Uranium deal the one approved by Hillary Clintons state department while her foundation wassing 100s of millions of dollars from the from the russians. Washington post says there is to grounds for a special counsel to investigate mrs. Clinton. Gregg jarrett disagrees with that he says there are plenty of implications. Outlining them all. North korea says trump President Trump deserves to die because President Trump called kim jongun short and fat. I think i did too. Didnt he call the president old first . Were bringing that to you just as soon as it happens. First go to capitol hill. Adam shapiro is looking at this big fight on tax reform that has just gotten a little uglier. Adam. Reporter the words are going back and forth. We could have a vote late thursday night in the Senate Finance committee and possibly friday. Here is what the republicans in the new form of the bill they say they want to do. These are middle class tax cuts that would expire in 10 years. For instance, this isnt
Begin. Lets immediately go to our congressional reporter lauren fox. Lauren, we now have the testimony of the pentagon official laura cooper. What are we learning from the transcript just released. Reporter were learning that laura cooper was the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense and she would have been personally involved in what was going on with the military aid. But even she was very concerned, puzzled about why this money was being withheld. Nearly 400 million in u. S. Military assistance between the state department and the department of defense. And it is very clear that even she was grappling with congressional investigators behind closed doors to explain how this occurred. It really underscores why individuals like Mick Mulvaney and people who had conversations with the president and would know what the motives were behind all of this, why democrats want to talk to people like mulvaney. Because this is laura coopers job. She handled the Defense Department portion of the mi
Ukraine. Specifically mulvaney said that aid was withheld in part because of trumps concerns about a missing dnc server that according to an unproven Conspiracy Theory is in ukraine and that the Ukrainian Government tried to interfere in the 2016 campaign here. Heres what mulvaney said today. He also mentioned to me that the corruption related to the dnc server, absolutely. No question about that. But thats it, and thats why held up the money. There was a demand for an investigation into the democrats was part of it reason he wanted to with hold funding to ukraine . The look back to what happened in 2016 was certainly part of what he was worried about corruption within that nation. You just described a quid pro quo. It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well. We do that all the time with Foreign Policy. And i have news for everybody, get over it. Theres going to be political influence in Foreign Policy. What mulvaney is referring to