11, discussing the book president s. And it a conversation about childhood host good morning. It is the day before thanksgiving. President trump left the white house to celebrate the upcoming holiday with his family at his country club in florida. He took questions from reporters mostly focused on the latest revelations about Sexual Assault. The president defending roy moore, the Senate Candidate from alabama and saying he is happy women in the u. S. Are coming forward with accusations against lawmakers and others. That is where we begin on the washington journal. How do we stop Sexual Misconduct . We want to know your solutions. Men dial in at 2027488000, women at 2027488001. Join us on twitter cspanwj. We will get your calls in a minute. We learned yesterday the dean of the house, john conyers paid a settlement two years ago to an alleged accuser. Charlie rose fired by cbs and pbs after the Washington Post broke that story. Eight women accusing him of unwanted advances. We want to kn
Member. And to update the procedures. So i applaud them both for their work and its something i think well pass quite easily. Beverly, youre on with tom cole. Caller i have a question. This is this is a really upsetting me over the childrens fund. I have a grandson who is a disabled child. Everything that he gets he has to have in order to live. If this fund does not go through, and my daughter loses the funds, my grandson will die. Why havent you all done something . The house has done something. The house has passed the reauthorization the chirnz Health Insurance program. The senate has not. I think they will. We understand how important that legislation is to people like you and your circumstances and your grand son so i dont think theres much likelihood that it wont be extended again, but your case underlies the urgency of getting that done. Theres a part of it to put peoples minds at rest. Theres no reason for you in my view for you to go through what youre worrying about. I suspe
I think its probably not likely, but i think Congress Also is not likely to get work done by december 8th either. So i think what youll see is bipartisan socalled continuing resolution, which continues to Fund Everything at the current levels. But what we really need is a larger deal that will fund the government for all of next year. And frankly the framework of one that could last a couple of years so that honestly there could be a pretty orderly process of appropriating coming to agreements. That has to be by bipartisan. There is no way one can impose their will on the others. And you leave it to both parties. They actually Work Together quite well. Can you explain how much the tax reform debate is overhanging this budget debate . How much one influences the other . Really not. Moving on different tracks. Maybe one of the things that may complicates things, the tax bill is bipartisan exercise. Republicans have a program. Trying to do it largely without democratic votes. So thats tha
The final tax bill on the president s desk by christmas, pass a measure to keep the government funded before midnight on friday. The president meeting with key members this afternoon. The latest from capitol hill. New examples of antitrump bias at the fbi. One of Robert Muellers deputies reportedly praising a doj official for defying President Trumps travel ban. This as were learning more about that agent fired for sending antitrump texts. Connell the deep state. Meanwhile reversing course. Markets ending in the red. Lets go so Nicole Petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. There was never a lot of conviction in the market but there was green earlier in the session. You want to say what happened, right . The truth of the matter triggers why did we see a basically 200 point swing from top to bottom, we cant have every day an up arrow. Down day of 11 points. Take it a lot of high hopes for the nasdaq. Tech has been a big, big story. We watched home billers today. Homebuilders
Crawl towards me. [ gunfire ] so, why did a jus find the officer not guilty. A factcheck on amazons promise to prices at whole foods with surprising resu and answering in the dark ed sheeran right here, the superstar, with a Perfect Performance, toy, friday, december 8th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to its friday. Nice to have you with us. Say that again. Its friday. Were so happy. And we have ed sheeran, with us. Friday, ed sheeran, its a great day. We have a tough time in cal. A new fire has roared to life near san diego. While crews in and around los angeles struggle to contain the fires there. We want to get right to Miguel Almaguer with the latest. Miguel, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Some 500 structures have been destroyed. This is the scene thats playing out neighborhood after neighborhood in this community alone. Today, firefighters are worried about flying embers. They can tra