Where the white house is on repealing and replacing obamacare. We absolutely want to. If we can reveal parts of obamacare is part of a tax bill tax bill that is still a good taxable that can pass that is great. If you become an impediment to getting the best taxable weekend that were okay with taking it out. For more on this in a moment. Gop lawmakers are voicing their opinion about the controversy surrounding roy moore with the clock ticking for the upcoming special election in alabama. The Senate Candidate is facing several activations of Sexual Misconduct. The incidences allegedly happened decades ago. Some of the girls would have been under age at the time. Moore has denied all the claims for the situation is not sitting well some of his potential colleagues. If he comes to the senate because the people of alabama elect him and someone files a plate with the Senate Ethics committee as they purely have done with al franken and it will be up to the Ethics Committee to weigh the evide
While thats happening the other breaking story this morning that jolt at the Justice Department. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein expected to leave in a matter of weeks. The man who could become attorney general making the rounds this morning on the hill. Well explain what that means for the special counsel investigation. We have our team covering all this from here in washington and across the country this morning. We start on capitol hill where we want to take a live look at the senate floor. There it is. We expect to see Mitch Mcconnell and Chuck Schumer any minute for the First Time Since those head scratching speeches last night. The newest element for President Trump seemed to be the setting. Both sides laying out the same strategies weve heard and the same stance dug in. How much more american blood must we shed before congress does its job . The federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only, because democrats will not fund Border Security. This p
Now back in washington, back at the white house. Hes often unconventional, but in this instance he did something traditional. That secret 30 hour trip to iraq. The president talked about some of those security concerns at play. If you would have seen what we had to go through with the darkened plane, with all windows closed, with no lights on whatsoever anywhere. Pitch black. Ive never seen it. Ive ridden many airplanes. Ive never seen anything like it. His message to those Service Members stationed abroad, defense of his decision to withdraw troops from neighboring syria. A move that has startleled allies in the region. Youve got iraqi officials reportedly calling for all u. S. Troops to be expelled from the country in response to the president s visit. Hans nichols is holding it down at the white house. Theres been a reaction to the president s visit so far. What are you hearing . As the president and first lady are back in the residence behind you there this morning. Theyre potentia
Shutdown. Both the house and senate have adjourned for the night. Those whose districts are close enough to washington have already gone home and started their christmas break. No deal was reached after the big three white house officials, that would be soninlaw Jared Kushner, incoming acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, and Vice President mike pence went up to the hill and did some diplomacy trying to hammer out some sort of agreement on the hill with democrats and republicans. Well, heres how we got to the brink. Wednesday night the Senate Passed a shortterm spending bill. The president said he would not sign because it didnt include any money for his border wall. Yesterday the house added in the president s 5 billion in wall funding, sent the measure back over to the senate. Today after a fivehour procedural vote delayed to allow senators to get back to washington, including a democrat from hawaii who flew all the way home and all the way back, they finally agreed to open debate. H
Which is a live shot about nothing. That about sums it up, hallie. Back to you, garrett. Exactly. The senate will be back in session. Its not the full crew. They cleared the decks before leaving town so they could moving quickly if and when there is a deal. Right now, no deal is in the offing. Democrats are looking to the president , hoping they will come to him with an offer they feel he can accept. They dont really know where he stands. Despite the president saying he definitely wants a border wall, he has also called it a wall, a fence, steel slats. The dollar figure seems to be an open question and democrats dont want to move until the president moves and thats leaving republicans essentially on the outside here, even though they control both chambers, waiting to see what democrats and the president can hash out. Republican senator bill cassidy on another network this morning was talking about exactly that. What can they put on the table . How do they get to the middle to negotiate