As far as puerto rico thats been going really well. Not so says the mayor of san juan. Put lives in danger, theres a disconnect between. Dickerson well get the real story from puerto rico and hear from florida marco rubio. Then its on to tax reform. As House Speaker paul ryan tells us what we can expect from the republican tax plan. Guarantee that every middle class person will get a tax cut once it becomes a bill. The purpose of doing it, is to get middle class dickerson is that a guarantee . What will the plan do for you and what do democrats want. Chuck schumer will be here, plus cbs newsman Bob Schieffer will join us, his new book over load takes a look at the news deluge in the trump era. Plus well have plenty of political analysis its all coming up on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. Weve got a lot of news to get to today but we want to begin with the ongoing humanitarian cries in puerto rico following hurricane maria. Cbs news correspo
For sessions he did ask our written opinion and we submitted that to him, it did represent any change in either one of our opinion as rosenstein uty indicated, i believe. Asked to provide it and we did. Enator did the president ever mention to you his concern about russia the cloud on the investigation . A. G. Sessions that calls for a had with the ive resident and i believe remains confidential. Senator but you dont deny there was a communication . Do not confirm or deny existence of any ommunication between the president that i consider to be confidential. Did you first speak with the president about what director comey, date . A. G. Sessions i think that is lso covered by my opening statement, i believe the president had the right and i a duty to meet with him on proper occasions and provide advice, legal or otherwise as im called upon to do. Have done that and i believe he has a right to protect that until ntiality appropriate circumstances exist to wavemight not choose that privil
Roundtable with tomand trend locked together. Daschle and trent lott. Jonathan very quickly, a big print in the eurozone, core inflation a fouryear high. , up. 6 . Gh on the euro treasuries on offer at the margin. Of the Market Action. Lets get you up to speed on the top stories. Here is emma chandra. Emma President Trump warned there could be a major conflict with north korea if diplomacy fails, telling reuters the u. S. Would love to solve the issue peacefully, but said it is very difficult. At the United Nations Security Council today, secretary tillerson will try to showed north korea the world is against it. In france, the president ial election is a week from sunday. At a rally and nice, Marine Le Pen did not mention her plan to pull out of the euro, but said macron lacked french fry use. Tell thes are ready to u. K. They are united when it comes to brexit. There will be a summit in brussels to discuss the uks departure from the block. They will warned the u. K. Against trying to
Leon harris has the latest on the investigation. Its a really crazy situation in new york. An 18yearold woman died and two dozen people were hurt when a wrongway driver slammed into a crowd of pedestrians on the sidewalk. These are live pictures from the scene. Police are telling us that Richard Rojas rammed into the lunch hour crowd just before noon. Investigators say he made a uturn and started speeding down the sidewalk for several blocks before crashing into a traffic pole. Right now, Officials Say they do not think this wreck is terrorrelated. According to Law Enforcement sources, rojas appeared to be under the influence of drugs or challenge and he has two prior dwi arrests on his record. In 2008, he was arrested in queens for drinking and driving and also in 2015, he was arrested in manhattan for drinking and as of now, four people are in Critical Condition in the hospital. The word is, they are expected to live. Thats some good news. Thank you, leon. Back here in our area, what
Salman abedi. Tammy, we know there is another one around the corner, but they seem to have a deep and larger impact each time. Tammy its the exhaustion of society knowing that we have incredible resources and intelligence. But it doesnt seem to be stopping. Thats why president trumps tour is incredibly important. We have been dealing with western leaders who say we are going to manage this. Europeans are getting used to this because you cant stop it. This is a defeatist attitude that says we can defeat is. Well defeat it and well do it quickly. So thats the difference. That this is the new normal, or this is sick reply natural. We allowed it to continue and now that is going to end. There was a period at the end of the year and the beginning of this year where it seemed like the tearists were resorting to knives and automobiles. This obviously much more sophisticated attack. There is no doubt we made strides in identifying and predicting hot terrorists are. But in an open society like