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years. we have been a crossroads in the past, and unfortunately, we have usually taken the wrong fork. tonight, ladies and gentlemen, you took the right turn. [applause] imperilhis win could the gop agenda in congress, shaving down mitch mcconnell s republican majority to just one vote. house and senate negotiators are said to have reached a tentative compromise for the tax overhaul. the latest, we go to kevin reporting.wn the let s start with the alabama race. , what do weoss tabs know about who voted? how did women vote? kevin: speaking with political types in alabama, who said that overwhelmingly, turnout, particularly amongst the african-american community, helped fuel doug jones to victory. he had top surrogates, including nba legend charles barkley getting out the support, trying to drive out turnout in urban areas, including mobile, alabama. some areas have a turnout, surpassed and even matched the turnout in the african-american community for when we saw the o ....
american people, a giant tax cut for christmas. and when i say giant i mean giant. [applause] david: connell mcshane, with us now. connell, this was the president s final sales pitch to america an capitol hill. the house and senate will vote on a bill next week, right? reporter: that is still the plan, david. interesting to hear what the president was on all of this, although updates we ve been getting past couple days are focusing on tax rates for upper income people and also for businesses, the president this afternoon kept his focus where he has been in many speeches we heard him deliver, that is on the middle class. invited up a number of families, middle class what they hope to save what they hope to do with the savings. he delivered what he described as breaking news. if congress sends me a bill before christmas, the irs, this is just out this, is breaking news, has just confirmed that americans will see lower taxes and bigger paychecks beginning in february. re ....
in, who s out, and what is in the actual plan itself. how it will impact you and your family. plus escalating criticism of the fbi is more evidence revealed of higher ups playing politics. president trump trying to boost the morale of the agency at the graduation ceremony today. what the president is saying now as we are learning about efforts to water down former fbi director james comey s statement on the hillary clinton email investigation. among our guests on these issues, this hour, republican congressman tom mcclintock, steve forbes, retired navy captain chuck nash, bob goodlatte the chairman of the house judiciary committee. melissa: back to the markets, the dow ending the day at a new record close its 69th under president trump. can you believe that? and for the end of the year. 2017 is tied for most records in a calendar year. nicole petallides, is floor of new york stock exchange. that is ominous. tied with 99. the records for the dow, nasdaq, and s&p. we ....
tavis smiley fires back at those allegations after being suspe suspended and losing sponsors. he s here live speaking out for the first time only on gma. and the force is strong with this one. the last jedi soaring to an out of this galaxy opening. now, the second largest of all time and it s just getting started. and good morning, america. welcome back from the weekend. also a big welcome to our weekend anchor paula faris. thanks, george. it s great to be here on a monday. boy, it was not a happy weekend in atlanta s airport. not at all. so many people stranded. my brother-in-law was one of the million that was stranded. my sister-in-law said he had a hard time calling her. the communications were bad and he was literally and figuratively in the dark and they wouldn t let him leave the airport. he s still there. 11 hours of chaos after the fire knocked out power. let s see what it s like there. you see the airport, cloudy and foggy. there you see it r ....
much bigger problem. hello and welcome to daybreak asia. i m in haidi lun. in newi m betty liu york. some investors here watching the and saying is that a ticking time bomb that eventually will go so high that it only has one direction which is down. and big correction. so far, so good. i want to pull up a chart here. what is so fascinating, the vertical lines that you see represent days when all three indexes, the s&p, nasdaq and dow, reached records. take a look at how many of those days we have had in just the last four months of this year. we kind of took a break in the middle, and big gap but look at this as we continue to head towards the end of 2017. no doubt a big santa claus rally, right? haidi: absolutely. you look at that. i know we get the occasional pullback but for the large part it is defying gravity. it feels with the momentum building intoit feels with the m building into tax, we will get something before christmas, that we are squeezing everything ou ....