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
Courthouse and you learned there was a previous incident this morning. It made for a very unnerving morning. I was inside for the ghost ship preliminary hearing when we heard the promotion the commotion that the bomb squad was called to the building for the second time today. The streets were blocked off by Oakland Police after a man left a backpack outside the building at about 10 30 this morning. That man then went inside the courthouse and was confronted by sheriffs deputies who asked why he left the backpack there. Authorities say he got into a struggle with deputies and attacked them. He was detained and will be placed on a psychiatric hold. As for his backpack the Sheriffs Office did not want to take any chances. Skybox was overhead at the bomb squad suited up to examine the backpack. It turned out to be explosive and the all clear was given at about 12 back 30. The man does not appeared 12 30. The man does not appear to be connected to two firebombing incidents at the courthouse
Type of quick check of deadlines here on al jazeera, russias president is finalizing his plans to annex for ukrainian regions. The upper house of parliament has approved the legislation, which now heads to Vladimir Putin for his signature. Merely cranes president says his troops are making rapid and powerful progress against Russian Forces in the south and east. Let me, as lensky says, dozens of towns and villages have been liberated in the past week. South korea and the u. S. Have carried out, miss allen. Ed rhodes, in response to a miss our launch by north korea. Young youngs missile went to the japanese territory, prompting International Condemnation and calls for an emergency meeting of the un security council. Rob mcbride as more or less after in capital. South korea had promised a resolute response, sir, to choose days launch from its military and overnight tuesday into wednesday. Local time. We have seen what that response is with the firing of these 4 missiles from a south kore
Thanks for joining me. Im Fredricka Whitfield. One meaning, two different takeaways. Vladimir putin is giving a firsthand account of his facetoface meeting with President Trump during the g20 summit. U. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson had said that the president confronted putin about interference in the u. S. Election, but putin says he and trump are in agreement that russia was not involved. Did trump agree with your position that russia had not intervened in the u. S. Elections . Well, he let me repeat he answered all the questions and i think that he agreed with it. But i think its better so to ask him exactly what you asked rather than me. All right. But unlike putin and other World Leaders at the g20, we did not hear from President Trump directly asaysing his trip. In fact, moments ago we see him along with first lady melania in their departure from hamburg as they are soon to walk up those steps and get right back into air force one. So lets go to cnn White House Corresponde