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WUSA CBS This Morning December 2, 2017

What archeologists found buried in the sand dunes along the california coast. And it is an american obsession that is rarely made in america. But one farmer has now found a way to grow coffee in the continental United States. Find out where and how much it costs. But we begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. Senate republicans scramble to win big tax cuts. This is a great day for the country. Been 31 years since weve done comprehensive tax reform. This is a momentous occasion for the republican party. They put out 429 pages of text this evening and no one has seen it or let alone being able to read it. This is the tax bill. See how thick it is. Montana Senate Jon Tester posting this video on twitter. This is your government at work. Can you tell me what that word is . The bombshell in the russia investigation. Flynn flips, putting Jared Kushner in the cross hairs. The former National Security adviser to the president pled guilty to lying to the fbi. Hawaii launching a siren smim to warn of an appending Nuclear Attack days after the north korea tested the most powerful missile yet. And over in italy look at that. Going up the water and everything. The worlds longest lasting rainbow. An hour continuous rainbow. How do you not have a great day. All of that and in the hand of lexis williams, from midcourt he hit it. And all that matters. Lindsey vonn and the lead slipping away and she goes down into the fencing. On cbs this morning satu. Evening news. Good evening, im Anthony Mason. Anthony mason finally getting some time off. Jeff glor officially takes over monday. Friday the broadcast executive producer shared this moment on twitter. Jeff is a fine journalist and a good friend and i thank you for your support over the past six months. Temp work is rarely such a privilege. You have been doing a magnificent job but were happy to have you back. It is nice to be home again. Were happy to have you home. Welcome to the weekend, everyone. Im Anthony Mason along with alex wagner. Overnight Congressional Republicans clear a hurdle toward a major tax overhall. This morning the Senate Approved the bill by a vote of 5149. Lastminute concessions were made. No democrats voted for the plan. The senate will have to work with the house which already the nearly 1. 5 trillion bill is viewed as a victory for trump and and the largest tax overhaul in decades including tax cuts for businesses and high income people with more modest breaks for others. After the vote President Trump tweeted, we are one step closer to delivering massive tax cuts for working families across america. Look forward to signing a final bill before christmas. Errol barnett is in our Washington Bureau with more. Reporter there was an in tensive fort to get this bill over the finish line. It required an incredible amount of behind the scenes horse trading and last minute handwritten additions but in the end the senate succeeded in passing tax reform. The yeas are 51 and the nays are 49. The tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. Reporter it was almost 2 00 president pence announced the final vote which was largely along party lines. This is a great day for the country. Its been 31 years since weve done tax reform. Reporter but democrats bee moan the sign size of the legislation and the last minute handwritten additions on senate floor. When we got the bill, this is what it looked like. Reporter and online their sending around their edits as we speak. Can you tell me what that word is in. Reporter republicans say the late changes were necessary to secure votes from skeptical and they were done through regular order. You complain about process, when you are losing. Reporter those additions including a deduction for individual property taxes. Capped at 10,000. And republicans revived the alternative minimum tax for high earners. It just came down to sort of reporter retiring tennessee senator bob corker, the only republican to vote no was turned off by the 1. 5 trillion price tag but other republicans argued the cuts will grow the economy. This is what this bill is about. Take home pay. More money for the american people. Reporter while the Corporate Tax rate is being slashed permanently, individual cuts are not set in stone. A family of four for example earning 75,000 a year would initially get a tax break averaging 2,200. But democrats note, those savings will be temporary. I think the priorities of this tax bill are all wrong. Reporter now also included in this senate plan were other republican goals, including a provision to allow drilling in the Arctic National wildlife refuge in alaska and an appeal of the obama mandate that individuals Purchase Health insurance. Thank you. The apparent hours after Michael Flynn ne pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. He is cooperating with the Robert Mueller investigation. On friday President Trump ignored questions from reporters as he welcomed the libya Prime Minister to the white house. Cbs news justice correspondent jeff pegues is in our Washington Bureau with more. Reporter good morning. Tye cob tried to put distance between the president and the guilty plea s guilty plea by saying it hurts no one but flynn but they are moving closer to the president s inner circle. Michael flynn arrived at the courthouse to plead guilty to making false statements to the fbi. Once inside a federal judge asked him if he was willingly and vol untear illy. The general answered with a simple yes, sir, according to court papers he lied to fbi agents about the details of two phone calls with then Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Sergey kislyak during the president ial transition. Cbs news has learned flynn was direced to make the first call by President Trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner described in papers as a very Senior Member of the transition team. On december 22nd, 2016, flynn called kislyak to urge russia to delay or defeet a United Nations resolution concerning israeli settlements. A week later flynn spoke to kislyak again this time about new sanctions on russia and relayed to the ambassador that trump team did not want russia to escalate the situation. Flynn made that goal after consulting with someone court papers identify as a senior cbs news has learned that was flynns deputy k. T. Mcfarland. After the second kislyak call, russian president Vladimir Putin announced he would not retaliate for the u. S. Sanctions and trump tweeted putin was very smart. Flynn was a loyal trump surrogate during the campaign but fired as the president s National Security adviser after just 24 days when it became clear he had already lied to Vice President pence about his communications with kislyak. Pence had publicly said they did not discuss sanctions. It was strictlyco coincidental and they did not dus anything having to do with the United States decision to expel reporter he is required to cooperate with the investigation n. A state flynn said his actions were wrong and his interest of my family and of our country. What does flynns cooperation signal about the direction of this investigation . It signals it is Going Forward and it is moving and advancing very quickly. Reporter peter decidenberg a former federal prosecutor. If anyone is interacting with the russians or would know about, it would be flynn. So if you could get him to talk, it would be worth giving him a great deal. Considering the allegations against him, this is a good deal for flynn who might have otherwise phased decades behind bars. He was other scrutiny for failing to disclose payments from russian backed companies and trying to, straight the kidnapping avenue turkish cleric in exchange for 15 million. Alex. Jeff, you say this is a good deal for mike flynn. What indications do we have about the level of cooperation he may be offering to special counsel. Reporter well in his own statement he said th h cooperating with the special counsel investigation. Mike flynn is a unique video in this investigation. I say that because he straddled the campaign, the transition, and then the first few weeks of this white house and he was at the top level of the campaign transition and the white house early on. And so he was in on some of the top level discussions and what investigators are trying to figure out is why the russians were so intent on helping the Trump Campaign and whether any deals were made. Jeff you reported that Jared Kushner directed flynn to make contact with the Russian Ambassador about a u. N. Resolution. What might this mean for the president s soninlaw in terms of this investigation. Reporter well kushner has already been under scrutiny. He left about a hundred meetings off a security clearance form that he had to fill out accurately and including meetings with russians. So hes under scrutiny for that and also reportedly in on the convti james comey. So the scrutiny has been there on kushner. It now increases. We know that he was interviewed by the special Counsel Office early last month and most of those questions were told focus on flynn. So the heat is on Jared Kushner as well. Jeff pegues, thank you. Special counsel Robert Mueller was pointed after President Trump fired fbi director james comey. Angry that he would not drop the russia investigation. After the flynn guilty plea on friday, comey made his first ever instagram post. A passage from the book of amos in the bible, quote, but let justice roll down like waters an righteousness like an ever flowing stream. That is ominous. President trump denied he wanted to fire rex tillerson. He told reports that speculation that he was on his way out was, quote, laughable. President trump called reports about ousting tillerson fake mr. Trump said tillerson is not leaving and the white house said he still has President Trumps support. For more on an eventful 24 hours in the capitol, they all seem eventful, we turn to philip bunt. Good morning. Good morning. Lets talk about the most recent news which happened while most of us slept. Maybe you werent sleeping. But this is a major legislative win for the president and something hes looking for but it is not law yet. Where does it go from here. That is right. So the house passed a version of the tax cuts already that passed without notice because the house is has a much tronger republican majority. The senate bill now has a different set of changes to tax laws. And now they go into conference, where the house and the senate try to work to together and figure out one unified package and then it goes back to both chambers for another vote. So this is not over. It is a much further along process than what was the Health Care Bill for example which we all know failed in the Senate Earlier this year. Republicans in that sense. It is significant also in so far as it bucks a decade of republican orthodox about not adding to the federal deficit. By the most rosie estimates this will cost at least a trillion dollars. That is exactly right. So there is a group called the joint committee on taxation which a congressional Nonpartisan Group which assessed the bill an even incorporated economicest masts for how the economy will grow, this is a 1 trillion hit on the deficit. This is something however that republicans have largely dismissed. Mitch mcconnell saying that essentially this will pay for itself and there will be enough growth. There are very few economists who say that will happen so this is a stark change. The democrats complained loudly that they didnt have time to read the amendments and some of them arrived happened written with words you cant even understand. We saw john testa there. But does this set a president dent in terms of how bills are drafted and passed. Well see if it sets a pressa dent. This is hard to predict. But the republicans has learned of a way of avoiding public out cry. The Health Care Bill for example was drafted very quickly and in part that was to avoid the sort of organized activity by grassroots americans coming out and saying they object to it. And now this has to go back to the house and senate there is time to raise objections or support if they choose to do so but it was clear part of the speed was metropolitan to try to offset objections. We talk about this as a tax bill but it is also a health bill. It will repeal obamacare video man dade which is crucial to the survival of the market place. What are the implications for the broad sector of American Economy touched by this. There are huge implications. It is a totally important point. And to some extent we dont even know what all of the implications are in part because of the bill was cobbled together yesterday and has a lot of potential loopholes an potential implications but the health care one. This is almost certainly going to lead to more people who are dropping out of health care and coverage or more people who end up declaring bankruptcy because they dont have health care coverage. The Congressional Budget Office looked at this and because of the repeal of the individual mandate there is essentially the federal government will make money off people who make less than 40,000 despite the tax cuts because they are saving money on not helping to subsidize Health Insurance. In that regard, this is even more beneficial to the wealthy and less beneficial to poor americans because of that change to the video mandate. But at the same time, philip, the president had what is his biggest legislative victory and overshadowed by the flynn situation. Right. What do we think the white house is feeling right now . Because their initial reaction is this is not a big deal. If you look at what donald trump said, at every point along the way he said this is not a big deal. Even after the donald trump jr. And the russian lawyer emerged last year. So that is the white house standard line. But this is a big deal. That Michael Flynn was charged with only one small thing suggests he is working with Robert Mueller team and he is prepared to give testimony and Robert Mueller wont make a deal to give up some low Ranking Member of the trump staff. There is clearly some bigger fish were looking at here and there are stealed indictments and we dont know all of the answers but it is clear that mueller has his eyes on something big. The significance of flynns information may be equally dio metrically opposed to the small size of the charges. Philip bump from the Washington Post, thank you. Tomorrow morning on face the nation here, john dickersons guests will include Republican Senate Lindsey Graham of south carolina, Mick Mulvaney and senate angus king, independent of maine. A fellow democrat to step down in the wake of Sexual Harassment allegations. She spoke to ruben kihuen after allegations were found to be convincing. This as texas republican representative Blake Farenthold used 84,000 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassm claim in 2015 brought by his former spokesperson lauren green who was fired after complaining of a hostile work environment. The office of compliance has paid out about 360,000 to resolve complaints against House Offices since 2013. New light is being shed on an immigration case that turned into an issue in the president ial election last year. The Justice Department released an arrest warrant for josines Garcia Zarate after a San Francisco jury unquitted the undocumented mexican of murder in the 2015 killing of skate illegal possession of a firearm. And how this is again raising questions about socalled sanctuary cities such as San Francisco. Reporter a day after zarate was found not guilty in the murder of kate steinle, he faces deportation and potential federal prison time for violating his problems. An amended arrest warrant unsealed on friday said he must be returned to forward custody and transported to texas for sentencing. But it is unclear whether he would serve his time in the stein lee case before he is turned over to the feds. He faces up to three years behind bars when he is sentenced. Thursdays verdict has also reignited an in tense National Debate over immigration and sanctuary city policies like San Francisco. From day one, this case was used as a means to ferment hate. Reporter he had been recently released from the San Francisco jail when h shot steinle in 2015. Under sanctuary city policy he had not been turned over to immigration authorities. Pr

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