Im socal there. Were very happy to have them. Are and those of you who joining us the axios event team off a bipartisan breakfast. Theres not a lot of meals in are bipartisan. We have french toast, rolls that cream cheese with raspberry dipping sauce. Take your pick. Overnight oats are layered with strawberries and blueberries just like i make at home. Rnight oats are layered with straw berries and blue burieea berries just like t home. Thats the bipartisan breakfast and we appreciate those who mated it possible. If you hop on axios. Com. Every story one iphone screen. We kale it smart brevty. J the big idea is to make people smarter faster. About the most important topics of the time so you can make better decisions and our events are a manifestation of that. Today we have a fantastic conversation about whats both practical and what we should be shooting for among the party wars in d. C. And we have a bunch of front line players who are going to take us behind the scenes of that. Im g
Involved with that this bedeviled with two administrations in 2014 with president barack obama who, waded into a great deal of controversy, swapping five taliban, what they call terrorists at time, but taliban lieutenants as they were known at the time for bergdahls release. Bowe bergdahl, the former hostage who pleaded guilt toy to desertion will not be going to prison. Connell mcshane with much more on this and the implications of this. Connell . Reporter jaws dropping to your point. Military judge find that bobo bergdahl should no, no prison time at all for walking off the base. He gave him disHonorable Discharge. Reduced rank to private. He must forfeit pay, 1000 a month for 10 months. It was a guilty plea here. Guilty plea to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He faced, could have, went to prison for life. He faced up to life in prison as a possibility. But, you know the thing is, there was a lot of leeway for this judge. There was no deal with the prosecutors to limit th
President trump was elected, and his most important piece of legislation hangs in the balance, tax cuts. And well hear from one republican congressman why hes voting no. First, one of the biggest deals of the year between at t and time warner, worth about 85 billion, could be in jeopardy following pressure from the department of justice after a series of threats from the Trump Administration lets bring in our own Andrew Ross Sorkin who helped break the story, he joined us on the the fast line. Andrew, whats the latest . Reporter a back and forth now turning into a public spat between at t time warner andth doj. What were hearing now or what we heard originally was that the companies were trying to or that the companies were in touch with the doj and the doj had said look, the only way the deal is going to go through is if you sell cnn and the turner assets or you sell directv. That was something obviously that at t and time warner have thus far been unwilling to do, they felt the deal
Make its way to the president s desk. Down ballot democratic victories on tuesday are putting more pressure on the gop to score a legislative win. Here to discuss this is Kevin Cirilli, chief washington correspondent, and on capitol hill is marty shanker, chief content officer. Kevin, let me start with you. I need to know one of the major differences between the senate and house bills. The house seeing changes in the last version of this bill. Give us the details here. Kevin a slow friday on capitol hill. I can tell you i just spoke with a source to a prominent Republican House member. The differences that exist between the house and Senate Versions are not substantial enough to derail it, at least according to this senior aide. The main difference in the Senate Framework we got yesterday is that first and foremost it would keep seven tax brackets. The white house wanted three. The house version had four. The implementation of the Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 20 . The Senate Framework