President trump on his way back from utah, announcing a major roll back in regulations of two National Monuments. Well take you live to Salt Lake City for more on the historic move. President also calling into credibility of the fbi into question, after new reports surfaces on key age sent caught sending antitrumpc texts. Latest on this story from the white house. Among our guests this hour, mike huckabee, dan henninger, liz peek, Grover Norquist and general jack keane. Go to the markets first. That abc didnt work out for brian ross as planned. Oops. Connell and the trump campaign. With all of that we close higher on the dow. Nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. We were up a lot earlier earlier in the day. Who are big winners or which companies are big winners . We were up over 300 points at one point. You have to take what you can get here. Over the last two weeks, up arrows for the dow. 837 points during that time. Tacking on another 58 points. So basically 1000 po
Christopher bedford. Washington examiner editorial director. There are quite a few differences, some are small, some of really big. They stand out between house and senate version, where are we looking it. Charles it feels like a few lines in sand have been drawn. An important area to hash out in conference between house and senate is the delay that the senate wishes to put on the reduction in Corporate Tax rate. You know, there is still a years delay. My own view that republicans would be crazy to try to enter the 2018 election without getting benefit that Corporate Tax rate reduction would bring. There is also talk, the president mentioned, of possibility that tax rate might go to 22 . I would imagine that a lot of push there, originally he wanted 15 . He acknowledged to some, 10 it was negot some extents that was negotiating, i have heard a long time that 22 may be end rate. I can imagine a lot would want to step in say, no, hold the line at 20. Charles i thought we would end up at
Over the rights of westerners who should have more local input the monuments were too big so they needed to be smaller. What was the decision for expanding the money men at the time. President clinton expanded one and president obama created the other. Both were created under the antiquity sack which is a centuriesold law that allows president s to unilaterally protect areas of cultural or scientific significance. Both president clinton and obama said these are areas that have cultural meaning for native american tribes who lived there. They have special scientific and archaeological qualities. So they created them as National Monuments. With the previous president s applied the antiquity sect, should they apply versus others . This is been used by both parties throughout history. President obama used at the most. He created the most National Monuments. President Teddy Roosevelt signed it into law. He was the first to use it. Will continue their conversation about this act yesterday. I
Thencandidate trump. And 12 days till christmas, but did you know even bigger shopping deals are still out there . The secret is knowing precisely when to buy. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. With the new year rapidly approaching, tonight were finally getting some specifics of what the republican tax overhaul will look like. House and Senate Republicans reaching a deal in principle that could land a bill on the president s desk soon. Details revealed today include the fate of state and local Tax Deductions and other popular writeoffs. Today President Trump was selling the plan even as he tried to shrug off yesterdays loss of a Republican Senate seat in alabama. More on that election and its impact in just a few moments, but first, nbcs Peter Alexander on big tax changes coming. Reporter President Trump just in time for the holidays promising to put more money in your pocket. We want to give you, the american people, a giant tax and when i say giant, i mean gian
Im frances rivera. This morning your credit cards, mortgages, car, even student loan bills could see an immediate Interest Rate hike. After the feds raised rates across the country. But it is another major Financial Change in the wings thats leading our program this morning. Your taxes are on the verge of some sweeping changes. On wednesday republicans reached a major deal to push through their 1. 5 trillion tax plan and now were finally getting some specifics on what that tax overhaul will look like. With the president out shilling for the proposal looking to get this passed before christmas. For more on this we go to nbcs tracie potts in washington. Good morning. Philip, good morning. Lets talk about whats in this tax plan and how it might affect many americans. First of all, the wealthiest americans get a break. Their top tax rate goes down from 39 to 37 . Thats according to multiple republican sources. Some of those popular deductions that people were worried about, the state and l