count act. the first official legislative response to donald trump s attempt to overturn the legal and legitimate win. reporter: this is the law that governs how that happens on the day of congressional certification when donald trump tried to pressure mike pence to disregard state certified electoral results. something that constitutional experts would be illegal but there s am big ewety in the law and senators are saying they re close to change how the law actually governs that process on that day. one of the issues they agreed on is to make it crystal clear the vice president s role is ceremonial. he cannot disregard the state s election results but there are other issues in discussion, including making it harder to make it senators and house members to object and force votes how to disregard the results come out, all of which there s fresh optimism after the discussions that s have gone on for months that the deal could happen and announced in the senate next week. ther
get inflation under control. treasurer secretary yellen says bringing prices down is top priority for this administration but the plan forward to ease the economic pain is not clear. rich. good evening. good evening bill. more government data showing the same worrying trend higher prices throughout the economy at levels not seen in four decades. today s labor department report is blamed on one sector of the economy as democrats and republicans assign their own blame. for second straight day labor department report shows significant inflation throughout the economy, the producer price index measures the cost of goods and services at wholesale level before they reach consumers many those prices were 11.3 percent higher in june, the fastest increase since 1981. we are taking our own steps that we believe will be responsive in the short term to get inflation down. the labor department says nearly 90 percent of its annual increase is from inflation and oil, gas, showing infl
announcer: election 1976, a case study. your host is political analyst richard scanlon. richard: with me here in washington today, mr. stephen hess of the brookings institution and professor howard penniman of georgetown university. this is the first of a series of programs that are going to extend over the full period of the campaign until beyond the election in november in our bicentennial political year. what we want to do is to bring a picture of the american electoral process. we will have special programs dealing with parties and the media, campaign technique and polling and the rest. what we are really aiming to do is to give you a picture of the way in which we select our american president. and how 215 million or 220 million americans can provide every four years a process by which leadership can be developed and transferred over these 200 years of american history. what we hope to do is to bring you discussions of these various aspects of the electoral campaign an
Very passionate debate regarding this bill. Democrats were reunited in opposing the bill. What is happening tonight is the worst of the United States senate. There is a trail of broken promises. Broken promises to working families in a mad dash to pass this bill. This vote will not be forgotten. Reporter under pressure to pass a bill before the end of the year Senate Republicans made a flurry of lastminute changes. Keeping the alternative minimum tax to provide more revenue offset the deficit. Allowing property Tax Deductions up to 10,000. And keeping the medical expense deduction for the next two years. One republican holdout bob corker said he would not support a bill that would add an estimated 1 trillion to the national debt. They know i have fiscal concerns. Im probably a dinosaur. Reporter both the house and senate bill versions of the Corporate Tax rate to 20 . Ring of the u. S. In line with many countries. The u. S. Is behind. Many Corporate Tax rates have come into the low 20s
About whether President Trump was correct about his claim that trump tower was wiretapped by the obama administration. First the New York Times breaking fresh details about Robert Muellers raid of Paul Manaforts home in july. They picked the lock to Paul Manaforts door as he was sleeping. The times also reporting that manafort in his legal team were likely to be indicted. Not necessarily shocking to the trump legal team. People close to the president have told me theyve been expecting potential charges between manafort and retired general mike flynn who announced the creation of a Legal Defense fund. A source close to the president says we should pay close attention to the second link to cnn claiming manafort was wiretapped based on secret court orders before and after the 2016 elections. We should note dating as far back as 2014 before the campaign. This source tells me the second wiretapped came after the fbi released some of the details on the russian dossier of then president elect