Hello, there I'm Chuck Todd.

We just wrapped up this morning's Meet the Press and it was definitely a meaty one.

We started today's broadcast with exclusive interviews with the Treasury Secretary and the

former Fed Chair Janet Yellen also had an exclusive interview with Ohio Republican Senator

Rob Portman and of course the Progressive Senator Bernie Sanders.

Here's the big picture takeaway from everybody is on one hand you do have some determination

by the Democrats that they believe they want to, that they view the tax increases more

than pay for.

They view it as, is reage basically creating a fair tax system, believe trying to eliminate

and income inequality.

So, you know, there is a, it's interesting to hear it because Janet Yellen and Bernie

Sanders both seem to be on that path.

Now, the problem they may run into is resistance on tax increases from other Democratic senators

and clearly neither one of them was going to close the door and the question is what

is the priority?

Getting these big spending plans passed or figuring out how to pay for them and it's pretty

clear getting the spending plans passed is always going to have priority.

So it does sound like we're going to have some deficit spending here.

The question is how much, how many tax increases that they propose will actually go into fruition.

Not all of them that was clear today.

Then there was the conversation with Rob Portman, the Retiring Republican Senator.

He does want to work with the White House.

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