jamie raskin: umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. umm, so, he didn t have anything in there about take some time off. (laughs) and, uh. crowd: usa! usa! usa! usa! jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we re unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and we ve got to keep fighting for it. crowd: trump! trump! trump! trump! trum
Is it in the Public Interest that they tell us . Many conservative mps want to know what another police are playing at. Any information they found was obtained using Police Powers. They found nothing illegal and yet evidence is now being put in the Public Domain. What were those former Police Officers doing . Well ask this former chief constable, and a senior tory mp. And, we have new pictures from besieged Eastern Ghouta just outside the syrian capital, damascus, where we find shocking evidence of widespread starvation including children. Is this the worst humanitarian catastrophe in what has proved a vicious civil war . Good evening. To he lied, and he lied, and he lied, and tonight he pleaded guilty to those lies, appearing before the court in washington. Michael flynn was president Trumps National security advisor who spent weeks protesting his innocence in dealings with russia. Today, he appears to have agreed to a deal with federal prosecutors which may yet lead them to the presi
The two big stories and more. With Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Two senators investigating, South Carolina republican Lindsey Graham and angus king will also be here. Budget director mick mulvaney. And handicapped the chances of the government sitting down at the end of the week when it runs out of funding. Plus, new poll numbers on Alabama Senate race. Now is roy moore faring after allegations of Sexual Misconduct with minors. All that plus plenty of political analysis coming up on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. We knew it would be busy week when congress returned to washington but we had no idea just how busy. More stories of Sexual Misconduct on the part of the longest serving House Democrat john conyers now others prompted more calls for congress to do better job of policing its own. North korea fired another missile, one that in theory could reach washington. It is a situation that we will handle. Dickerson progress on tax b
Alabama. Well also talk to Oklahoma Republican senator james lankford, a member of the Intelligence Committee which is conducting one of the investigation into possible Trump Campaign collusion with the russians. Well also have plenty of analysis on all the news of the week and look ahead to next. Plus how the tax bill might impact you, its all ahead on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. Republican tax plan is in the home stretch. The final package will be voted on tuesday in the house then moves to the senate. At this point it looks like republicans have enough votes to pass it. One s. 5 trillion tax cut plan roughly doubles the standard deduction for both individuals and married couples. It cuts individual tax rates, the top income bracket drops from 9. 6 to 37 . The Corporate Tax rate decreases, too, it goes from 35 to 21 . Obamacare ban mate with individuals no longer required to Purchase Health care. It could result in 1 million more peopl
Well also talk to Oklahoma Republican senator james lankford, a member of the Intelligence Committee which is conducting one of the investigation into possible Trump Campaign collusion with the russians. Well also have plenty of analysis on all the news of the week and look ahead to next. Plus how the tax bill might impact you, its all ahead on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. Republican tax plan is in the home stretch. The final package will be voted on tuesday in the house then moves to the senate. At this point it looks like republicans have enough votes to pass it. One s. 5 trillion tax cut plan roughly doubles the standard deduction for both individuals and married couples. It cuts individual tax rates, the top income bracket drops from 9. 6 to 37 . The Corporate Tax rate decreases, too, it goes from 35 to 21 . The bill eliminates the obamacare ban mate with individuals no longer required to Purchase Health care. It could result in 1 mil