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strategy. president trump unveiling his america first strategy, which for the first time equal importance and economics security and national security. for the first time, american strategy recognizes that economic security is national security. economic vitality growth and prosperity at home is absolutely necessary for american power and influence abroad. any nation that trades away its prosperity for security will end up losing both. charles: here to discuss what it means for america s future. rebecca, hudson institute senior fellow and gina, a member of the donald j. trump for president advisory board. let me start with you, rebecca. this is not your traditional national security speech or approach. president trump s talking about border walls, chain migration, and other things. but i think the economy and prosperity have always been linked to national security. absolutely. they re completely linked. so the trump national security strategy properly expresses that ....
thank you so much for coming out. take a seat. thank you so much for coming out. welcome, everybody. i m trevor noah, and this is the daily show s year-end special, the yearly show. welcome to it. this is a little something we decided to put together to wrap up the year. the year is not over, but we re all gonna die, so we figured why not just do this? it was a crazy year, 2017 sexual harassment, russians, russians sexually harassing the election, something like that. now the republicans, they got to work hard. they got to get rid of obamacare. all right? because they named it obamacare. that s probably the most fun thing about american politics for me is that half of it is branding. that s all it is. the republicans can t fix obamacare because they named it obamacare because, if they fix it, then obamacare works, and they can t have obamacare work, but it s not really obamacare. it s the affordable care act, but they named it obamacare because they knew when they ....
one of the provisions seen to be in violation of the senate rules. one is the title of the bill. other is to use the college savings plan for home schooling, and the criteria of whether endowments for universities are subject to the excise tax. the house speaker nancy pelosi putting a statement out saying the house revote is the latest evidence of how shot how shoddily written the gop tax scam really is. the public is going to catch on. they will see this as a con job and it will catch on it will give the middle class the shaft. accusing the republicans of hating the poor and loving the rich has nothing to do with reality. but they are getting more desperate and vicious in their attacks. reporter: all that being said, this bill will likely pass in the senate this evening. with arizona senator john mccain home in arizona and the republicans would have their tax bill passed. then because of those rules violations, tomorrow morning it would likely be passed again, th ....
teach them acceptance for everybody. this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. glor: good evening. president trump got what he wanted most for christmas. congress today approved a $1.5 trillion package of tax cuts, part of the biggest overhaul of the tack code in 31 years. it also cuts out major part of obamacare, ending the requirement that most americans buy health insurance or pay a fine. this is the president s biggest legislative victory, achieved without a democratic vote, an he called republicans to the white house to celebrate. major garrett was there. this will indeed be a very big day when people look back at our country. reporter: president trump and fellow republicans celebrated on the south lawn an promised the tax cuts will unleash economic growth. it means jobs. jobs, jobs, jobs. reporter: the president showered praise on g.o.p. leaders mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. it s always a lot of fun when you win. if you work hard and lose, that s not a ....
speak to your children and teach them acceptance for everybody. this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. leaders mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. it s always a lot of fun when you win. if you work hard and lose, that s not acceptable. reporter: the president will sign the bill in the coming days. it reduces the concern rat tax rate from 35% to 21%, doubles the current standard deduction for individuals and families, and doubles the child tax credit. taxpayers will see the effects in february s paycheck. congressional republicans who met the president s christmas deadline for passage served up fawning praise for mr. trump. but for your leadership, we would not be here today. you re living up to everything i thought you would. reporter: something this profound could not have been done without exquisite presidential leadership. reporter: no democrat voted for the bill. party leaders chuck schumer and nancy pelosi said republican promises went unfulfilled. the ....