The president is able to end of the protections under the 19 oh six antiquities act, which gives him authority to declare a federal as monuments and restrict their use or reverse that. The president is said to be taking a look at this issue as he is in salt lake city. There are a lot of other things going on with government now and there will be reporters along the route but i can tell you this president even in instances like this, will take questions on other issues. We know that tax reform is being debated right now in Conference Committee between the senate and house versions of the bill to try to get something on the president s desk with tax reform in mind before christmas. We know a governments shutdown is going to try to be avoided, it will be a showdown between now and friday and a deadline to keep the government running based on a spending bill they have to start making motion on. Right now the president is in salt lake city, utah,. He is set to potentially talk about issues
Country is, state the facts. Its about being safe, strong, and proud. The president is going to focus on five major areas, National Security company infrastructure, the immigration plan. We have a trade deficit with china, 17 billion with canada, thats got to change and this president knows that. Hes going to talk about the economy, how great the economy is doing and how much it affects people across the spectrum. We have 55 Million People in this country with 401ks, 35 million that have pensions and 25 million that have iras, it has affected everybody and a rising tide lifts all of us and we are going to tout a lot of those message points because he has set so many records, so many accomplishments in the first year but it is about looking forward as well and thats what the president wants to do and he will strike all bipartisan tone. Harris what is the place of unity as we look forward in all of this . We are hearing from the white house, i want to get you on the record saying this, w
Keep our government open. Peter doocy joins us from capitol hill. The story is taking on a little different texture. It is and thats because republicans are in the majority of both houses. If theres going to be a shutdown its because they cannot get enough of their own members to agree on how your tax dollars should be spent and that is something democrats are spending a lot of time today shining a spotlight on. When they take their votes, if they have the votes we will see what the senate does and what they send over. Weve never been advocates for shutting government down, we are not shutting government down. I hope there will not be shutdowns and we will see. The house is taking a procedural step towards eventually floating on a continuing resolution. They are debating the rule for that vote and the g. O. P. Has abandoned attempts to get the government funded for the fiscal year. Now they are just trying to keep the lights on until january 19th with spending for most programs staying
With this tweet. Republicans and democrats negotiated in good faith to reach a deal that gives you what you ask for in front of the country on tuesday. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts joins us now live in from the north lawn. Its interesting to see that tweet because the White House Position hasnt changed since last tuesday when the president said he wanted a deal on daca but also one that included Border Security which would be a wall and an end to chain migration and the visa lottery program. Everybody seemed pretty optimistic but what a difference a week can make. Look at what the president is tweeting about it now. Daca is probably dead because the democrats dont really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our military. If it is dead the president is saying dont blame him. The president pointed the finger directly at democrats, saying they are the ones responsible for it not being a deal. The president also denying that he used ra
Secretary pompei out defending the president s sit down with putin just yesterday. The present has been clear, a Business Council will start at processes, many things came from what i view as an incredibly important meeting, one i think the world will have benefited from when history is written. Harris my first guess, a democrat from New Hampshire sits on that Foreign Relations committee. He will be participating in todays hearing in just a couple of hours with secretary pompeo. You have lead the charge to get the american interpreter to talk. Why . I think we need to know what happened in the meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin. Theres been a lot of information put out by the russian government, either the ministry of defense by their ambassador. We havent gotten any kind of a readout from President Trump about what happened there and ive had a chance to ask some of our state Department Officials what they know about what he mightve agreed to on syria, on the crimea, on