In. Welcome to news grid guilty for my u. S. National security adviser Michael Flynn admits to lying to the f. B. I. Hes agreed to cooperate with investigators on possible russian meddling during last years u. S. Election spotlight on President TrumpSenior Adviser and son in law. What the will to do well have the latest from washington. But the biggest conversation in the u. S. At the moment is about the new tax bill passed by the Senate Republicans democrats are calling it all a scam saying it will hurt taxpayers but will help Large Companies we have your reaction and more details on what this means for middle class americans. For the. Party that could become the biggest opposition bloc in parliament and. The party won nearly thirteen percent of the vote and almost one hundred seats in parliament in septembers general election we will have a live report from. Playing with the words of the palestinian negotiator on the prospects of the United States recognizing jerusalem as a capital of israel and is one of the objects in the Israeli Palestinian conflict well look at the tension if such an announcement is made. So then you know with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com the investigation into possible russian meddling in last years u. S. Election is moving closer to the president s inner circle his former National Security advisor Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the f. B. I. About his contacts with moscow flynn is the first former Trump Administration official to be charged by special Counsel Robert Mueller he has testified that a Senior Member of trumps Transition Team asked him to reach out to russias ambassador to the u. S. Before the president s inauguration this is not allowed under u. S. Law along with his plea flynn says he will cooperate with investigators well u. S. President donald trump reacted to that news saying that hes not worried about what flynn might tell investigators. But absolutely. We know for sure so were very happy to see what happened thank you all very much. But not to clear finkelstein whos the director of ethics and rule of law at the university of Pennsylvania Law School joins us now from philadelphia welcome to the program to the white house says that nothing about flynns charge or guilty plea implicates anybody other than mr flynn is that true thats very unlikely to be the case most notably jared questionnaire will be very much in Robert Mueller sites presumably as a result of the cooperation that he will be getting from Michael Flynn and has been getting presumably which is very much for afflicted in this agreement so tell us more about what it could mean for for jared krishna to start off with. Well lets remember what the plea deal really was here Michael Flynn pled guilty to lying to the f. B. I. When he was investigated about his contacts with Sergei Kislyak the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. And what were those conversations about those were conversations about whether or not when the trumpet ministration came online they would be forgiving russia and pulling back on sanctions that have been put in place by the Obama Administration so there was a they reflect an agreement between the Trump Campaign and russia and the kremlin regarding. Whether or not there would be sanctions on russia now that reflects a quid pro quo what is the other half of the deal thats the question and very likely the president himself jarrett cushion or and all of his inner circle were involved in a stablish in that deal so there will be a number of threads to pull as a result of this agreement and the willingness of flint to cooperate. As the investigation closes in on the white house can the president protect himself from further scrutiny by issuing pardons. Well there are two ways that the president may attempt to protect himself here and i think well start to see increased pressure in this regard first of all theres a worry of course of the president may try to fire Robert Mueller now its rather a light plea deal here for Michael Flynn but its an important plea because the fact that it the law is that flynn told the f. B. I. Involved the russia probe suggests that if President Trump now attempts to fire Robert Muller he may very well be obstructing justice in doing that the same would hold for a pardon if he tries to pardon Michael Flynn. For these charges that may seem to deepen the suggestion that he is engaging in obstruction of justice so while this is as they say a rather light plea deal for Michael Flynn it is an important its important that it contains reference to the russia probe itself as that will start to tie the hands of the president protecting himself from this investigation or clearly with the appreciate your expertise in this is clear things and studying is speaking to us from philadelphia things look just a quick comment on facebook from sin when he says that those charges were carefully designed for please lets hear what else is happening online on this with you right wilson similar sentiment that were hearing there mixed reactions of course about flynn online if you search for his name along with the hash tag modern make America Great again youll find people back in flint after he pleaded guilty for lying to the f. B. I. Many are sharing photos like this one that saying that or saying i stand with flu and others not so supportive and they say that hes just a distraction from other Important News this man here tweeting that while everyone is talking about flu and republicans are. Now to pass tax reform which happened our Senior Correspondent allan fisher he also tweeted about this hes very interesting to follow on twitter he said flynn could have been charged with a lot more that fact that fact it is only one charge seems to suggest hes working with the special counsel now the dow jones it was also impacted by flynns guilty plea it fell by more than three hundred points on friday you can see that steep cliff jump drop off there after the former National Security adviser was charged now its also garnering a lot of conversation about this is the fact that u. S. President donald trump is not tweeting about it there have been no mentions so far of flynn since all of this started and donald trump has remained silent on the matter now former f. B. I. Director james comey he hasnt directly commented about whats going on with flynn but he did post this on his Instagram Account along with a bible verse that says but let justice roll down like the waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream if youre tweeting about this do let us know what you think about the different hashtags you can use our hash tag of course a. J. News great if youre on facebook be sure to leave us a comment or a question. Many thanks very much and we will speak to you again in just a moment about this coming story now the u. S. Senate passing a bill for the biggest overhaul of tax policy in decades the house of representatives passed a similar version of the bill that will have to be married with the senate before it can become law and despite concerns about the budgetary cost of tax cuts and the bill is expected to add one trillion dollars to the National Debt over the next ten years and thats even after accounting for Economic Growth and the biggest when is big corporate corporations as you say that will see their tax rate slashed from thirty five to twenty percent and perhaps more importantly a u. S. Multinationals will pay an even lower rate on overseas about sixty percent of americans will see that tax bill reduced by one hundred dollars or more although those cuts could expire in two thousand and twenty five and an estimated thirteen Million People will be uninsured after the bill eliminates a penalty for those who dont buy Health Insurance and subsidies for those who cant afford it and among other measures that benefit the ultra wealthy the forty percent tax on inheritance will be reduced which could save millions of dollars for the trump family and lets join our correspondent tom act when hes following this and tom so how far are we now from this bill actually becoming law. Well the president tweeted that he hoped to sign the bill have it on his desk by christmas that is actually a quite a good possibility the house and the senate will start next week on appointing the people on both sides to try to get together on what they call a conference report which would be a bill that both sides can agree on and vote on so that would still have to happen but it is its quite apparent that the president s major legislative goal is with insights and as as predicted by the by his Administration People within the first year of his administration. Told those troubles its weeks you know were one step closer to delivering massive tax cuts for working families is not the case. Well thats not the way most American Voters at least see it according to Public Opinion polls it gets only about twenty five percent approval and thats in light of analyses by most economists to dude simply do not see this percolating down percolating down to most middle class families although there is supposedly tax relief over the ten years of the program that there is one analysis by the joint committee on taxation by the congress which actually shows that eight out of ten households will get a little or even a tax increase within the by the time it expires in two thousand and twenty five so it is really questionable how much actual Political Capital the president is gaining at least in the short run on this bill but of course for the Republican Base this is a must have particularly the the people who will actually get the most benefit which is the top one percent of earners and most particularly the top tenths of one percent of earners who stand to get a huge huge benefit over the course of the of the bills tenure and also whats also interesting is that wall street simply does not see that this will boost the economy the way that the president has predicted Goldman Sachss executive says the economy really doesnt need that much of a boost its basically at maximum potential and so the jet fuel that the president talks about when he talks about this bill will not necessarily improve the economy boost growth in fact whats whats whats in inside actually is what the Federal Reserve fears which is inflation which will cause a need to increase the excess accelerate the pace of Interest Rate hikes and that of course is a net loss in the the for. Good books of most americans are told believe that thanks very much again tom i can reporting from washington d. C. Before you about to lead just two or three Facebook Comments from brian he says all republican government has turned on its citizens veronica says we need to be worried about the new tax plan and call him says that the winners here are the one percent trickle down economics has proven to not work for the middle and lower classes as promised his lair and as lot of conversational life this is easily the largest conversation in the us at the moment hash tag tax scam bill and greed were trending before this was even passed with hundreds of thousands of tweet of tweets about it online and to say democrats are mad would be a total understatement democratic senator Elizabeth Warren she posted this on her twitter page so here it is friday night and i just want to give you an idea of how the Republican Leadership thinks were supposed to make laws in the United States senate they have just released the tax bill. It is about five hundred pages and they want to vote on this thing in about an hour an hour i spent more than an hour making a decision about the refrigerator that we recently bought because they know theyve got what they mostly need in here and thats the payoff to the big republican donors and whatever else it does to hardworking families whatever else it does to this economy they dont care this one but this thing through and pay off their donors this is a right this is not how america should be making laws and shame on the republicans as youd expect the republicans disagree with her heres the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell this was done through the regular order that democrats had plenty of notice. Chairman hatch going to all of multiple hearings markups over an amendment process everybody had plenty of opportunity to see the measure you complain about process when youre losing people are also talking about the timing of all of this the vote happened in washington d. C. Just before eleven p. M. Local time and there were several tweets at the time asking if anyone was even awake not only here writing come on who hasnt gotten wild late on friday night and passed sweeping unvetted tax reform thousands protested against the bill and louisville kentucky among them independent senator Bernie Sanders he was posting updates from the rally on snap chat twitter and on facebook kentucky is home to republican senator rand paul and from who we just heard from Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell both of whom supported the tax bill senator Susan Collins from maine she also supported the bill but some of her constituents in her home state were speaking out against her on friday to one sign here saying a pot of gold for the wealthy a lump of coal for the middle class we want to know what side of the aisle you tend to lean towards tweet us your thoughts just be sure to use our hash tag nick man thanks very much today a couple of things that to show you on both the top stories at aljazeera dot com this is the online page of counting the cost of the episode focuses on at the president s socalled voodoo economics and who will benefits it will be the corporations will the American People just go to shows and find counting the cost and you will get that secondly back to the flynn business in a new section youll find this all you need to know the bad about special counsel robot mode as investigation you can see all the key players manifold gates papadopoulos all the questions on set lots of questions there and all the own says right there as well. So keep your thoughts coming into a sabbat all the stories that were covering tweet us a. J. English or facebook dot com slash aging is great on whatsapp plus nine seven four five zero one dribble one four nine and of course aging is great is the tag now police in germany have used water cannon to disperse demonstrators in the city of kind of a and they were protesting. Protesting against the far right after the party which was gathering to elect a new leadership. Is lan party on almost one hundred seats in parliament in septembers general election is gearing up to oppose chancellor merkel whos struggling to form a Coalition Government lets speak now to elect allen whos standing by for us in hanover it looks like the protests have died down a bit tell us a little bit more about what happened. Starting to heat up actually inside mc. A. S. D. The party that you mentioned on the far right really had an ideological crossroads their new leader is being voted on today and the question is will the party transform itself into something thats much more palatable to the broader germinate lector it and prepare itself essentially for government when the next election comes or will it stay very much as a fringe right wing. That is much more ideologically opposed to the system and thats the debate that you see going on behind me the candidates for the leadership position stating make cases. Currently. Called for a more patriotic politics for germany so you can see that the tarn has or is already quite different to what angle america central c. P. U. Party might be talking about for instance and all of this is happening because. The leader of the party surprisingly quits after the election result getting more than ninety seats in parliament she said that the party was veering too far to the right and so we really are seeing the f. T. Decide which direction that it wants to go in and what implications does it does this royal of the f. T. Across the whole spectrum of german politics. Well what were seeing here could really shape the political rhetoric in germany for the years to come and go america has had a lot of trouble shes running out of options really when it comes to forming a Coalition Government she was initially going to form a coalition with the greens and s. T. P. Party which is a much more liberal party they pulled out of Coalition Talks in a surprise move so now she is left with the options of forming a central