The uranium one investigation, the fbis actions over the last year and the fate of Senate Candidate roy moore from him from his home state of alabama. We start off with tax reform and obamacare in the still developing senate plan. Peel of the individual mandate is back with what appears to be more support from senators. Chief Congressional Correspondent emmanuel joins us live from capitol hill with the latest. Good evening. Good evening. Set a republicans intend to take another swing at gutting obamacare. Senate majority leader says he intends to use money from an Obamacare Tax to help the Senate Tax Reform bill. We are optimistic that inserting the individual mandate repeal will be helpful and thats obviously the view of the Senate Finance committee republicans. Leaders say they intend to pass the tax reform package in the house thursday. Washington has been propping up a tax system riddled with loopholes for the wellconnecte. This bill changes this. We are cutting taxes for middle and low income families. President trump plans to rally House Republicans before the vote. On twitter, the president song the braces. One question remains the salt deduction. Claudia tenney says she is leaning yes. The house version, compromise on salt. That is something i can support. Dan donovan says he is a no. Because of the elimination of the state state local tax dedu, its harmful to new yorkers. Democrats are just the American People run the numbers, they wont be happy. When the public understands whats in this bill the harms working families versus who the true beneficiaries of the bulk of the tax cuts are coming or going to be really angry. The house will be in order. While there are signs with republicans coming together, so far that isnt the case between the house and senate. This is going to go into conference committee. Were going to deal with concerns and issues. We feel good. Where the senate is is finetuning its tax overall in the finance committee. We still dont have the full text of the bill. Speak of the Senate Majority leader says the senate will include money from scrapping an Obamacare Tax in the bill. Tonight the rules committee will prepare the bill in the house for the house floor on thursday. Sources suggest the house will go forward without including the obamacare aspect, feeling like they could add it later in the house and senate conference. Bret we will talk to a big source minutes from now. Mike emanuel live on the help. Thanks. Where minutes away from the start of our special town hall meeting on tax form with House Speaker paul ryan. That starts at 6 30 eastern time. You dont want to miss it. Now to the president s top lawenforcement official taking issue with being accused of lying about his previous testimony over russia, pushing back and making news on a host of fronts. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is on capitol hill. My story has never change. Lawmakers pressed Jeff Sessions on his contacts with russia during the president ial campaign. I will not accept and reject accusations that i have ever lied. That is a lie. After reading reports, session said he couldnt recall the march 2016 meeting. He chaired the discussion where George Papadopoulos recently pled guilty to lying to the fbi broached the idea of a meeting between candidate trump and the russian president. I wanted to make clear to him he was not authorized to represent the campaign with the russian government or any other Foreign Government for that matter. Did you take any further steps to prevent Trump Campaign officials, advisors, or employees from further outreach to the russians . Sessions avoided direct comment on tweets taking aim at Hillary Clinton and the dnc. Should the president of the United States make Public Comments that might influence a pending criminal investigation . A president cannot improperly influence an investigation. And i have not been improperly influenced and would not be improperly influenced. Republicans asked sessions about james comey, the bureau reportedly the admission that call me linked records. Looks like is not enough basis for a special counsel. On the possible appointment of a special counsel, on the clintons and uranium one, when Hillary Clinton was state competitions pledged independence. Do i have your assurance that these matters will proceed fairly . Yes, you can mr. Chairman. You can be sure they will be done without political influence and they will be done correctly and properly. The cofounder of fusion gps, the firm behind the antitrump dossier, is testifying behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee in a secure facility binding. In previous congressional testimony, glen simpson has avoided key questions on the dossier and his lawyers stand accused of running interference for his clients. Bret more on that tomorrow. Catherine herridge, thanks. Theres a growing debate on the hill tonight about whether President Trump or any commander in chief has too much power over the countrys nuclear arsenal. Today retired air force general told the Senate ForeignRelations Committee that the top officer at the u. S. Strategic command can refuse to carry out a president order to fire weapons. If the order is determined to be illegal. Former Missile Launch officer says if the president follows legal procedure, there is no way to reverse his order to fire. Stocks were off. Dow lost 30. S p 500 dropped 6. Nasdaq gave back 20. President trump is scheduled to arrive at the white house in about four and a half hours after his big asian trip. And hes promising a big announcement soon. Maybe tomorrow. Kristin fisher is at the white house. Its been an incredible 12 days. Ive enjoyed it immensely. President trump is in the air and on his way home from the trip hes describing as epic and tremendously successful. The president points to increasing pressure on pyongyang with stops in japan and south korea and improving trade relations with china, vietnam, and the philippines. Very proud from a standpoint of security and safety, military, very proud. Trade, you will see numbers that you wont believe. President trump that he is returning with 300 billion with trade deals for the u. S. So far, the details of those deals have been sparse. But the president s promising to get specific with a major announcement at the white house later this week. Hes also returning with what he describes as his greatest compliment of the trip, improved relations with his many good friends. Extraordinary. We like each other. Incredibly warm welcome and magnificent ceremony. You are a very special man. For your gracious hospitality. Thank you for your tremendous hospitality. During my first visit to vietnam. Weve had a great relationship. This has been very successful. Stick with a different kind of relationship thats become the talk of washington. Mr. Trump has been away. Roy moores alleged Sexual Misconduct with underaged girls is pitting establishment figures against former white house strategist steve bannon and many in mr. Trumps base. Now that hes back, he will likely be asked the same question his attorney general was asked today. Do you believe these young women . I have no reason to doubt these young women. With that in mind, if you believe these young women, do you believe judge moore should be seated in the senate if he wins and would you introduce investigations by the doj regarding his actions . Pickle we will evaluate every case as to whether or not it should be investigated. As for the three ucla basketball players arrested in beijing for shoplifting just one day before President Trump arrived in the country, they are now back on their way to the u. S. After mr. Trump intervened on their behalf. He says he had to personally ask president xi for help, and he did. Bret kristin fisher, thank you. Back to the moore senate race. The Republican National committee is no longer listed on the joint fundraising agreement filed by the Roy Moore Campaign with the federal election committee. The fcc. The document dated today lists only the Alabama Republican Party as participating in the joint fundraising with the moore for senates committee. Also tonight, two source stelle foxnews. Com that the party is pulling its National Field staffers from the alabama race. California democratic congresswoman jackie spears says there are members of the house who been involved in sexual harassment. The allegation came today during a hearing about Sexual Misconduct on capitol hill. There are two members of congress, republican and democrat, right now who serve who have been subject to review or not been subject to review but have engaged in sexual harassment. Bret also today, Virginia Republican congresswoman Barbara Comstock for she was told by a trusted source that a member of congress exposed himself to a woman on his staff. Sad news out of california. Authorities say four people plus the gunmen are dead after a series of shootings and multiple locations in northern california. An unknown number of people are wounded, including some children from elementary school. Police shot and killed the gunman. It happened in a Rural Community of rancho tehama reserve, about 130 miles north of sacramento, as we get more details we will bring them to you. Frances president says that french government has fueled homegrown islamic terrorism by abandoning its poorest neighborhoods. Emmanuel macrons plan to fix it comes as french authorities outlined just how big the terror problem has become there. Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palkot has the story. Two years ago this week, paris was wracked by terror, a concert hall, stadium, cafes targeted by militants. As french president macron, and others remember the carnage, there was a new warning. Authorities say there are some 18,000 on french watch list for radicalism and 4,000 under active surveillance. Officials are proactive. Translator time mustnt play into the terrorists hands anymore. He must serve us. We have modified the way we intervene. Tough new antiterror laws, increasing Police Powers to search and arrest him as well as monitor suspected terrorists. The new threat coming from isis fighters returning from battlefields in iraq and syria. An estimated 2,000 french went to fight there. Plus an increasing homegrown danger. Government Officials Say planned attacks in the past two years. They are trying to get ahead. Tough neighborhoods around paris that have seen riots are breeding grounds for terror. Today president macron promise tough new measures to combat radicalization. Shutting down extremist mosques. Translator the fight is to restore the republic and everything that comes with it. Authorities remain on guard. Some 7,000 troops are on the streets guarding sites and people from around the world in france. The lead singer of the American Group playing at a concert in paris targeted by terror. We watched people give the greatest demonstration of love, giving their life or their friends. One expert told us the latest figures on terror suspects and the threat are underestimates. Bret greg palkot in london. Thank you. We are minutes away from House Speaker paul ryan taking questions from the audience here in virginia. My colleague Martha Maccallum and i will be asking the speaker some questions as well about tax reform. 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The daylong testimony from the attorney general, questions about whether hes going to appoint a special prosecutor, special counsel on some other investigations. Wasnt going to take to get a special counsel . It would take a factual basis. It sure looks like a Major Political party was working with the federal government to turn and Opposition Research document equivalent of a National Enquirer story into an intelligent story, take it to the pfizer court fisa court. Looks like is not enough basis to appoint a special counsel. Are you going to appoint one . He has reminded you a couple times of his tweets thats what he wants. I will fulfill my duty as attorney general. Bret there you have it. Lets bring the panel. From the washington bureau, charles hurt. Shannon pettypiece, and byron york. Byron, overall, on balance, the attorney general on capitol hill today. On valence, the first clip, it was a five and a half hour attempt by democrats to catch Jeff Sessions an ally about russia. We heard a lot of questions about the George Papadopoulos affair, the man who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi, was the informal trump advisor on foreign policy. We heard a lot about that. We heard more about carter page, whom sessions had had a very, very cursory encounter with. Didnt even remember. Then we heard more about sessions of meeting with the Russian Ambassador during the campaign. The bottom line was i didnt really move the ball very far. If you believed Jeff Sessions going into this hearing, you believe him now. If you didnt believe him, you dont believe him still. It really didnt change a lot of opinions. Bret shannon, the attorney general did have some issues. He obviously was pressed numerous times about democrats on the various testimonies hes given. He pushed back saying it was not a deliberate effort to evade. His description on a number of fronts has changed over time. Its been listen, youre asking me about a meeting that happened a year ago. It was a crazy campaign. How my supposed to remember all of this . But i was say over the course of these hearings and investigations, ive talked other witnesses who testified. I have talked to their lawyers about what goes into preparing for the hearing so you dont get caught in a situation where you dont recall something and you make a statement thats misleading or factually incorrect. Typically people hire a lawyer. They pay them 20,000 or 30,000 or 50,000 to go through every email, every meeting record. The lawyer grills them on what happened in the meeting and what happened. They go through notes, text, phone records or Something Like this doesnt happen. These meetings sessions omitted or for god, they were public meetings, documented meetings. They were things he couldve known about and had his memory refreshed on before coming before committees previously. I was struck by the fact that it was a fascinating five and half hours where he really wasnt just taking incoming from democrats. He was also taking a lot of tough questions from fellow republicans were demanding to know, are you going to launch an investigation into the clintons and into all these other things that i would argue theres probably a whole lot more ripe territory for finding wrongdoing. As far as the questions from the democrats, questioning about the statements, if you go back to the original statements where they are claiming he misled them or he lied, there were exchanges between senators al franken and pat leahy. If you, those questions were specifically asked in terms of where you part of this conspiracy to conspire with russia to rig the election . Each of those questions, he answered factually correctly at the time. Now its all theatrics. They are trying to make him look bad in trying to sort of do everything they can to associate the Trump Campaign with russia. Bret obviously in the interim, we have had the Paul Manafort indictment, the guilty plea from papadopoulos, and with have the release of carter page pages deposition or testimony on the hill. Heres sound bite number two. Asking explicitly, did you meet with any other russians. I am prepared to say i did. I met with the ambassador in my office. With at least two of my staff, sr. , respected patriots. Retired colonel in the army. Nothing improper occurred. Once and for all, can we answer the question. I am once and for all answering the question. I dont understand why he wont take my answer. We are on the third edition, mr. Attorney general. He keeps getting at him and it keeps coming back. It goes back to the al franken exchange that charlie was talking about during his confirmation hearing. His story, by the way, is that he felt like he was not required to disclose every meeting he had within ambassador or a foreign official in the normal course of business as a u. S. Senator. And he did not actually disclose that. Theres other explanations. He didnt completely understand frankens question was which did wonder. His story is not changing all that much. Thank you. Live look outside that in the hall. We are getting ready for the town hall. An update on our good friend and colleague charles krauthammer. Ive updated you a few times on his condition on the show and on social media but i figured you would like to hear from the source himself. He emailed me today a message for everyone. Thanks to all for your cards, letters, and good wishes. Im still recovering from major surgery 12 weeks ago. I have graduated from the icu to an advanced Rehab Facility to regain my strength and stamina. Its a longer road than anticipated but the support of family, friends, and kindly viewers continues to sustain me. In the immortal words of arnold schwarzenegger, ill be back. We have been sorely missing charles and his sage voice every night on the panel. 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