Paul. President trump starts his christmas vacation and hes celebrating his first major legislative win. He headed out to his florida resort after he signed the tax bill into law. Cheered what he called the largest tax cuts in history. But despite his excitement, aides told the president to avoid the president ial year end News Conference out of fears that there could be a lot of questions about russia. And those concerns come as investigators interview the long time personal assistant as part of the russia probe. And democrats warn Republican Leaders against shutting down the investigation. More on that in just a moment, but lets start with dan near the president s resort there in florida. No doubt that the tax bill, big win for the president as he wraps up 2017. Reporter it really is a huge win and the president is not somebody who likes muted celebrations. Hes kind of a larger than life figure even before he was president so it was surprising when he signed this bill in the oval off
United nations General Assembly. What will he say . We will talk about that. Lets go to south florida, first. Residents in floridas lower keys, you saw them there. Finally on their way home for the First Time Since irma hit. Key wests mayor says you better be ready for a shock when you o get back to that island. Nick valencia is live for us along the line of cars trying to make it back. What are they saying to you . How concerned are they about what we are going to find . Most of them know whether they have a home left . Reporter its been a week since Hurricane Irma hit and i think people are as helpless and hopeless as the day it made landfall. A lot of residents this morning know they are going back to absolutely nothing. Its an estimated onethird of these homes in monroe route are either uninhabitable or flatout destroys. This is one of the two checkpoints. The first checkpoint that residents going back into the keys will come across this morning. What the officials are doing is mak
Onboard the train seem to be of good news considering this accident. The House Speaker is on the train but he is okay. Ive spoken with members of congress who are onboard. They say there was a major jolt. Things started flying. Anything that wasnt secured, laptops, cell phones, one person who stood up had minor injuries and congressman curbelo had photos of First Responders onboard the train. [ inaudible ]. And, kasie, with apologies, your cell phone is breaking up so i want to bring in congressman bradley burn of alabama, a republican who was on the train. All focus here is on the people in the truck that was on the tracks when the train hit it. Can you tell us what happened at the moment of impact . What were you doing . Was anyone standing . Give us a description. There were some people standing. They have received minor injuries. I personally was sitting and just felt a very strong jolt and the train came to a pretty quick stop. We realized we hit something and people in the back o
Im Shannon Bream in washington. Despite the democrats are getting involved in highlevel intelligence briefings. You are going to hear from house intel member peter king in a moment as well as Mollie Hemingway and buck sexton on what it all means for the search for answers as to how the fbi and the dmg have handled the Russian Investigation. First, chief National Correspondent ed henry live with the breaking details and a very heated phone call. You are right. This was supposed to be devin nunes, trey gowdy going behind closed doors at noon eastern tomorrow. All of that has changed now under pressure from democrats would Justice Departments thing there will be a second meeting with democratic and Republican Leaders about 2 00 p. M. Eastern. I got off the phone with devin nunes. Hes fired up. He believes the Justice Departments playing around with these different meanings to try to may be make it like there was daylight between nunes and some of his colleagues. Maybe different informatio
Pres. s claims. Tonight the democrats are getting involved in highlevel intelligence briefings. You will hear from peter king and Molly Hemingway on what it all means for the search for answers how the fbi and doj handled the russia investigation. And henry live with breaking details and a heated phone call. It was supposed to be devon nunez, trey gary behind closed doors at noon eastern but that has changed under pressure from democrats, the Justice Department saying there will be a second meeting at 2 00 eastern. Devon nunez is fired up, he believes the Justice Department is playing around with different meetings to make like there was daylight between nunez and some of his colleagues and information would be discussed at these meetings, this lastminute change by the Justice Department was, quote, weak and pathetic and added i will be there at 2 00 pm to watch what they say to make sure it is the same intel, same interpretation of the facts whether there was spying on Donald Trumps c