At the Kennedy Center honors. With fears the eventual would get too political, so did it . And who else got a fancy necklace . Well tell you, coming up in the skinny on monday. December 4th. From abc news, this is world news now. Rhythm is going to get you rhythm is going to get you every time im at a party and i have a couple too many drink and i start breaking out my dance moves, thats when im like, Gloria Estefan, you were right. The rhythm is going to get you. Thats what happens. And then everyone looks at you strangely. Absolutely. Glorias role in my life. But were going to start this hour with the republican drive to push a tax cut through congress. Now that the senate has approved its version it has to be combined with the version passed in the house. The house plans to vote today to formally set up a Conference Committee to hammer out the differences. Republicans are trying to act quickly in order to get it to the president s desk by christmas. Heres stephanie ramos. Reporter t
Everybody, on this National Cookie day. Yes. Its monday, december 4th. From abc news, this is world news now. National cookie day, not National Cookie dough day. Cookie dough day is a different day. Im confused. I think we should move on. We are going to move on. Were going to begin with the president s twitter attacks against his own Fbi Department as it investigates any collusion with russia. In a series of tweets, the president said the agencys reputation for fairness is in tatters, the worst in history. Lawmakers and others rushed to defend the fbi. Former attorney general sally yates wasnt having it saying the only thing in tatters is the president s respect for rule of law. The president , in the meantime, may have turned up the heat on himself during the twitter storm. Heres abcs david wright. Reporter the white house is racing to explain this tweet from real donald trump that appeared to admit for the first time that the president knew his former National Security adviser had c
War. The teen who kidisappeared r nearly a week is safe home this morning. Only on cbs this morning, the girls parents open up about the familys emotional reunion. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Tweet recording an ongoing criminal investigation at your own peril. Id be careful if i were you, mr. President. Hillary clinton lied to the fbi, Nothing Happened to her. Flynn lined and they destroyed his life. I think its a shame. The house of representatives returning a day early to reconcile differences between the house and Senate Tax Reform bill. Hoping to get a bill to the president s desk by christmas. This is something thats going to affect every american, every business, the whole economy, for decades. Cvs says it will buy the Insurance Company aetna. It would be the largest corporate deal of the year. The United States and south korea have begun their largest ever joint air force gridrill a tensions rise theres a grave danger to
Important work and responsibility. Reporter harris will be voting no on kelly. The reason . California dreamers. Kelly wont promise to protect undocumented kids who were brought here with their parents. Harris says that california has more dreamers than any other state. And they should be allowed to stay. When he cannot guarantee massive asked that he will honor the promise that we as a country make to those kids, i cant support him. Reporter kelly will be confirmed without her support. I asked whether california politicians should keep thumbing their noses to trump. Dont we need federal dollars . The u. S. Conference of mayors just wrapped up a meeting here in d. C. The mayors of San Francisco and and los angeles and , um, Michael Tubbs the newly elected mayor of stockton and a bunch our california mayors are visiting with me today. We have talked about our concern that this administration will punish california for supporting the idea that were not going to deny Central Services to a
The passion of the voters and so forth. When you talk about a symbol of state, how important is that . Very important to. Having the presidency is all from the kingship and its a twopronged thing, symbolic president and manager of the government and it has been from the start and some are good administrators and some are battle better symbols and i think its the characteristic of the office. They have to be both, really. In your book, the leaders we deserve and if you didnt, you write that if great or near great president s were shaped by numerous experiences with people from all walks of life the unsuccessful spent most of their adult lives in a single pursue politics. Thats correct and if you look at some of my failures, James Buchanan probably had more jobs than anyone. He waited all of his life to be president and it was a goal from the time he was in the state legislator. He conspired behind his wifes back to run for president. She did not even know he was one of the candidates an