Lawmakers to get it done by christmas. Good morning, everyone, welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Nice to have you back. Good to be back, my friend. Couple days off. Nothing happened while youre gone. Nothing. Nothing ever does. Its 4 00 a. M. In the east, its 11 00 a. M. In zimbabwe where the president there is under house arrest. Lets start here, after weeks of saying Senate Republicans decided to revisit the healthcare debate. Released tuesday, the bill features a repeal of obamacares requirement that all americans Carry Health Insurance or pay a fine. The individual mandate. Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee Voted Unanimously to scrap that individual mandate. Now, conservatives in the house are lobbying their leaders to add individual mandate repeal to the House Republican tax bill. The house begins debate on that bill today with vote on the sweeping overhaul the tax code scheduled for tomorrow. Here is Cnns Phil Mattingly with more. Reporter now, christine and dave,
Out for the first time after accusing Harvey Weinstein of rape. Her fiery speech to other women saying, im just like you. We start with the new controversy over the first awarding of the contract to rebuild puerto ricos power grid perfo. After hurricanes of maria and irma hit, a quarter dont have access to clean drinking water. Delaying restoring services could be a matter of life and death. Now Puerto Rico Power Authority has awarded a 300 Million Contract to a Small Montana Company Called whitefish. The terms of the contract have a lot of folks asking questions. Two audits are under way. The results of one audit is due today. Puerto ricos governor. If there is no wrongdoing, done correctly, well push forward. If there is wrongdoing, you know, in this process or any process, there will be hell to pay. Meanwhile at this hour, senator imprebernie sanders is puerto rico. Hes also meeting with san juans outspoken mayor cruz whos been quite critical of the whitefish deal. In washington que
Students speaking up it has been a real mix as the grief has turned to anger. Weve had a string of funerals. Four yesterday, three today, two more tomorrow. As the number of students determine they intend to try to change the gun laws across the country. Our elected officials need to get together and get things done. The future of our country are the children that are currently dying because politicians refuse to take action and continue to take money from these special interest groups. There were major antigun rallies across the state this weekend. Another one tonight. And next month the students have claimed they will lead a National March to washington for a big antigun rally. Big, back to you. Bill Steve Harrigan in florida today. Thank you on that. White house officials saying President Trump supports new efforts to improve federal gun background checks after he met with victims of the school do something about background checks. Were talking Senate Majority whip john cornyn and c
Throwing on her way out the door. But i want to start with taxes and our team covering the white house and capitol hill. Lets start with kasie hunt behind me. Kasie, lets talk bottom line here. What do we know about this compromise plan, whats in, whats out and then the timing of when folks might see something from this tax cut. Hallie, there are ts to cross and is to dot but we know the broad agreements so we can show you those details on the screen. The Corporate Tax rate will go down to 21 from 35 . Thats a little higher than the 20 rate the president had been hoping they would hit but it helps cover other changes theyve made. Theyre lowering the top individual tax rate to 37 . Theyre doubling the standard deduction, for people who take the standard deduction on their taxes that will feel like a tax break right away for them. This will impact you differently if you live in a state with high state and local taxes because as you you can see, the state and local Tax Deduction is capped
Was outlined and consequences that are unknowable and terrifying. On monday night, we spent more than 50 minutes talking about that. We asked what seem like most basic questions, questions of the geniuses on the other channels of thought to be asking, but are not. We are told we must attack syria to punish president assad for launching a chemical attack. Its a moral duty to uphold International Behavior and punish war criminals like assad. Okay, but are we sure that he was responsible for the gas attack it . Many people claim he was, they cynically mean that within hours of the attacks before any of those effects were known. And theyre still claiming it. Wheres the proof . They have provided no proof, theyve just made loud noises and announced the question askers. Thats not enough. As american citizens, we have a right to know why were doing this. The second question we ask a monday was how would attacking syria help the United States . How would it help make us richer, safer, or happi