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welcome to inside politics. i'm john king. thank you for sharing your time with us on a busy day in the nation's capital. the house keeps alive the hopes of sending president trump a big tax cut plan as a christmas gift. the democrats call it a lump of coal for the middle class. >> cutting taxes so that middle class families can have a better opportunity for the american
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dream. >> it cruelly rigs an unfair system even further against hardworking americans. >> plus the president later today designates opioid abuse as a national health crisis. it falls short of a promise to declare a full national emergency. >> everyone that we need know of someone who had a close encounter with the heroin epidemic. >> 54 years after that fateful november day in dallas, reams of long sealed documents about the assassination of a president, the debate about whether lee harvey oswald acted alone. >> a lot of experience theories are about if you believe he is the lone gunman. people are going to be on the oswald files. >> we begin with a big moment in
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washington that account affect the republican agenda and potentially your business. the house last hour narrowly passing the blueprint, the vehicle republicans need to pass their tax cut plan. a jintd win for the republican leadership promising to produce the tax cut details next week. >> this budget we passed in the house will bring us one step closer to historic tax reform. more jobs, fairer taxes, bigger paychecks for americans. too long the american people have been living under a broken system where they see too little of their hard earned dollars. >> the speaker was in a happy mood, but the 216 to 212 vote, 20 republicans voting no proved this is far from the finish line. there are big debates ranging from the explosion at the federal deficit to plans to wipe away popular deductions like the you get now for state and local taxes that you pay or the
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tax-free savings in your 401(k). as the votes were being counted, president trump tweeted do not under estimate the unity in the republican party. it will be tested soon. republicans want to get this done fast and can't count on any democratic votes, especially in the house. nancy pelosi said the republicans are lying when they sell this as a gift to the middle class. we will turn that around for you with us on this big day to share the reporting and insights. michael warren of the weekly standard and cnn's lauren fox. sorry about that. a huge day for the republican party and fir the president after what has been a disappointing eight or nine months failing to repeal and replace obamacare. can they move it forward? you spend your days walking the hall. 20 republican nos. that's a sign to the speaker that you got over the hurdle today and you better figure out the votes on the details and do
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it fast. >> it's absolutely a terrifying sign for republican that is a budget blueprint, not a bill or something that is going to make policy. this just paves the way for tax reform. we have not gotten into the details yet. those are going to matter tremendously. we will see an update on november 1st on what is going to be in this bill. that's a key day to remember. >> that's the hard part. lawmakers from 35 republicans in the house like california and new york and new jersey who have to tell con12i9 wents if they leave the outline, we will take away $12,000 of what you get to deduct. there is the debate about 401(k)s. a lot of them say wait a minute, what about the deficit. another wide card is the president. he tweeted unity and did exactly what the leadership wanted him
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to do. being asked the details come out next week. are they worried they will produce a bill and as happened in obamacare, the president said no. >> you concerned that this roll out next week when you have choices that he is not going to like some of them or tweet something about it? >> he will be in asia, number one. [ laughter ] no, i'm not. we are, wooing very, very closely with the white house. >> it's funny because it's true. >> that was a joke, kind of. >> i think this budget vote underscores where we are obsessed with the idea. the senate majority is there. the house majority is as well. the president has a problem here. he can tweet about unity all he wants, but the fact is these are not unified republicans.
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there are different legitimate reasons why they are worried about the issues and the deficit. the president doesn't have the tools that he might expect the president to have. he is at 38% in the latest fox news poll. he doesn't have the public mandate to say look, in this moment the country is behind me. it's not. republicans are going to need something to step out and make a decision that could hurt them with voters for the sake of getting the republican agenda through and right now he doesn't have them. >> you make a good point. that makes it hard for the democrats. we didn't see this in the house, but we will now. they have very total lose. if you have 35 members, guess what. you can't pass a bill. you lost 20 of them. one of the key issues is the president of the united states tweeted last week. that's why ryan was groeking
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when he said he would be in asia. he said don't touch 401(k)s. take a big tax cut and more than $1.5 trillion hole in the budget. you have to raise money elsewhere and bring revenues in to pay for it. 401(k)s is one of the things they are thinking about. the president said no. the chairman who is writing in bill even after the president said no said maybe. >> i think in tax reform we can create incentives for americans to save more and save sooner which can help. we are continuing to discuss that the president focused on saving more and saving sooner. >> 401(k)s to me are important because that's one of the great benefits to the middle class. i didn't want that to go too far. i ended it quickly. there are certain elements of
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deals you don't top the negotiate with. 401(k)s and kevin knows it and i think kevin is fantastic. he knows how important 401(k)s are. >> i think kevin brady is fantastic reminds me of i love the house bill and later you call it mean. that's the quick sand. they put the details on paper. >> he's right about the move. the entire pop lift selling point about the need to do this is not -- the corporate stuff is part of it. the reason why the president is trying to sell this to most americans is that it could help the middle class. when the two things you are talking about from the revenue loss from the tax cuts are middle class tools for retirement savings or to buffer yourself if you live in states with expensive taxes, aren't you talking about doing this? and so publicly the goal is
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still for republicans to get this passed by the end of the year. privately and starting with publicly now too, people are talking about how it pushes into spring well past the beginning of the primary season. we wanted yesterday that gary cohen is no longer on the president's short list for the get. one of the explanations for this is that gary is so important to tax reform. the president can't live without him in that role. the fed thing doesn't need to happen until next year. >> if you think it's hard to cast tough votes in an odd numbered year, try it in an even-numbered year. the challenge for the democrats is they don't have the votes to stop it. the challenge is to put the fear of the voter into a lot of the more moderate or high tax republicans where some of details will be a tough sell. nancy pelosi is amping up the
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message that when the republicans tell you this is for the middle class, they are lying. >> this morning when the republicans voted to advance the budget that they put forth, they drew a line in the sand between the middle class and working families and the very wealthy and corporate america. >> the question is, they don't have the votes. can they have an effective message that sways some of those republicans who are looking at nancy pelosi and saying if i lose my seat, she is speaker. >> there is the realization that trump has more power than perhaps he is given credit for. there is a big difference between new york republicans and a texas republican. he has a lot of support and he is gaining more. he has several issues that democrats are interested. the 401(k) like his daughter, i vank a. the child care tax
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credit and mortgage interest. some democrats in red states have indicated that they are willing to talk with the president about these issues. i wouldn't count it out entirely. also republicans yes are indeed against many of these issues. i think trump is showing he has a lot more control on the republican party that some give him credit for. >> no question. what will the president do. he will be in asia, but he will come back and be here for the key moments of the debate. about the fact that here's a president whether you like him or not can be an effective communicator and has sway over republicans. will he hit the road? he was quote said as saying the president likes his rallies, but likes staying at the white house more. some say he doesn't want to go on the root anymore. how important is the president to help speaker ryan get those.
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>> go out on the campaign trail and sell the tax bill. they have to pay for the bill and they don't want him 96ing that on the front end. he is more popular than many of them. they know that. they need the president to back their tax bill. some of these decisions will be tough. >> here's the conundrum with that. on the details, the president's instincts are more right than the republican establishment and the republican leadership on the hill. that's where this 401(k) talk is a perfect example of having the pulse on where his base is. the republican leadership doesn't. >> his instinct has to be more pop lift or democratic. they are aimed at traditional democrats. who knows. that's where they say when he gets out on the road, sometimes he can't resist. he reacts for the crowd and off we go.
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this is the first chapter, but a victory are if the house leadership. opioids may be the biggest health crisis right now. the president of the united states will label it a public health emergency. hey, it's me, your dry skin. i'm craving something we're missing. the ceramides in cerave. they help restore my natural barrier, so i can lock in moisture and keep us protected. we've got to have each other's backs and fronts. cerave. what your skin craves.
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and fronts. accused of obstructing justice to theat the fbinuclear war,
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and of violating the constitution by taking money from foreign governments and threatening to shut down news organizations that report the truth. if that isn't a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president, then what has our government become? i'm tom steyer, and like you, i'm a citizen who knows it's up to us to do something. it's why i'm funding this effort to raise our voices together and demand that elected officials take a stand on impeachment. a republican congress once impeached a president for far less. yet today people in congress and his own administration know that this president is a clear and present danger who's mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons. and they do nothing. join us and tell your member of congress that they have a moral responsibility to stop doing what's political and start doing what's right. our country depends on it.
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other big important news in washington, president trump scheduled to declare the opioid epidemic a public emergency. a full national emergency would give direct power to increase federal funding. the lesser designation which the president will use means any new money will have to be authorized by congress. the president promised the full national emergency declaration in august. >> the opioid crisis is an emergency and i'm saying officially right now it is an emergency. it's a national emergency. this is a national emergency and we are drawing documents so it
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does. >> here's what the president said yesterday. >> we are going to have a big meeting on opioids tomorrow. we are going to be doing a very, very important meeting sometime in the very near future on opioids in terms of declaring a national emergency which gives us power to do things thaw can't do right now. >> the highest levels of government is good. any attention is a good thing, but why the retreat? did he not understand the language and the distinction between a national emergency and a public health emergency? is that what it is or was he talked out of going the full limit? >> two things happened. one is that there began a series of legal discussions about whether or not you could use natural disaster funds in this
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way even for a short period of time. the second is more important. there were like three massive hurricanes that devastated taxes in florida and puerto rico. if he had gone that route, it would have been that pot of money. could you get congress to approve more money? sure. it's a bottomless pit of need in puerto rico right now. the opioid crisis is so expensive. even if you tapped all of the fema funds which are not going to do, it would not fix the problem. >> now you have the problem again. any attention from the president is good, but you have the issue i think i the lot of these families would argue that this is a daily natural disaster for
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them. this is a constant tornado and not realizing the loss and the pain of the people of texas and puerto rico. the president does this today and it's a 90-day which we assume he will renew. he said to look around and what do you have to spend? can you redirect resources? it doesn't have new money. they said to her that's the test of a president. >> show me the money. declaring an emergency means he can have access to funds, but the funds are like 57, $58,000. show me the money. >> as we had the conversation, this is not a washington conversation. the money gets allocated and to show the map, we don't need to tell you this. this is a problem in every state and every community in america. if you look at the overdose deaths and the numbers in 2015.
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the higher the rate of mortality by state. it's everywhere. this is shaded to accent the states where it is worse. if you look at a lot of states and there shouldn't be politics involved, but a lot of the president's base states. come back to the issue of here's a new president. he's learning the language of government. if this was so important, is it a fair question to ask, why are we in late october before we get this? >> huh experts who were eager to see something done immediately. when you say a national emergency, that's a sign that urgency is necessary. it took this long to get through. you point out any public health address is good. obviously there are other issues that involve how much that is life-threatening problems. we mentioned puerto rico and harvey. nuclear missiles that could potentially be targeted in california. there is a lot of life-threatening issues going on
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right now. opioid use is one of those. as you point out and the map shows, this is not an issue that covers the swath of america. red, blue, rich working class americans. both republicans and democrats realize that this is something that needs to be addressed. >> going back to the campaign, this was a surprise to the candidates. going to town halls in iowa and new hampshire. something bubbles up that washington is not paying enough attention to. anybody who ran for president or anything in 2016 will tell you they would go to town halls this would come up again and again and again. >> i'm now doubling down on that promise they made to the people of new hampshire. i can guarantee we will not only stop the drugs from pouring in, but help all of those people so seriously addicted and get them assistance and make sure they
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have the top treatment and get better. >> we will take all of these kids and people. not just kids. they are totally addicted and can't break it. we will work with them and spend the money and get that habit broken. >> our conversation is about politics and gets snarky. that's the nature of the business. i hope the president looks at those words and he is doing what he is doing today, but renew it for 90 days. congress has to appropriate more money. can he do it to prove he might have taken me 10 months to get here, but i mean it. >> the fact that this was a vise to candidates on the trail underscores the bigger problem is that it's cultural. nancy pelosi is going to say show me the money, but i'm not sure what more federal money could be doing to stem the problem which is cross cultural. this is happening among people who are wealthy just as much as
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among people who are poor. they don't have the resources to deal with treatment. this is a problem that i think is so unwieldy, you want an effort to bring more awareness that is good enough, but the problem goods deeper than throwing more money from washington. >> there are other aspects rather than the users themselves. whether you regulate and at more to the industry. it's how you deal with the countries. so much is coming here and the president is getting ready for a trip. is fentanyl going to be part of the discussions? use of the money is important, but understanding what the administration's regulatory and diplomacy is important. the money is up to congress. >> the constant focus and attention from the president of the united states and melania will speak. she is taking this on. set your politics aside and give them a chance.
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you are right. some people say we need more money and others say we need a conversation about this or that. that will be an interesting thing going forward. >> president trump said the media is not giving him a fair shake. we will let him make his case about civility next. she had so many children she had to buy lots of groceries. while she was shopping for organic fruits and veggies, burglars broke into her shoe. they stole her kids' mountain bikes and tablets along with her new juice press. luckily the geico insurance agency had helped her with homeowners insurance. she got full replacement on the stolen goods and started a mountain bike juice delivery service. call geico and see how affordable homeowners insurance can be.
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i think the press makes me more uncivil than i am. people don't understand. i went to an ivy league college, i was a nice student, i did very well, i'm a very intelligent person. the fact is, i really believe, i think the press creates a drvet image of donald trump than the real person. >> that's president trump just yesterday lodging a complaint against the news media, making the case that he's a good person
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both in the head and the heart. as you heard, he said we in the media create a less flattering image. a look back at the most civil moments. >> little marco, they hate him in florida. >> such a nasty woman. elizabeth warren is terrible. in the senate everyone hates her. you can have pocohontas. you know what they used to do to guys like that. they would be carried out on a stretcher. i like to punch him in the face. >> i'm attracted to beautiful -- i just start kissing them. i don't even wait. when you are a star, they let you do that. when you are a star, they let you do it. anything you want. grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> that's the argument of a 5-year-o 5-year-old. >> you would say that. i didn't start it. >> you would say that.
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>> that's him. tape doesn't lie. unless we are so good we created body doubles to do that. what point was he trying to make? >> the media was trying to get us to talk about this. >> to do that? that's what happens. >> to argue about this with him. he feets off of the fact that the media -- the media treats him unfairly and that's what his supporters believe. the truth is what he complains about the media showing him as. this is what he recognizes. this is what his supporters like. he sticks a finger in the eye of the people that his base doesn't like. >> everyone loved on the campaign trail, his base loved that he would say things that they might not want to say to their buddies. he is going to run the free world and he will save them too. it made his base comfortable.
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at the same time the president wants to be in the inner circle. he wants to be an insider and it bothers him when he is not characterized as such. he is the president of the united states. >> you hit on the conflict. he wants to have this base that yes, his approval numbers are unpopular, but his base is rock solid and consistent and he talks to them. when he is talking, he is talking to them, but not the steps. he likes to be liked and wonders why doesn't the establish like me more? senator jeff flake said i'm done. i will be harshly critical and republicans shouldn't hide from that. he waited months to see if as president a lot of the things would change. jeff flake said they won't. the question was put to the speaker of the house about whether he thinks it's important to call out such words. >> i don't think the american people want to see us yelling at each other.
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they want to see us fighting for them. the american people want results. if we are calling each other names or calling each other out or saying things against each other, what does that do to help a working mom get ahead or advance tax reform that will give us faster economic growth and bigger paychecks? nothing. >> pivot is what they call that in the playbook. >> where is the agency for the president? he uses the names. that's i think a blind spot for republicans on this. they recognize that they can't cut against the leader of their party on this. in every instance, he is the instigator for that. >> paul ryan knows that if you take issue request the president, you will be the next one. >> republicans don't view this as name calling. many view this as a battle for the soul of the nation. when jeff flake goes out and gives speeches about president trump, he is not trying to call him a name.
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that's the difference here. >> whether it's flake or corker or paul ryan, the republicans know you are either for trump or against him. i see when he is talking about civility he is making a connection to intelligence. he is trying to say politics is tough. i'm doing a good job. i'm reaching my base and therefore i should be respected for it. >> he's saying i am getting a bad rap and nobody is being fair. republicans -- paul ryan was transparent about it. in weighing the advantage-moral responsibility about calling the president out, it makes many of them uncomfortable. in the back of their minds, they are like let's concentrate on judges and if we can't repeal health care, get tax reformat least. that will be the test. health care was supposed to be a thing. it might be the test. it is a good point of reckoning,
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but we haven't seen them yet. >> put blinders on to get things done. tom coburn is a former conservative senator. he said this to jonathan martin. we have a leader with a personality disorder. they are not going to abandon him. making the point about the trump base. one conversation about the president, you go out in america, he is getting his conservative judges and they think he is fighting on immigration. they think he is fighting on the issues they care about. tax cuts will be a key test. they think he is fighting for the middle guy. the guy he promised i will be your voice. >> i don't know if they think that. he is standing up for what i think about the national anthem. a lot of cultural issues are where the republican base feels more affinity to the president. the policy issues are sort of a stand in to say we want congress
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to be hit over the head. >> that's a smart point. a lot of adults don't trush washington to do anything anyway. that's an interesting point. >> these are not ivy league talking points. >> they are political smarts. she messaging to the people that he is trying to message to. they are receiving those. >> agreed, but if it was john kerry or something championing the credentials, trump would be making fun of it. they think it suits him. >> i'm going to get the wharton class roster. >> celebrating wikileaks over the leaked e-mails that made her look bad. >> wikileaks is brutal stuff. i may not read it, but trust me, it's bad stuff. >> a firm working for the trump campaign reached out hoping to get his hands on the e-mails. and the wolf huffed and puffed... like you do sometimes, grandpa?
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>> this just came out. wikileaks. i love wikileaks. this wiki leak stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you have to read it. the e-mail shows that hillary clinton staff even has to give her secret notes on when she needs to smile. smile, hillary. smile. the hillary clinton documents released by wikileaks. this is solution and corruption of the highest order. >> you see the dates on that video. that's about a year ago. candidate trump had a lot to say
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in the final stretch of the campaign. now fast forward to today. sources say a data an lytics firm made contaction with the firm and started working with for the trump campaign. the goal is to access and catalog the hacked campaign and democratic e-mails that wikileaks into the ahold of. they got the e-mails from the russians. we can't forget this. >> russia, if you are listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> what does this mean? a data firm, jared kushner was involved and steve bannon and the mercer family and the data came in and they were important to the campaign in the end. they said can we see these and help you catalog these to help you access them for research on
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hillary clinton. wikileaks said no. what does that mean? everybody does opposition research. is it beyond the line to reach out to a bad actor like that or is it just one of the need a shower campaigning? >> i think it's a problem and what's going on with the question of the trump dossier and the hillary clinton campaign and the dnc was doing to get that information. it's a problem and the campaign recognizes it's a problem. they distanced themselves from cam bridge an lytica. they recognized that this is bigger than just simply that gray area. this is a foreign agent that they are working with. >> when the story broke on the daily beast yesterday, the campaign came out with a statement that answers none of the big questions.
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why did they reach out? who authorized them to do so? was it discussed? i'm sure that people who asked from the documents either have them or are asking for new documents today. we as a campaign relied on the date to help elect president trump. any claims from any other source played a role are false. number one, this is not about voter data. this is about contact with wikileaks. the part i love about this, the executive director claims that they played a key role in the victory are false. doesn't say they didn't play a role. the statement raises more questions to me than it answers. >> one of the toughest parts is that we have president trump and his own words in the clips that you played in the start of the segment saying how obsessed he was with wikileaks. that will be tough to overcome in the next couple of weeks. >> we know the investigations
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are under way. this is one view. ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee who has long raised suspicions about the campaign. >> it's part of a pattern. we have the president urging the russians to hack hillary clinton's e-mails and you then have the russians reaching out through intermeedsiaries to offer bill and hillary clinton. it's part of filling out the picture between the trump campaign and the russians. >> that's adam schiff. angus king is an independent and works with the democrats. he is democratic leaning and involving the investigations as well. not so harsh. >> we now are reasonably certain that those leaked -- whatever wikileaks had in the way of leaked e-mails came courtesy of the russians and their hacking here in washington. that was an attempt to do opposition research which unfortunately happens in every political campaign these days. >> is it different than what
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clinton's campaign did with fusion? >> no, it was an attempt to get dirt on the other side. >> adam schiff sees smoke. angus king said it is one of the pay close attentions and you need a shower. >> and fundamentally this underscores why the muller investigation is more important than a congressional investigation. if you -- as special counsel you have been looking at and they have been holding multiple investigations and things we know were happening and had nothing to do with the trump vote, you are able to attempt to get the questions. >> they are getting bigger and
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bigger. every week we are getting new material that is going to be researched and investigated. conservatives have been using so much oxygen and all of this is about the clinton dossier and comey leaking e-mails. i would say that muller is going to get to the bottom of all of those connections with the various foreign entities. >> the white collar attorneys. i know for a fact in terms of the data targeting, that is an issue he is looking at. and he is also look at what the russians did with overlap. a lot of things will be said. we will get to the end and nobody knows. the president teess the release of the secret files. what might be in the files? what does it mean for the experience theories and those that date back 50 years and one repeated last year by the president himself. remember that accident i got in
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today president trump has a chance to help us with a big experience theory on whether there were other forces at work besides the shooter. he will authorize 3,000 pages of documents about the 1963 assassination and the records have been under wraps for decades. teasing the files on twitter as so interesting. why release the documents today? congress set this deadline in 1992 after new wave of theories set off in part by the oliver stone film, jfk. >> there are hundreds of documents that can prove this. why are they being with held by
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the government? all the documents are yours. you pay for it. because a government considered them too dispressed to face the reality, you might lynch those involved. you cannot see those for another 75 years. >> fascinating day. joining me now is a historian. tim, let's start with the headline. what do you believe is in these documents and what do you believe is not? >> well, we don't know yet how many pages could be released from the national archives website. you get the impression that we could be talking about a couple hundred thousand pages. that's exciting for historians, but is it helpful for people who are excited about the theory about lee harvey as wald.
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people are likely to be disappointed. this is the group set for the jfk act signed 25 years ago. a very sober, smart, nonpartisan group of people looked at the materials in the 90s and forced out materials they felt were relevant to letting will us make up our minds about lee harvey oswald. that came out in 1998. what didn't come out were colors that were related and the intelligence said we don't think they should be released because of the harm it might pose to national security and they said they are not necessary to understand the lee harvey oswald story. what's interesting today and it's the irony. y have someone who doesn't think much of the community. they have a base that is
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