Performance against the giants, it may not be a sure thing. Who should start sunday . Is it jimmy or beathard . Beathard has earned the right. Why would you put jimmy against a tough team against seattle . Beathard is tough as nails. The guys being hit all the time. They need to throw him a couple extra hundred dollar bys for the punishment hes been taking. Last week he earned the right to start. I would put jimmy g in there next week against the chicago bears. Whats cool is after this game, they travel to chicago, right . Where jimmy g is from. How cool will that be for him to make his debut in front of his hometown crowd. That would be awesome. News flash. The guy played in new england and went 0 college in illinois. So the guys ready for that type of weather. I would not play him this week. Hes got to continue to grow in this offense. He will. I think right now, i would let beathard. Hes earned that right. Do you think c. J. Can lead this team to a win against seattle . I think its
Senators have been debating this bill since last night. Passing it would be a legislative victory and a political one. These republican lawmakers are very well aware they have not passed a single law under President Trump and this could cost them eventually at the polls partly why they are so determined to reach a deal. The senate has started debate on a 1. 5 trillion tax reform bill. This is our once in a generation opportunities to take more money out of washingtons pocket and put money into the pockets of hard working families. Reporter Senate Leaders would like a final vote this week, although they are revising the bill. One provision would trigger new taxes if the proposal doesnt grow the economy as planned. Others want to make up the deficit with spending cuts instead. And two senators say they want to reduce the cuts to corporate taxes. If we have to have some kind of trigger to ensure some of our members that arent quite as confident of that, i think it will be a trigger that w
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This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. In ten months as americas chief diplomat, Rex Tillerson has found no world leader a greater challenge than the president of the United States. Relations between President Trump and the Senior Member of his cabinet, the former c. E. O. Of exxonmobil, have been strained almost from the start. Now cbs news has confirmed the white house has a plan to force tillerson out. Heres white house and Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan. Hes here. Rex is here. Reporter today President Trump refused to answer questions about a white house plan to replace secretary of state Rex Tillerson after less than a year on the job. Mr. Trump has been publicly frustrated with his top diplomat. We disagree on a couple of things. Sometimes id like him to be a little bit tougher. Reporter that comment came just three days after tillerson held an extraordinary News Conference last month to shoot down reports that he had called the
Special. Why shes all choked up. This is entertainment tonight. Matt lauer makes his first Public Statement since he was fired by the today show. New allegations continue to surface. How are you feeling . Have you reached out to matt . Lauers former colleagues kept quiet about his personal life today. Meanwhile the today show was spotted out for the first time. He met with an attorney and was still wearing his wedding ring. Just a few hours earlier, he addressed the claims against him. The 59yearold former anchor said in a statement some of what is said about him was untrue, but theres enough truth in the stories to make me feel embarrassed or shamed. Adding, repairing the damage will take a lot of time and soul serming. Im committed to beginning that effort. It is now my fulltime job. Hi, everybody, and welcome to christmas in rockefeller center. He was noticeably missing from the rockefeller Tree Lighting ceremony. If New York Times reported one former nbc staffer claimed that after