First, just a short time ago the treasury secretary is pulling back the curtain a bit on President Trumps big tax plan. In doing so, Steve Mnuchin made a pretty big promise. This is going to be the biggest tax cut and the largest tax reform in the history of our country, and we are committed to seeing this through. How is that for bold for you . The treasury secretary also confirming this morning a big cut to the Corporate Tax rate and potentially big savings for millions of americans will be part of their proposal. Before the big rollout this afternoon, lets get the very latest view from capitol hill where, of course, the rubber will have to meet the road on any tax plan . Cnns Phil Mattingly is there with all of this. Phil, what are you hearing there this morning . Reporter first and foremost, the treasury secretary not exactly ratcheting down expectations here, but look, what the white house will propose today and they will be principles and it wont be a fully flushed out plan and l
For members of his own party to just put down the phone and stop the twitter attacks, and yet, hes once again lashing out at a pear of morning cable news hosts tweeting out, quote, crazy and dumb as a rock are not bad people, but their show is dominated by their nbc bosses. Too bad. Those insults follow the president referring to having a bleeding facelift and low iq. Comments with swift condemnation, even from republicans, calling them sexist and inappropriate, and even before this controversy, a fox news poll found a whopping 71 of americans believe that President Trumps tweets hurt his effectiveness. Cnn correspondent is joining us now from the white house, brian, they want to be focused on the health care plan, but they are focused on answering questions about the president s twitter tirades. Its frustrating. I spent all week on capitol hill, and a lot of the lawmaker, the last thing they wanted to talk about is the president s tweets, but, yet, here we are with another conversatio
On track. This follows a surprise meeting. The summit was sposed to take place, on thursday, President Trump pulled out blaming it on threatening statements by north korea. Eli elise, what exactly do we know about this team that has now crossed over into north korea . Well, the team is led by the former u. S. Ambassador to the philippines who under the earlier Obama Administration served as the u. S. Envoy to six party talks. He is no stranger to negotiating with the North Koreans and is leading the delegation along with allison hooker, and randy schrieber the top east asia official at the pittsburgh. So these officials are quite separate than the delegation that went to singapore this weekend to meet with North Koreans on logistics for the summit, an ad advanced team, if you will. This delegation, that crosses into the north side of the dmz is there to get more substance, more clarity about what the North Koreans are able to put on the table at these discussions, which is why Presiden
Im christine romans. Good to have you back. Im dave briggs. It is tuesday, november 27th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. A senate seat on the line in the state of mississippi. Polls open in a few hours. Will it be a red or a blue, blue, Blue Christmas . Well done. Listen. The proud birth place of the king of rock n roll. Elvis. We love elvis. I shouldnt say this. You will say im conceited because im not. Other than the blond hair growing up, they say i looked like elvis. Do you see that . Do you see the striking resemblanc resemblance . I dont see it. Ill take the president at his word. It is tough to tell them apart. It is interesting when he got laughter when he said im not conceited. More on that in a moment. We start with the big cliff hanger in washington. Did Paul Manafort lie to Robert Mueller . If he did, why . Some say the former Trump Campaign chairman lied more more than a year. The questions swirled around manafort for more than a year. What is the story on the trump tower meeting
And how the prosecutors believe it could reflect on his sentence. Weve been waiting for this much of the day. As we did we got a piece of breaking news about another figure in the russia aware, longtime trump associate roger stone. Stone as you know appears to be of interest with investigators in connection with where he may fit in the chain of events and alleged participants that delivered democratic emails hacked by russian intelligence into the public eye for wikileaks. Stone teased them before they hit and up from delighted in each new reveal and praised wikileaks again and again on the campaign trail. Presumably, roger stone might have a lot to say about all of this including any possible ties between the campaign, wikileaks and the russians. Late today, though, we learned he would not be cooperating with any congressional panels about it anytime soon. He is taking the fifth, invoking his fifth amendment protection against selfincrimination, refusing a request for documents from t