paid money on. that s tonight on news night. good evening. i m abby phillip in washington. breaking don t, indicted again. the president s justice department charges the president s son with tax crimes. david wise accuses hunter biden of cheating the government out of $1.4 million that he owed. the justice department says that the president s son faces a maximum of 17 years in prison on nine felony counts. three counts tax evasion, assessment, three counts failure to file and pay taxes, and three counts filing a fraudulent tax return. now, minutes ago hunter biden s attorney responded to the special counsel s charges saying if hunter s last name was anything other than biden, the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. let s get over to evan perez. you broke the story that this was coming down the pipe. walk us through what that lengthy indictment says about where all of this money went. well, what the prosecutors do over these the course of 56
Forthe trump stump, today President Trump confirmed he was totally serious. The secretary of homeland security, working with myself and my staff, will begin immediate construction of a border wall. Applause the United States of america gets back control of its borders, gets back its borders. Can we go ahead . But, as previous president s have found, it is one thing to sign and seal and another to deliver. On his second full day in office, president obama ordered the closing of guantanamo bay. But it stubbornly outlasted even his second term in office. His plans were locked up by an uncooperative congress. So might Donald Trumps wall meet similar obstacles . Its obstacle is literary, build a wall. There are a lot of nuts and bolts in the process. First of all, the money has to be appropriated, it has to go to congress, and there is the question of what the physical wall looks like. If some of it fencing, and is some of it a virtual wall . Today was basically a message that they are seri
democrats to use, obviously. chuck schumer already started using it today. and it seems to me the last thing republicans want to do in tax reform is redo obamacare at this point, repeal and replace. i think that s a fight they had. i m not quite sure they want to have it again. right and especially if you don t have had the replace component to go with the repeal. they weren t able to agree on some sort of viable replacement. and they would really be taking away a potential win for themselves. tax reform framed as tax cuts is something that could be a big political winner. coupling that with repeal and replace could be risky. but you started seeing this when the president started tweeting it from asia. but everybody standby. the color of the day is purple. there s no breaking news we re following. roy moore is firing back at
talking about, how are you feeling doing this? but then i thought he recused himself from anything involving hillary clinton. that s a very interesting question. he sort of affirmed that today. but i think that s why he made the point that the justice department itself is going through the proper process to figure out whether or not whatever the president thinks that hillary clinton and the obama administration did warrants a special prosecutor. remember and he mentioned this today, a special prosecutor is actually rare. you had one now and during the clinton administration, janet reno s term. in recent history that s it. everybody standby. there s more we need to discuss. republicans take a new stab at rolling back obamacare by linking to their must pass tax bill. can they achieve two top priorities at once or will it all end up in another very embarrassing defeat?
sticking point. so how mcconnell decides to bring the two sides of this broken divided conference together is the big question to watch here. shepard: so the medicaid mess one of five. the battle over subsidies in obamacare is your second point. yes. here s something that is really important to conservatives that want to dismantle obamacare. this is something that they have talked about for seven years. the question is how do you do that, how do you address that when it s sort of a complicated issue in talking about dismantling obamacare to talk about. but when you talk about the subsidies, it gets more sticky. different senators from different stays have different views on these things. the medicaid mess is number 1. the battle over subsidies is number 2. and number 3, rolling back obamacare regulations. this is another big sticking point where conservatives and republicans have been campaigning, this is something that donald trump ran on.