Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, megan thompson. Thompson good evening and thank you for joining us. The longestserving member of congress, 88yearold john conyers of michigan, announced today hes giving up his post as top democrat on the house Judiciary Committee, but he wont resign. The move follows last weeks disclosure by buzzfeed that conyers settled a Sexual Harassment claim by a former staff member in 2015 with a confidential 27,000 payment. The House Ethics Committee is now investigating the payment. Conyers denies the allegations. Conyers said today in a statement i cannot in good conscience allow these charges to un
Of abby m. Oneill. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thank you for joining us. The u. S. Senate has passed one of the most sweeping overhauls to the u. S. Tax code in more than 30 years. The tax cuts and jobs act, as amended, is passed. gavel bangs applause sreenivasan just before 2 00 a. M. This morning, with Vice President mike pence presiding, the u. S. Senate narrowly passed a nearly 1. 5 trillion tax bill by a vote of 5149. After lastminute negotiations on the floor of the senate, the final text of the nearly 500 page bill was released just hours before the vote. The senate
Of abby m. Oneill. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, megan thompson. Thompson good evening, and thank you for joining us. President trump leaves vietnam overnight for the philippines, the final stop on his five nation asian trip. Before moving on to hanoi, mr. Trump attended the asiapacific Economic Cooperation summit in danang, where 11 countries said they were going ahead with the Transpacific Partnership free trade deal which mr. Trump has rejected. But talk of the trade deal was overshadowed by a meeting on the sidelines between mr. Trump and russian president Vladimir Putin. While on air force one mr. Trump said to repor
Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan hello, and thanks for joining us. Vice president mike pence hit the road today to begin selling the virtues of the republican partys plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. In kentucky this morning, mr. Pence promoted the white house backed legislation moving through the house of representatives. It is one of 32 states that expanded federallyfunded medicaid coverage for lowincome americans under obamacare. Kentucky has seen its uninsured rate drop from 17 to less than 7 thanks in part to a private Insurance Exchange and medicaid covering 25 of the states residents. But pence and kentuckys Current Governor say Medicaid Expansi
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Ank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. In orlando, it is a weekend for Memorial Services and funerals for the 49 People Killed in the pulse nightclub last sunday. Today, 19 of the 53 survivors shot by omar mateen remain in the hospital, four of them in critical condition. The f. B. I. , which twice investigated and cleared mateen, has said he was neither trained nor directed by any foreign terrorist organization. But we now know mateen declared his allegiance to isis in facebook postings before his attack and in calls to 911 and a local tv news station during his threehour standoff with