We can talk very briefly about what happened in manchester england. The president summed it up and just called these people who have perpetrated this, one person, or maybe more, evil losers. They have several victims that were 11 o 11 or 12. This hits especially close to home for many of us and we stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies and our friends in the uk and also have the victims and families in our hearts. As we talk about these other things, it somehow pales in comparison. Lets talk about the budget. I know some of you were here yesterday, but a lot of folks werent here. Lets talk about what this is. This is the president s fy 2018 budget present name on the cover is the new foundation for american greatness. As i read through it over the weekend, we been working on this since before i got here, it struck me that the title should been different. The title should have been a Taxpayer First budget because thats what this is. As i was trying to reconcile those two things, its
Next, house and Senate Democrats respond to the president s Budget Proposal at a press conference on capitol hill yesterday. Okay. Thank you all very much for being here to discuss an issue of enormous consequence for the American People. The trump budget introduced today constitutes a massive transfer of wealth from working families, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor to the top 1 . It follows in the footsteps of the Trump Ryan Health care bill which gives huge tax breaks to the healthiest few while throwing 24 million americans off of their Health Insurance and dramatically raising premiums for older workers. This is a budget which says that if you are the richest family in america, the walton family, you can get up to a 53 billion tax break through the repeal of the estate tax. 53 billion tax break. But at the same time, it says that if you are a lower income senior citizen, you will not be able to get the one nutritious meal a day you now receive through the meals on
Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. The Trump Administration tried today to regain its footing following yesterdays knockdown blow on capitol hill. Facing certain defeat, House Republicans abruptly withdrew their bill to replace president obamas Affordable Care act just before it came to a vote. Embattled House Speaker paul ryan said, were going to be living with obamacare for the foreseeable future. In a tweet this morning, President Trump vowed to revisit the issue, saying, obamacare will explode, and we will all get together
Just reported to sign an executive order all about promoting clean coal, no amount of science guy will give us reading on that. John, former acting director along with cia, the chief of staff, theyll discuss the latest twists and turns in the devin nunes scandal, which also seems to be a paul ryan scandal. Should devin nunes recuse himself. He wont tell us what he learned. Meetings are being cancelled. We have done no business this week. He needs to step down. Its a little by izarre. We never talk about sources. Hes not willing to tell the democrats, who you met with. I never asked of you. You could well be the sacrificial lamb that this white house is looking for. What were seeing is the effective covert operation that russia has carried out. I think it would serve us all well if he recuse himself from the russia issue. Thank you. Chairman intelligence devin nunes is in the middle of publicly to cover up weve ever seen, hes not in it alone. Paul ryan is doing everything he can to help
Latest twists and turns in the devin nunes scandal, which also seems to be a paul ryan scandal. Should devin nunes recuse himself. He wont tell us what he learned. Meetings are being cancelled. We have done no business this week. He needs to step down. Its a little bizarre. We never talk about sources. Hes not willing to tell the democrats, who you met with. I never asked of you. You could well be the sacrificial lamb that this white house is looking for. What were seeing is the effective covert operation that russia has carried out. I think it would serve us all well if he recuse himself from the russia issue. Thank you. Chairman intelligence devin nunes is in the middle of publicly to cover up weve ever seen, hes not in it alone. Paul ryan is doing everything he can to help him. Everything about this is an ept beginning with the simple fact that it is public, cover ups are not suppose to be public and youre not suppose to help publicly identify exactly, exactly what you want to cover