I still think that mueller can produce a product that we all have confidence in, but things like this make it really difficult. The perception is every bit as important as the reality. If the perception is youre employing people who are biased, it makes it really difficult for those of us who would like to defend the integrity of former prosecutors and heads of the f. B. I. Sandra a big show for you today. Trey gowdy will be in todays hearing and is standing by. We begin with chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge this morning. She is live on the hill. Good morning. Were expecting lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee to drill down on the issue of alleged bias on the clinton email investigation as well as the russia investigation. Fox news confirmed late yesterday they had uncovered more than 10,000 Text Messages sent by peter strzok to an f. B. I. Lawyer with whom he was romantically involved. It was in these texts there were antitrump sentiments. It could take sever
Bill well have live coverage. Good morning, welcome to americas newsroom. Im bill hemmer. Sandra what a wild day and week. Merry christmas, good to see everybody. This is a moment years in the making for congressional republicans. The house will vote on the bill one more time pay a penny. Were lowering the rate at which youll pay it. Small businesses are going to see a huge break through and if youre an American Corporation, we just took you from the highest Corporate Tax rate in the world tied with japan, we brought you down to being competitive with anybody in the world. That will lead to new investment in the u. S. At t announced another investment two days ago. Small business boom, better jobs, higher pay, lowers taxes and youll see corporations saying i want to build in america again, not overseas. Bill optimistic. And time will show whether that is the case. There are two big pieces buried in this legislation that have been debated for decades. Drilling in alaska. The repeal of t
About joining muellers Investigation Team because he was concerned there was, quote, no big there there. Trump attorney jay sekulow responding. These are political setups. Its a faux investigation. When you look at the missing documents, the witnesses, the statement from peter strzok. Thats the classic one. And say there is no big there there, why will i waste my time going onto the special counsel team . Which he does a couple days later. So you have all these back and forth but realize what was going on. He would have known there was no there there because of what . He was on the socalled Russia Collusion Investigation from the outset. Bill so there you have that today. We have a lot more coming up this hour. Senator ron johnson says he has evidence about a secret meetings within the f. B. I. We begin now today with the battle over immigration. President trump slamming Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer this morning for backing out of a proposed deal on daca and the border wall. If
This is about patriotism, a safe, strong and proud america. He will talk about how america is back and where we are today as far as growing an economy that now is growing at 3 clip. He has had a tremendous run with his tax cuts, deregulation, conservative judges and the economy has been responding. So it strikes me that the president is in a pretty good position to say to the American People look, this is working. Sandra john roberts is live with more from the white house. John, good morning. Good morning to you. The president has a couple of things on his schedule today. He will swear in a new hhs secretary and have lunch with members of the United Nations Security Council but much of today will be dedicated and devoted to getting ready for tomorrow nights state of the Union Address. He will do runthroughs of the speech to get more detail whether on teleprompter and as tradition typically holds with president s theyll be doing it in the theater which gives the president the idea of ta
White house but we begin with craig palcot with the reporting on what is happening today. Hello. Reporter hi, bill. Hi, sandra. Real authentic is what is be described as the author of north korea but warns the devil is in the detail. Probably the most significant thing to come out of kim jongun is the suggestion theyre willing to discuss giving up their Nuclear Weapons if there was a guarantee of the security of the regime and an agreement towards a summit next month amid assurances they will not target the south and its the first time kim jongun has raised the possibility of getting rid of nukes and the freezing of testing nuke and missiles during talks. Our contacts are saying its just talk and theres a lot of questions. For example, what would constitute a guarantee withdrawal of u. S. Troops from south korea is a nonstarter and how would the denuclearization be verified and that would be on the agenda. And the ball now is in the u. S. Court. For example, when we were in south korea