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thank you. tonight, your money, your taxes. president trump s new plan. what it means for you. after several efforts to repeal obamacare fail, the president now turns to a major tax overhaul. proposed cuts for middle class families, also major cuts for corporations and wealthy americans. also tonight, the crisis in puerto rico. a full week after the hurricane hit, more than a million people without power or drinking water. the mayor of san juan tonight saying people are starting to die. the deadly showdown. the police video just released. the suspect jumping from his pickup, firing at police. officers responding. tonight, abc news obtaining some of the russian ads bought on facebook. you will see them for yourself. posing as an american group, the ads say, we need trump. the massive explosion, 30,000 forced to evacuate. authorities now asking, was this an accident or not? and the first airline to offer free text messaging while you re flying. are phone calls next ....
back. overnight we ve seen the president evolve his thinking to now advocate for the death penalty and, regardless, both of these statements are somewhat inappropriate and unprecedented just in terms of what a president traditionally would say, which is to restrain from offering this sort of commentary. it is in keep with the kind of public persona that donald trump has cultivated over many, many years in public life of trying to show himself to be strong and tough and have this steely resolve. but he s not a commentator anymore. he s the president of the united states. so there s a different standard, and his words carry a different weight. there s an obliviousness to the fact that he sits atop the federal government. a federal government whose justice system he described yesterday as a laughing stock and a joke. well, the comment to first it just shows his total lack of rigor in making any pronouncements. this is someone who revels in his unpreparedness. it s an improv ....
leaders in congress, are to pretend didn t happen. is that just mitch mcconnell s nature? what has to happen for something to get done? tell me what you saw when you watched the press conference today. reporter: well, mitch mcconnell knows when you re the leader, a party in the senate, you ll take shots. that s part of the job, a guy who takes incoming fire and allows your caucus to get things done. the two men appearing side-by-side today was politically smart or at least acknowledgement of political reality. their goals in most cases are the same and desperately need each other to get any of them done. on tax reform, they cannot have the same problems they had on health care. if they re sniping back and forth at each other day after day it s gawk to be that much more difficult to get done. you heard some of that today. the president praising mitch mcconnell. saying he s the guy to get it done on all of these issues and put a bunch of additional issues on mitch mcconnell s plat ....
wbr id= wbr600 /> one thing, getting great health care for this country. that was a big chunk. and as far as subsidy is concerned, i don t want to make the insurance companies rich. if you look at their stock price over the last number of years, take a look at what s happened with the insurance companies. they are making a fortune by getting that kind of money. yes? wbr id= wbr893 /> how long can you [ inaudible ] we will see what happens with iran. we are very unhappy with iran. they haven t treated us with the kind of respect they should have been treating. they should have thanked barack obama. they were gone. they were economically gone. he infused $100 billion to $150 billion into wbr id= wbr1140 /> their economy. gave them $1.7 billion in cash. they should be, thank you, president obama. /b> they didn t say that. you said you would declare national emergency we are studying national emergency right now. believe it or not, doing national emergency as you u ....
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 wbr id= wbr830 /> 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. /b> 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 ....