Johnson, the executive director for the American Immigration lawyers association, talk about prospects for Immigration Reform in 2018. Washington journal is live, now. Good morning, it is wednesday, january 3, 2018. At noon, the second session of the 115th congress will convene pursuant to the u. S. Constitution. In the senate, the session will begin with two new faces when doug jones and tina smith are sworn in. We have a threehour washington journal ahead for you and we will spend our focus on what is expected to be a major issue, immigration. Toare opening our phones immigrants only, to hear your story of coming to an living in the United States. Recent legal immigrants can call in at 202 7488000. If you are a legal immigrant who has lived in this country for five years or longer, 202 7488001. Illegal, undocumented immigrants, 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media on twitter, on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. A good wednesday morning. Immigrants only in this fir
He served 42 years in the senate, more than any other republican in history. He said yesterday it is long enough and will not seek reelection. Among those likely to give the race a look is mitt romney, the 2012 republican president ial nominee. Coming alongside orrin hatchs announcement yesterday included the announcement of bill shuster, House Transportation Committee chairman announced he is stepping down at the end of his term. Politico noting that since he is term limited out of the chairmanship after three terms, many had speculated this would be his last year in congress. More on those announcements later in our program. Since both men plan to serve out their terms through the end of the session, they will both be involved in this immigration debate, which is sure to be a top issue. It is already complicating the spending negotiations that are going on ahead of the latest spending deadline, january 19 here is the story from the Washington Examiner immigration complicates trumps s
With a set up of a fiery press briefing a lot for Sarah Sanders to talk about in a few minutes. All of washington inside the white house and beyond has been talking about the revelations in this new book by Michael Wolff about the first year of the trump presidency. He describes that meeting as having been treasonous and said the fbi should have been called immediately rather than having that meeting in trump tower. He also said he thought the chances were zero that donald jr. Did not take those russians to see his father. Now all of that raises potentially Serious Problems for the president himself in terms of his knowledge of what was going on during the probe that bob mueller and the special counsel was not continuing on. The white house responded sharply with a statement from President Trump in which he said steve bannon has nothing to do with my presidency, he said that when he lost his job, was fired last summer, he lost his mind. Hes been peddling false information to the news m
Hillary clinton, chairman steve forbes on this story and much much more, tonight, money and politics weve got you covered welcome to risk reward im Elizabeth Macdonald now the market hitting more new year highs today the dow finishing less than 80 points shy of 25,000 thats its 89th record close since the election the s p and nasdac also having a second day of record closes and now weve got new information surfacing about that book, basically the information is attacking the credibility of the author michael wolf, the book that quotes steve bannon. The book that triggered this major fight with the president. The president s billionaire friend Thomas Barrick ran the inaugural committee now says michael wolf misquoted him saying he never used the word like crazy to talk about the president saying wolf misquotes are completely utterly false. Lets bring in fox business adam shapiro live at the white house with the latest on the trump bannon fight. Adam . Adam it started this morning emac w
Integrity to make sure our system works. I would like to join our vice chair in commending all the individuals she talked about going through the judicial we will leave the last few moments of this with a reminder that you can see it on cspan. Org. We go live to the white house for the daily briefing. Ms. Sanders American Families and workers are the big winners. With that in mind, we have a message from a special guess i would like to share with you. President trump thank you for being with us today. The historic tax cut i signed into week before christmas is already delivering Major Economic gains. Hundreds of thousands of americans are seeing larger paychecks, bigger bonuses, and higher pension contributions, and it is all because of the tax cuts and the tax reform, and i want to thank all of the companies that worked so hard to do it. Workers at at t, bank of america, comcast, southwest airlines, american airlines, and many other companies are receiving bonuses of 1000 or more. Afl