the president and white house don t release schedules anymore, even though obama had done it, they were incomplete schedules but something. i would rgargue it extended to mar-a-lago, where people can pay a membership fee and get access to our president. these are basic things about who is meeting with our president, and if you are talking about draining the swamp that s the first step to take to bring transparency. katie, this is unusual, not something that happened in previous administrations. no, we are not getting much transparency from this administration when it comes to who is getting in the white house, who is talking to the epa. the list goes on and on. i mean it should alarm folks. who is influencing the people who are creating policy and rolling back regulations? do they have your interests in mind or do they have the interests of a corporation or a donor? who knows? we should point out through
done. we had an important work today. you voted to deregulate the banking industry today. today was a big step forward in doing what we promised the american people we would do before the election. rolling back regulations. do you think if people are what do you think will happen to you and your congressional allies if robert mueller comes back to you in a few months scene say i recommend i find that the president did commit obstruction of justice. are you prepared to accept the recommendations from this independent counsel? i have a great deal of respect for director mueller. he has a great background. he s been hired to do his job. that sounds like a yes. i have to wait and see follow the facts when we have them. both from director mueller and the bipartisan committees in the house and senate who are both evaluating and investigating the
and of millions of americans when i say congratulations and thank you. thank you for seeing through the course of this year an agenda that truly is restoring this country. you described it very well, mr. president, from the outset of this administration we have been rebuilding our military, putting the safety and security of the american people first. you ve restored personal credibility on the world stage. we re standing with our allies. we re standing up to our enemies. but you promised economic renewal at home. you said we could make this economy great again. and you promised to roll back regulations. and you signed more bills rolling back federal red tape than any president in american history. have you unleashed american energy. you ve spurred an optimism in this country that s setting records. but, you promised the american people in that campaign a year ago that you
p.m. in washington and we are expecting two events at the white house this hour. a briefing with sarah huckabee sanders. there she is. taking the podium right now. also, a debrief with the president about rolling back regulations. let s go to sarah huckabee sanders. ten days of taking office president trump issued 13771 instructing the office of management and budget to remove two government regulations for every new one created. washington scoffed but the administration acted and under a year we have unleashed the american economy, businesses and job creation. these efforts and the rest of the president s agenda have fueled economic growth including all-time highs in the stock market, a 17-year low in unemployment rolls, new highs in manufacturing and consumer confidence and much more. we re at the final stages of historic tax cuts and reforms to provide massive relief to
reporting on weeks and weeks on this bill it is so important to the republicans politically to get this passed so to play chicken on a personal priority on this bill at this very late stage in the game, is a pretty big gamble and i think not a lot of senators will want to take. megan, first off, the president s going to speak at 2:30, talking about rolling back regulations. we ve got a camera in the oval waiting for him right now. we re going to go there when he comes out. in the meantime i m sorry the roosevelt room, my bad. sorry about that. in the meantime this tax bill, you re taking the corporate rate to 21%. the top individual tax rate is going from 39.5 to 37. how can they justify bringing those down and not expanding a child tax credit or not expanding the tax credits that help the regular people of this country, the middle class earners, especially when the tax