They . Marty they dont. I dont know that many people went through lesters tax returns and tried to my newly minutely figure out how this affects them. It will have a Significant Impact for certain high income earners. It will have a Significant Impact in terms of more taxes paid rather than less. For the ultra rich from it is a significant tax reduction. But as a percentage of income, it is very small. What really interests me is the unintended consequences. No one really knows. They did not have a lot of public hearings, they do not have a lot of experts telling them that if you do this come this will happen. In some ways a crapshoot how the real world will react to these provisions. Mark polls show us it is not popular. Can the gop turn it around . Mitch mcconnell said that if we cannot sell this to the public, we are in the wrong job. Can they sell it . Marty i think they can come actually. I think Mitch Mcconnell is right. In advance oflls the tax bill are reflective of the general
Pres. Trump good morning. Good morning. Pres. Trump good morning, everybody. Thank you very much for being here. Merry christmas. Happy new year. Have a great holidays. We are going to sign some very important things today. One is a continuing resolution that very importantly gives us the right and we are ordering 4 billion worth of Missile Defense equipment and missiles themselves. Very important, top of the line. Best in the world. We make the best military product in the world. Nobody is even close. We are ordering 4 billion worth of Missile Defense. And that will be done by signing right here. And also, by notifying the speaker of the house and president of the senate designating the Missile Defense as emergency defense funds. So, it is 4 billion for that and 700 million for various other military forms of equipment. I am honored to be doing that. Our military has been doing a fantastic job in so many ways with isis. Everything they are touching lately has been working out. So, we
Information that is favorable to the accused because all favorable information is critically relevant to that determination. The commitment of nacdl and the foundation for criminal justice to seek reform in the area of fair disclosure is one of the many areas in which we are working to make our criminal Justice System fairer and more humane across a wide range of issues. In recent months we have worked to expand access to counsel, promote reform of the nations indigent reform system, address ethnic and Racial Disparity in the criminal Justice System, explore the impact of militarization of the nations Law Enforcement infrastructure, rein in overcriminalization and promote the restoration of rights and status for those who have had a brush with the criminal law. All of this is a reflection of the core mission of americas criminal defense bar, libertys last champions as we define ourselves. Fairness is the bedrock principle of any society and of any judicial system. The reforms ensuring
Number of people needing that we have to be more focused. The debate continues. Thank you very much for your time this morning. But does it for todays washington journal. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] tonight at 8 00 eastern, cspans issue spotlighted program focused on General Motors ignition switch recall. You will hear from the gm Ceo Mary Barra at house and Committee Hearings on the recalls that resulted in at least a dozen deaths and injuries. Here is some of what she had to say to a senate committee. More than a decade a code gm embarked on a small car program. Sitting here today i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for the program but i can tell you we will find out. This is an extraordinary situation. It involves vehicles we no longer make but it came to light on my watch so i am responsible for resolving it. When we have answers we will be fully transparent wi
Good to have you with us. Todays attempts to end the Government Shutdown and raise the debt ceiling focused on the senate. The two sides remain far apart. The senate has now adjourned for the day, but the members spent much of the afternoon laying out their positions both on the floor and in talks behind closed doors. Theres been talk of a shortterm increase in the debt ceiling, which the country is scheduled to hit on thursday, october 17th. But a white house Statement Issued after president obama spoke by phone with House Minority leader nancy pelosi praised her efforts to pass a oneyear increase hinting that the Administration May reject any attempt to fix the problem for only a few weeks or months. The house and senate will both be back in session tomorrow. We want to bring in john following the process from the capitol. Where do we go from here, john . Reporter where do we go from here, tom. That is the 64,000 question. Nobody really knows. What we know is the house and senate are