The senate says kushner withheld emails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. And House Republicans pass the trump tax plan. I dont benefit. New Analysis Finds that the plan saves trumps family over 1 billion. I pay as little as possible. I fight like hell to pay as little as possible. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The same president who has weighed in on everything from Meryl Streeps acting to Social Media Policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his partys nominee for u. S. Senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. Reporte reporters today his Press Secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the
white house refusing to take a stand on roy moore is the same white house that claims that every single one of those women, every single one of the president s accusers, is lying. Obviously, Sexual Harassment has been in the news, at
they are very aware of the fact that the donor class i m talking about, you know, the mercers and the rickettes and the koch brothers and all of the people who have invested so much in the gop. what they want is, they look at this as any other kind of development. they want to return on that investment, and the return on the investment was going to be a huge tax cut. the stock market has been going up in anticipation of a corporate tax cut. it has nothing to do with the real economy. it has nothing to do with what s happening to average people. it s just a big pay back for the major donors. this return on investment concept is useful when you talk about major donors. these are the gop heirs. and donors that stand to gain from this. my favorite is sheldon miriam adelson, contributed $82.5 million in 2016 alone to republicans. that s a lot of money. but they re looking at an estate tax cut of almost $15 billion. that is an incredible turn on investment, and it goes on and on and on
items. ready with cash in hand. the national retail federation says holiday sales this year are expected to top $650 billion. a 3.6% increase from 2015. and on cybermonday, at least 36% of consumers plan to nab their deals online. and speaking of online, that is many door busters have sold out but that s not stopping the crowds from forming already. carol? all right, alison kosik, enjoy shopping at target. thanks so much. all right, on to politics. donald trump s outreach to former critics could extend into his new commerce department. sources say the president-elect is likely to pick todd rickets to be deputy secretary of the commerce department. if that name sounds familiar it s because rickettes is the co-owner of the chicago cubs. he was a supporter of governor scott walker during the primary actually his mega donor family
orchard. not exactly sure what we re about to see, but supposedly it s an impressive sight they re taking us to. with electricity scarce, there is no lights in the tunnels except for our car s headlights. it s pitch-black nlinside. we re overlooking all the fruit trees. it s row after row after row. obviously it s snowy out there, but you can t see any fruit. once the time is right, you ll see a lot of apples and other fruit growing right behind me. the visit is well choreographed. our guides take us to a little cottage where we meet an elderly woman and her grandson. inside a picture of the great and dear leaders, who we re told had visited this farm. unlike so many homes in north korea, this one has electricity. at the most people have these brickettes made out of coal they can bring to their homes and put