Democrats suffer a big blow. Republicans are celebrating after winning a critical election in georgia. Its a huge boost to President Trump. Saudi arabia shakes up President Trump. Saudi arabia shakes up succession plan. How did this hope goes so wrong . Marco rubio jokes he is launching an investigation after this hug with a banker trump missed the mark. Ivanka. Im Christian Fraser here in westminster and kathie kay is with us westminster and kathie kay is with us In Washington. Rarely could the queen have delivered such a speech so queen have delivered such a speech so thin and detail and it is supposed to steer the course of parliament for the next two years. It seems that many of the governments Manifesto Promises have disappeared along with its parliamentary majority. There was no controversial mention of the demnetia tax or the scrapping of school lunches. There was also no mention of Donald Trumps proposed state visit this year although the Home Secretary has confirmed it will go
he said this. to mobilize the country around providing a benefit, specific to an african-american as a consequence of slavery and jim crow. it ll be interesting to see how he responds now, the growing debate and conversation on capitol hill, final thoughts from you? bottom line, our nation has made so many leaps forward we should keep our focus on what actually creates progress. what we know without question, strong powerful education system and access to the greatest economy the world has ever known. if we can put those two together, we did that and 2017 under our tax reform bills, there are number of ways i would love for us to dive deep on why america is better today. sandra: tim scott we appreciate your time, thank you. here now the former arkansas
the heart of the american people is in the right place to change d.c. and i think no room for him in the party to make those kind of comments so yeah. probably lessons learned and i expect 2018 to be a productive year for republicans, especially after we passed one of the largest tax reform bills in our nation s history. i wouldn t mind taking up knitting, as well. eric, edward and zeke, thank you all for joining us. still ahead, the president said he signed more legislation in the first year than any predecessor since truman. we ll check the facts on that claim. plus, with new tax reform signed, thousands of homeowners are lining up to prepay property taxes but now the irs is adding to the confusion over whether you can benefit from paying early. whoooo.
member jeffries made a little earlier, that we just have not seen from the president certainly from republicans who are trying to bring their own party together. the willingness, desire, to bring democrats to the table. i would point to the fact that even in this tax reform bill, one of the most important tax reform bills and biggest reforms of the last 30 years, there were no hearings on this issue. there s an issue in terms of whether or not the republicans want to clue the general public into their plans for how they want to spend taxpayer dollars. so it s concerning to me that there s all this talk about the bipartisanship. democrats have indicated they want to be at the table, don t see that willingness coming from republicans. while the tax bill, you know, mission accomplished, check mark on that one, there s still outstanding issues that lawmakers will need to be facing. let s take a look what senator lindsey graham sees on the
better hurry in, it ends soon. dana: not an easy end of the year in congress. never is. a dog fight over a new spending bill could come to a head just after christmas as republican lawmakers try to pass tax reform by next week. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. what is the latest on the tax reform push? reporter: dana, good afternoon. differences between the house and senate tax reform bills are being hashed out in the conference committee. gop leaders are hoping for a fine agreement in the coming days. they re warning about attacks coming from democrats. i suspect over the next few days we ll continue to hear the scare tactics, the his tearical rhetoric from the defenders of the status quo. outlandish statements like, tax reform is armageddon, bad for women, and people will die. it s really getting ridiculous. it s misleading the american