On this mornings washington journal the duties of the office on which im about to enter, so help me god. At the white house last night, Amy Coney Barrett becomes a 115th justice to the Supreme Court and the fifth woman to the court in its 231 year history. This happened hours after the senate voted 5248 to confirm the 48yearold justice, President Trumps third nominee to the Supreme Court. Your reaction this morning, republicans democrats and us on twitter as well remember you can text us with your first name, city and state. Lets begin with Amy Coney Barrett at the white house yesterday. She delivered rare remarks for a justice just sworn into the high court, he or she is. The confirmation process has made ever clear to me one of the fundamental differences between the federal judiciary and the United States senate. Acute isps the most the role of policy preferences. Of a senator to pursue her policy preferences. In fact, it would be a dereliction of duty for her to put policy goals as
Drivers, the tax bill and the Federal Reserve. We begin tonight with that tax bill. A final draft does appear to be taking shape in a House Senate Conference committee. There are reports late tonight that an agreement has been reached on a few key issues. And ylan mui has the new details. Repor republicans closing in on the final version of the tax bill. Two sources briefed on the plan tell me that the corporate rate will be 21 . Its unclear right now when that would kick in, right away or not until 2019. But it is slightly higher than the 20 rate that was in previous versions of th bill. The top individual rate would fall to 37 . Thats lower than the senates original proposal for a 38. 5 top rate. The deduction for mortgage interest would apply to loans up to 750,000. This would only apply to new loans, existing mortgages would still be grandfathered in. Also the deduction for passthrough businesses would be at 20 . So not quite as generous as republicans had been hoping for. A white
Assembly, was another chance to set out her agenda and focus for he next few years. Unfortunately that message was lost as social medias attention turned to her choice of outfit of a pink dress costing a ortunately that message reported 3,000. The bbc also reported saying that others were working to focus on the contents of the speech itself and were equally unimpressed. That speech available courtesy of a reported our cspan video libra. But from yesterday. On this speech of hers concerning cyberbullying, heres melania trump. The first lady. A it remains our generations moral imperative to take stability for what our children learn. We must turn our focus right now to the message and content they exposed to on a daily basis through social media, the bullying experience of lying and in person. And the growing global epidemic of drug addiction and drug overdose. No children should ever feel ungry, frightened, terrorized, bullied, or afraid. With nowhere to return. We need to step up, com
Weve had 24 hours to chew over it, and now the battle really begins over the gop tax bill the draining swamp, uhuh. The swamp creatures are starting to move. The big Sticking Point could be a really tough sell for some republicans. The deduction of state and local taxes. President trumps twitter account deactivated by a departing employee, but twitter statements are now raising more questions than they have answered power lunch starts a little late but right now tyler, youre the braveheart of tv. Were getting those ten seconds back, baby are you with me . I am. Freedom im Brian Sullivan stocks are steady on this jobs day. The dow hit another record high earlier. The dow on track for an eighth straight week of gains, as tyler highlighted. Apple one of the big winners its big in the dow. Get this, investors have now made a 57 return on apple in just a year. Some of your big single stock stories today, starbucks rallying despite an outlook cut because Ceo Kevin Johnson telling us, cnbc, h
This morning that he got the call last night that part of his roof was gone, and water was seeping into a big part of the building. But they there was also some pretty extensive storm damage in jo daviess county, near menominee. Ill be checking that out this afternoon, and well have that for you tonight at five and six. Weve got you covered live here in dubuque, brad hanson. Kwwl news. No final word on the amount of damage done, but ferguson says its for sure in the tens of thousands of dollars range, and quite possibly up over one hundred thousand dollars worth of damage. More damage in dubuque from the storms trees landing on this house. We got this video from our coverage partners at th media. Luckily the couple who lives here wasnt home at the time. When they got home they were most concerned about their cats. Heres damage in cedar falls. The roof of a barn was partially wiped out in the storm and was replaced with hay bales to hold the structure in place. Damage could be seen all