Welcome to friday. Everybody exhale. Im bill hemmer inside americas newsroom. Sandra im sandra smith. The bombshells out of james comeys book two days ahead of an interview. We await a federal hearing on the search warrants on the f. B. I. Raiding the home and business of trumps personal attorney. What is the white house angle or spin on the latest comey book excerpts . What theyre basically saying is he is not under oath. He is out there trying to sell a book. Take what he has written with a grain of salt. That said, the president to be fair has been decidedly less measured in his critique of the excerpts weve seen so far from the book. His favorite platform, twitter, and buckle up, folks, here we go. The president of the United States says this. James comey is a proven leaker and liar. Virtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did until he was in fact fired. He leaked classified information for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to congre
Might not be as big as that, but its note worthy. It will be a battle in the senate and could end late tonight if not in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. Peter doocy has been following it all. When Congress Follows through an a proposal, it passes something and takes constituent as long time to notice it or feel the effects. Tax reform is a lot different. New years day, america will have a new tax code for a new era of american prosperity. In february, on february 1, look at your paychecks. Because youll see the tax relief we delivered today. As soon as the bill sailed through the house, it was physically ferried over to the senate where it sits right now. The president is around just in case he needs to cast a tiebreaking vote. Doesnt look like there can be a tie because john mccains absence means an odd number of senators will be voting. Democrats do not have the vote to stop the measure from passing and heading to the president s desk. Theyre trying to pressure republicans to chan
His closest allies he is prepared to retire at the end of this congress. It makes perfect sense if you view this in the context of his career. He came close to retiring after 2012 when he was the losing Vice President ial nominee. He comes back, assumes the chairmanship of the ways and means committee. Im going to rewrite the tax code, hopefully get it passed into law and then go home. He has a young family. He wants to get home to wisconsin. This has been years in the making. It is is not surprising that he wants to do this. Kevin mccarthy and steve ska is lease scalise. My biggest story was the previewing of the security by general mcmaster. You just got back from pakistan. What did you make of this rollout . Do you agree not many many people paid attention but it matters a lot. Not many people paid attention. We didnt get the whole strategy. We got a preview of it. We know what the basic outlines were. Peace through prosperity and enhancing the u. S. Reputation abroad. And security
Lets get straight to Kaitlan Collins at the white house who broke this news. What are you hearing . Reporter President Trump was furious with his attorney general Jeff Sessions yet again yesterday and for those keeping score at home, heres what happened. The president sent this tweet saying the department of justice was acting, and the attorney general were disgraceful for the way they were handling those alleged abuses of surveillance and though Jeff Sessions remained silent over the last years the president attacked him time and time again, calling him weak and beleaguered and saying he regretted picking him as a attorney general, Jeff Sessions finally pushed back and very public pushback at that, because he issued a statement, essentially defending the department of justice, defending those lawyers and his position as attorney general and that is something that did not sit well with President Trump and im told by those familiar with his demeanor he was actually indignant over the wa