And pick the one they want. Lets get right to nbc news chief white house corners hallie jackson. Hallie, break it down for you. What do we expect to hear from the president . Reporter actually, listen, probably 90 seconds now, chris, we just got warning from the white house the president is go to begin speaking any moment from here inside the white house. Based on advance excerpts of the speech that just popped into our emails, the president will frame this, of course, as the beginning of victory lap, frankly, looking ahead what hes calling a big victory. Often heard the president and Many Republican s hearken to th reagan tax cuts. And talking about somebody else. John f. Kennedy and tax cuts back 55plus years ago roughly nap is sort of the framing of what youll expect to see. Looking on my screen here, chris, because there are families, or should be families that will be lining up, tough for me 0 to see. They are there. Thanks, chris. Because the president wants to point to these fam
Rights movement and as always, hell have plenty to say about resisting and how he deals with the trump agenda. Well talk to him later about his role in the gun debate after the horror in las vegas seven days ago. But first, can america truly confront its love of guns when it is constantly employing every political excuse not to . As the questions mounted this week following the deadliest mass shooting many say in american history, the white house turned to the conservative bogeyman of black on black violence in chicago and other cities to distract from a topic it does not want to discuss. All while overlooking how guns from the heart land have been flooding the inner city for years. Joining me now is jason johnson, politics editor for the root and an msnbc contributor. And paul barry of night life with paul berry iii and a former congressional candidate of missouris first district. Jason, when we raised this issue again after these horrific killings in las vegas, right away the white h
Late yesterday President Trump was out playing salesman to the American People trying to drum up support for the plan. Peter aaron hicks has more on the potentially major changes coming to your taxes. Take a look. Reporter President Trump just in time for the holidays promising to put more money in your pockets. We want to give you a giant tax cut for christmas. When i say giant, i mean giant. What do they agree on. Individual takes rate will drop from 39 to 37. What had been a strategicing capped at 10,000. Mortgage interest deductions protected, but overturned. Crucial component of obama. Ending the penalty for not having Health Insurance and potentially jeopardizing already fragile marketplaces. That repeal, john partisan budget scorekeeper warned leave 13 Million People uninsured for the next decades. This is only a small beginning to the incredible things that our people will achieve over a very sport period of time. For republicans, banking on promoting tax cuts is a signature ac
Literally dragged out of the white house. Every retractor will have to bow down to President Trump. All that and the Justice Department faces the plot to stop mueller. Youre the guy in charge. You could disband the mueller special prosecutor. All in starts right now. Good evening, from new york. Im chris hayes. Today republicans from all around the country, from alabama, to the white house, stopped to survey the smoking wreckage of their party. Now, the gop is still the dominant power in the country. It is unified control of washington and holds 34 governorships, a record high. But the party as of this morning is now staring into a kind of existential abyss after Democrat Doug Jones stunning upset victory last night in alabama, one of the most conservative states in the nation. In the race to fill Jeff Sessions Old Senate Seat jones defeated roy moore, an evangelical idelog accused of molesting teenage girls and nevertheless enjoyed the full backing of the Republican National committee
Youre the guy in charge. You could disband the mueller special prosecutor. All in starts right now. Good evening, from new york. Im chris hayes. Today republicans from all around the country, from alabama, to the white house, stopped to survey the smoking wreckage of their party. Now, the gop is still the dominant power in the country. It is unified control of washington and holds 34 governorships, a record high. But the party as of this morning is now staring into a kind of existential abyss after Democrat Doug Jones stunning upset victory last night in alabama, one of the most conservative states in the nation. In the race to fill Jeff Sessions Old Senate Seat jones defeated roy moore, an evangelical idelog accused of molesting teenage girls and nevertheless enjoyed the full backing of the Republican National committee and the president of the United States. The president has now achieved the near impossible. In a state he personally won by almost 30 points voters have rejected trump