Clear. It begins but is likely to be a brutal battle over his confirmation. Shannon bream is that the court to tell us more about judge gorsuch. Mike emanuel tells us what he is hearing on capitol hill and the vote counting already started, but we will start at the the white house with john roberts. It is one of the most important decisions the president can make, a choice that can last for decades, and it was a choice President Trump says he thought long and hard about. I took the task of this nomination very seriously. He took the unprecedented step of publishing a list of possible nominees. It expanded to 21 before finally coming down to one tonight. Judge gorsuch has outstanding legal skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline, and has earned bipartisan support. When he was nominated to the 10th Circuit Court of appeals, he was confirmed by the senate unanimously. President trump will use that unanimous consent as a cultural against those who might oppose gorsuch in the senate
Women, small children and even beautiful little babies, their deaths was an affront to humani humanity. These heinous actions by the assad regime cannot be tolerated. This afternoon u. N. Ambassador nikki hailey addressed the Security Council in new york and went much further, saying it is time to act, quote, against the barbaric assad regime. This Security Council thinks of itself as a defender of peace, security and human rights. We will not deserve that description if we do not rise to action today. All of this capped off by north korea launching yet another test for donald trump just hours ahead of his first facetoface meeting with chinas president. Nbcs Kristin Welker is at the white house and hans nichols joins me from the pentagon. Kristin, lets start with you. Lets move on to the other big breaking news of the day and that is steve bannon being taken off the national Security Council. I also noticed he was not in the rose garden during that meeting with king jordan. People tell
A big day, praising the passage of the bill, repealing and replacing obamacare, confident it will pass. The republicans are very united like seldom before. Republicans came two days ago. They came together, very united from Freedom Caucus to every single group. After lastminute negotiating the house approved the bill 217213 was 20 gop defections, paul ryan urging his colleagues to carry this momentum because the stakes are too high. Today was a big day but just one step in this process, an important step. We have a lot of work to do to get the signs into law. Our friends in the senate are eager to get to work, we will see that work through because the issues are too important, stakes are too high. The problems facing American Families are real. The Key Campaign Promise central to every republican the last 7 years, democrats lined up to pan the passage yesterday. A message that they sealed their fates. With respect to transactions Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi taking to the mic saying no
It begins but is likely to be a brutal battle over his confirmation. Shannon bream is that the court to tell us more about judge gorsuch. Mike emanuel tells us what he is hearing on capitol hill and the vote counting already started, but we will start at the the white house with john roberts. It is one of the most important decisions the president can make, a choice that can last for decades, and it was a choice President Trump says he thought long and hard about. I took the task of this nomination very seriously. He took the unprecedented step of publishing a list of possible nominees. It expanded to 21 before finally coming down to one tonight. Judge gorsuch has outstanding legal skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline, and has earned bipartisan support. When he was nominated to the 10th Circuit Court of appeals, he was confirmed by the senate unanimously. President trump will use that unanimous consent as a cultural against those who might oppose gorsuch in the senate. The J
Every day we are born in this country im one lucky guy. Sandra amen to that merry christmas, everybody. We will keep with that theme. Meanwhile republicans are celebrating a major legislative win on tax reform. The house about to vote again. This time on a revised version of the bill today the Senate Already passing the measure late last night. So they can send it to President Trump to sign in to law. I was very excited. It was a very emotional time. I used to be, you know, jack kempf was my mentor. I have been working on this issue pretty much my adult life because i just feel so passionately that this is going to help get people from welfare to work. Its going to get people higher wages, better jobs. Its going to put the American Economy in the lead in the Global Economy again. I feel very passionate about it. A large share of the credit goes to every Single Member of this caucus who voted for the bill. This is historic night. The democrats have said that the American People will rem