House. And the mu team of the bible opens today in washington, d. C. The private 800 Million Museum features artifacts collected by the family that controls the hobby lobby retail chain. Its located near the national mall. Those are some of our top stories on this friday, november 17. From abc news, this is world news now. We begin this morning this half hour with a win for republicans. The house has passed its version of a massive tax reform measure. Gop lawmakers cheered once the vote count was announced. But now its on to the senate where its expected to get more difficult. Some republicans in that chamber have expressed reservations about the plan. President trump is putting on the pressure to win them over. Heres cecelia vega. Reporter President Trump brought his art of the deal to capitol hill making a pitch for a tax reform bill he so desperately needs. At the end of his closeddoor meeting with House Republicans he told them, i love you, now go vote. And they did, giving him tha
Says we shouldnt jump to conclusions. Im not saying the administration was responsible for the hack. Do worry about the politicization of. [unintelligible] intelligence of this administration. It came out at a very con convenient time to conclude it was russia after a tie trump was criticized what he was saying about putin. The secretary of state job seems to be going to the exxonmobil chief, or byron, what is curious how quickly this snowballing into hearings they want done presumely before the 538 electors will immediate would decide the next president of the United States, and most of them are duty bound to the vote in hero state us. A way of prying a few off. There are lot of moving part here. On the Electoral College thing. The Electoral College meets monday, december 19th and their 538 people. Electors who will be meeting in state capitols. Trump has to get 270 of them to win. He won 306 on election day. If you do the math, if he were to lose 37 electors he would be downdown just
That and the rest of the days top news just ahead this hour. Hello, im greg jarrett in for shepard smith. We begin with the fight over the president elects foundation and his plans to shut it down before taking office. President elect trump says hes told his legal team to begin dissolving the foundation. Hes also defending its work saying 100 of the money has gone to charity. He wrote this in a statement. The foundation has done enormous good works over the years in contributing millions of dollars to count less worthy groups including supporting veterans, Law Enforcement officers and children. Because i will be devoting so much time and energy to the presidency and solving the many problems facing our country and the world, i dont want to allow good work to be associated with a possible conflict of interest. Well, democrats are saying thats not nearly enough. The new York Attorney Generals Office has been investigating that foundation. There were reports that some charitable money wen
Foreign minister together with all the many representatives with both the United States and mexico for working so long and hard to get our agreement on immigration completed. Eric we have more on the north lawn of the white house with the very latest. President trump just left his golf club about 30 minutes ago. He was there for about five hours today. Of course last week he was in europe but sent out several tweets this morning touting this plan, touting this mexico trade deal that he announced last night. I want to read one of those tweets to you that he sent out this morning. Mexico has agreed to immediately begin buying large quantities of Agricultural Products from our great patriot farmers. The mexican president will deploy 6,000 troops to the southern border. This is part of that deal. It will allow migrants waiting to seek asylum to be sent to mexico instead of waiting in the United States. It will give migrants a chance to work and get an education. The agreement also says tha
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