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these aircraft come in close proximity to one another. all right, ryan brown reporting from the pentagon. thanks very much. remember, important programming note. stay with cnn later tonight for a very timely debate on tax reform. that s coming up, 9:00 p.m. eastern. that s it for me. thanks for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, breaking news. north korea firing what could be its most powerful missile yet, one that could reach washington, d.c. plus, the president s reality show. today, trump staging a white house meeting like an episode of the apprentice playing roulette with a government shutdown. and trump going after senator elizabeth warren, raising questions about what he said about his own heritage. why did he say he s of swedish descent when he actually isn t? let s go outfront. good afternoon. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, breaking news. north korea with a record breaking missile launch that potentially puts washing ....
why rob portman is hopeful. mick mulvaney is warning. and steny hoyer is fighting mad. they re all here and only here. we begin with blake burman with the latest. blake? it s clear here in the halls of the capitol as house republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. there s a host of issues to work through. earlier today, the club for growth, an influential republican group put out a note saying they have issues with four different things on the individual side of this house republican plan. here they are. top tax bracket for millionaires with the possibility that those that make in the low million dollar range can see the top end taxed north of 45%. they take issue with a portion of pass-through profits would be taxed 25%. growth. you had big deficits. it wasn t tax cuts that did it. cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil: but you left out ronald reagan. i know. deficits didn t grow with him. the first two years ....
west palm beach airport, following the president s first physical exam as president. according to his doctor at walter reed, the exam went, quote, exceptionally well and further details on tuesday. before leaving washington for this martin luther king holiday weekend, trump signed a proclamation expanding site, with questions from the president about remarks about haiti, el salvador the day before. and throughout the day, republican lawmakers in florida, including senator marco rubio and congressman carlos ro bechlt. llo strongly distanced themselves from the remarks, all in a state, florida, a home to many immigrants and their families, including 300,000 haitian-americans, most in south florida, some of whom protested the president s comments. and republican governor rick scott also reacted to trump s for so long. do you get the sense that he s sort of distracting from his own policy agenda with the comments he made this week about other countries, whether true or not, with t ....
to meet with kim jong un. i don t expect that kim jong un would come to the united states because he might fear that he would be thrown in american jail and never see the light of dayat ever again.ro not that that would happen. n so it may be that they choose potentially south korea right there along the border in panmunjom which would be thehe site of the talks between south korea s president moon jae-in and kim jong un later in may. or maybe it s a third country, some neutral country somewhere else in the world where everyone can meet. how did we get to this point? the white house just walking us through that in a conference call right now, but chung eui-young is the south korean national security advisor, said in a statement outside the white house here that it was due to president trump s program of maximum pressure that north korea came to the table. they said that while kim is committed to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula, he also understands the joint military e ....
find their children, how to keep a roof over their head, clothes on their back, food on the table, care for an ailing parent. and we re in here wasting time. with that, i ll just yield the balance of my time. if there s anything that you think you need to add or that you were cut off and not had the time to add to this discussion, i ll give the balance of my time to mr. strzok to do that. sir, i appreciate that offer. i m struck listening to your statements and i know the history of the fbi. i certainly want the fbi to be something that you immediately leap to the defense of and i think that s something we re working very hard to become. i appreciate the offer and thank you. when it comes to the fbi, i asked years ago to have a hearing on the fact that we don t know or track how many crimes are committed by fbi informants. we haven t had that hearing. but we spent time on fast and furious because we were putting guns, introducing guns into the hands of criminals. the ....