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lewis was all talk and no action, news came out that he plans to spend martin luther king day tomorrow visiting the new smithsonian museum focused on african-american history and culture. john lewis is the one who introduced the bill to get that museum built in 1988. eugene, you touch on this. i want to push forward on it as well. facts do matter. trump called lewis district crime i hridden which does incl major part of the city of atlanta. no one is defining there is crime in the city. to try to define an entire city in 140 characters of less is a massive overgeneralization. what will happen when he is in office saying these type of things? well, if he continues this, he can expect to be criticized increasingly but more than that, people really would like to see what his solutions to the problems he arises are. he had a meeting with talk show host, steve harvey, and his hud secretary nominee friday saying they would focus on some of the challenges in inner cities such as ....
the speech is expected to last about 35 minutes, after which, we ll talk with our panel and bring you highlights from his remarks, but we obviously will bring president obama in full, we expect him to come out in the next minute or so. this is something george washington we were talking about was the first president, obviously who chose to give a farewell address. right, when he did it, he did it because there was no such thing as a two-term president. he could have been president for years and years and years, and he wanted to make clear to america that we didn t have a king anymore. sounds like we could be seeing the president? oh, maybe not. [ applause ] certainly sounded like the music coming out, but that was the purpose of that is to say, look, we are a democracy, we are not a monarchy. so that s where the tradition started. let s listen in. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 44th president of the united states, barack obama. [cheers and applause] [cheers ....
we ll break it down and president obama s spirited farewell speech included a forceful defense of his record, an emotional thank you to the first family. it falls to each of those to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy, to embrace the joyous task that we ve been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. i will be right there with you as a citizen all my remaining days. tonight, as i m sure you heard, there s a stunning report that s surfaced regarding what donald trump was told last week in his briefing of russia s roll in the u.s. election. the materials prepared for trump s briefing last friday included information that made damaging allegations about trump s deelgts with the russians. the officials say that the material initially circulated among opponents of donald trump and was passed to u.s. intelligence agency. the information has not been verified and the sources would not comment on the nature of the allegations. neither of th ....
both mccain and james khomeini, though he was given the green light to share it on tv. i have talked to the highest level of intelligence officials, and they have assured me that the new york times story about constant contacts is grossly overstated and inaccurate. the president went off on the fbi for yet another leak, tweeting, the fbi is totally unable to stop the national security leakers that have permeated our government for a long time. they can t even find the leakers within the fbi itself. classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on u.s. find now. in between fighting political fires, the president got some business done, signing another executive order on regulatory reform. this one directs agencies to establish task forces to identify and rescind regulations the president claims are stifling economic growth. donald trump. we are not afraid of the opposition because we are going to unify, come together, and kick som ....
and tonight, meryl streep defending herself against any notion she could have done more when it came to harvey weinstein. what she s now saying. good evening as we come on the air here in the west. and we begin with the breaking headline involving your money youshgs taxes. president trump one step closer to his first major legislative victory since being elected. but tonight, a last-minute holdup. the house voting today to approve the republican tax cuts by a strict party line vote, but late today, word coming in they will have to vote all over again. so, why the temporary halt? and look at the new poll numbers coming in tonight. when americans were asked, who will benefit most from this tax bill, four separate polls showing more than 60% of americans say it will be the wealthy who benefit most. so, tonight here, will the president still sign this into law before christmas? and who wins, who loses? and will there be any voting tonight? abc s mary bruce, leading us off
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