Break is one hour away. Due to set out for maralago at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. Will he sign the tax bill . One thing he must sign the bill congress scrambled to keep the government up and running for another month. Lets go to the white house and find kaitlan collins. This is his first legislative win and huge for him and the Republican Party and dont know if he will sign it before he heads out or any public ceremony. Thats right. We do not know yet and the president is scheduled to leave the white house here in the next hour where hes going to go to his Maralago Club in west palm beach, florida, for the christmas vacation and weve been told by several white house officials they expect that he is likely to sign that 1. 5 trillion tax bill that republicans passed this week into law before he leaves, but theres nothing on his schedule for a signing ceremony. Its unclear if he will sign that in public or in private. We know he celebrated with republican lawmakers here at the white house on we
i voted against the continuing resolution yesterday in part because i didn t see any meaningful progress on this issue along with the other issues i talked about children s health insurance, full-year military budget and disaster relief and so forth. so let s get back to town, let s work on this in a bipartisan way, and the season of, you know, recognizing the humanity and our fellow men and women it s only appropriate that we recognize the humanity in our d.r.e.a.m.ers and do something about it and make sure they have a pathway to permanent residency here. the president is tweeting this morning about bipartisanship and working with democrats. we ll all watch what you do when you get back from break. have a nice holiday, congressman. thank you. you too. thank you so much. so u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley following through on her threat to take names of the countries who voted against the u.s. on this jerusalem/israel resolution. a potential fallout and a look
year military budget. we punted that instead. our priorities are wrong right now in congress. we should be spending more time on matters to average, ordinary americans, and less time on relitigating the election of 2016 and going after hillary clinton. well that sounds like you re saying, though, that then congress should be spending less time on the russia probes too, and the president, and looking into the president and those around him, do you also agree that the house and senate committees that are investigating the president on russia front because it s tied to the 2016 election are also a waste of time, congressman? well, what i m saying is that special counsel mueller should be allowed to do his job, and he s outside of congress. i m asking you, do you also think the congressional inquiries into the president and russia and his team are also a waste of time because those are also about the 2016 election? let s get something straight, all of our intelligence sources
and intelligence communities said that russia tried to interview in our democracy and our election and so these committees are trying to do whatever they can to shore up our defenses against that interference and make sure that the 2018 and 2020 elections are adequately protected. i think that s worthy of spending time on. going back and investigating hillary clinton and how she how her investigation was handled, i just don t think is a proper use of our time right now. moving on, you re up for re-election in the midterms in 2018. yes. and i wonder how you plan to run and how you think other democrats should run? do you think it is a persuasive argument to run on, for example, russia russia russia or, you know, this tax bill is awful or do you think that your party overall, congressman, needs a more proactive positive message, here is the change we will
all right. joining me now is democratic congressman raj sasha of illino. thank you for being with us. great to be here. happy holidays to you. we ll let you get to your holiday in a moment. i have a lot to go through with you. you were there, you were behind closed doors in this, you know, the testimony that we heard, and you reiterated some of your concerns. you wrote that it was a tense meeting and tense testimony from, you know, between lawmakers and deputy director of the fbi andy mccabe and you write, this is part of the attempt of house republicans to basically discredit the fbi and special counsel mueller. that s quite an accusation to say this is a concerted attempt to do those things. what evidence are you basing that accusation on? well, first of all, thank you for having me on. yes, i was part of hours and hours and hours of closed door