It will go down to 20 and be permanent according to sources who have been read out summaries of whats going to be in this bill. House republicans right now still behind closed coodoors in about a 90 minute briefing of the contents of the bill. The individual side thats whats going to matter to every video, we have where the rates are going to be. Its never been secret this plan was going to shrink from seven to four rates. At the top rate they will leave the 39. 6 rate for individuals who make more or for couples that make more than a million dollars. For individuals that threshold is 500,000. That wasnt always going to be the case but thats a recognition of two things. One, they need money to pay for this plan and two, politically, saying millionaires arent getting a tax break on the individual side is valuable. Start going down the list here. For those who get the tax rate of 35 , that would start at married couples at 260,000 a year, 200,000 a year for individuals. At the 25 rate, t
Those who do not comply will face heavy fines or even impris imprisonment. Vive ivan watson has more. Reporter the victims from last fridays terrorist attack not all of them have even been buried. There are still people delivering flowers here and crying at this makeshift memorial, and yet the government has announced sweeping changes in the gun laws. The Prime Minister here saying that the guns that were used to carry out this atrocity here in christchurch will now all be illegal. Take a listen. Every semiautomatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on friday will be banned in this country. We do have guns in new zealand that are used for legitimate purposes by responsible owners. Ive been steadfast in my belief that the vast majority of these owners will support what we are doing here today. Because its about all of us, its in the national interest, and its about safety. Reporter this is so dramatic the Police Commissioner said that people with gun licenses who owned some of these g
File the official paperwork came and went with no word one way or another on just what is happening. Now, if i made any statement about anybody, it would be like a big why would he do that when hes overseeing sorry, just a little glitch right there. We got no word on what is happening in these talks at this moment. We are watching the talks very closely. They are now in hour 12. The minute someone emerges from those talks, we will bring you an update. In the meantime, keeping them honest tonight. In case you were wondering about the president s selfawareness, we are about to show you a new clip that was released today from fox tv. It took place, as you know, at the military ceremony in normandy, moments before the president properly and eloquently paid tribute to the allied soldiers who stormed the beaches on dday, many of whom died and are buried behind him, their graves literally the backdrop to every word youre about to hear. And we will get to the appropriateness of what he said in
Didnt see anything wrong with what theyve been doing over the last several years, so they decided to stick with it. It was the same old story. The same old song and dance. The same grievances the president has aired over the last two and a half, three years. Including some of his favorite themes that hes picked up along me way. Robert mueller, border security, fake news, immigration. Our immigration laws are a disgrace. We went through the greatest witch hunt in political history. No collusion, no obstruction. Many times i said we would drain the swamp. We are building the wall. Our radical democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice, and rage. Tell sleepy joe we found the magic wand. Sleepy guy. More than 120 democrats in congress have also signed up to support crazy Bernie Sanders socialist government takeover of health care. Reporter the president starts his day at his doral resort here in the miami area. Hes going to have a fund raiser, then back to washington by midafternoo
So she steps down as party head june 7th. Then it will take several weeks to come up with a new Prime Minister. And of course, the queen has to officially name the new Prime Minister and yes, or more, i think, just as importantly, the new Prime Minister has to figure out a way to do brexit, which has proven impossible. Impossible. So we will see what happens there. Also breaking overnight, in an unprecedented move, the president has granted william barr full authority to declassify sensitive intelligence and also ordered the Intelligence Community to cooperate with barr as barr investigates the origins of the Mueller Investigation. This happens as the president s closest allies are spreading lies about House Speaker nancy pelosi. So all of these moves seem to suggest the speaker has unnerved the president. Cnns lauren fox live on capitol hill with the very latest. Lauren . Reporter well, congress is in recess at this moment, john, but one of the things we have seen over the last week i