Strong vote. Im confident the senate will follow. Its a fairly good product. Im still looking at it. I will still be a no. The changes in the salt deduction actually dont satisfy the needs of the people that i represent. Im very proud of this bill and what it does for ordinary people. I think senator rubio and senatorlys suggestions about the Child Tax Credit were an improvement. We have simplified it. Not as much as i would like but this bill is going to touch just about every american. Sandra john roberts is live on the north lawn. A big day ahead of you and for all, john. It always seems that way, sandra, that at 9 00 in the morning were looking ahead to a big day at the white house. This one bigger than most. White house sources tell me they think theyll get tax reform buttoned up tonight and have the votes to pull the thing across the finish line. John mccain is out. The maximum votes in the senate are 51. Pictures of the other arizona senator jeff flake. He has been resistant on
Far, a reported 12 deaths. That number only certain to arise. Traveling with the president in west palm beach, florida, as we continue to talk about this issue. Good morning, steve. They tweeting about Foreign Policy, and the main topic and situation in our entry of the president writing the following, this morning, iran is failing at every level, despite the terrible deal made by the Obama Administration, the great iranian people have been oppressed. Theyre hungry for food and for freedom. Along with human rights, the baltimore iran is being rated. He also taxes, 33 billion over the past 15 years. But lies and deceit nothing back. No word back from pakistan, reaction to that, pretty harsh tweets. Lastly, the president was at maralago with family and friends come to submit the new year as he has the past two decades. He stopped briefly to chat with reporters before entering a party. This was what the president had to say. We will have a great year, a fantastic 2018, we are off to a ver
Both among the corps of reporters and also in the west wing after the president tweeted this morning this veto threat of the Government Spending bill that democrats and republicans and members of his own administration had been working for weeks to negotiate. A half hour ago, the president posted to twitter. News conference at the white house concerning the omnibus spending bill 1 00 p. M. The president often has a different concept of what a News Conference is. We understand hell give a statement, we believe, to the inhouse pool of reporters. Its a small group of reporters that changes daily. Theyve just left to head to the diplomatic room where we could hear from the president within minutes. Statement now. Thats what were hearing. Right. Not a fullblown News Conference where the president takes questions from the assembled reporters there. Stand by for me. Garrett, let me bring you in here because it would seem to many that lawmakers on the hill werent really taking the president s
Shulk shulkin, i want to talk about a little bit of breaking news were getting in the Stormy Daniels case. Apparently her attorneys motion to depose the president has been thwarted in court. What are you hearing . Well, as is the case in so many things around the trump white house, were learning through twitter, through michael aven natys twitter feed he is putting out a series of tweets that deal with the legal action of the president and Michael Cohen concerning their efforts to break the 130,000 contract for the nondisclosure agreement. Avenatti is tweeting that the court has said his request is premature for the deposition of the president and Michael Cohen. And he goes on to sicite some o the language of the courts ruling on this. Suggesting, its only from his side at this point, that the issue of whether this will end up in arbitration, which is what the president and Michael Cohen would prefer, because thats the way the nondisclosure agreement was originally crafted, any dispute
The president thinks we cannot lose in a fight like this, but now, thanks to cnbc translating this list, we have a pretty good sense of who in the u. S. Does have a lot to lose in this fight even if the president himself doesnt see it. Anybody in the u. S. Involved in the production of this very long but very specific list of americanmade things might beg to differ with the president s assertion that theres nothing to lose. The Chinese Government announced today theyre going to go after people in the United States involved in the production and exports of this whole big long list of things uncombed cotton, soy bones black or yellow, fresh and cold boneless beef, frozen beef with bones, frozen boneless beef, dried cranberries, frozen orange juice, nonfrozen orange juice. Hookah, tobacco, other tobacco for smoking. Also whiskeys, and interestingly, theres no modifier on whiskey, just which is whiskeys. If you know anyone whos involved in the production of any whiskey, if it involves expo