The trump tax plan, one that could give business and individuals a big break but could also blow a multi, ready for this, trillion, trillion dollar hole in the federal budget. Youre in luck, im not just in d. C. With me ive got the best team in the business to break it down. I want to take you first to Nbcs Kristen Welker live at the white house. Kristen, we know President Trump is busy tweeting up a storm this morning. But talk to us a bit about his tax plan. What do we think is in there . Okay, steph, heres what we know so far. Todays announcement will essentially be a blueprint of the president s tax principles and priorities. Steve mnuchin and the president s top Economic Advisor expected to roll out the details a little bit later on this afternoon. The headline of this, steph, the proposed slashing of the business tax rate to 15 . Now heres the key. It will apply to big corporations and also Small Businesses as well as real estate firms, like President Trumps. Aides say the plan w
On the world stage, ivanka trump at a summit in germany. Next set to dine with the countrys leader after getting heckled defending her fathers record on women. Hes been a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive. You hear the audience. Plus, live fire, north korea with a giant military exercise overnight, while a u. S. Submarine arrives off the peninsula. North korea is a big world problem. Its a problem we have to finally solve. Were going to begin this morning with a 24hour switcheroo. President oba President Trump backing off demands for the wall signaling a fight the border fence will have to wait for another day. The best team in the business to break it down and i want to take you first to nbcs Peter Alexander live at the white house. Peter, President Trump could not stop talking about the wall on the campaign trail. Yeah. But even yesterday suddenly this thing got dropped into the middle of the budget negotiations and now hes making a change . Well,
Because in part because the Vice President was unknowingly making false statements to the public and because we believed that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. With us to share reporting and insights abby phillip, jeff zeal knee and niamalika henderson. That was sally yates and she raised a number of questions in her testimony before congress yesterday, this chief among them. To state the obvious, you dont want your National Security adviser compromised with the russians. Yates was acting attorney general when she and another high Ranking Justice Department official delivered the warning to the white house. That was in february. But President Trump waited 18 days to fire general Michael Flynn. And only then after Washington Post report detailing the blackmail concerns. Why is the question the white house hasnt satisfactorily answered. Did the president think yates was exaggerating the risk . Did he already know flynn was lying and didnt think it was a big deal
Backlash from all sides. Do you respect putin . I could respedo respect him. Why . I respect a lot of people but that doesnt mean im going to get along with him. Will i get along with him, i this have no idea. Putin is a killer though. There are a lot of killers, we got a lot of killers. What you think our country is so innocent . Super surprise, a catch for the ages. Julian edelman. Oh, thats a catch. My god. Thats incredible the turning point in an epic Fourth Quarter comeback performance for the patriots and fivetime super bowl champion tom brady. The great tom brady had completed ten in a row, now second and goal. Tossed to white, hes in patriots win the super bowl and good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. President trump is now meeting for the first time with centcom leadership in tampa and will be addressing the troops after a weekend spend fuming over a federal judges decision to block his temporary ban on travelers from seven majority muslim countries. The restrictions fr
Circuit, they set a deadline tonight, a deadline of tonight for the government to make its legal filing to present its next case. The moments after that deadline passed, they announced there will be a hearing tomorrow at 6 00 p. M. Eastern time, 3 00 p. M. On the west coast, 6 00 p. M. On the east coast. That means this time tomorrow, we will likely know whether the refugee ban and the muslim ban is still staying dead or if it might come back from beyond the grave. Theres been so much visible protests. Theres been such widescale civilian resistance and organizing against trump, i think its been easy to focus on that as the counter veiling force with which the Trump Administration is pushing but now this is the first time that the judiciary has given this new administration a shove and pushed it way back. Again, the big hearing in this case is tomorrow. We just learned tonight that the hearing is going to be livestreamed when it happens, which is going to be fascinating. In just a momen