He insists there is no collusion. A few hours laterman fort and gates appeared before a federal judge. Sarah bloomquist is following the latest developments with an update. Good evening. Reporter good evening rick and monica. President trumps former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort and his business associate rick gates pled not guilty to all charges at a hearing this afternoon. Meantime the white house is distancing itself from this indictment as well as a plea agreement involving a former Trump Campaign official. Paul manafort the former trump Campaign Chairman surrendered to their fbi this morning following the indictment against him and his business associate and former Trump Deputy Campaign manager rick gates. The 31 page indictment represents the first charges filed against anyone by special counsel robert mueller. The 12 counts include conspiracy against the United States, false statements and conspiracy to launder money through hidden bank accounts. In total more than 75 million all
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back from a two week break. I know you must have missed is terribly. I know i missed you all. So great to see you. Here we are this week. The white house wanted to celebrate the first 100 days, maybe commemorating might be a better phrase to use. It really has been 100 days of failure for this administration outside of the appointment of neil gorsuch as the night member of the supreme court. It took the changing of the senate rules to accomplish. Very little the white house did beyond the nomination itself. We look at all the other failures of achievement and the first 100 days to i do not say this weekly because the American People are the ones that suffer because of a lack of attention and focus on the issues they are concerned about. Nothing in terms of jobs or economy. Nothing to show in terms of health care. Show fory nothing to draining the swamp. My colleagues. About those issues after me. With theto start broken promises that the president has ma
Pricewaterhousecoopers and the former chairman of the house ways and means committee, and the center on budget and policy priority, president of the committee for responsible federal budget, and grover norquist, president and founder of the americans for tax reform. Over to you. Thanks. Lets start with you. What was your reaction to the secretarys comments . Were you heartened . We wrote a story about the possibility of transportation mixing with tax reform. A big step forward. A very important division. If you put Infrastructure Spending, any spending, inside lesss o tax reform, that is for infrastructure. It reduces what you can do. Two separate it is helpful. To separate it is very helpful for as far as the debt, it has been reported that the adjustment tax is not going to be one of the offsets. Are you concerned about this being this blowing a hole in the nations debt. Thank you for asking the question about offsets and the debt. I am a here supporter of tax reform. We need tax ref
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back from a two week break. I know you must have missed is terribly. I know i missed you all. So great to see you. Here we are this week. The white house wanted to celebrate the first 100 days, maybe commemorating might be a better phrase to use. It really has been 100 days of failure for this administration outside of the appointment of neil gorsuch as the night member of the supreme court. It took the changing of the senate rules to accomplish. Very little the white house did beyond the nomination itself. We look at all the other failures of achievement and the first 100 days to i do not say this weekly because the American People are the ones that suffer because of a lack of attention and focus on the issues they are concerned about. Nothing in terms of jobs or economy. Nothing to show in terms of health care. Show fory nothing to draining the swamp. My colleagues. About those issues after me. With theto start broken promises that the president has ma
Pricewaterhousecoopers and the former chairman of the house ways and means committee, and the center on budget and policy priority, president of the committee for responsible federal budget, and grover norquist, president and founder of the americans for tax reform. Over to you. Thanks. Lets start with you. What was your reaction to the secretarys comments . Were you heartened . We wrote a story about the possibility of transportation mixing with tax reform. A big step forward. A very important division. If you put Infrastructure Spending, any spending, inside lesss o tax reform, that is for infrastructure. It reduces what you can do. Two separate it is helpful. To separate it is very helpful for as far as the debt, it has been reported that the adjustment tax is not going to be one of the offsets. Are you concerned about this being this blowing a hole in the nations debt. Thank you for asking the question about offsets and the debt. I am a here supporter of tax reform. We need tax ref