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I was listening to alisyns interview with the congressman. people should understand this. nine out of 10 americans will no longer have to itemize their deductions because of the doubling of the standard deduction. in other words, from now on, 90% of americans will just check a box and they will get the 24,000 up front and wont have to worry about charitable deductions and state and local deductions and the others. the only people who are affected are really, really rich people. i shouldnt say th...

Couldnt imagine seeing temperatures like this outside. theres little snow in the western ski slopes. bill, i dont know how you didnt get l.a., because you are getting the short end of the stick with key west. >> i dont know if you know this, alisyn, i changed your ring tone, while you are freezing here, i will call you evergreen minutes. >> thank you for your selflessness. so many horrible moments in the political world, and we take a look back.

When we rewrote this bill. >> congressman rodney davis, thank you very much for talking with us about all of these issues this morning. happy new year. >> thanks for having me, alisyn. >> bill? >> alisyn, president trump claims he knows more about the new tax plan than the greatest cpas. is that true? one of the campaign advisers who helped write the tax bill says so and will join us next. (avo) help control cravings and lose weight with contrave. its fda-approved to help adults who are overweig...

Professional. yes therbgs ha yes, they have political opinions. the question is do those opinions prevent them from doing their jobs? i think they can do their jobs fairly. that said, if we discover bias we should deal with it. i think a lot of my colleagues ought to take a deep breath and let director mueller and his team into his work. the president said repeatedly theres no collusion, so let us find out. >> thank you for your perspective this morning. >> thank you, alisyn. great to be with yo...

An apple store, and my phone was slow, and not once did anybody suggest that i get a new battery. no, no, no, they suggested a buy a new phone, alisyn. >> i think my battery has been losing life. it only works half as long as it used to. are they doing that, too. >> well, you can get a new battery now, its cheaper. >> yeah, 29 bucks. >> and thank you, alisyn. parts of puerto rico still in the dark. 100 days after hurricane maria, and normal is a long way away for so many folks. we will take yo...

That. >> so what is the president doing to make sure the meddling of russia doesnt happen again? >> well, i think its not just the president that is concerned about this. all of us are, alisyn. as a matter of fact, i think the president is doing exactly what he said he was going to do, let the investigations play out. let the professionals at the department of justice with the special counsel also let the professionals of the house and the senate intelligence committees that are investigating th...

Had any role in this fire. you bill, alisyn. >> please bring us that update as soon as you get it. joining us to talk about this tragedy and more is new york city mayor bill de blasio. i know you were there last night. this is the worst fire tragedy in 25 years in new york city. 12 people dead. so what happened? what went wrong here? >> well, alisyn, we need to know that. our fire department is looking into that right now. we hope to have more information during the course of the day. we have lo...

>> macon county where im at right now, christian county where i live, we dont itemize to begin with. >> what about the 25% that do and are rushing to the treasurers office? >> well, i think theres a little disarray and misunderstanding of what this tax bill is going to do. because when you look at the overall statistics in my district, alisyn, less than 10% of my constituents actually have a tax bill that has a salt deduction and a property tax bill of every $10,000. this isnt new york city, ali...

Vulnerable? he doesnt like those things? >> you have to extrapolate, alisyn, because he doesnt explain. >> thats right. if you sub in "me" for "the country" you get more to what hes going for. just a very quick fact check for roughly the billionth time. the reason there is a special counsel investigation into russias attempted interference in the election, possible collusion is not because of the democrats or the dossier that hillary clinton and the democratic national committee paid for by chri...

Call for a purge at the fbi and justice department and he says now that word is a little strong, however he believes theres a problem. >> as an american citizen i am nervous and discontent those people would have those kinds of lack of impartiality. >> a lawyer under george w. bush slammed the congressman for saying this on cnn. listen. >> we dont have purges in the united states of america, and thats soviet germany, and thats not the rhetoric we use in the united states of american and that man...