Sores more than 300 points that say surge to an alltime record fueled by glowing reviews of President Trumps congressional address. He kept a low profile today Tweeting Nonl all caps, thank you, no bragging or twitter rants just two words from his personal account. 47 Million People tuned in to watch the pruz president s address and he put a lot of asks acts on the table, haej healthcare, immigration, tax cuts, on and on and today the rubber met the road. Meeting with Republican Leadership to turn all of those words and promises into actual action. Were just here to start the process. It begins as of now and we think were going to have tremendous success. David purdue was in that meeting and hes out front tonight im going to speak with him i want to begin with jim acosta he is at the white house and uncharacteristically to say the least, quiet day for President Trump. Thats right pu white house officials from the president on down are still slating after Last Nights Speech. He was meet
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Champagne down pennsylvania avenue. There are only two places where americas popping champagne; the white house and the corporate boardrooms including trump tower. The gop tax scam is about bleeding the middle class dry to pad the pockets of Corporate America and the wealthiest 1 . Paul joining the panel, Wall Street Journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and Mary Anastasia ogrady and Editorial Page writer kate odell. Why did they succeed on taxes when they failed on health care . Right. That is one question, because you would expect a failure to make it harder to succeed. But i think here the Health Care Failure really focused the minds for the gop that, for them, it was do or die for their majority in 2018 to get a tax bill passed. And it wasnt always clear they would choose do. [laughter] but also i think there was a rougher consensus on what a tax
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Hes made comments about the assassination of journalists and hes joked, his Administration Says it was a joke about murdering somebody whether he he was younger. This is somebody who is not a traditional leader ally like you might see in other parts of the region. Yet, the president and white house have talked about this friendly relationship between the two. I think you saw that here in manila. The two toasting. At one point duterte singing a love song in honor of the president , getting up on stage and delivering this duet with lyrics like you are the light of my life, the half of my heart. So clearly the two of them working on this relationship. The president seeming to hope the Good Chemistry leads to good policy. Again, questions on why no mention of Human Rights Abuses here. That is similar to what we saw from President Trump in china, for example, and on past overseas trips. Im thinking of the one, for example, over to saudi earlier in the year. Back in may. The White House Admi
Why rob portman is hopeful. Mick mulvaney is warning. And steny hoyer is fighting mad. Theyre all here and only here. We begin with blake burman with the latest. Blake . Its clear here in the halls of the capitol as House Republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. Theres a host of issues to work through. Earlier today, the club for growth, an influential Republican Group put out a note saying they have issues with four Different Things on the individual side of this House Republican plan. Here they are. Top tax bracket for millionaires with the possibility that those that make in the low Million Dollar range can see the top end taxed north of 45 . They take issue with a portion of passthrough profits would be taxed 25 . Growth. You had big deficits. It wasnt tax cuts that did it. Cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil but you left out Ronald Reagan. I know. Deficits didnt grow with him. The first two years were high because we ph