Trump says the gop controlled congress is just days away from passing tax reforms. And that could mean savings for americans as soon as february. Likely attended a deal today on a compromised version of their competing tax bills. President trump seeking a quick vote and a needed victory after a stunning upset in alabama that will cost the gop a crucial vote in the senate. Also breaking Democrat Doug Jones says President Trump phoned him after his historic win and invited him to the white house. Jones describes the call as gracious. But privately a source tells cnn that the alabama results were devastating for the president. After endorsing the scandal taken by republican roy moore mr. Trump is trying to claim in a new tweet he was right about the race all along because he didnt back moore in the primary. And the Deputy Attorney general in the hot seat defending the special counsel he appointed as republican lawmakers accuse Robert Muellers team of political bias. Rob rosenstein telling
Breaking news out of South Carolina three deputies and two Police Officers have been shot. The suspect is in custody. The death toll in indonesia tws risen to more than 1,400. Its chaos. We need your help. 22,000 pounds of cocaine seized at sea. And offloaded in san diego. The coast guard made the seizure over several weeks. Forbes has named a new top billionaire amazon c. E. O. Jeff bezos. Bumping bill gates from the spot for the first time in 24 years. There was mixed reaction today to the first test of the president ial alert system. That was wild. Everyone is buzzing. I havent gotten the alert yet. I didnt read it. I think its great. Mine went off, but it was also my alert my food is here. laughter glor good evening, im jeff glor. And this is our western edition. We are going to begin with some breaking news. Authorities say five Law Enforcement officers were shot this afternoon in south Jericka Duncan is here in the studio with the latest. One officer is zed and six other Law Enfo
Verdict we want a future with more jobs and more security and more freedom. I know you want to keep this country moving on the right track. I think the entire country has heard tennessee loud and clear. I want to thank all hoosiers for giving me a resounding victory putting your faith in me, and i will not let you down, i promise that. We didnt anticipate government incompetence in tallahassee and we wont accept it in d. C. I will not accept it as your new u. S. Senator. Bill later this morning President Trump holds a News Conference. Youll see it live on americas newsroom at 11 30. The Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell holds a press conference an hour prior to that at 10 30. He is tweeting saying received so many congratulations from so many on our big victory last night including from four nations, friends, that were waiting me out and hoping on trade deals. Now we can all get back to work and get things done, end tweet. Sandra were still waiting on some official results from se
Heitkamp facing kevin cramer. No projections right now in arizona, michigan, the special of Minnesota Senate election, texas, wisconsin, and wyoming. Lets look at the balance of power, where things stand in the senate right now. Right now take a look. 35 democrats in the senate. 42 republicans. 23 senate seats remain outstanding right now. Democrats must pick up two republican seats and not lose any of their own in order to get the majority of 51 they need. Dana, youre eyeing contests very closely right now because they are tight. Extremely tight. A lot of very exciting races that were looking at across the Battle Ground states in the u. S. Senate starting, of course, with texas. We keep watching this, and it is getting tighter, but beto oroarke, the democrat, is still ahead by a little less than 4,000 votes right now. Florida, it is so tight. The republican challenger rick scott is still ahead beating right now the democratic incumbent bill nelson. Very close. Less than 60,000 votes b
The reporting has evidence that Investigative Journalism is alive and well. At its root we have political opponents accusing each other of the same thing using the power of their office for personal political gain. Please, spare me your drawing moral akwequivalence. Viewed hypothetical in the worst light for each you have President Trump wanting ukraine to investigate the Business Activities of hunter biden. The son of his president ial rival, joe biden. Hunter biden was a paid executive. Asking a Foreign Government to address possible corruption before being the beneficiary of u. S. Aid isnt itself illicit, but it becomes problematic and becomes potentially criminal. Critics say leveraging the presidency could rise to the level of extortion and conspiracy. Trump raises similar questions of propriety about Vice President biden to hear Rudy Giuliani tell it, when in march of 2016 the thenVice President threatened ukraine with the loss of 1 billion in loan guarantees, unless it fired a p