Step behind the podium, we get more on his condition. It has been, moving on, though, that its been two years since donald trump descended down that escalator in trump tower to the guilded lobby and announced that he was running for president and now here we are fewer than 150 days into his presidency and he is taking to twitter once again to respond to news reports that hes under investigation while at the same time cryptically attacking rod rosenstein. He tweeted, i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. Witch hunt. And the attorney general, jeff sessions, recused himself from the russia probe. President trump was referencing news reports that hes under investigation and not actually confirming that he himself was told that this investigation exists. So lets begin the hour with jeff zeleny, our senior white 3 house correspondent. Are we getting any clarification from the white house this morning . Reporter we are not. And th
For the president to sign into law will be ready later. President trumps single legislative action. Its passage nearly as passed. Overnight passed the law, made some technical changes, and the house is forced to hold the revote today. Passed. No democrats voted for the bill. So pretty sure bet they wont be boarding the buses at the capital waiting to celebrate. Earlier the president revelled in the success of passing this new legislation. Not only hailed the fact that it cuts most individual tax rates and drastically cuts business taxes, but he also touted that it ends the obamacare rule that people had to buy Health Insurance or pay a fine. When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means obamacare is being repealed. Because they get their money from the individual mandate. So the individual mandate is being repealed. So in this bill, not only do we have massive tax cuts and tax reform, we have essentially repealed obamacare. And well come up with something that will be much
Accomplishing for President Trump and republicans. This is massive Political Risk they are taking. Why . This bill is not popular. Could they sell it . Yes, Mitch Mcconnell said if we cant sell this we dont belong in congress. Okay. If they cant sell it i would say a lot of the current republican members of congress may not be in congress in 2019. But this is a bill that is not popular, but was driven by necessity. The Health Care Failure i think led directly, as phil noted, led directly to this success. They did it faster than i certainly thought they kochlt and they are getting it signed and. One you havent heard this expression. But we are making America Great again. I want to have them get up and get the glamor and glory and i want to have a few of them come up. But i want to thank you Mitch Mcconnell. What a job. Its always a lot of fun when you win. But im going to name a few names and some of them will come up we havent been a year. We repealed obamacare because we got rid of th
For the Childrens Health Insurance Program but some factions and smaller groups may actually get in the way and you have the conservative caucus that wants more money to the Defense Department while democrats feel pressure from the hispanic caucus to make sure any includes a deal for d. R. E. A. M. Ers. These d. R. E. A. M. Ers, young undocumented immigrants trying to avoid deportation. House Speaker Paul Ryan said theres too much at stake for democrats to play politics and the white house just chimed in saying they will get the blame. The democrats will get the blame if the government shuts down. I feel it makes no sense for democrats to try and bring us to a shutdown, to cut off funding for the States Running out of money like minnesota and washington and kentucky and other states. So i think cool heads hopefully will prevail on this thing. The president certainly doesnt want to shut down and if one happens, i think you have one place to look and thats the democrats who are holding o