Investigate this and oh, my god how could President Obama have done this to President Trump, and they were quiet, with the ni microphones except f microphones except for john mccain and lindsey graham. The question is why would the president Want Congress to spend money investigating a question to which he has the answer by virtue of his tweet . And can make that public any old time he wants. Lets talk turkey here. This is a president on a twitter storm clearly angry about the way that his staff had handled things, deciding to take things into his own hands and try to change the subject, who knows, probably divert attention from russia, all of the above. And sean spicer was asked and
this because he hasnt shown any evidence. Imagine if he had evidence of this action by the former president it would be the biggest political story in 50 years or so and he would want to put it out there and we will wait to see what he does. I think they are hoping this does become like Groundhog Day and e
All year round. So call today. Because nows the perfect time to learn more. Go long. Im jim accoosta for wolf blitzer. Maria on the move. Churning north and gaining steam. What the storm is leaving behind and who is next. The hunt for survivors after a deadly earthquake grows more frantic and we will take you there live. Turning to trump. The Special Counsel seeks new documents about the president s actions in office including a meeting with the russians. We begin with Hurricane Marias rampage with 3. 3 million u. S. Citizens. It has been devastated and President Trump approved a
system. In san juan, what is the situation there right now . Its strange because people are beginning to move around again. You see people stopping to pause and look around and take stock of the scope of whats changed in a little over 24 hours. We were here before the rains moved in to see a perfectly functional city, but there is a Puerto Rican Flag trying to go in the breeze. Part of today has been about tak
that consider themselves middle class. they re not even mentioning some of the easiest stuff that benefits the belgty and that is considered by everyone to be essentially unfair. like people of hedge fund managers and wealthy invest professionals pay such a low tax rate. thank you. ladies, thank you very much. and president trump is hoping to get bipartisan support for this tax plan, but will democrats get onboard. let s talk to another democratic senator, amy clobechar. first offer, do you support this plan? well, no, not as we ve heard the details yet. but i will say that there s a
the votes. we ll vote in january, february, or march. so he s going noo negotiate with democrats. what do you need in order for him to negotiate with you? there is excellent work going on right now with patty and alexander. that s some combination of reinsurance, cost sharing, which really means we re reducing the risk for people that are in the plan, especially in the rural areas. reducing their rates and then giving some flexibility to the states, but not doing it like that graham/cassidy plan did by cutting the money that goes to the state. can he sign an executive order that says people can buy health care across state lines? does he have the authority to do that? i didn t think he did because we ve had legislation that s been introduced to do that, so there s been people involved on
the taxes of the rich, that s a direct benefit to him. we already believe he s a rich, rich billionaire. correct. so the president has already been dishonest today, and we haven t seen his taxes. there s this thought he s going to be able to sell this more because he understands taxes more. it s part of the mythology of donald trump. i haven t seen him get into the nuance of frankly anything ever since i ve been following him. they talked about a tax plan during the campaign, but again it was broad strokes. katy, i spoke to people working on the tax reform plan in the white house who said president trump hadn t touched this. ivanka made her way to visit the plan to try and get her paid parental leave in there, and they sent her packing. so the answer to that is a big old no. so democrats, what do they need to change on this, what do