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A delayed tax bill gop leadership in the white house putting off an announcement on tax reform as wrangling over how to pay for it continues. And tech is back on capitol hill for their role in the 2016 election and russias role we want to bring you up to speed on yesterdays deadly terror attack. Contessa brewer is in Lower Manhattan for us reporter good morning. Investigators are looking to see whether the suspected attacker had scouted this area in particular ahead of time or was he familiar with it because he was an uber driver Sayfullo Saipov left a note inside that rented home depot truck proclaiming isis lives forever in arabic. It was a home depot truck that he rented in new jersey. Investigators found at least one knife in the truck Law Enforcement believe saipov acted alone mowing down cyclists and pedestrians for 20 blocks. Its a very popular park path. And it ended, this attack, with a crash into a school bus very close to the World Trade Center near an elite Public High Scho
Word overnight the republicans will take another day to work on their plan. Theyre explain whats holding them subpoena our chief washington correspondent, kevin cirilli. Youre our washington reporter extraordinaire. Take us inside the caucus. Is this just tweaking details, or do they have real problems . Kevin they have real problems, particularly how to pay for it. Theres been division for quite some time on 401ks, as well as state and local Tax Deduction eliminations, and now phasing lowering the corporate rate. That is really going to be at potential risk. That said, the chairman of the house ways and Means Committee released a Statement Last night saying that while they are delaying the release of this legislation, legislative proposal until tomorrow, it is not going to hold up the markup, or the Committee Hearing that is going to be public next week. So all systems still a go for the markup. Where this poses potential problems in terms of the tameline by passing this at the end of
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon thanks for being here. As you know today the House Republicans unveiled a bill to raise taxes on millions of middleclass families borrowing trillions from the future for massive tax breaks to the wealthy and especiallespeciall why to their friends of Corporate America. The American People deserve real, a bipartisan tax reform putting the middle class first with a good paying jobs to reduce the deficit that this republican plan does not do any of that. They say they have a sample family with this much money this much taxes which is important to know what theyre doing what they give with one hand they take away with the other. Raising taxes on millions of middleclass families hoping the American People will not look at this. Members are on the floor of the house who had never even seen this bill. If you are a middleclass family if you own a home or want to you lose. If a sick child or Family Member with longterm medical care needs they take away t
We are asking you to tell us if you think immigration is making america stronger or weaker. Ocrats can call in at republicans at independents a special line for recent immigrants this morning. You can also catch up with us on social media. A very good thursday morning to you. According to the Pew Research Center, 47 Million People living in this country were born in other countries. We are talking about the immigration system in the United States. You can start calling in now. Focusing on the Legal Immigration system. [video clip] what we areump demanding is meritbased immigration. We want people that are going to help our country. We want people that are going to keep our country safe. We dont want lotteries where the wrong people are in the lotteries and, guess what, who are the suckers who get those people . And we want a meritbased system. And we do not want chain migration, or somebody like him ultimately will be able to bring in many members of his family. And we dont want that.