hates. none of these, though, are new tricks of mr. trump s trade. but today, there was a new attempted d eed diversion and aw novel way of attacking his highly credentialed critics, all former officials in law enforcement, national security, or the intelligence community. now he wants to punish them for speaking out by stripping them of their security clearances. it began with republican senator rand paul lobbying the president to do it of former cia director john brennan, who has become a vocal critic of the president. so rand paul may have started the idea, but by the time today s white house press beefing was over, the list also included james clapper, former fbi director james comey, former national security adviser susan rice, former dev if i fbi director andrew mccabe and former cia national security agent michael hayden. comey and mccabe no longer have clearances, but that small, important detail didn t stop the white house from attacking them. in any case, here is what the whi
overall uncertainty. the third straight day of selling we ve seen. the administration is going after intellectual property that is stolen by the chinese. i think the question is if he takes action to the tune of $50 billion. what do the chinese do in response in so some of that is mixed in what we re seeing so far. anyway, it s only 31 minutes into the day of trading. sandra: a desperate search and rescue mission underway after flash flooding sweeps away a member of the national guard and dev estates a town west of baltimore. businesses, homes and cars washed away over the weekend. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom. imon this tuesday morning i m sandra smith. bill: i m bill hemmer. maryland governor declaring a state of emergency, raging floodwaters sweeping through ellicott city. this was the scene on sunday late afternoon. 39-year-old national guardsman was last seen trying to help a woman save her cat.
shooters and they often lead to these overly deadly consequences. what a description there. let s go to nbc s jacob soberoff. en route to washington, d.c., with a group of students from baltimore. they ve been on the road for half an hour. so they plan to be here for the start of the march. they re going to have to get to the back of the line i m telling you, people are already streaming in, jacob. don t you worry about that, alex, we re on our way, i think we re about 33 miles. we just hit a little bit of traffic, but it just opened up again. i met dev moore, a ninth grader, right? yes. where do you go to school? franklin. right in baltimore? yes. dev was telling me he s got a personal connection to gun violence. tell me about that. because i want to get over there and for all of us, you know and like spread the feeling you know, because everybody has got different problems and the shootings is like not good for everybody and the teachers having guns, we ain t, i don
respect that. you said you don t respect teachers having guns. how come? some teachers, they don t know how to shoot it and you know, like say if the school shooting do happen again, the teacher got a gun and the shooter walk in and she shoot the student. you don t think it s a good idea. and your cousin was shot. yes. your cousin is doing all right? yes, he walked in that stuff. that s very good to know. dev is here with so many other people. look the mayor of baltimore is right here as well. mayor, we re almost there, how much longer until we get there. y all make some noise back there. about 45 minutes away, we very excited as you can see, we got children from various high schools here with us. we ve got keys development has a whole group of young men that they mentor. forest park is in the house, who else is in the house? all right there you go. everybody is here with the mayor. we re going to be following along with the mayor. following along with dev throu
thought we had him on tape, but he says, i am getting swamped with many, many calls. usually one in our about people who want to prepay their taxes. all the officials and westchester, the county where he is talking about, are being swamped with calls. people clearly notice, taxation wise. dev a one-time reprieve old to prepay property taxes, and date do not have to face the limit of property tax deductions next year. you cannot jell your income taxes, you can only prepay your property taxes. this is like a one-time reprieve. next are, you are going to be limited in terms of how much of your state and local deduction you can take, and that is limited $10,000. for most americans, this will not be a big deal at all. there are state and local taxes are well below that, and in fact, most people end up taking the standard deduction rather than itemizing it, so they ll be