Later on in the program, author and journalist god an chang joins me and ill ask him about President Trumps successful trip to asia and decision to designate north korea a state sponsor or terrorism we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. And the gop tax bill which would lower the rates across the middle class is now in the hands of the u. S. Senate. After the break they will come back this upcoming week and decide the fate is far from certain though as a few key republican senators have already come out against this bill. Others say they are leaning against it. So, can the gop get everybody on board and be a successful tax plan and change the code . Joining us right now the man behind the tax overhaul, texas republican congressman kevin brady hes chairman of the house ways and means committee. Mr. Chairman good to see you again happy thanksgiving. Thank you, hope you had a great thanksgiving. Maria listen, we want to talk about this tax bill we know in the upcoming week the
Forch President Trump. Also, tonight, well get my take on the alabama special election. He wont hear this anywhere else my media. By the way, Anderson Cooper is ate his homework. First, tonights breaking news opening monologue. The fallout continues over new examples of political bias, one after another, coming from the department of justice, the fbi, and from Robert Muellers merry band of democratic donors. Fox news has obtained some of the Text Messages between that fbi agent, you know the one that is involved in everything, peter strzok, and the fbi lawyerag girlfriend, lisa page. They are full of all kinds of examples of trump bashing. We are going to show you the actual messages in detail in a minute. Bute first, as you can imagine, the mass of conflicts of interests, the political prejudice now being exposed in americas Justice System has republican lawmakers finally waking up and demanding answers. G. O. P. Congressman, they wasted little time today in questioning the Deputy Att
One that is insulting to native americans. You were here long before any of us were here although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her pocahontas. That remark met with stunned silence from everyone in the room. Because everyone in that room knew it was a racist slur directed at senator Elizabeth Warren. How they know that, its an insult the president loves slamming her with. Starting during the campaign. Pocahontas. Thats Elizabeth Warren. I call her pocahontas, and thats an insult to pocahontas. And massachusetts is represented by pocahontas, right . It may be pocahontas, remember that. What an insult to pocahontas, wasnt it . I was being hit by pocahontas, and pocahontas is not happy. Elizabeth warren is one of the worst senators. Who, pocahontas . Native american groups have long condemned the president s use of the term, saying, the name of pocahontas should not be used as a slur. And it is inappropriate for anyone to use her nam
Firing even as ambulances arrived to try to respect the injured. President trump tweeted and said in part, horrible and cowardly attack on innocent and defenseless worshippers. The world cannot tolerate terrorism. Patrick marky joins us over the phone and said he is the roadwayers bureau chief in cairo. What more do we know about the attack . So far we have 235 people kill and 109 wounded. This is the deadliest attack in their history. They told us that four groups surrounded the mosques and enough people came out and opened fire and set fire to cars and blocked the road. There was a lot of chaos. And thats the remote area. This is a shift also to tell the mosque is there anything distinctive about this area or has there been turmoil or anything that would have precipitated Something Like this . This is in the area with one of the few areas that still has a foothold after the fall of so many cities in iraq and syria. They continued with the armed forces and continued to attack and trie
Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin next. And senate upset. Democrats get a big win in deep red alabama. I am truly overwhelmed. Could be this the start of a democratic wave . And what does it say about the president s base . Alabamas new senator, democrat doug jones, joins me in moments. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is on edge to see hough the president is going to go. This morning lawyers representing President Trumps Transition Team are accusing the special counsel of obtaining unauthorized access to tens of thousands of president ial transition emails. In a new letter to congress, the lawyer claims it taints the administration and the president is considering firing bob mueller. In a rare response they said, when we have obtained emails in our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owners consent or appropriate criminal process, end quote. The special counsel is set to meet with the administration. Here with me to discuss