you he endorsed the junior senator for a presidential run and thanked lindsey graham as well. at this point it is not clear whether prosecutors will retry menendez, but again this is a trial that spanned more than two months. he had been charged with eight counts of bribery among other things. 63 years old, planning to run for re-election. while all of that was happening on the right side of your screen, on the left side of your screen that republican tax bill, that tax reform bill, as expected, has passed the house. we heard from speaker paul ryan a short time ago. that is a bill that will now head to the senate. the senate has crafted its own bill. they will begin debating that, we re told, in the next few days. garrett haake has been watching all of this play out on the hill. was the vote as close as expected? yeah, craig. the republican leadership saw the writing on the wall on this. they knew it would be relatively close but they would have the votes. the last unofficial tally i
where there are big newspapers were editorializing on this every week and cast gating these members and they signed the petition and our leadership saw them getting to the 218 total. at that point brought the bill forward on their own terms as opposed if it had gone to this petition, it would have come back on democrats terms. right. do you see, you know, the sort of dynamics of republican house conference than anybody here? could you see there being a couple house republicans who would say in my district or for the sake of the future of my party i want to get this done and put my name on this? you said it best when you said there are only a handful of republicans from obama s district. those are the members that would be most likely to sign something like this. that would be like nine, which wouldn t get wouldn t get you there. would there be nine more who would say the republican party can t win in 2016, 2020, 2024 if you don t no, probably doesn t work that strategi
they want a federal. that is why they want this bill. but the leadership saw by fooling with women and the reproductive health they helped elect a president of the united states last year. i want to get you on the record about the gun control debate that continues because west virginia senator has come under fire in this new attack ad over his support for the expansion of background checks. an aid for manchin confirmed he is making an ad. we have mayor michael bloomberg who came under fire. do you think any of this is going to move the dial on getting the gun debate back on the front burner in d.c.? i think that what mayor bloomberg is doing is trying to keep the gun safety side from being totally defenseless. i think he has to watch out because we can end up with fewer
deployment likely to be with focus on mission and appropriate leadership. and ultimately captain honors is being relieved not only because of these videos but because essentially after navy leadership saw these videos they determined he probably lacked the proper judgment and leadership to take that aircraft carrier over into that war zone. unfortunately for captain honors, who up until now has had a pretty stellar career, this will signal the end of his naval career. he s had support online and also with his friend keith clark pointed out he was really good for morale, very well liked. you have some speculating that the navy sought this pun ishment to save face but this was a silly video that was dismissed and later spoke of it in more severe words. the navy officials that i