Explains. Plus, mexicos president saying theres no way theyre going to pay for Donald Trumps wall. Will trumps Biggest Campaign promise ever be built and paid for . Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead im jake tapper. Were going to begin with breaking news. Our politics lead moments ago, republicans in the house of representatives followed their colleagues in the u. S. Senate and passed that budget resolution that will begin the process of repealing obamacare. This comes after House Speaker paul ryan told me at a cnn town hall last night that the gop will introduce a replacement plan simultaneously to the repealing and that they hope to accomplish all of this within the first 100 days of the Trump Administration. Cnns manu raju is on capitol hill. Manu, what does this vote today actually accomplish . And what are the next steps . Well, jake, what this bill does it actually instructs congress, both the house and the senate, to develop legisl
Patients are dead. 115 others evacuated. They suffered for days with no air conditioning in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Why a criminal investigation is now under way. Well get to those stories in a moment. We start with the 2016 campaign that almost was. Bernie sanders and President Donald Trump one hour from now both are scheduled to appear from the cameras. Both trying to build coalitions for legacybuilding projects. For sanders its universal health care. For the president its a tax reform package. While sanders is delivering red meat to the base of the Democratic Party, the president may be making his own base a bit nervous with more outrage to democrats. Lets start this hour with our nbc reporters Peter Alexander at the white house, kasie hunt over on capitol hill. Peter, lets start with you, good sir, with the president because, again, hes not only reaching out to a Bipartisan Group of house members this afternoon, hes got chuck and nancy coming back to the white house for dinner.
But a lot of politics here being injected from both sides, pennsylvania avenue, of course democrats calling for an investigation, calling for the resignation. Thats one thing we know will not happen, brooke. Speaking of the other end of pennsylvania avenue, how are members of congress responding to the president s attack on senator gillibrand . How are they receiving that . Certainly rallying around senator gillibrand. No question at all. Many of her colleagues in the senate and in the house as wrel are defending her, coming to her defense on this and we saw a press conference just a short time ago with members of the house saying something very specific about that. Lets watch. What took place this morning when the president tweeted about our colleagues senator Kirsten Gillibrand is grotesque. It took my breathe away. And it represents the conduct of a person who is ilequipped to be the president of the United States. So this of course brooke reminds of several things. Reminds us that
Roy moore accused of Sexual Misconduct and rolled up on a horse to cast his vote. Hes railed against gays and twice been forced from office, but dont say the moores arent fond of jews. His wife says one of their lawyers is a jew. As for roy moores opponent, doug jones is looking for alabama voters to send democrat to the senate for the first time in 25 years. Today alabamians have their voice. Lets get to it. A live look coming at the White House Briefing room. Sarah sanders set to take questions from reporters right now. That should be interesting. As voters head to the polls down south in alabama, the special u. S. Senate election is underway. The president has doubled down on his support for roy moore. The republican candidate faces accusations of Sexual Misconduct of teenagers when he was in his 30s. He denies it. The president says people in alabama need to vote for Robert Mueller because his democratic challenger doug jones will help the trump agenda. This morning roy moore showe
Our great constitutional republic, but sadly, we have some extremists on the left clearly preferring mob rule. We will lay this out for youea tonight, we had last night an angry group of purported anarchists surrounding the home of fellow fox news host tucker carlson. This is where he lives, his wife, his children, they tried to break down his door. Vandalizing his house. Now, they were shouting threats through a bullhorn, his wife was inside, alone, locked herself in a pantry, had to call the police. Coming up, we are going to respond to the continuing angry left wing mob in this country. These are unacceptable tactics. And it better stop. Somebody is going to get hurt or worse, as i have been warning. Also tonight, we will show you how msnbc conspiracy tv, fake news cnn, once again cheerleading for Robert Mueller to find something, anything, on trump. By the way, the clearest evidence we have, they werent too happy with you and donald trump on tuesday night. We also have a message fo