Our guests and house to submit questions for the q a and we also, for the viewers watching on tv, you can tweet us your questions. Before i pass the microphone to our director of policy and Efficacy Program and the moderator of todays program, would like to say a few words. Mpac is a National Public Affairs Organization that works on pluralism for the american doublet. We do that by working on policies that affect our community. The Foreign Policy areas we work on our National Security and Civil Liberties, immigration, human security, as well as religious freedom. For purposes here on this panel, we will be discussing the issue how to counterd isis. It has been mpacs position for years that a robust position is necessary but at the same time our nation can never be truly secure when the Civil Liberties of any community are curtailed and without taking a holistic approach. Furthermore, federal, state, and local government should never condition their engagement with any communities thro
Madam president , i rise to express my support for the conference agreement on the tax cuts and jobs act. The first Major Overhaul of our tax code since 1986. This legislation will provide tax relief toki working familie, encourage the creation of jobs right here in america, and spur Economic Growth that will benefit all americans. Madam president , let me start by discussing the effects of this bill on individuals and families. Throughout this debate i have emphasized that reforms to our outdated tax code must help working families. I, therefore, authored three key amendments that were retained in the final package. My amendments allow families to deduct up to 10,000 in state and local taxes, increase the deduction for medical expenses, and protect taxfree contributions for retirement savings. The original senate bill would have eliminated the deduction known as salt that allowed taxpayers to avoid paying a federal tax on state and local taxes that may have already paid. This provisio
Threaten the united states. Tweeted earlier, military solutions are now fully in place. Locked and loaded, should north korea act unwisely. Hopefully kim jongun will find another path. Is here with me in new york. Kevin, let me start with you and ask about the tweet we saw this morning at what the white house is saying about the message going forward, how we should interpret this messaging. First and foremost, i think the rhetoric on domestic issues is more fiery than weve seen from the military and cabinet officials. Its that fiery rhetoric coming from the president as well as the more subdued, more on message, appeasing rhetoric, more sensible rhetoric, so to speak, coming from the administration. That leads me to my second point, which is that there still hoping that Economic Indicators will help them to pressure north korea to back off this type of missile testing. All importantan part in negotiations with north , who dictator, kim jongun has increasingly fired up his Missile Launc
It like they heard it and frankly the people that were questioning that statement was it too tough, maybe it wasnt tough enough. Maria this as china staterun newspapers calling on its government to, quote, state neutral if north korea strikes. President trumps comments taking a toll, in asia overnight, stocks sliding, hang seng sliding 2 and japan was closed but the shanghai down as korean kospi index. In europe this morning, declines across the board. Decline of better than 1 right now. In the u. S. We are taking a look at another down day, fourth straight decliner on the week, the industrial average expected to begin a fraction, just 18 points, nasdaq down a quarter of a percent, 14 points lower. Police officer survives a shooting that was caught on his own camera. The scary scene and heart wrenching moments when he relays a message to his family. Thats coming up. Tracking money used for terrorism, new report in wall street journal, isis funneled money in u. S. Operative through ebay
Welcome everybody, im neil cavuto and we are keeping an eye on dignitaries and wife visiting the United States. Timing is everything because all of this comes in light of our wanting to get punishing measures on syria for what appears to be the use of chemical weapons against its people and we are looking at for a universal slapdown of the syrians there. Well spell it out. We see power shifting within the National Security team that is at the white house of the steve bannon, were hearing right now, has been removed from that position. It is not necessarily what it appears. Blake burman on the phone to tell us what is going here. Blake . Reporter im on the phone. Watching live shot of kings arrival. They wouldnt let us cross to the camera positions because there is butch of highly important people here at white house. What the secret service says we do and follow. Hello from the phone, 100 feet away from video you were watching. As it relates to steve bannon. He has been taken off as a