The only serious injuries were to the attacker himself. Let us start with the latest on the suspect and the attack. Nbc justice correspondent pete williams, Chris Jansing is on the scene in times square as well. Pete, what have the investigators learned so far about the suspect . Any idea if he had any connections, how he entered the u. S. And that kind of thing . Theres a fair amount known about his background. He came here in february of 2011 on a kind of visa that you use when youre coming here to join family members who are already in the u. S. We know he has a brother here, other family members. So, thats how he got to the u. S. And hes been here since 2011. He had a taxi drivers license from 2012 through 2015. We dont know if he actually drove a taxi or if he drove some kind of other ridesharing program, which we have to have a taxi drivers license in new york to do. But and we dont know what he was doing for a living at the time this happened. As you say, authorities are searchi
Seven. Taxes will be lower for many of those brackets. The biggest cut is being saved for corporations, where the tax rate drops to 21 from its current 35 . Also in the bill is a 2,000 child tax credit. Thats important, because it apparently was a key in moving senator marco rubios vote from a no to a yes. Individuals will also be able to deduct up to 10,000 in state and local taxes, and the exemption for the estate tax would be doubled. Republican senators got their way, and the obamacare individual mandate will be eliminated. Cnn White House Correspondent Abby Phillips is following the story for us from washington, as the president is soon to make his way to camp david. Abby, it was six weeks ago lawmakers got a look at the first draft. There was a lot of horse trading to get the votes they need, including that from senators marco rubio and bob corker. Does this white house worry about any other potential holdouts . Well, the white house seems pretty confident that they actually do h
Steep price. A new report this morning that says this proposal is dead on arrival. All right. Just moments ago, President Trump took off in marine 1 on his way to the airport in zurich for his return flight home. Were going to have more on his speech coming up with my colleague ali velshi who is there in davos. We begin today here with the president trying to dismiss reports that he was so intent on making the russia investigation go away that he ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller, although he obviously never went through with the plan, because mueller is still kicking. All i can say is if trump and mueller ever have that facetoface, its going to be pretty awkward. We have a great team here. Starting with my friend and colleague Kristen Welker live at the white house. Kristen, we know the president is in davos. He just gave a beautiful calm speech. He would say. Or his team would say. But we know behind that rehearsed scripted speech, hes riproaring mad. What have we
From special Counsel Robert Mueller referring the issue to essential l essentially authorities in new york having determined it didnt relate to the russia probe. Thats part of whats getting under the president s swin. The president up and tweeting about all of this this morning, again calling this a witch hunt and saying that attorneyclient privilege is dead. Now hallie the terms of a fact check over attorneyclient privilege its worth know thing that noting that to get a warrant for an Attorneys Office its a high bar and you have a lot of people looking at this saying it doesnt relate to attorneyclient privileges at all. But the big question looming over all of this, does this mean that well see firings of top Law Enforcement officials from the attorney general to the special council. Sara and is easy said overnight the president s words stand on their own. Its significant because hallie as you know and i know, the white house is usually quick to dismiss any talk of the president firin
Ultima ultimate feat decided by the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the president s rapid fire tweeting may have slowed the past 24 hours, the questions about the dozens of angry posts from the weekend certainly have not. Bottom line according to reporting in the New York Times no one in the white house really knows what set the president off, although George Conway has been one of the president s top advisors, husband of Kellyanne Conway, calling the president s mental state into question. Kellyanne conway disagrees with her husband at that point. A new cnn poll shows the president s approval rate is rising. 42 approve and 51 disapprove, the lowest share to do so since he took office. To Jessica Schneider live in washington with all the investigations. Good morning, as we watch and wait for the Mueller Report which could be submitted to attorney general william barr any day now. We know the white house plans to look at the report before it reaches bar and the public. They want the opportuni