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House is set to vote on 1. 2 trillion usmca deal any minute now. One day after their historic vote to impeach President Trump. Connell Fox Team Coverage on all of this. Gerri willis on floor of the new york stock exchange. Chad pergram covering all things capitol hill including that vote. Kristina partsinevelos in newsroom. Edward lawrence is in the white house. Chad, start with you, we talked about impeachment and usmca is a big deal this hour as well. Absolutely. We think the vote starts in ten minutes on the house floor. Theyre about to vote on salt, democratic provision to get rid of the element in the tax law from couple years ago that prohibited the deductions on state and local taxes here. This was a big issue in hightaxed states like new york and new jersey. That is a place where a lot of republicans didnt fare too well in the house races. That vote is up first in ....
Of hurricane harvey, along with the destruck for a threemonth extension for the debt ceiling to clear the decks for tax reform. What will happen when it heads to the house where conservatives are crying foul . We have a great line up. Among our guests, congressman andy biggs. He of the conservative Freedom Caucus. He doesnt like the deal. Karl rove, herman cain, the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, whose mayor is under a portion evacuation order. Melissa get back to the markets. Were getting a quick check on the markets from Nicole Petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. Nicole, tell me about today. Good afternoon, melissa and dave. We saw this type of action back and forth. The morning more volatile throughout the afternoon. The low to the down side down 60 points. Financials got hit hard. There are concerns not ha ....
Time of the typical White House Press briefing, where you can see reporters asking the White House Press secretary questions, and while there just was reporters in the briefing room, asking questions, in a trend that is becoming increasingly disturbing to television journalist, more often than not, the white house is saying that we cannot bring in cameras, we cannot broadcast live, will only allow you to hear the audio of the briefing afterwards. That audio into minutes. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was pressed repeatedly about the president streets earlier and said essentially this. I think the president s statement via twitter today is extremely clear, i dont have anything to add. And these were the tweets that came out about 12 56. Answering the question if he secretly took meetings with then fbi director jim scully ....
Democrats are definitely not on board. The Senate Majority leader says this has to get done. Ultimately, we want to get legislation to finally end of the failed care status quo through congress and to the president s desk for his signature. Democrats will be here fighting for as long as it takes to beat back these shameful health care bills. We hear the american people, we hear you, we are on your side, and we will never give up. Melissa peter doocy is live on capitol hill with more on this showdown. Peter, what can you tell us at this hour . Melissa, senator Lisa Murkowski, one of the hardest votes to get, one of the two republicans who voted no on the motion to proceed is standing right here and she just confirmed to this group of reporters, as were walking with her in the hallway, that she got a call from ryan zinke expressing his displeasure about her position on health ....
That zero of the democrat votes, a motion to proceed on health care has just passed. And now we move forward towards truly Great Health Care for the American People. This was a big step. I want to thank senator john mccain, very brave man. He made a tough trip to get here and vote. Jon there were two republican holdouts. The president called out those senators by name. Saying they really let republicans and their country down today, too bad. Fox news contributor, this president does a lot of unusual things. What do you think about calling out a senator by name . Hes done that before with varying degrees of success. And Mitch Mcconnell pulled a rabbit out of his hat. In order to begin amendments and perhaps a final vote on legislation. I think there were other republicans who voted in motion to proceed while telegrap ....