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Freedom of religion. you can go in one square kilometer, theres more mosques, synagogues and churches than anywhere in the world. well maintain that status quo and freedom of religion unlike other plays in the middle east. this is imperative for the city of jerusalem to continue maintaining that status quo and were proud of that. >> neil: finally, mayor, turkey not satisfied with this. i wouldnt say normalized relations, but looked into relations with israel. now they want to look into stopping ...

Night on friday night. we have all seen the sausage made before. it is not pretty when you are up against a self imposed deadline. >> any bill like this, the longer it hands out there, the more people throw arrows at it and the more unpopular it is. imperative for the leadership is they had the votes and they were going to jam it through and get it passed to no end. they started to delay the vote until monday. they failed in that regard. this is not a partisan thing. democrats did the same thing...

Bob mueller is not shutting down anytime soon. >> absolutely not. and julie is right that this is part of what this does is sort of give some concrete information and proof behind the idea that this was not a free lansice lancing effort by michael flynn, but in fact, a campaign-wide to make these overtures to russia or improve relations with russia and to talk specifically about sanctions. what those k.t. mcfarland e-mails do show there wasnt just a policy imperative behind that, but a political...

Standard deductions, temporarily, though. families get twice the child tax credit they now get. access for state and local income tax deduction. health care, it acts as the individual mandate and expands the medicaid deduction. so now they try to figure this out in the short-term. the republicans are betting getting a signature item done. this is the one thing that was on everybodys list for the republican party in 2017 theyll do. obamacare repeal is not going to happen. presidents promised infr...

Entities, these smaller businesses and partnerships. this is all huge for republicans and they really, really want this to happen. the problem, i think, that we saw this week, the only problem is that in getting it to the finish line in the senate, they pretty much negated the possibility that they were going to be able to get this back through the house without a conference, which was a hope among some white house officials, that they could sort of pre-bake a lot of these deals they would have ...

Concerns. zble >> especially in the house, since the deficit is such a huge concern. some of these guys got elected on the idea of deficit and government overspending. but theyre all up for election next year and theyre facing the prospect of having to face voters, youve got the white house, the senate and the house and you couldnt get anything done? that for house members is actually, i think, worse than perhaps putting a i side some of their concerns about deficit spending and just voting for ...

Finish line in the senate. they still have a ways to go. most people seem to think theyre going to take the political imperative, that we better do something this year, and get it done. but, lets start with the senate getting to the finish line. what was the most critical thing? >> well, they made a series of compromises at the end to placate holdouts. . you got jeff flake and jim langford with some various measures to contain some of the gimmicks in there, specifically as it relates to small bu...

Its incredible this is still going on. whats happening? >> reporter: only a matter of time, thats what one gop senator told me, that theyre going to get this done. but don, this has been a remarkable day. this morning, republicans knew they had the votes to move this forward. about an hour and a half ago, they actually had a final bill. the idea that they are about to pass something that literally will affect every single individual, every single industry, every single company, and just a few ho...

Organization greenpeace has stepped in to support the scientists financially and logistically and to teach the villagers more about why environmental protection is vital a government official explains the difficulties the country is facing. we would have to provide aid to the people here so they dont take resources from the forest but such projects cost money money the government doesnt have. thats why we need the financial support of the international community. the activists say its imperative...

>> thank you all. weve got another huge breaking news story. the senate expected to vote on the massive gop tax bill. phil mattingly has more. good evening to you, phil. its incredible this is still going on. whats happening? >> reporter: only a matter of time, thats what one gop senator told me, that theyre going to get this done. but don, this has been a remarkable day. this morning, republicans knew they had the votes to move this forward. about an hour and a half ago, they actually had a fin...