someone who is unnecessarily under attack by vested interest of establishment washington. there could be a number of reasons for the distraction. heading into next week, the tax vote that is most likely to end up as a law on the president s desk for christmas. why distract when the president seems to have other things going his way, including the absence of an interview request. looks like he is going to get a tax cut plan as well as an early christmas gift. amy, we appreciate it. thanks. thank you so much. we are going take a short break. when we come back, australian police say we ll have details on the surprising arrest. plus, it s not bullets or bombs that are killing people, especially children in yemen. the lack of the most basic necessity. they are right there, but the people can t get to it.
been saying, the university of denver graduate, javad zarif has been saying for a number of years. okay, let s talk about these issues. yet there the u.s. has been unwilling to sit down with the iranians on the. high time we got the saudis together and the iranians and ourselves and talk about the difficult regional issues because the middle east is continuing to go in the wrong direction. the same with the middle east, i want to talk about the issue of jerusalem. on monday we expect the united nations to vote on a draft resolution about trump s rejection of the resolution to the city. mike pence s visit was delayed. he s saying it was because of the tax vote. thousands of folks gathered in front of the u.s. embassy in indonesia, in jakarta,
out very often from mueller s team. this is what peter carr, spokesman for mueller says. this all is not happening in a vacuum. it s important to note that. this is happening at the same time many trump supporters on capitol hill and in conservative media are trying to undercut mueller and seems like another aspect to that attempt. dan merica at the white house, thank you. president trump is looking ahead to this tuesday s tax vote and responding to criticism that the plan will only help high earners. here is what he said on the white house lawn before leaving for camp david. this will be great for jobs. it will be fantastic for the middle income people and for jobs. it will also benefit lots of other things. we are looking to if you look at the whole thing, everybody is going to benefit. but i think the greatest benefit is going for jobs and for the
there and rest and recuperate. the recuperation his doctors have been telling him is from the treatment for the brain cancer that he has which has been incredibly aggressive. he has done a handful of chemo treatments since the end of july when he was first diagnosed. then on just the pure political point here, the tax vote certainly was razor thin. it wasn t really clear if it was going to be able to pass or not until the end of the week when senator bob corker of tennessee announced that he would vote yes. that allowed for the republican leadership to feel confident and comfortable that they had the votes to pass this tax bill even without senator mccain. the fact that senator mccain is missing the tax vote doesn t make a difference for the end game here. it doesn t change the outcome for the tax bill because they
i did speak to cindy mccain. i wished her well. i wished john well. i understand he ll need if we ever needed his vote, which hopefully we won t. the word is that john will come back if we need his vote. and that s too bad. he s going through a very tough time. there is no question about it. he will come back if we need his vote. that was president trump moments ago talking about senator john mccain s critical vote on the impending tax bill vote that s expected for this tuesday. in the last hour cbs news reported he would miss the vote because of treatment for brain cancer he s receiving in arizona. joining me now, sabrina sadiki and matt bennett former deputy assistant in the clinton white house. good to have you with us this evening. we have been talking about the numbers on this tax vote. republicans say they have a