i m for keeping them up. and what to make of the president s opioid announcement. if we can teach young people and people generally not to start, it s really, really easy not to take them. when all in starts now. good evening from new york. i m joy reid in for chris hayes. tonight amid signs that robert mueller s investigation could be closing in, the white house is scrambling to discredit the messenger with a big assist from his partners on fox news. there s no way the american people can trust robert mueller to investigate anything russian related. what really stinks here is mueller, rosenstein, andrew wiesman and james comey appear to have covered it all up, the uranium one deal. we have to have mueller fired. yes, robert mueller, i hope you re watching. oh robert mueller, are you awake tonight? robert mueller is now investigating anything involved with russia, how is that possible? to be fair and impartial, it s impossible because of his past role in this. he s
9:00 in the east, 6:00 a.m. out west. here s what s happening. taxing situation. the battles that lie ahead, the gop gets ready to rewrite the u.s. tax code. we re going to tell you about one idea that could keep high earners from getting a big break. gone but not forgotten, the lives of four american soldier were remembered this weekend while the search for answers intensifies. new insight into why so many troops are in africa and what their mission is. you knighted front. for the first time in years, five former presidents gather on stage at the same time. what prompted the gathering and how it helped so many in need. but we begin with politics and president trump s ongoing feud with democratic congresswoman frederica wilson, entering the sixth day with the president ramping up his attacks in a tweet again this morning saying wacky congresswoman wilson is the gift that keeps on giving for the republican party, a disaster for dems. you watch her in action and vote r. in a seri
they just need tax relief and this is taking a tax burden off their backs but the stimulating nature is well designed so for example, i was at a manufacturing company not long ago and my constituents in suburban chicago. the company said this. peter, we re going to invest $30 million in our plant next year if that tax bill plans with full expensing as we proposed, we re not going to spend $30 million. we re going to spend $50 million it s that type of approach that we re trying to create here which is why there was so much enthusiasm about it among republicans in the house. you haven t seen this in a long long time. maria: well you have enthusiasm sure but not so much from those 13 republicans who voted no against the house bill. god bless them and if you re chasing everybody all the time in terms of a roll call vote you ll be waiting a long time. to get 227 house republicans to agree on something as big as this is i think incredibly
significant and a good milestone but we still
tucker carlson tonight. for the latest findings in that investigation we are joined by matt finn, who is in texas for us tonight. we have learned the shooter himself had three gunshot wounds to his body, including one to his head, which the medical examiner says was self-inflicted, so the shooter killed himself after his deadly rampage here at this texas church. we ve also learned that the shooter recently repurchased four guns. authorities say all the sales were legal. if there is no information in databases that would have flagged the shooter, and that aligns with two pieces of information we learned today. if first, academy sporting goods in san antonio, texas, released a statement saying it sold to guns to the shooter, one in 2015, and one in 2017, and that the shooter passed the national criminal background check and that that sporting good store is not cooperating with law enforcement. also, the u.s. air force did not submit the criminal records to the fbi, as required by p
these aircraft come in close proximity to one another. all right, ryan brown reporting from the pentagon. thanks very much. remember, important programming note. stay with cnn later tonight for a very timely debate on tax reform. that s coming up, 9:00 p.m. eastern. that s it for me. thanks for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, breaking news. north korea firing what could be its most powerful missile yet, one that could reach washington, d.c. plus, the president s reality show. today, trump staging a white house meeting like an episode of the apprentice playing roulette with a government shutdown. and trump going after senator elizabeth warren, raising questions about what he said about his own heritage. why did he say he s of swedish descent when he actually isn t? let s go outfront. good afternoon. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, breaking news. north korea with a record breaking missile launch that potentially puts washington