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Reaction this morning from President Trump over his war of words with congresswoman wilson. Hes defending his chief of staff john kelly after he criticized her for listening in on the president s call to the family of Staff Sergeant la david johnson. President trumps new comments are part of an interview to air in its entirety on fox tomorrow morning. He was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call and so were other people. The call was a very nice call. He was so offended that a woman would be that somebody would be listening to that call. He was he actually couldnt believe it. Actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. This is really not. And he knew i was so nice. Look, ive called many people. And i would any that every one of them appreciated it. Meanwhile, the Washington Post Editorial Board is calling on general kelly to apologize to the congresswoman for getting his facts wrong about her comments a the a new fbi buildings after video has surfaced. L

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reform. earlier this week on thursday night or early friday morning, they passed a budget. that s really the next political hurdle in order for them to get to something like tax reform. i m hearing from my sources on capitol hill that next week the house will really advance that to the president s desk. that would potentially clear the way for tax reform by the end of the year. there is the bottom line is there is a lot of pressure on republicans in leadership as well as the far right wing party to get some type of legislative victory by the end of the year in order for them to be able to head into 2018 midterms, and any political distraction at all, whether it s fighting with senator bob korker or whcorker you has really frustrated some folks to some extent. that said, they feel they re still on pace to get tax reform done by the end of year. and kevin, just yesterday, possibly more distractions.

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sanctions bill. presumably that s going to pass overwhelmingly. yeah, that should pass. and there was a bit of a scuttle related to that as well because there was a dust-up between bob korker and between kevin mccarthy the house majority leader. they settled their differences on that and now the bill will finally get passed. and that s something that should have overwhelming bipartisan support, the the first incarnation of this bill passed through the senate with only two senators voting against it. so, that s something that should sail through. and then it ll be headed towards president trump s desk, and obviously we ve heard some mixed signals from the white house as to whether or not he will sign it into law. so that will be a rare, bipartisan moment up here on capitol hill over the next several hours. a lot going on over there. thanks very much, ryan, dana, we re going to get back to you. i want to bring in jim heinz of connecticut right now. he s a member of the house intellig

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and there to be judicial review looked at first by judges to make sure that it is consistent with the law, expect that bill to be introduced next week, jake. real concern on capitol hill by republicans and democrats alike that president trump is going to try to fire bob mueller. manu, the russian sanctions bill, new sanctions, as punishment for the election interference, passed by the senate, passed by the house, what s the latest on the status? reporter: overwhelmingly by both chamber, unanimously, something you rarely see. now a final deal has been reached between the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, bob korker, the house majority leader, kevin mccarthy to move forward on this sanction s package that includes any effort to, by the white house to try to loosen russia sanctions at the congress essentially had to approve to that request. they could veto the possibility of loosening sanctions. now one question is remaining, will president trump sign this legislatio

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