Republican congressman chris collins. Thats coming up. And a big payday for barack obama. I think at a time when people are so frustrated with the power of wall street, and the big money interests, i think it is unfortunate that president obama is doing this. President obama reportedly pulling in 400,000 for a speech to a big firm on wall street. Were going to talk about the controversy around that. Also look at some examples of some expresident s doing similar things. Were going to dig into the archives. You might want to stick around for that one. A lot of fun there. A lot of news to get to. A lot to talk about. We do begin with the top story, trump at 100 or very near to 100 days, of course, the symbolic cigsignificance of the first 100 days. Dates back to fdr. President trump setting day 100. Back on friendly turf. A campaignstyle speech down there in georgia, a state he carried back in november. He was there for the annual convention of the nra. What fun that was. November 8th. Wa
They did conduct a nuclear test, china would be taking sanctions actions on their own. Jon plus, tomorrow is the big milestone, 100 days, and both sides are ready with opposing views of what transpired. This has already been a very active first 100 days. The swamp is murkier than ever after his hundred days. But what does the white house think of it all . The Deputy Assistant to the president joins us. And the pentagon investigating whether the president s former National Security advisor mike flyn tried to hide payments from foreign governments. It is all happening now. But we begin with a fox news alert on a historic address, the president subject become the first sitting commanderinchief to make remarks to the National Rifle Association Since Ronald Reagan. Welcome to the second hour of happening now on this friday, im jon scott. Jenna hi, everybody, im jenna lee. The president expected to take the stage at the nra annual convention in atlanta and about 30 minutes brady can be sure
Vote since the Obamacare Repeal in may ultimately which failed in the senate. While there was no party in the rose garden paul ryan took a bit of a victory lap. This is about giving hard working taxpayer bigger paychecked and more takehome pay and getting this economy to grow faster for bigger wages, more jobs and put america in the drivers seat in the Global Economy once again. Whether its the houses version or the senates version with a gop tax plan is about taking money from the poorest americans to give to the richest. A report on taxation shows that the senate bill would eventually raise taxes on most households earning 10,000 to 75,000 a year over the next decade and households earning more than 100,000 would see taxes reduced. And the lower and middle class americans occurs in part because the bill repeals the Obamacare Mandate requiring everyone to have Health Insurance eliminating that, 13 million fewer americans would have Health Insurance and republicans can use savings from
And donald trump seems to believe that the more voters know about the tax bill the more trouble the bill will face, especially in the senate which is why last night that the hour when the Senate Finance committee was voting on the tax bill President Trump dramatically changed the subject to something he was sure the news media would prefer to talk about. The president is so desperate to turn voter attention away from whats actually in the tax bill that he changed the subject to his own history of Sexual Assault. He knew thats what he was doing when he sent out two tweets at this hour last night attacking senator al franken. He knew everyone would point out the hypocrisy of trump attacking franken and not saying a word about roy moore and, of course, the hypocrisy of donald trump of all people attacking anyone about sexual matters after trump himself was caught on tape confessing and bragging about Sexual Assault. Donald trump knew exactly what his tweets last night were going to do to
Of political hacks who have sold their souls to the devil to maintain their political power. Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy. One hour from now a group of alabama faith and moral leaders joined by reverend barber will come together to condemn Senate Candidate roy moore over multiple allegations of sexual predatory behavior toward vulnerable teenage girls when he was in his 30s, as well as a policy agenda that these faith leaders say attacks vulnerable communities. Well talk with bishop barber later in the show. And what youll hear from those voices on the religious left will stand in stark contrast to what we heard this week from the religious right. After evangelical leaders in alabama stood with roy moore, offering their fullthroated support for a man facing mounting allegations of a pattern of trying to enter into sexual relationships with teenage girls when he was a powerful prosecutor. Standing with him, even as the list of accusers grew to nine women, going on the record to