Night, more specifically the president of the United States, and, the iranian mullahs there, now of course, being fingered by the president not knowing meaning of word, nice, insulting statements. He says no more john kerry and barack obama. That is just for starters. Blake burman with the latest from the white house. Reporter you had dueling comments coming out of the president s of iran and president of the United States. First from iran, iranian president rue hassan rouhani. The iranian president called those sanctions quote, outrageous and idiotic. He also shot down the idea of any potential future negotiations between the nations adding, quote, they tell us to negotiate with them. If you are truthful and want to negotiate, why do you sanction or foreign minister at the same time . It is obvious that you are lying. Well that clearly caught the attention of President Trump as he took to twitter and fired right back, threatening at one point obliteration, saying quote, irans very ign
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change his or her vote . If not, the yeas are 51. The nays are 49. The concurrent resolution as amended is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell tonight we completed the first step toward replacing our broken tax code by passing a comprehensive fiscally responsible budget that will help put the federal government on a path to balance. The budget also gives us the tools we need to strengthen our economy after years of stagnation under the previous administration. We have a onceinalifetime opportunity to replace a failing tax code that holds americans back with one that actually works for them. To middleclass families across america, we have a very simple message we want to take more money out of washingtons pockets and put more in yours. Now with this budget, were on a path to delivering muchneeded relief to american individuals and fa
Duffey emailed mccusker on august 30th and told her there was a clear direction from potus to continue the freeze. Mccusker continued to warn that the freeze was having real effects on dods ability to spend the military aid, and the impact would keep growing in the freeze continued. According to recent reports, around september 9, after the president s scheme had been exposed and the house had launched its investigations, duffey responded to mccuskers warnings with a formal and lengthy email. He asserted it would be dods afault, not ombs, if dod was unable to spend funds in time. Deputy undersecretary of defense Elaine Mccusker reportedly responded, i am speechless. We now know that dods concerns were well founded. The president s freeze on the security aid was illegal. Duffey should be called to testify about why dods repeated warnings went unheeded. What prompted his email that attempted to shift plame blame and about the fact that the president released the aid only after his scheme
Good morning and thank you very much so much for joining me from wad. Beautiful city. Im carol costello. The president elect leaves new york on a military jet bound for washington. Hes among hundreds of thousands streaming into the capitol for tomorrows inauguration, some to celebrate, others to protest. Minutes from now, sean spicer will deliver his first on camera briefing. Well bring it to you live. Also this hour, another round of hearings, first up former Texas Governor rick perry, trumps pick to lead the Energy Department. And then Steve Mnuchin, the nominee for secretary of treasury. The wall street veteran will be grilled over his personal dealings and the fiscal policies of a trump white house. Cnns Sunlen Serfaty is on capitol hill, but lets begin with Jason Carroll outside trump tower in new york. Good morning, jason. Reporter good morning, carol. The prerkt will be heading your way very soon. He has a packed day ahead of him with three inaugural events starting about 2 45 w
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