The two big stories and more. With Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Two senators investigating, South Carolina republican Lindsey Graham and angus king will also be here. Budget director mick mulvaney. And handicapped the chances of the government sitting down at the end of the week when it runs out of funding. Plus, new poll numbers on Alabama Senate race. Now is roy moore faring after allegations of Sexual Misconduct with minors. All that plus plenty of political analysis coming up on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. We knew it would be busy week when congress returned to washington but we had no idea just how busy. More stories of Sexual Misconduct on the part of the longest serving House Democrat john conyers now others prompted more calls for congress to do better job of policing its own. North korea fired another missile, one that in theory could reach washington. It is a situation that we will handle. Dickerson progress on tax bill continued as a brisk face after Senate Republicans cut number of deals to gain its passionage. Which thrilled the president. People are going to be very, very happy theyre going to get tremendous tremendous tax cuts and tax relief. Dickerson that remains to be seen. Unsurprisingly democrats were not happy. Montanas john did show and tell of the massive bill. This is your government at work. Here is the bill as written. Here is modifications that are in it. I can read one word, its called add this language. Can you tell me what that word is . Dickerson arrived with a Big Development special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into possible Trump Campaign collusion with the russians and obstruction of justice as Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi and said hes cooperating with mueller. The president further muddied already complicated story with a saturday tweet that seemed to suggest he was aware of flynn lying to the fbi at the time when he was calling the investigation a witch hunt. I had to fire general flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. He has pled guilty to those lies. Day after the president fired flynn for lying, former fbi director james comey says the president asked him to go easy on his investigation of flynn. Sources tell cbs news that the tweet was drafted by one of mr. Trumps attorneys. We want to take a closer look at what the senate passed, their bill would repeal the obamacare individual mandate, Corporate Tax rate would be cut from 35 to 20 . It will nearly double the standard tax deduction, eliminate state and local Tax Deductions but allow up to 10,000 exception for property taxes. The bill would also double estate Tax Exemption limit and raise alternative minimum tax threshold. Analysis of the bill by the nonpartisan joint committee indicates that even accounting for Economic Growth the tax plan would add trillion dollars to the deficit. We begin this morning with Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell he joins froes louisville. Welcome, mr. Majority leader, i want to start with the balance of the tax cut that passed through the senate. The Corporate Tax rate is at 20 , its been sold as middle class tax cut but those middle class taxes will expire, Analysis Shows majority of the middle class will get a tax cut there are some whose taxes will increase, why not include this bill make it so that you could say everybody in the middle class will get a tax cut thats permanent . Impossible to do that. You cant craft any bill that would guarantee no one was in a special category that might get tax increase. What i can tell you is that every segment of taxpayers, every category of taxpayers on average gets significant relief. Average family, 200 a year you mentioned standard deductions doubling child care credit increase, clearly most people, middle income taxpayers overwhelming will get tax reli relief. And because of the business tax changes, its much less likely that the job they currently have is going to end up in another country, because we are clearly uncompetitive in the Global Economy with the current tax rates. John, i think this coupled with the regulatory relief, administration has been providing, the reasons that economy is beginning to pick up, Consumer Confidence subpoena. I dont want to read too much into quarterly growth rates but weve had two growth rates of 3 growth. I think sthg go to get the country growing again. Dickerson but the question of middle class, would be way to craft it so that the number of people who might get a tax increase would be pretty small and there were republican efforts to expand the earned income tax credit to make the Child Tax Credit more robust, to lower the rates for people at the other end those were all republican efforts that didnt get much energy. Where as energy on Corporate Tax rate was always, its going to be 20 and no is tinkering with that, just in terms of where the emphasis was on the work theres much more work that could have been done on the middle class and lowering than what was done in crafting that bill. The questions whether usual getting tax relief. Of course people on lower end dont provide huge percentage of the revenue that we raise through taxation. What people want is, am i going to get relief myself, answer, overwhelmingly, likely to. Is my job likely to continue to be in the united states. Are we going to laugh a growing economy so my children will be able to realize the same goals and aspirations that i want them to have. And this is designed to get the economy growing. We didnt have single year, 3 growth during all the obama years. We were clearly under performing. You have to ask the question, why. Combination of over regulation undulose tax code. Dickerson winners and losessers, lets move on to the question of process, because democrats of course made lot of complaints about process you said friday night you complain about process when youre losing. And the senate process might seem like something not important to people but you wrote a book called the long game in which you talk a lot about the process, you say in fact what is at the heart of the senate why its a different institution. So, this looks like situation when youre in the minority you like the process built in the majority you move on. Not true. We followed the regular order, multiple hearings, democrats were there, days of hearings, days of amendments, democrats offered amendments in committee ad naseum. The process on the floor, the reconciliation process is regular order, that is how they passed obamacare. We didnt do anything that you could call a foul or process. Let me just say they didnt like the fact that we repealed u unpopular individual mandate from obamacare yet didnt offer single amendment. Dickerson 25 days of debate on obamacare you said the process at the time was arrogant they were pushing popular bill through. This bill is unpopular why isnt this the same thing . Well see how unpopular it is. When people start noticing theyre paying less in taxes, the economy is growing, more jobs and opportunity but we have the very different pretty clear during this debate we have very different view of what america ought to look like. Democratic friends apparently are quite content with slow growth and little opportunity to improve the conditions. We think we need to jumpstart the economy and provide more jobs and opportunity for the american people. One of suggestion go to be proven wrong here. Dickerson let me ask you about roy moore. We have a poll out that says mr. Moore supposition points over his democratic opponent, in that poll, it says that among mr. Moores supporters, 56 say they were more likely to vote for him after you said he should quit the race. What do you make of that . Well, look, people in alabama are going to decide a week from tuesday who is send to the senate its up to them. Its been pretty Robust Campaign with lot of people weighing in. The president supported Something Different earlier in the process. But in the end voters of alabama will make their choice. Dickerson should that be the final word, the white house when asked about the president s accusers said, voters heard about the president s accusers, they voted for him anyway end of subject shouldnt that be the case with roy moore . Well, look, im concerned about the senate. And if we have two investigations going on right now, senator franken and senator menendez might be another one depending on people who are in the senate. And it will be up to the people of alabama to make this decision and well swear in whoever is elected and see where we are at that particular pointed. Dickerson in the past youve supported ethics committed tee determinations of the case of senator vitter that said behavior before he got to the senate was not germane in terms of punishing him as a senator, that would seem to cover roy moore in which case let Ethics Committee look into it. I dont remember im not on Ethics Committee, i dont remember exactly how that case was handled. Ethics Committee Makes those decisions whether behavior prior to the senate to relevant or not. They will decide, the parameters, if you will, of their jurisdiction. That decision will be made based on facts of the particular case. I imagine probably will be a case, whether the out come is there, i dont know. But look, Ethics Committee is 33. Neither side can take advantage of the other, it has to be pretty credible case to go forward. In other words, at least one member of the other party would have to decide that the case was worth pursuing, all that have will be considered by the committeef they have a member of the senate that they think has a case that ought to come before them. Dickerson majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, thank for being with us. Joining us now, Lindsey Graham. Congratulations, let me pick up on something we were talking about with majority leader on roy moore, majority leader said, voters of bam bell will decide. That seems like theres a new standard basically fit happened before you got to the Senate Voters will decide. I think the body can regulate itself at the end of the day when he comes to the senate if he does. I think an investigation ethics investigation would be smarted thing to do. And well see what the Ethics Committee decides as to whether they look at behavior before he came into the senate, does that matter, if they do, what did they find, well see. Dickerson could you have him be a senator, would you be able to based on what youve heard, youd be okay with him being a senator . We cant stop him from being seated f. There was an investigation in all six members of the Committee Said they believe he was a child molester that would be a problem. Dickerson move on to the president s tweet about the fbi, youre on the judiciary, oversee the fbi. President says that after years of phony, dishonest clinton investigation, running the fbi, remember pew takes is in tatters, worse in his tore built fear not bring it back to grea greatness. Fbi in tatters . No. I think comey needs to answer questions as his time as director. He made some decisions that were really very, very wrong. I would just say this, there is ongoing criminal investigation, comey may be part of it. He tweeted comment ongoing criminal investigations at your own peril. You were a former prosecutor, along those lines, the president has said he knew that clinton lied to the fbi yesterday he has called the invest situation a witch hunt because it was a witch hunt he fired james comey how do you know he lied to the fbi then fired the fbi director for investigating . What flynn lied about, i dont think its wrong for transition person. I think the logan act is worth the paper its on. Im not worried about what happened after the election in terms of trying to communicate with the russians about the israeli resolution or about sanctions. It comes down to the following to me, was there any effort by the Trump Campaign to coordinate with russian Intelligent Services or any entity controlled by the russians to receive benefit during the election. They found the one guy that would know that. Dickerson that question of obstruction, because thats the other thing thats part of this issue, if you know he lied to the fbi how can you say an investigation into whether he lied to the fbi is a witch hunt but commission he fired for carrying out . Apparently this statement is that by the president s lawyer says, i didnt know, he wasnt in on the interview. He did know that he lied to the Vice President. The Vice President was very upset, he took action. To me thats not the issue. Heres the issue. The fact that from my point of view, if it was coordination between the Trump Campaign and the russians, i cant think of a person who would know more about that than flynn. Dickerson on the National Security front, you are very critical of the russians for interfering in the eye can. Yes, they did. Dickerson former Obama Administration official says interference was cyber equivalent of 9 11. If after that kind of an event, given your Foreign Policy judgment about incoming add energies that says to the perpetrator of, lets work out deal on sanction, is that will punish for that behavior dont overreact because well be on your side later when the newts judgment. Number one, the Obama Administration didnt acted like known. They were late to the game, did the least amount possible. What they did in the interim before Trump Took Office was a slap on the wrist. I dont buy that whole narrative. I dont have a problem with the Trump Administration reaching out to the russians were going to take a different view about sanctions, seek your help in the u. N. Secure. Secure. That behavior after the election is reaching out to Foreign Government we have different view about things. Im not here to condemn the president about that. Here is what im saying. That collusion between a campaign and Foreign Government is unacceptable l. Is no evidence of collusion, nobody has been charged with it, but you found one person who would know if it did exist. So it wont be long before we understand one way or the other that the trump people clueded with russia because i cant imagine it happening and flynn not know about it. Dickerson lets take a quick break. Well be right back. Pap h for every hour that youre idling in your car, youre sending about half a gallon of gasoline up in the air. That amounts, over the course of the week, to about 10 pounds of carbon dioxide. 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But hes never asked me to stop an investigation, that would be inappropriate for the president to say, stop the investigation, its not inappropriate to have a discussion in general. Again, i just want people to understand, mike flynn would know if there was collusion in my view between the Trump Campaign and the russians. Theres no evidence of collusion, nobody has been charged with collusion. The lawyers said there was no collusion can if there was, flynn would know, were going to know pretty soon. Dickerson but on larger question youre not saying only about collusion because there is obstruction of justice question. Completely different, built thats not my focus. Dickerson i understand. Im saying in general north korea. Where are we with north korea right now. Been were getting close to military conflict because north koreas marching towards the technology of icbm with Nuclear Weapon on top that cannot only get to america but deliver the weapon. Were running out of time. Said that yesterday. Im going to urge the pentagon not to send any more dependents to south korea, south korea should be unaccompanied tour. Its crazy to send thousands of children to south korea. I want them to stop sending dependents, i think its now time to start moving american dependents out of the south korea. Dickerson how close you say were getting close to military confrontation, what are we talking about here . Intelligence community c