i ll keep an eye over your soould shoulder as well. thanks ali. we also saw how politics played out. ron johnson who threatened to vote against it who is on this committee deciding to vote for it. senator bob corker who has been on the defense and against this bill voted for it. they pushed it forward despite the pressure from protesters who suddenly awakened regarding this bill. to our viewers what you are seeing on the left side of your screen happened earlier. that was after the president had his luncheon with republicans. they all came out and took a turn at the mike talking about why this tax bill has to pass. garrett, just the idea that you mentioned ron john sson and corr voting for this, this is a tech knick callity, right, this vote today to send the bill from the
trump tweeted how much democrats don t want this. it seems counter-productive. when you look at tax legislation in america that is big it always takes bipartisan work. as it should. as it should. america is not just one party or the other. taxes affect everybody, same with health care. as we have been saying, the president is going to be speaking at any minute. we expect him as jeff bennett said to focus on north korea. again, this is president trump, who knows what he might answer questions about. he was on the hill this afternoon speaking to republicans about tax reform. he was supposed to beity meeting right about now with democratic leadership alongside republican leadership to negotiate a plan to keep the government open before the december 8th deadline. but he couldn t help, as ali was just saying, pick a fight picking a fight on twitter writing meeting with chuck and
to enshrine into law the daca protection has the president basically then ended and punt over to congress he got a lot of pushback from his conservative base of supporters. in many ways setting the parameters for that conversation at the outset and by and large forcing the democrats to pull out of that meeting he s doing himself some favors politically. earlier, ali, mitch mcconnell was at the podium and asked about the democrats skipping out on this afterlunch meeting with the president. he said i never skipped out on any meeting i was invited to by president obama. then there was a responding tweet twitter is so interesting. this is not true. event rulely, that day, mcconnell says he was not going.
pelosi. the major subject was talks on taxes, as for the details, we will learn more as we see the video and we learn more about the president s comments, indicakatie. and they re expected to play in just a couple of seconds, ali. i m struck by one of the decisions in the white house of when the president should make remarks and how they re prepared. do you think it s a decision by anybody other than the president of the united states? i m curious what he says about north korea and how specific he gets. we have just heard him talk a lot of generalities, talking about the time is now, we need fire and fury, to yes we need diplomacy, it is all over the place. it one hopes there is a strategy that is a little more obvious than the one we get led into. here s the comments from the president of the united states. thank you very much. as you probably have heard, and
thank you for that. thanks ali. up next, the trump administration announcing it is going to end temporary residency status for victims of haiti s earthquake. and we ve got another multiple topics to cover. we ll do that when we come back. the president is taking off. he just landed now. he is going to get on air force one and he is going to go to florida. we will see you on the other side of the break. lower back pain has met its match. aleve direct therapy. the only remote controlled tens device that s drug free, wire free for deep penetrating lower back pain relief. get aleve direct therapy. now $10 off with a coupon at walgreens.