Going to end up crying. This is about a dnc that lacks transparency. Do you agree it was rig . Yes. Were going to get this done because the American People deserve this. Their advertised effort on behalf of the middle class is simply not true. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome to your new day, its friday november 3rd, 8 00. Chris is off this morning. John berman joins me. Someone else has been busy this hour. Well get to that. Despite repeat denials from President Trump and the white house, we have concrete evidence that mr. Trump was told about ties. Jd jordan, as youll see here in this photo was at that meeting march 2016, thats where george p papadopoulos made his pitch to set up a meeting between Vladmir Putin and candidate trump. He did not dismiss the idea. Jared kushner turning over documents to Robert Muellers investigators. Sources tell cnn that signals that mueller could be building a case of obstruction of justice against the president for firing fbi director james comey. Serious new questions about attorney general Jeff Sessions, his memory and sometimes lack thereof. Carter page testified to a house panel that he told sessions he was traveling to russia during the campaign. Sessions was also in the room with papadopoulos when he made the pitch, yet the attorney general has said he was not aware of any conversations between the Trump Campaign and russia. All of this as the president gets ready to leave this hour for his high stakes 12 day trip to asia, he has been writing furiously all morning. Tweeting about many, many things, not one of them about this 12 day trip to asia. We have it covered for you, lets begin with joe johns live at the white house. Good morning, joe. Reporter good morning, john. Thats right. This is expected to be the longest foreign trip of the president s administration, at least so far. Hes been tweeting all morning. But not about the trip. Probably the biggest thing on the agenda will be the crisis in the korean peninsula. But this focus on Foreign Policy overshadowed by the russia investigation. The latest bombshell in the russia probe, President Trump did not dismiss the idea of a Campaign Advisor arranging a meeting between Vladmir Putin and trump during a Campaign Meeting in 2016. According to a person in the room. Its the first concrete evidence that mr. Trump was personally told about ties between the Campaign Advisor and russia, despite fierce denials. I have nothing to do with russia. No person that i deal with does. Reporter Court Documents reveal that during this National Security meeting, former Trump CampaignForeign Policy advisor George Papadopoulos pitched the idea of a meeting between putin and trump. Trump Campaign Advisor jd gordon. Mr. Trump listened to his idea and he heard him out. The white house denying the president had any recollection of this. Mr. Papadopoulos suggesting the meeting between then candidate trump and Vladmir Putin, does he recall that . I dont believe he does. Reporter attorney general sessions rejecting the idea of a meeting with putin, but sessions never disclosed the discussion when he was asked directly about such communications in the Trump Campaign. He believed that surrogates from the Trump Campaign had communications with the russians, is that what youre saying . I am not aware of anyone else thad did and i dont believe it happened. Reporter democrats want to question sessions about those denials. Its fuelling any more questions regarding ties between the Trump Campaign and the kremlin. Testifying behind closed doors. The trip was connected with the campaign. This is another conversation, sessions failed to mention during hearings. He seems to have problems telling the truth. Reporter the attorney general forced to recuse himself from the russia investigation after failing to disclose his own contacts with russias ambassador to the u. S. I have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States. In the wake of indictments of three trump Foreign Policy advisors the president continues to insist that Hillary Clinton should be the one investigated. The saddest thing because im the president of the United States im not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department or the fbi. Im not supposed to be doing the kind of things i would love to be doing. And im very fusteratrustrated reporter the president has been on a real twitter tear. Last night there was some controversy when a rogue twitter employee on his or her way out the door apparently shut down the president s twitterfeed for 11 minutes. Since then hes tweeted about a variety of subjects including excerpts of a new book from donna brazile. Alleging the process in the primaries was rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton. He most recently tweeted about isis, but so far, john, as we said at the top he has not tweeted about this asia trip hes about to embark on. Its going to be the longest trip so far of his administration. He is making up for that 11 minute absence on twitter to say the least. Thanks so much. President trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner has turned over documents to robert mueller. Investigators are looking into what role he may have played into the firing of james comey, is the special counsel building a case for obstruction of justice . Were live in washington with much more. Explain these documents. Reporter the sources tell us kushner voluntarily turned over these documents. These are documents from the campaign and transition and theyre related to any contacts he had with russia and these are the documents that are similar to the ones kushner gave to congressional investigators. This comes as investigators have begun asking witnesses about kushners role in the firing of the former fbi director james comey. So why, exactly is the special counsel interested in what kushner did or did not do during that firing . Reporter interestingly enough, witnesses who have come before the special counsel have been asked about kushners role in that firing. Weve heard different accounts from different sources. Some say kushner was a driver of the president s decisions. Others have said simply he didnt oppose it and that it was something the president had already made his mind up about. Sources close to the white house say that based on what they know and we dont know how they know this, kushner is not a target of mu muellers investigation. This is a sign that mueller could be building a case for obstruction against the president for that firing of the former fbi director. They say kushner is not a target. Important there to remember the source. The bigger question is how significant is all of this . Reporter muellers questions about kushner are a sign, we believe that investigators are reaching into the president s inner circle, this is extended beyond the 2016 campaign to actions taken at the white house by high level officials. A white house official tells us that muellers teams questions about kushner are not a surprise and that kushner would be among a list of people who investigators naturally would be asking questions about. Now, kushners lawyers did not comment and the white house also declined to comment. All right, thanks so much. Joining us now is congressman kevin brady of texas. Hes the chairman of the ways and Means Committee and drafted the gops tax reform bill. Well be talking all about taxes and getting into the details of that. Its great to see you. In the meantime, we want to start with the news of the day and that is the new russia revelations. We now know that donald trump, then candidate, was in a meeting where George Papadopoulos pitched having a meeting between president Vladmir Putin and President Trump. Heres a picture from march 2016. What do you make of the latest revelations. Everyone following this russia investigation deserves a tax jcut. Here yesterday we unveiled the tax cuts and jobs act. This grows the economy in a major way. It reduces taxes for families. So much so and simplifies it so nine out of ten americans can file using a postcard system. There are other interests and other issues, i will tell you in our community, our main street local businesses, they are starved for tax reform. I give you an a for pivoting. Lets dive in i know thats what you want to do. Lets get into the details, where the detectivil waits. The local and state deductions that people in blue states like new york, new jersey, connecticut, california, people have been relying on being able to deduct their local and state taxes. If those go away, those people get hurt. So i dont believe so. Heres why. We want families, regardless of where you live, including in those high tax states. By the way, im sorry that these families just get hammered by their local mayors and governors with the highest taxes in the world it feels like. I dont know how they make it. We believe they ought to keep more of what they earn as well. So we are working with these high tax state lawmakers. The reason we provided a significant tax cut, we doubled the standard deduction, we eliminate the double amt tax and we create a new Family Credit to help every family in america keep more of what they earn. When you do that you make sure that whether youre in new york or kansas, you know, you keep more of what you earn. Well, its not passing the math test for some. Another republican says i am a no. Eliminating the s. A. L. T. Deduction would be a geographic redistribution of wealth. I want to make this correction. Hes a champion. He wants to make sure his families are better off after tax reform than before. I agree with that. But to be accurate, we do restore the state and local property Tax Deduction to this, because of our discussions with people like congressman zeldin and others. We are focused on working with him, but its back in there. Youre saying that for people in those states, that they can take their state and local Tax Deduction. Their state and local property Tax Deduction, which is for most families, maybe the most painful. Its not based on your ability to pay, its just hurts. Whether youre a young family or a Senior Family where youve paid off the mortgage and the property tax is killing you. Again, imposed by those local governments, we want to provide help for you. That leads us to the mortgage deduction. Any deduction for mortgages over 500,000, as we understand it, is going away. The National Association of homebuilders doesnt like this. Let me play for you what they say about the plan. Listen. When house values start to go down, in one market, it spreads to the next market and the market next to that and another market. Next thing you know you have a housing recession. The people that are counting on the equity in their homes had better sit tight for a few years before cashing it out. That has our members irate. Congressman, here is his point. There are seven million homes on the market right now that are more than 500,000. So the mortgages wouldnt be able to be deducted under your plan. Those houses would automatically be devalued. What do you say to him . I dont believe that and heres why. People dont take out a mortgage for the entire value of the house. Hopefully theyre not anymore. That was a problem in the last crisis. Everyone keeps their mortgage deduction up to a million dollars, today so nothing changes here. Heres my main point, the value of your home and the home sales increases when the economy gets stronger. And it goes south when the economy goes south. So when we go bold like we do to get people back to work, create jobs and create growth, that is good for homeowners. Its good for Home Builders. By the way, its good for home values. Well, obviously, theyve thought about that and disagree with you, as do i will tell you this, we are work ing with the Home Builders. Weve worked with them to develop a new home credit that can help more people across maybe a broader economic spectrum with their Home Ownership issues. I think its a terrific idea. I would like to see it frankly, in the tax code at some point. You might be inserting some things to help the Home Builders come around. Just because i think there are smart ways and smarter ways to do the exact same thing. This old broken tax code, frankly, doesnt work for a lot of americans. So well continue to work all the way down the line. Because while were starting in ways and Means Committee on monday to take action on this tax reform, im looking to improve it every step of the way. Let me show you the list of republican lawmakers who are not a yes on your plan yet. We have congress zeldin, peter king, dan donovan, lobiando. Theres a terms pattern. You have senator marco rubio of florida. He doesnt think that it goes far enough towards helping working families. You have senator jeff flake, who doesnt like it would increase the debt and deficit. And senator bob corker believes it would increase the deficit. What do you say to them . So i say the senate will have a chance to pass their tax reform. We think unlike healthcare, where simply they didnt deliver, were hopeful theyll Work Together to provide big bold tax reform hold on a second. Obviously, you know you were asking about some of the members who have concerns. I am, but does at this point, and were working with those lawmakers to make sure we find common ground. Are you comfortable with it increasing the deficit by 1. 5 trillion. I believe tax reform will move us to a balanced budget. Part of it will be because of strong growth. That really helps, not just in washington but mainly back home as well. You also have to cut out all the special interest deductions and loopholes and all that. The reason we go to the simple po postcard approach, is we eliminate special loopholes so we can lower tax rates to everyone. Thats part of getting to a balanced budget as well which is where we want to go. We often hear that tax cuts lead to growth, but thats not always the case. That didnt happen with george w. Bushs tax cuts. His tax cuts were right for that era. But president reagans cuts and we know president John F Kennedys cuts he designed as well were incredibly pro growth. Heres what we do know, if you want to stay with high deficits and national debt, stick with the status quo. Keep the tax code what it is. Lets watch our jobs continue to leave america. Keep paychecks stagment for another decade. I guarantee you well be deeper in debt. Many analysts say the Ronald Reagan analogy is not an apt one. He was bringing it down from 70 . You cant use that in the modern day. George w. Bush analogy is more applicable because that one, as you know, did not lead to the promised growth. I think you make a great point about the reagan reforms. This is a different era. We know that the rates have come down over time, we make the changes, improvements underneath those rates to get rid of all those hidden taxes, that double taxation of amt. All that stuff that people dont know hit them. We make those improvements but we do something else. Another focus for us is leap frogging america from where we at into the top three so we can bring jobs back to america. By the way, look, this economy, it has improved dramatically. Weve got to get it revved up for another decade. And so that growth, those paychecks, thats all great for middle class families. Look, were out of time. But, obviously, well have you back to talk about all of the things in your plan. Because there are so many questions still. There are so many, thank you. Thank you for being on with us, john . Thanks. President trump minutes away from leaving for a most important trip of his presidency. Over the last hour, he has had a steady stream of statements, including, apparently announcing, military policy. Well discuss what hes been doing and what he plans to do. Is he going to keep this up for 12 days on the road . Stay with us. Im all about my bed. This mattress is dangerously comfortable. When i get in, i literally say ahhh. America loves the leesa mattress. 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Maybe more importantly, most importantly, making news in the war against isis. I want to bring in our panel. I want to read you a couple o