Trouble the bill will face, especially in the senate which is why last night that the hour when the Senate Finance committee was voting on the tax bill President Trump dramatically changed the subject to something he was sure the news media would prefer to talk about. The president is so desperate to turn voter attention away from whats actually in the tax bill that he changed the subject to his own history of Sexual Assault. He knew thats what he was doing when he sent out two tweets at this hour last night attacking senator al franken. He knew everyone would point out the hypocrisy of trump attacking franken and not saying a word about roy moore and, of course, the hypocrisy of donald trump of all people attacking anyone about sexual matters after trump himself was caught on tape confessing and bragging about Sexual Assault. Donald trump knew exactly what his tweets last night were going to do to the coverage of the tax bill. And we will get to the news about al franken and roy moore
The only public event on todays schedule, the signing of a proclamation to honor reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. Heres how it ended. Mr. President , will you give a statement about your comment yesterday . Are you a racist. Were talking to the president , not you, sir. Mr. President , are you a racist . And thats about how the day went. And the new yorker magazine sums out where the president finds himself. The president s comments yesterday throwing things into a tailspin. Trump worked the phones thursday night calling friend and allies outside the white house to gauge reaction from the fallout from the blankhole comments. Another source told nbc news the president sought insight about how the episode might resonate among his base of supporters. That led to these tweets from the president this morning, quote, the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made, a big setback for daca and n
York. This was day 355 of the Trump Administration, and that new book on this presidency called fire and fury has apparently torched its first victim. Steve bannon is out as the head of Breitbart News. Well have the latest on that just ahead, but also out tonight, 10 hours in all of testimony from the cofounder of the Company Behind that trumprussia dossier. That testimony came from glen simpson, that man right there, who appeared before the Senate Judiciary committee back in august, and the 312page transcript of that event gives us a much more detailed look at what the Research Firm fusion gps was doing and what u. S. Authorities knew and when. Its complicated, but lets get to it. The firms work has taken center stage in this partisan battle on the hill over the russia investigation, and this glen simpson has called on the Committee Senior republicans to release his testimony. Well, today the Judiciary Committees top democrat did that for him. Senator Diane Feinstein of california rel
Nuclear button is on his desk at all times. Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that i too have a nuclear button, but it is much bigger and more powerful one than his and my button works. Well, that may have been an attempt to project an image of control. Events beyond the president s control quickly took over. Fire and fury inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff dropped like a bomb on the west wing. The initial excerpts painted a scathing portrait of the administration and the president. In an exclusive today show interview, wol interview, wolff described what he learned about the president. Everybody questions his intelligence . Let me put a marker in the sand there. 100 of the people around him. The one description everyone gave, everyone has in common. They all say he is like a child. They say he is a moron, an idiot. This man does not read, does not listen. So hes like a hes like a pinball, just shooting off the sides. I will quote steve
Determination. Were hoping for a very lets put it this way. There is absolutely no collusion. That has been proven. When you look at the committees, whether its the senate or the house, everybody, my worst enemies, they walk out, they say, there is no collusion, but well continue to look. Theyre spending millions and millions of dollars. There is absolutely no collusion. I didnt make a phone call to russia. I have nothing to do with russia. Everybody knows it. That was a democrat hoax. It was an excuse for losing the election. And it should have never been this way where they spent all these millions of dollars. Now even the democrats admit theres no collusion. There is no collusion. Thats it. There has been a growing campaign on the right with a big assist from friendly media to dismiss the special counsel, to call into question the value of the russia investigation. Today one of the president s allies in the house made that very clear. I call on my republican colleagues to join me in