Good morning, everyone. Im john berman. Im poppy harlow. Were following major developments this morning on capitol hill. Take a look whats going on right now on your left. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein is going to appear before the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing that might have been routine, except for, well, except for a lot of things. Except for the mueller investigation, that more and more republicans are seeing as, well, not totally independent. So theyll pose some tough questions to him. On the right of your screen, at any moment, a News Conference from top senate democrat, chuck schumer. What schumer is going to do is suggest that the senate push back the final vote on the republican tax plan. Why . He wants to see the freshly elected or the next democratic senator from the state of alabama, doug jones, he wants him seated. Which would reduce the republican majority to one. So were waiting on those two live events. While we wait, lets go down to alabama right no
Me to stay. Good day, i am Chris Jansing in for Andrea Mitchell. Boy, has it been a busy half hour. President trump on his way to the maralago resort, but not before he signed the tax bill into law. Bottom line is this is the biggest tax cuts and reform in the history of our country. This is bigger, actually, than president reagans many years ago. Im very honored by it. Kristen welker is at the white house, Garrett Haake on capitol hill. Katy tur and Peter Alexander both with me. Kristen, do we have you . Reporter you do indeed have me, chris. Lets start with i dont know where to start, theres so much to unpack. Lets start with he said as a favor to you, to me, to the networks, he decided to sign this bill today. Reporter right. Look, he started off by saying, we want to give the middle class a Christmas Present, a big tax cut for christmas. So after the bill was passed, the question became, when was he actually going to sign it into law and make that Christmas Present official . The i
Maralago, yesterday . Reporter so he was actually at his golf club in West Palm Beach where he goes every day from maralago to play. He had come off the course, played with his son eric and pro golfer jim herman. They had had lunch and i had gone up and talking to him. You know, he was very proud of the tax bill at the end of the year. I think that obviously, for many reasons, probably in part because he did not have a significant legislative aco accomplishment in 2018. I said, if you want to talk about that, why dont we talk about that on the record . Then when he was done with lunch, we sat down and talked oneonone about ha. Were you surprise, michael, there was no support staff around him . Did you have to go through formal channels to get the interview . Reporter no, i wasnt surprised. Its been clear from the beginning of his trip, i came down here, he hasnt really made a lot of news. Its been clear there wasnt much staff around him. This has been a lightlystaffed trip compared to,
Remarks at his senior advisers back in june. According to the New York Times in a fit of anger over stalling immigration agenda president said haitians entering the country has aides, and nigerian would never go back to huts after seeing america, end quote. They deny he made those comments. I want to go to white house Kelly Odonnell down in florida. Cell will he, the white house not mincing words and pushing back hard on what was reported in the New York Times an hour ago. Reporter thats right. The New York Times shoought o the views of the white house and we also heard from the white house and directly refutes whats in the New York Times piece. Ill read it in full. It says general kelly, mcmaster, secretary tillerson and nielsen at dhs and all other senior staff in the meeting deny these outrageous claims. Its both sad and telling the New York Times would print the lies anyway that from Sarah Huckabee sanders. As you explain this this is going back to a june meeting where they say he
The writein candidate. Moore not conceding. Right now a recount is not expected. Here is both men last night. Realize when the vote is this close it is not over. And we still got to go by the rules about this recount provision. We also know that god is always in control. This campaign has been about common courtesy and decency and making sure everyone in in state, regardless of which zip code you live in, is going to get a fair shake in life. Bill we heard this from the president last night. Congratulations to doug jones on a hardfought victory. The writein votes played a big factor but a win is a win. The people of alabama are great and the republicans will have another shot at this seat in a short period of time. It never ends. Sandra Jonathan Serrie live in montgomery, alabama. How big a role did the allegations against moore play in this election . It seems these allegations were front and center. According to a fox news voter analysis, 2 3 of alabama voters said the allegations ag