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and tonight, meryl streep defending herself against any notion she could have done more when it came to harvey weinstein. what she s now saying. good evening as we come on the air here in the west. and we begin with the breaking headline involving your money youshgs taxes. president trump one step closer to his first major legislative victory since being elected. but tonight, a last-minute holdup. the house voting today to approve the republican tax cuts by a strict party line vote, but late today, word coming in they will have to vote all over again. so, why the temporary halt? and look at the new poll numbers coming in tonight. when americans were asked, who will benefit most from this tax bill, four separate polls showing more than 60% of americans say it will be the wealthy who benefit most. so, tonight here, will the president still sign this into law before christmas? and who wins, who loses? and will there be any voting tonight? abc s mary bruce, leading us off
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caps mortgage interest rate deductions at $750,000. and caps the state and local tax deductions at $10,000. now, on the tax brackets that we ve been talking so much about, this actually, this proposal, this bill that they are voting on keeps 7 personal incomes tax brackets. lowest stays there with 10%. but lowers top individual rate. down from 39.6% to now 37%. so a lot of details with massive massive tax overhaul. but again at the end of the day today, republicans looking for a win. sunlen, thank you so much. we ll ta in close contact with you and keep your eyes on the screen here on the house floor as the vote is set to get under way. and after the fact a massive victory lap over at the white house. before we get there, i have with at all. and so that s going to be really interesting to watch next year. you know, especially in those districts where you have vulnerable republicans and the hillary clinton won in 2016. maybe this is the message to help some of those republi ....
thanks to our powerful trade policies, the trade deficit is falling and falling. american steel mills are back open for business. we are starting to set new records, and nobody believes it could happen this quickly. democrats want to raise your taxes. they want to destroy your jobs. they want to crush our industries with crippling regulations. and you know the stock market is up almost 40% since that great november day. and america now is winning again like they haven t won before. bill: it went on like for over an hour. the headline. u.s. workers get the biggest pay raise in 10 years. wage growth that has been stagnant for americans. absolutely. gdp numbers last quarter were very good. around expectations a little over 4%. more than sustainable growth. something you can hang your hat on. again, economists, moody s say if the trade policies were fully implemented you could shave up to 3/10 of a point off the gdp. it s trillions of dollars of lost economic activity. bill: ....
trump is allegedly back at the white house. we should mention, this happens under presidents of both parties. usually a motorcade snafu. they were eventually gathered up. and we show you what we keep out back here, the rockefeller center tree is up and lit. a 75-footer from the new york suburbs. it certainly changes the view from here at this time every year, at least for a while. and that is our broadcast tonight. thank you so much for being here with us. and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. and thanks for joining us this hour. in the summer of 1974, the special counsel who was investigating the watergate scandal wrote a letter to congress, to the judiciary committee in congress detailing what his investigation, what his prosecutors and investigators had turned up about criminal behavior by the president at the time, president richard nixon. now, by this point, by the summer of 1974, the president s campaign chairman, who would also have been his atto ....
our senior correspondent much of this is going to take us there for a taste. but 1st it s the symbol of a country that no longer exists and a city that was once divided 50 years ago communist east germany completed construction on the berlin t.v. tower just in time to mark the now defunct country s 20th anniversary the imposing structure was meant to show the world what east germany was capable of and the tower still dominates berlin skyline today attracting a 1000000 visitors a year. with the heights of $368.00 metre states but lynne s most visible that. since he doesn t deny 969 the t.v. tower has attracted 60000000 visitors from all over the world. a bit scary if you didn t expect it to be quite so high when we looked for places to go in believing we did the 1st thing we saw. the big deal and for the night every modern man is actually in the new one the. 2 elevators transport gets to the top in just 40 seconds and the lift that takes visitors to the viewing platform at a he ....