Help. Hope youre having a great saturday at home. Welcome to americas news headquarters in washington. Jillian Congressional Republicans unveil a sweeping overhaul of the nations tax code that will affect the wallet of every american and they expect to vote on it this week. Caroline shively joins us with the details. Reporter it came together late yesterday afternoon, blended them together. Now it looks like they got the numbers, republicans unveil the details last night. The final version keeps seven tax bracket, 10, 12, 22, 32, 35, 37 . The Corporate Tax rate is cut from 35 to 21 . The bill repeals obamacares individual mandate while retaining a deduction for medical expenses. Five of the seven tax brackets are reduced from todays rates but also expected at 1. 6 trillion to the deficit, republicans are calling the strong middleclass tax relief also pointing to the Child Tax Credit. Democrats say the richest americans are the winners and not ethical democrat said yes. I am excited abo
Michael flynn, hes now working with special counsel. Thats the question haunting defensive attorney involved in the russian probe. Flynns lawyer stop sharing information with the attorney including those representing the president. Thats a sign that flynn could be cooperating or maybe pleading guilty. The president s legal team is urging people not to read too much into it. They caution that there could bbe a number of other reasons why flynn decides to cutoff communications. I am going to get right to what it means. Our Senior News Editor ben collins, retired chief of russia operation for the cia. Cnn legal analyst, joey jackson. You are a criminal defense attorney, what other reasons besides trying to cooperate or negotiate with the special counsel could be . Let me see no. There could be. You would think though that it would be some indications as we are cutting off ties. I mean they could be hardballing, thats the the lowest of a pardon. To the extent they are cutting off communica
Border patrol agent martinez this afternoon died after suffering head injuries in an apparent attack last week while on patrol at a remote border areas. Mick mulvaney has a new job despite still being of his old position. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The one who called the bureau a joke. But cannot a battle year. Pete one of the songs you love but we forgot out a long time ago. Good morning. You will be the hero this sunday as we had in to washington. Back to this morning. Good morning. Glad to be back on after yesterday. Train to of course. He rifled through my briefcase. That is a joke. Thats a violation of privacy. I would never do that. Sure into the briefcase is a couple decades ago. I do not have a briefcase. The highlights of yesterday. There should be a counsel investigation into you threepiece briefcase. I suggested this you should date hetherington lucia. I got a lot of messages. Pete always looking out for you. Reading some awkward moments, much like tomorrow mo
Washington post, a new woman is accusing congressman conyers of calling her in to his office while he was in his underwear. The woman is also alleging that conyers harassed and verbally abused her. An attorney for congressman conyers saying he has no plans to resign. Also tonight two new women are telling th the Huffington Post that senator al franken inappropriately touched them in separate incidents. And, a new politico poll shows that 50 of voters think that senator franken should resign. This survey was conducted after radio host Leann Tweeden released this photo showing franken groping her during a 2006 uso tour. But before a second woman put out this image, where she is alleging that senator franken grabbed her behind. Now, despite all those allegations, against congressman conyers and senator fran franken, democrats in the media are still defending them. When asked about the allegations against conyers, congressman James Clyburn told the New York Times, quote you cant jump to co
The truth from them. Well, cnn responded with this tweet. Its not cnns job to represent the u. S. To the world. Thats yours. Our job is to report the news, factsfirst. Heres some of what cnns reporters do here at home and around the world. And heres what it looks like. Less than a kilometer away firing at Iraqi Special forces. This is a constant day in and day out. Wait. They and we are caught in the open. A lot of our fighters minutes into our flight now sabena stops breathing. This young woman is going into cardiac arrest. It is aggressive, but ive just delivered a cariac thump, a quick strong hit to the chest. Whether it worked for sure i cant say but she came back. So for the president of the United States who less than a year ago swore to preserve, protect and defend the constitution including the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of the press, for the president to tweet what amounts to an assault on journalists who actually risk their lives to report the facts, its stunnin