My office. Joining me now is cnn White House Correspondent abby philips and shes with the president in florida. Abby, when he gets back to the white house what is first on his agenda . Reporter hi, brianna. The president is preparing to come back to d. C. Any minute now this afternoon, and hes going to be launching into a full agenda approximately seewise, talking about infrastructure over the break. Hes also going to be looking at welfare reform. Hes going to be sitting down with congressional leaders in the house and the senate and Mitch Mcconnell in the senate and paul ryan in the house and theyll be hashing out the plan for the coming months and all of this leading up to his state of the Union Address at the end of january, of course, but overnight at his new years eve celebration at his Maralago Club, the president touted some of the things that he is very proud that he was able to do over the last year and suggested that more is coming in 2018. Listen to what he had to say. Were
Already fragile immigration talks and negotiations to avert a government shutdown. Lets begin now in washington with cnn White House Correspondent abby philips, who joins us with more on the fallout from the president s remarks and what hes tweeting about now. Hello, abby. Hello, martin. The firestorm from the president s remarks on thursday afternoon have really not died down very much, and it also calls into question as you mentioned the future of the daca talks. Remember, this is all about whether or not democrats and republicans are going to be able to come together and find an agreement to deal with the fate of nearly 700,000 immigrants who were brought here as children. The president tweeting this morning his own doubts that a daca deal might be in the future. Heres what he wrote. He said, i dont believe the democrats really want to see a deal on daca. They are all talk and no action. This is the time but by day and night they are blowing the one great opportunity they have. Too
Robert mueller next week. Lets begin with the gop tax plan. Our team of reporters are combing through the details this weekend. Lauren fox in washington, lauren, give us the details of the plan and winners and losers here. Well, republicans did unveil a final tax deal last night, and there are, just like any other bill, big winners and losers. Corporations have a major drop in the Corporate Tax rate, something thats going to make their holiday quite a bit brighter. You also have individuals that are going to see a reduction in their tax rates, and there are some big losers moving forward. One of the biggest losers here is individuals, who will see their tax rates that have been dropped through this bill sunset, actually, at the end of 2025. That just has to do with the fact that this bill is very costly, which leads to another loser, the national debt. And the Affordable Care act, which will be repealed, the individual mandate, which was a key backbone of that revision will be repealed
That statement from north korea. Reporter only a series of statements released through north korean state media which criticized pretty harsh terms we havent heard in some time both the u. S. And south korea accusing them both of military provocations during these joint military exercises, annual exercises that are under way right now and saying that the u. S. Better think twice if it wants to continue with this and still have a north korea u. S. Summit in singapore next month. Take a look at this excerpt from the statement. If they try to push us into the corner and force only unilateral Nuclear Abandonment we will no longer be interested in that kind of talks and will have to reconsider whether we will accept the upcoming north korea u. S. Summit and thats from a senior diplomat in north korea. Now, analysts are mixed here. They dont know whether this is a bargaining tactic or this could be the signal of an end to this kind of period of warmer relations, but we do have to point out t
Terms to testify before the Senate Judiciary committee. We are learning more about the deal breakers for both sides, more on that in just a moment. I want to go to abby philips at the white house here. This is quite a mark a truly remarkable change in tone by the president , directly attacking ford. Kavanaughs accuser. What happened . Reporter thats right. This is a big shift from where he was at the beginning of this week. When he was focusing his remarks on Brett Kavanaugh being a good person, someone he stand by, declining to directly attack his accuser. That has all changed. In the last 24 hours, President Trump has launched a new line of attack questioning why Christine Blaseyford didnt come back 36 years ago, according to this alleged incident and report it to the fbi . President trumps aides have been releefbd the past several days he hasnt gone too far. Now he is doing what many had hoped he would restrain from doing. This is in part what we seen in the last several days is a s