Foreign governments reportedly patronize trumps properties. A windfall for the family business. We cover it all this morning with eric trump the man running the trump organization. A this week exclusive. The response from Biden Campaign cochair Cedric Richmond. Our brand new abc News Washington post poll and a closer look at independent voters in arizona and an analysis from our powerhouse round table. Announcer its this week. Here now jonathan karl. Good morning and welcome to this week. Days since the president announced he had been infected with coronavirus and six days since his doctors have answered any questions about his condition or his treatment. While his physician says the president is no longer contagious, the American Public is still in the dark about basic questions such as when the president last tested negative for covid and whether he is now completely in the clear of the disease. We do know at least 34 people tied to the white house have tested positive and despite th
We have a new statement from senator franken. Lets start with msnbcs garrett haake. At the capitol. Hans nichols is at the white house. Garrett, lets start there on the hill. Whats the mood . Are lawmakers excited . This is a dance that theyve been to before with the health care vote. It sounds as if they are certainly more optimistic about the chances for passes this time around. Well, craig, this has turned into a pretty weird day on capitol hill. Weve gotten used to some weird days. Theres on one chamber, everything has been completely rocked on the senate side by these allegations against senator al franken. On the house side, the president was here, essentially pulling a pep rally in the basement of this building, trying to fire up republican lawmakers to get this tax bill across the finish line. Yeah, look, it does look like this thing will pass the house. The fight continues in the senate. But republicans here are feeling relieved. Theyre feeling good. They were taking selfies.
you can import parts of elephant trophies, zimbabwe, as well as zambia, i believe. the rationale is they re saying this is pro-conservation. they believe that in this case hunting can lead to better stewardship of the environment and that s their argument in this. but we ll see whether or not this has been published in the federal register. it s scheduled to be published i believe on friday. we ll see whether or not this withstands full certainty, craig. hans nichols at the white house, hans, thank you. let s bring in lonnie chang, he is the director of domestic policy studies at stanford. he was a policy adviser to the 2012 romneybarrow is an msnbc contributor. again, a live look here at the house floor where lawmakers in the lower chamber are voting or
for them that s less generous in the senate bill. republican senator ron johnson from whiisconsin has been very critical. saying he might vote no. the thing is, they can only lose two votes. so if there s a question of getting to 50 in the senate and then if the senate bill looks different from the house bill, there s the question of being able to reconcile them. in the house there s some members from upstate new york who have been very important because property taxes are very high there. they ve carved out a deduction for property taxes in the house bill that s not in the senate bill so that s one possible area it s only up to what, 10 grand? middle income people, that will cover most or all of their property tax bill. that was specifically designed there are people with high incomes who pay a lot of state income tax in new york who will lose a lot of deductions under the bill. that carveout was designed to protect a lot of middle income families. it s one of many provisions