steven hayes, thank you. bill: seven minutes past the hour. president trump looking to build momentum on tax reform saying congress has the budget framework in place and giving lawmakers a deadline to get a bill on his desk for signing. president trump: the republicans want to get it done. it s a tremendous tax cut especially for the middle class and for businesses. i think they will be here. i don t like them leaving. i want to get it by the end of the year. bill: mike emanuel live on the hill. what are timing expectations on the hill regarding this as of today? it is expected the house will pass the senate version of the budget this week. house conservatives are passing their leadership in exchange they want to pass tax reform at least in the house by thanksgiving. the senate majority leader didn t want to get into specifics of the plan or a timetable but talked about
the difficulties in breaking down this broken status quo that is washington, d.c. when the rest of america recognized that it s broken, what s in washington does not. bill: i wonder if he can get senator mccain to move? senator mccain s constituents want him to move. it s whether or not senator mccain can get himself to be where his constituents are. bill: thank you, david. nice to have you back with us today. sandra: right now police in florida on the hunt for a possible serial killer. why they say the deaths of three people in a single tampa neighborhood may be linked. plus the deadly shooting by an illegal immigrant renewing questions about sanctuary cities. now the trial of the man who shot kate steinle gets underway this morning. we re here to make sure that a change is made so nobody has
going on? robert mueller who is now the special counsel. who was the u.s. attorney in charge of copying the plea deal which many of us believe was a sweetheart deal with the main perpetrator here, rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. eric holder and loretta lynch was involved. bill: desantis will investigate. we ll talk with jason chaffetz next hour about all of that here. sandra: the fate of sergeant bowe bergdahl rests in the hands of a judge this hour. he is in court for his sentencing hearing where he will learn his punishment for walking off his post in afghanistan. he pleaded guilty to the charges last week. in a recent interview with a british magazine he spoke out about his taliban captors saying they treated him better than the u.s. army. jonathan cyri joins us live
point that i was exhausting them. and he did all of this while entered, he had been wounded by shrapnel, he had a hole in his foot to the size of your thumb. bill: this is almost 50 years ago, why has it taken so long to receive this recognition? well part of it is the mission tail end was top-secret. only declassified for decades later. the main reason why he is receiving the medal of honor is because of the men in his human. they have been fighting for him to receive the honor for 47 years. it is overwhelming. it is not something that normally happens to a person. i mean, i ve seen people fight and get something over a week or two, but for 47 years. everyone in the unit still alive will be at the white house today. first time they have been in the same room all since all those years ago. bill: thank you, from
militants. conflicting accounts of what came next. locals say the u.s. team was lured into an ambush after chasing militants on motorcycles. officials here tell me the green beret team were on their way home when they were ambushed. sandra: where is the secretary of defense today? bill: mattis is traveling in the philippines today part of a three-nation tour that includes a stop in south korea. mattis hasn t spoken out publicly on the niger ambush since friday when he traveled to capitol hill after being under the threat of subpoena from senator john mccain. i asked the secretary how he felt about the f.b.i. joining the investigation into the ambush in niger. mattis refused to answer. now there was no drone flying overhead at the time of the ambush and top officials around here have long complained about the shortage. sandra. sandra: thank you.