed by law enforce. . see the senate budget hearing committee later tonight, sometime after the house adjourns for the evening. on the size of the u.s. nuclear arsenal. e are joined by co-founder of the stimson center and barry blechman, what is the stimson how long have you been studying the issue of the u.s. nuclear arsenal? i've been studying the issue personally for over 50 years. 30 stimson center is almost years old, we're nonpartisan, onprofit think tank, here in washington and we work on a range of security issues, weapons being one of them. host: and how many people do you have there? does it get funding from? guest: we have about 50 people. funding comes from foundation, government contracts, european governments, as u.s. government and a little bit comes from individuals. host: and barry blechman, co-founder, distinguished fellow there. the a

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both plans cut the corporate tam rate 15% and senate delays cuts by a year. for individuals the senate plan there are 7 tax brackets and four tax brackets in the house bill. >> now senate plan would allow homeowners to deduct mortgage payments of up to 1 million and house bill cuts it in half to 500,000. state and local taxes they would eliminate those reductions and house bill allows for reductions of property taxes up to 10,000. >> senate republicans are telling house republicans they'll nobody compromise it's full repeal or bust. >> i fundamentally believe when we do this make good on our word and promise and make people's lives better we'll be just fine politically. >> can they get this done. with us this morning to breakdown impact. >> time trust me we'll get this over the finish line and we'll be getting this done at american families and need to get this done for people helped by simpler fairer ta taxes. >> and we know speaker ryan want to get this done. can they actually do it to breakdown the impact of bills mark avalon personal financial experts and

>> i don't think the senate really wanted him to show up. if they wanted them that they would have scheduled them. this was a done deal between the senate staff and the seat euros. i think he is just speaking for himself. he probably violated a agreement. companies withth a find a day to schedule the hearing. this is totally fraudulent. >> the bottom line they could still be asking for them to come to capitol hill. walker theyith ken will probably see this for little bit more. to see these issues a little bit more clearly. probably much more involved with the day to day. >> jack dorsey was just in a of that, he was definitely not going to be in one change it is telling the is running to companies. he does not have that much time. senatorpoint that the investigations are not over. take a second to what she said today. >> the you believe any of your companies have identified with the full scope of russian active measures on your platform? yes or no? >> our investigation continues. i would have to say no. certainly not with certainty. we are st

the choices the senate has to make to acquire a coalition to make it law our choices the senate has to make. we do not want to get in front of that process. >> valuing whether corporate tax-cut -- >> tax cuts that are permanent will have larger positive effects. >> you melded politics and economics successfully and i would ask you a political and economic question -- you talked about growth covering what the congressional budget office and joint tax committee say could be a deficit hole. that will be a measurable overtime, the dynamic scoring or static scoring, answers that question. is this administration willing to commit to a review five years in to see if the growth models hold along your lines and deficit implications are not as large, and reassess the tax cuts and reassess the tax-cut in order not to blow a hole in the deficit? >> i have not discussed with the president what we are willing to commit to in terms of what we do five years from now. let me talk about what we can be clear about today. as the president came into office, the president's opponents were saying 2% growth w

if the the president gets snood again by the senate, what's his reaction go to be? >> we are confident we will get this package passed and we would love to see some of the democrats come on board and support this a stored piece of legislation that we feel will be one of the great legacies of this presidency. >> the fact he didn't get any democrats in house, how does that -- >> there's always hope it will hold out hope democrats innocent want to put partisan politics aside and put the people of this country first. we haven't ruled it out and we will keep pushing forward and we were still confident with what he could get. >> is it safe to say the president will not be pleased if he gets snookered by the said again? >> i think the american people would be the one to not be pleased because they will lose at the most if it doesn't go forward. >> the administration put out a disaster funding request for about $44 billion today. it's much less than what a number of different governors and officials in the various impacted territories and states have requested. can you expl

senate? ms. sanders: the president as i said about seven or eight times now thinks this is a dide-significance for the people of alabama to make. reporter: sarah, we heard from you and we heard from ivanka on this. when will we hear from the president? ms. sanders: the president haas put a statement out earlier in the week when we were on the trip and he stands by that statement. reporter: two straight days, the president of the united states, the leader of the republican party, i think a lot of people -- ms. sanders: i am aware of all those qualifications of the president. and it's actually my job to come out here and answer questions on his behalf which i'm doing which i've done and which he has done repeatedly over the last 12 days while we were on a trip across asia. so to act like he hasn't answered questions is silly. sorry, kristen. reporter: on the other side of the aisle, does the president have response where the allegation of senator franken and the miss trial on -- ms. sanders: on sen

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the senate finance committee voted in favor of their tax package thursday night that means the full senate will consider its bill after the thanksgiving holiday. to the latest on the russia investigation. today the senate judiciary committee is calling on jared kushner to provide key e-mails he's yet to turn over. the emails allegedly pertain to wikileaks and a reported overture and dinner invite from russia to then candidate donald trump. it comes a week after media outlets learned donald trump junior exchanged private messages with wikileaks at the height of the campaign. kushner's attorney says that his client is cooperating with investigators. developing now.. the fairfax county school system is investigating an incident in which a teacher allegedly student's hijab. the lake braddock high school student tweeted about the incident, and the tweets went viral. school officials say the teacher's actions were inappropriate. the teacher has been placed on leave. most students appear to side with the teacher. they say the girl was wearing a hooded sweatshirt over her hijab. and they say the t

senator klobuchar, you are the response or with senator warner and senator john mccain of a bill that would require the same disclosure for political advertising on social media as it would for other media and television. what's behind that and does it have any chance of passage? >> everything can pass in wra wa, as you know, after a while. i think it does have a chance of passage, i also think that you really have to step back. first of all there's the obvious national security issues with finding out that russia used rubles to buy ads on facebook but it's bigger than that from a perspective of our democracy and our country. $1.4 billion was spent on these online ads by political campaigns, by issue groups just in the last election. and the predictions are that's going to go up and up and up. so if a candidate or issue group runs an ad on radio or tv or print they have to put a disclaimer "prepared and paid for" by whatever it is and then they have to disclose it which is key because that means journalists, opponents, everyone can see what's going out there. that isn't true right now

senators to address manipulation and meddling during that time. our technology reporter broke the story who is on the phone from houston. how will this work? something you have to download or turn on on facebook? >> no, by the end of the year it should show you and their help center whether you like or followed in the of these pages. it will give you a list of the names of the pages. unfortunately, you cannot see the actual content of the pages. they are leaving it up to congress to decide whether to release the posts. shery: what is facebook trying to achieve? >> they want to respond to senators and representatives who question them. why shouldn't it be just like a data breach where an organization's informed people if they were exposed. you tell your users if you have information about people who may have been targeted? why wouldn't you tell them that they were? the company had a deadline to respond and said they are working on it. whether it will give people insight into how they were affected, it does not account for pages and postings they ma

>>> this week on capitol hill, both the house and senate intelligence committees, along with the senate judiciary committee, held hearings on the tech companies, election 2016, and russia. here to help us dissect these hearings are two reporters, david mccabe is with axios, ashley gold with politico. ashley, what did you hear. >> tech still has a long way to go in explaining what happened on their platforms during the 2016 presidential election as far as who purchased ads, when they bought them, how much money they spent on them and just how many americans saw the advertisements and were faked by them and may have changed their decisions about who they would vote for based on that. we learned a few new numbers of facebook, 146 million users of facebook and instagram, which facebook opens, saw content that came out of the russian, linked adds. we heard some new things from twitter and google as well, and lawmaker have had some tough questions for the general counsels of the companies which had to sit through a pretty rough two dives grilling from lawmakers. >> you said we didn't learn a

>>>jury deliberations continue today in the bribery case against senator bob mendez. he is accused of accepting donations and gifts from a florida eye doctor in exchange for political influence. both mendez and the doctor say they're innocent. the jury told the judge yesterday they were deadlocked on whether to convict senator mendez. the judge told them take the rest of the day off and resume deliberations today. >>>another woman has come forward accusing alabama senate candidate roy moore of sexually assaulting her when she was 16. she says she was in the car with moore when he grabbed her and tried to force her head near his growing. moore says he doesn't know the woman or the restaurant where she says this happened. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says moore should drop out of the race. >>>the u.s. supreme court announced it will hear the free speech fight over a california law regulating pregnancy centers. under the law, private facilities that counsel women against abortion must post signs with information [inaudible] violates their free speech. critics s

senator cruz: thank you. some of those similar this is where back in front of the house intelligence committee created we will show you a two-hour portion of that hearing. myself now fore

it but i just think that -- i think what's happening in the senate is that i have seen the senate and i think mark, i think your committee is doing the same thing, i know we are in foreign relations. i watch other committees, i think they're beginning to rise to the occasion. in some ways, and again i want to be careful about my comments because of some of the things that happened in the last 60 days, i don't mean this in any way to be pejorative, i don't think there's anything coming out of the white house that typically would come out of the white house. like on a health care bill, typically a white house would produce what they want to pass. instead, they worked a little more closely together, we did. but i think the senate is kind of rising to the occasion. i have been so proud of the most recent hearings we had. we had a hearing with tillerson and mattis on the authorization to use military force. outstanding. we just did one on nuclear issues. outstanding. and i feel the senate kind of moving back to the place that i think all of us would like for it to be. we still are going th

because the senate has still to approve their version, and the two drafts are very different. trying to get everyone on the same page and a package acceptable to both the house and senate in just a couple more weeks is quite a big ask. in terms of how the markets have looked at this, i am not sure the moment in the s&p for that indices are really driven by progress for the tax reform or not. because the sectors that really should benefit the most are the energy sectors. and they have not done well at all. if you look at that stocks that have done well, the tech stocks, they will be penalized on the new bill. they will be penalized with the money they are keeping offshore. perhaps what is driving equity markets is not primarily the tax reform, but other factors. tracy: how significant would tax reform be for the overall u.s. economy? do you have an estimate? khatija: we do not have an estimate because we have not seen what the final bill is. but the way it is going said just the people who will benefit the most are higher earners. and those guys do not go out and spend on the m

. >> tennessee senator bob corker and virginia senator mark warner discuss bipartisanship, the trump presidency, and some of the issues facing congress. this is about one hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> we are going to visit for 50 minutes together. it's kind of like i'm seeing you in the senate subway and the doors are closed and you're trapped taking questions from me. we'll take questions from facebook live and "the new york times." let's get into it. so we kind of take it as an article of faith that bipartisanship is good. polling says we want people to work across the aisle. this is a good thing. we like bipartisan bills. but when we get into the nitty-gritty of governing, that's not really always the case, even though it has a positive connotation. i know that when democrats were in charge, republicans would say, we don't want to give them any victories, it's too close to election year. and then when the tables turned, republicans were in charge and they don't want to help each other. even pass simple things, simple bills together. we have to start by asking the question is

but i continue disappointed the senators. and i wouldn't say that it's out of the question that there will be another hearing where the bosses, the tech bosses might be forced to show if we get more investigations and disclosures into the extent of the interference. we might have a second act. >> the 2016 campaign isn't the first time america has been captivated by "fake news." writer curt anderson is the host of the peabody award-winning radio program "studio 360." his latest book is called "fantasy land:how america went haywire, a 500-year history." we began, importantly, as a protestant country-- that is to say, the english people came here and made america what it is known today. they other than were the most fervent, fanatical faction of a fervent fanatical faction of the fervent fanatical faction of puritans. that was the first bit of d.n.a. that went through a lot of twists and turns over the last several hundred years to get to where we are today. >> rose: before we're there, we get to the 60s. >> we do get to the 60,

this 1002 area, the history of it was created by senator jackson and senator stephens when the senators were really knowledgeable about what goes on. we recognize this area at that time about the value of oil and why we have the 1002 area. as you mentioned, anwr is about 19 million acres of land. 1002 footprint will probably be, i can't say what size it is, but i represent alaska. you see anything different on my nose right now? this is -- i am alaska. one tengt of one tengt percent. we are talking disturbance. the map was drawn up by the sierra club. that bothers me. that's old information. this little dot on my nose, i weigh 225 pounds, this little dot is what we are talking about, the 1002 area. it's the potential of probably around, early estimates 10 billion barrels, problem 20 billion barrels of oil. senator sullivan brought it up, this is an issue of national security, national security. it is the one weapon russians willing, we can have the security for the nation as a whole. i was interested to hear about the caribou. you are going to hear a lot of nonsense stories later on in

and there's another time in the senate office. all right. moving on now to tax reform now at the house passed their version on the bill. pressure was on to the senate and things got heated during a hearing of the finance committee. accused republicans of only protecting the rich with the tax plan and republican senator of utah got -- >>ed middle class >> order >> an over and over again >> how many times do we do this before we look -- >> listen, i honored you by allowing you to start off here. what you said was not right. that's all i'm saying. class originally. we didn't ask anything. don't skew that stuff on me. i get a little tired of that crap. >> i wouldn't mess with him because he seems like he got old man strength. >>> despite the heated exchange it was approved 14 to 12 voting along party lines, one of the sticking points for version could be the repeal of the affordable care act individual mandate tying healthcare to the tax reform is risky. and they need convincing. alaska senator lisa murkowski said the vote is contingent on the p

>> roy, i don't have to tell you that the senate hangs in the balance. we are trying to pass a tax reform plan this year to bring

senator warner: i agree. senator corker: and then the katrina thing happened. he felt wrongly accused of not being open-minded. even more money began to be spent. and then president obama came in, and all of a sudden republicans got religion on spending. and my friends on the other side of the aisle that had religion while bush was there lost of their religion and liked spending money. that is generally speaking that , is not every person, of course. now what has happened is it like a party atmosphere. as i have said many times publicly, to you and your colleagues, it is like a party began on election day this last year. i do not recognize my side of the aisle as it relates to those issues. it is unfortunate it ebbs and flows. you get more fiscally conservative when the other side of the aisle is in office. the problem is for you, a student in north carolina the , greatest threat to our nation is not isis or north korea. involved in elections. -- it is not russia getting involved in elections. the greatest threat is the fiscal issue and almost no one cares abou

. >> this week on capitol hill, both the house and senate intelligence committees, along with the senate judiciary committee, held hearings on the tech companies, election 2016, and russia. here to help us dissect these hearings are two reporters, david mccabe with axios, ashley gold with politico. ashley gold, what did you learn from these three hearings? ms. gold: we learned tech has a long way to go in explaining what happened on their platforms during the 2016 presidential election, as far as to purchase ads, when they bought them, how much money they spend on them, and how many americans saw those advertisements and were affected by them, and may have changed their decision about who they would vote for, based on them. we learned a few new numbers out of facebook. 146 million users of facebook which facebook owns, thought content to the canes out of these -- came out of these it russia-linked ads. lawmakers had some tough questions for the general counsel of these companies, which had to sit through a rough two days of grilling from lawmakers. host: you said we did not learn a lot a

senator cardin serves on the senate finance committee, where he has been the cochair of the business income tax working group. he has also been on the foreign relations committee, where he serves as the top democrat. lots of things to talk about this week. we have been hearing from social media executives on russian meddling in the election and the republicans have announced the tax plan. we have plenty of questions for you, senator. thank you for being here. sen. cardin:: it is a pleasure to be with you. thank you. susan: let me introduce the two reporters who will be asking questions. niels lesniewski returns to us on "newsmakers." he is with cq roll call covering specifically the senate. robbie gramer makes his first visit to our program. he is with the foreign where he covers diplomacy and national security. niels, you are up first. niels: thank you. senator cardin, i want to start with really the news of the day, which is the house republican' unveiling of their tax code overhaul. i have seen your statement about it and i have seen statements from other democrats on the finance

house will take it up, senate will do it by some point in early december. but i tell you, elements of this are starting to feel like the obamacare fight over the summer, where they're rushing the timeline, not explaining it to anybody beyond their base. senate majority leader have to concede that actually, yes, some people's taxes might go up, sorry i misspoke. the economic advisor suggesting the ceos love this he seems to forget who he works for because that guy, entire party ran against big business and helping them out. they're going to do it in this case. it just -- there are some really tricky details over when certain tax cuts begin, how you pay for it and again, the timetable, idea that this will get done, it's just -- it's not there yet. and i think they know that and they get very worried that things like the roy moore situation distract from it or potentially derails to get it done. >> dickerson: there's the cultural context which is in hollywood, corporate america, even in the press there's a new standard developing on how to take accusations, th

the senate plan keeps corporate tax cuts from 35% to 20% but phases them in over two years. after much lobbying, it does away with the 20% excise tax that the house plan put on multi national corporations. now, on the personal income side, the senate plan keeps seven tax brackets like we have now, but generally lowers rates and it does away with state and local tax deductions altogether. that's a big issue. the house bill included some relief for property tax, but ali, it is the ideology behind these bills that we've got to focus on. >> right. and the issue here is that either you can do things, which we'll talk about later, that really directly give middle class taxpayers a bigger break, like the earned income tax credit. what you're getting here is a small break. republicans tell us it's about $1200 on average per middle class taxpayer. some say it's $800. small break for them. big breaks for businesses and the wealthy. and the argument that by giving those breaks to the wealthy and corporations, it's going to trickle down and increase wages for the average household. we j

the senators did not quite take that as an answer. emily: another round of hearings coming up tomorrow with the house intelligence committee. what are we expecting? sarah: this hearing was more broadly focus not just on the russia subject but on others in general. they will ask about whether they know how the internet research agency got their data. there was a question about that today, but that is what gives the intelligence committee the link to whatever political campaign may have been working with them, if any. so i think it could get even more heated tomorrow. emily: all right. sarah, you will be covering those hearings for us yet again on capitol hill. mark here in the studio covers google for us. thank you both. we will have much more reaction and analysis on today's hearing later in the show. just a reminder, bloomberg is developing a network for twitter. facebook disclosed a russian group spent $100,000 on ads to influence the 2016 election. how do they do it? it is more simple than you might think. sarah frier file that rep

think back to the debate and the place known as the senate. to your point about the child care, marco rubio made this a project of his. house tax reform plan is the only starting point. $600 increase doesn't achieve our and potus goal of helping working families. that's an ivanka trump priority. this is what happened to obamacare. it couldn't be told to murcowski and collins. didn't pull back enough for the conservatives. are we going to enter the same land mine? >> in the big picture the republicans are facing the same issues that they face when they were trying to get this obamacare repeal bill done and they couldn't. now added to that, we are now two or three months down the road already. we are approaching the end of the president's first year in the white house. republicans are feeling more and more pressure to get it done. we will end up seeing republicans choosing between whether to get something done and vote yes for something that is not perfect or choosing to stand their ground and saying the policy issues are too important for them.

that guy, by the way, is south carolina senator tim scott. he did mention the individual mandate much the senate gop is adding a provision to its tax bill that will repeal the affordable care acts mandate. it's something president trump wants. it's also a major change. until today they could put the whole votes in jeopardy. repealing the mandate would free up to more than 300 billion-dollar in government funning over the next decade but it would cost 13 million fewer people to be injured. democrats are saying the gop has to put tax reform on hold to focus on budget negotiations. i would say we ought to be focusing on getting this done now. this is an immediate problem, december 8 we run out of monday. our republican colleagues are focused on tax reform and they're losing the ability to focus on what needs to be done right now. it is just unbelievable what they are doing . their tax bill is such a mess in terms of not helping the middle class enough, in terms of the deficit that they're gesta ing themselves in a knot and it's sort of like yoga

ofrmts alabama senate candidate roy moore is back on the campaign trail after days away and is again denying sexual misconduct allegations against him. but this time he's taking a different tone. we'll show you what he has to say next. >>> and breaking overnight, a major delay for hundreds of passengers headed overseas as two planes clipped their wings. the new images just coming in. >>> and it's little announcement you probably london for a new gig. no big deal. we'll have new reaction to harry and meghan engaged on this tuesday, november 28th. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> they're engaged? i hadn't heard. >> grace kelly, going to monaco, are we still talking about that one? >> did you see the town cryer? hear ye! >> he's employed again. we have lots to talk about when it comes to harry and meghan. but we're going to start with president trump at the center of another racially-charged controversy. this time sparked by comments at the ceremony honoring native-american war heroes. >> he was paying tribute to navajo code talkers from world war ii when he resurrected h