How his outside council is trying to strategize around the comey testimony. Outside council, Marc Kasowitz theyre preparing to file a kplaicomplaint against j comey. Youre going to delve into this with pete. Does it hold water or merit. Was there a wrongdoing here . Theres no indication that comey leaked anything that was classified. Theres a question around that. To your point this is a point of a larger strategy. Were seeing the administration and president go back into campaign trail. His surrogates out on the air waves today. Kelly anenn ann kon conway. Jim comey, a career prosecutor, five years as the fbi director was so stunned that he had a one on one private conversation with the president of the United States he didnt know how to report this to the attorney general, the white House Counsel or the associated attorney general to say im concerned . Thats one of the talking points we might hear from President Trump when we talk to him a little later on today. Hes going to hold a j
Cardon, all this hour on Andrea Mitchell reports good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington overlooking the white house where today is tax day. President trump about to unveil his big plan including slashing business tax to 15 . Kristen, this is a big tax plan, it doesnt at all address blowing a hole in the deficit. It doesnt, andrea. Let me tell you what we know so far that we will learn later on today. We know is going to call for major tax cuts for all businesses. As you point boout, down to 15 . It will call for about increase in dedestructions for individuals and families, how is the government going to pay for all of this . That continues to be the big question. So far, their mum about that. We know that one of the options that has been talked about here at the white house is potentially eliminating deductions to 401ks. As you say this is already getting reaction and criticism. Republicans want to know how it will be paid for and consider that it could ultimately increase the def
Immigration and all of its components in terms of visa reform, Border Security, the wall, all of these things in a system of priorities. Right now the priority is to make sure that folks who present a Public Safety concern to the United States and to our citizens are dealt with first, and thats where hes at. Hes also very pleased that through his action and his vision for how he wants to move forward on this sees a huge drop of a legal bordercrossing. That is a big accplishment for this presidency, and its something that were obviously very proud of. Amnesty doesnt play a part. I just walked through the question. Jonathan . How confident are you that there will not be a shutdown . Can you guarantee there will not be a Government Shutdown . I cant guarantee but i think that the work that director mulvaney and others have made in these negotiations has been very positive. They feel very confident that that wont happen. So he wont insist that his priorities get funded on the border, a wal
Doors. Lets start on a busy afternoon with two nbc reports. Kristen welker at the white house, and Greta Van Susteren is here with legal an less. Give us more on how the white house and rnc are whiting back today. Reporter a number of talking points on display, chris. And were getting them from the president himself. Yesterday, he was remarkably silent and restrained in his reaction to all of this. But today, he was back on twitter. Lets take a look at his tweet and we can analyze it on the other side. The president tweeted this morning, despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication. And wow, comey is a leaker. Expect that last part to get a lot of attention from the president and from his surrogates. Remember, hes always said that the key issue in this entire russia probe has to do with leaking. The other point thats raised, though, by his tweet early this morning, is a question about how james comey can be a liar and also fully vin y vindicate the presiden
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