a live look on capitol hill. a bipartisan group of lawmakers expected to introduce a bill to force the house of representatives to reveal the names of lawmakers who settled claims with taxpayer dollar. it would also ban members of congress from using taxpayer money for sexual harassment and sexual assault claims. there s a news conference set at the top of the hour. we ll keep an eye on that. plus president trump set to give a speech in the next hour live as he tries to push the gop tax plan past the finish line. we ll bring you those remarks live. busy hour ahead on shepard smith reporting. we ll see you then. dana: a very dramatic scene at the hague this morning as a convicted bosnian war criminal committed suicide secondses after his 20 year prison sentence was upheld. he shouted he was not a war criminal then drank what was apparently poison from a small bottle. the man quickly fell ill and was rushed to a hospital where they were unable to save him. he was convicted for his ro
here. this is live, by the way, this is the house speaker in his weekly news conference set to answer questions from reporters any minute. i m listening in, talking about the wildfire relief that the house is working on. so a lot happening on the congressional plate here. because we know that this disaster relief is going on. this $36 billion package will have funding for california and the wildfires there. we are just hearing now that in the republican conference meeting this morning that just finished up before they started speaking, it s likely that the house republicans are going to be leaving thursday. so no, this is a change to thursday, so they have a ten-plus day recess. when there are 30 some days before the end of the year to get everything done. let s listen in.
i suspect, craig, we may not have an outright answer on this today because, remember, it s an election day somewhere. there s a republican primary down in alabama today. and the prospect of another republican senate failure doesn t do a lot of good things for the incumbent luther strange who s fighting for his political life down there. so we may not get a full answer today, but this bill with those three hard no-votes is not going to become law. garrett haake with a busy afternoon on capitol hill. good to see you, buddy. thanks as always. kristen, let me come back to you. again, this news conference set to start here roughly 40 minutes from now. but before we get to that, let s talk puerto rico here. again, the president s spending a great deal of his twitter energy, if you will, on football, a lot of football tweets, but the puerto rico tweet or couple of tweets, i should say, devoted to the infrastructure crumbling and how that s somehow related to the
they might be willing to agree to. we haven t explored enough, i don t think, the diplomacy around it. again, as we re having this conversation here we re starting to see some folks make their way on to the lawn there at the white there at the white house. this news conference set to start any moment now. that is the spanish delegation taking their seats. we are expecting among others to be seated in our delegation the u.s. delegation the chief of staff, jared kushner, senior adviser to the president along with secretary of state rex tillerson and gary kohn supposed to be seated with the president as folks start to take their seats. before we get started here your take on where we are headed as it relates to north korea. i think the great question raised here is what combination of carrot and stick can we offer kim jong-un? and the question i think is
score, on the flipside, moderates are worried about elderly people, so people that are not quite old enough to qualify for medicaid but maybe 63 years old, you have a lot of chronic health problems right now, you re not allowed to be charged a certain amount of money for your health care under this republican plan. it seems as though many of those people will pay much, much higher premiums. moderates are worried about that, so if they could change tax credits dramatically, then yeah, we might need to see a new cbo score, but forgive me, i feel like i ve been explaining, walking through that. you had a second question as well. you answered both questions, actually. great, okay. kasie hunt for us there on capitol hill, kasie, thanks again. we are starting to see that east room fill with journalists, who are gathering for this joint news conference set to start here roughly ten minutes from now, we re told. good time to turn to our man matt bradley, in berlin for us, despite a tense