Intelligence and heads of the cia, fbi and National Security agency will brief the President Elect on alleged russian meddling in the president ial election, certainly he has called repeatedly challenged. He said, well, maybe its not the case, maybe even sided with Julian Assange tweeting even last night questioning the validity of the information hes about to receive. Well, we have it all covered for you from every angle. Kristen welker, what do we expect will go down here . Reporter the backdrop to this briefing is very tense, thats for sure. You have the President Elect just last night again questioning the Intelligence Community. He was infuriated after details leaked out about the report and actually whats in the report and intelligence officials telling us that some of the details in the report include intercepts which prove that top russian officials were celebrating President Elect trumps win. We were also learning theyve identified some of the gobetweens who delivered some
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school and do the right thing when no one s watching. many beating daunting odds. next, we launched better make room. it a social media campaign to give young people the support and inspiration they need to actually complete higher education, and to really drive that message home, you may recall that i debuted my music career rapping with jay about getting some knowledge by going to college. [ cheers and applause ] we are also very proud of all that this administration has done to make higher education more affordable. we doubled investments in pell grants and college tax credits. we expanded income-based loan repayment options for tens of millions of students. we made it easier to apply for financial aid. we created a college scorecard
welker. she s monitoring the exchanges. what have we learned, kristen? reporter: good afternoon. most exchanges have to do with questions concerning increasing taxes on wealthier americans as well as cuts to sbimgentitlemen. one exchange caught our attention. this is from mandy. as a recent college grad bout wout a full time job these cuts wouldn t help me, would they? the president responds kitts without revenue equal reductions in student loans, work study and college tax credits expire. bad for growth. the president says like your hair. she has purple hair, tamron. a lot of questions pouring in. as you know when you look at the polls about 60% of americans agree with president obama s plan to increase taxes on those making $250,000 or more. if you look at questions coming in, there s still concerns about those ideas, so the president answering those this afternoon.
solve the major issues in this country. so they created a fiscal nuclear bomb. they literally stuffed everything that was important to us, the citizens, important to them things like funding for college, things like education, things like social security they stuffed it into a big nuclear bomb and said it s going on blow up on december 31, unless we do something, this is where we are today, being forced to address the issue. i am thinking about when we were in elementary school and they would make us protect ourselves, if it happened. but for families, that s exactly what could happen, so many have been affected by storms and other things. first, let s start with the tax credits. the college tax credits. could those go away? they are scheduled to expire december 31. unless congress comes back and the president signs it, to deal with the pel gants, work study, we could see some very significant cuts in this area,
it with your kids you can give them something, you get something this is not some new here to rum. i don t know why it is that the democrats are so pissed off about this. their assertion, i won t speak on their behalf, my understanding of their assertion and rebuttal to what they are saying is yeah, it is a deal but a deal we didn t have to make st. a deal where we could have gotten everything that jimmy williams just listed from unemployments to middle class tax cuts to college tax credits with without having to give the tax breaks to the wealthiest americans and without having to do it without a debt ceiling limit vote of some kind. some sort of referendum on. i m not saying this should or shouldn t have happened. this deal was done prematurely, a better deal could have been done and that this deal was done basically poorly.