taxes. next year the deduction is capped at $10,000, so if you can, pay now to get 2017's better tax break. it's different in every single municipality, so you'll have to do some homework here and you don't have much time to do it. also, defer any income you can for 2018 for lower tax breaks. pay any expenses that will no longer be tax-free, those miscellaneous business expenses, and make charitable donations right now. if your tax rate falls, your deduction will be less valuable, but talk to an accountant and do your homework. >> so no postcard. >> i'm christine romans. >> and i'm dave briggs. "new day" starts now. see you tomorrow. it's always a lot of fun when you win. >> there's only two places where america is popping champagne, the white house and the corporate board rooms. >> they're one heck of a leader. >> the individual mandate is being repealed.

that means obamacare is being repealed. >> it isn't up to us. it's up to them. they have the votes. >> i don't think anybody is advocating for a shutdown right now. we think congress will do the right thing. >> to remove special counsel mueller would be a gross abuse of power. >> most of mueller's team is anti-trump. what concerns me is the intent to carry out a plan to interrupt the election. >> the willingness to just torch the whole fbi building to advance this narrative is very troubling. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day". it is thursday, december 21st, 6:00 here in new york. chris is off. bill weir joins me. great to have your help today. >> great to be here. >> more big newsday. >> happy day for president trump. maybe the happiest since he won the election. >> he is eye for you can over his first legislative win and gop heaping praise on the president. but there's still a lot of

uncertainty among everyday americans. when will the impact kick in? how will you feel it in your own wallet. the president claims this ends obamacare. does it? >> does it? >> bill wants to get right in on it. >> why weren't we talking about that before this bill was signed? there's a looming possibility they will shut the lights down. funding runs dry in less than 48 hours. house republicans emerging from a closed door meeting say they are no closer to a spending plan. and a shot against the fbi. warner warning. don't fire mueller or pardon any of his witnesses in the russian investigation while lawmakers are away for a break. we have it all covered this morning. we will start with joe johns at the white house. joe is, good morning >> reporter: good morning, bill. we have seen efusive gushing

praise, something this president kraeufs but one of the few things that could pour cold water on all the enthusiasm over the tax cutting bill would be shutting down the deposit because they can't get a short-term agreement on a spending bill. it still seems unlikely right now, but time is running out. >> all friends. i mean, i look at these people and it's like we're warriors together. >> reporter: president trump celebrating the tax bill alongside congressional republicans months after attacking gop leadership over previous legislative failures. >> paul ryan and mitch, it was a little team. we just got together and we would work very hard, didn't we? it seems like -- it was a lot of fun. it's always a lot of fun when you win. >> reporter: the love fest continuing with ryan and mcconnell gushing over the president. >> there's been a year of extraordinary accomplishment for the trump administration. >> something this profound could not have been done without

exquisite presidential leadership. mr. president, thank you. >> reporter: the quick passage causing confusion for taxpayers on how they should prepare for the huge overhaul. the treasury department and the irs scramble to go write new regulations. republicans saying workers will feel the benefits of this tax cut in a matter of weeks. >> january 1, americans will wake up with a new tax code. february they will see withholdings going down and will see bigger paychecks. >> reporter: eliminating the individual mandate which fines americans who don't have insurance. the president falsely claiming he's repealed obamacare. he did not. republicans tried to do that through legislation and failed. >> so in this bill, not only do we have massive tax cuts and tax reform, we have essentially repealed obamacare. and we'll come up with something

that will be much better. >> reporter: president trump selling it as a christmas present for the middle class with some companies delivering on the promise. comcast and at&t promising $1,000 bonuses to their employees. pfizer and coca-cola validating democrats's concerns saying they will turn over most gains to their shareholders. >> is that what you intended? give more money, increasing the wealth of corporate ceos? >> reporter: as the tax bill makes the way to the president's desk, republicans have two days to pass a spending bill to avoid shutting down the government. a closed door meeting of house republicans late wednesday night ending with more questions than answers. the president still has not signed the tax bill. that could be a day or two before it gets to him. now, there is nothing on the president's schedule today.

however, we are waiting to see whether there could be a year-end news conference. no word so far on the white house on that. bill and alisyn back to you. >> joe, thank you forsetting all that up. people are waking up with uncertainty this morning. they're not sure what this means for their paychecks or insurance coverage, especially if they have he obamacare. they said obamacare is repealed. let's just put up for everybody what we know is in and out right now, what's been taken away and what remains. here's what's been taken away. individual mandate, effective in 2019. the cost sharing subsidies for insurance companies they were haggling over in congress. here's what remains in obamacare. medicaid expansion, pre-existing conditions that are the most popular provision. no lifetime cap on benefits. subsidies to low and moderate

income customers. and so, karoun, we always heard, hadn't we, that if the individual mandate goes away, obamacare does collapse. is the president right? >> unck it is a hit to the obamacare structure that democrats did not want to have to contend with. it is basically inching the system more towards this sort of -- it's not really the public option but more towards this thing that will, the medicaid people, all the kalt goers that you just listed that still exists. it becomes a different math problem. republicans were looking for something to offset various positions of the tax bill and looping in the mandate and repeal both sounded politically go and helped them a little bit with the numbers. you are seeing the combination of that right now. this is not a direct getting rid of obamacare. that is a sales pitch that the

president is making because so many parts of it are intact. and they are promising they will revisit health care into the new area. they are going to work on the alexander-murray provisions. that will be something they revisit when they get back in january. >> how many of us would buy car insurance if it wasn't a law? the mandate was a republican idea. it came from mitt romney in massachusetts. it is is personal responsibility. yet more people into the poll. can we play sound from the president talking about this at the cabinet meeting. let's listen to president trump. >> the individual mandate is being repealed. that means obamacare is being repealed. because they get their money from the individual mandate. so the individual mandate is being repealed. so in this bill, not only do we have massive tax cuts and tax

reform, we have essentially repealed obamacare. and we'll come up with something that will be much better. >> i was hoping that was the bite where he said we didn't tell. we told the people to keep it from the press. >> right. >> because we didn't want to scare anybody with the idea of the obamacare. david, didn't he hide the ball on this? were republicans able to keep that away? >> that wasn't a very well kept secret. we have been reporting on it for a week. >> it struck me the president was referring toward this idea they didn't want to complicate tax negotiations by getting too caught up in health care implications. look, the individual mandate was always one of the key problems that republicans had with obamacare. of course you know they had many. the party long evolved away from that philosophy.

so i think the it felt good for republicans. but what they haven't done is replace obamacare. owe on 'bama care is still in place. there are all sorts of guarantees that obamacare makes that cost money for the insurance company. and to fully fix the insurance system and milwaukee sure costs don't continue to skyrocket on consumers, which is a major problem, republicans will have to come up with proposals and get things passed. otherwise, i think you're going to have a lot of angry voters. but by putting this into the tax bill, they were able to help create more votes. it created more of an incentives. we haven't talked about opening the wildlife refuge into energy exploration. republicans have been trying to do this for decades. incident was another reason why they were able to create a deal around the tax bill even though there were a lot of tough votes to take because they put a lot of goodies republicans have been

interested in philosophically and fiscally for a long time. >> the government shutdown could happen tomorrow night at midnight. so, what are the sticking points? >> well, at this point -- there are many sticking points. a big one is about defense spending. a big one will be about what to do about reauthorization of a surveillance program that will be expiring at the end of the year. there are a variety -- as you just put up on the screen, the question about extending the children's health insurance program. and of course the disaster aid as well for people who got hit by the hurricanes earlier this year. it is creating factions along party lines. there are internal divisions. when the house gop last night, you saw them squabbling over this. they are whipping votes to figure out what they can do. they have to come to an agreement across the aisle. with talk about government shutdowns periodically. i'm sensing less urgency behind

that threat that in years past we really were heading straight into periods where the government had to shut down several weeks. so the question is how much of a motivation factor really is the fact that we are heading to the holidays right now. this could trickle into the weekend as they work out the fine-tuning. some of these issues have been slightly resolved. they have settled on at least what they will be doing about the survey by kicking the can down the road a few weeks. this is a short-term extension that will let them live to fight another day, several sticking points which could buy them their vacation. >> striking moments yesterday not just at the photo-op on the steps with everybody celebrating but also in this cabinet meeting. listen to vice president mike pence talking about the boss. >> i'm deeply humbled as your vice president to be able to be here. because of your leadership, mr. president, and because of the

strong support of leadership in the congress of the united states. you're delivering on that middle class miracle. i want to thank you, mr. president. i want to thank you for speaking on behalf of and fighting every day for the forgotten men and women of america. because of your determination, because of your leadership, the forgotten men and women of america are forgotten no more, and we are making america great again. >> the body language of that shot i'm guessing might come back on saturday night live. >> i'm confused by that body language. he was not with open arms receiving that lavish praise. >> david, what struck you about that? >> what struck me is i can't even get people that actually love me to talk about me that way in private, let alone in front of television cameras. president trump is fueled by

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virginia democrat mark warner, ranking member of the senate intelligence committee, is drawing a red line over coordinated attacks against special counsel robert mueller. >> any attempt by this president to remove special counsel mueller from his position or to pardon key witnesses in any effort to shield them from accountability or shut down the investigation would be a gross abuse of power. these truly are red lines and simply cannot allow them to be crossed. >> he told cnn he is worried they may make a move over the christmas recess. qaa rupe, what about the timing of warner's statements there?

>> i think it is clearly meant to be a warning as congress will leave washington, d.c. for a period of time, about ten daus. the senate has been has been grappling over these bills that would prevent firing special counsel without it being put to a three-judge panel to make sure it sound legal. they have been dragging their feet about actually doing something. and democrats are getting angry about that. basically it leaves them with no immediate recourse to try to prehaven't the president from getting rid of special counsel while nobody is around to rush in and stop them from doing that. it is the president's ability to do that. at least to order it through the acting ag, rod rosenstein, who

said he doesn't want to fire him. congress gets nervous about what they will do when they are away. this is not a normal investigation in terms of what it is doing and how the president is reacting to it, which is consistently negatively. >> david, listen, this is what we need help understanding. the president has said he's not considering firing mueller. he can't. he has to order rod rosenstein. he said he sees no reason. he's not considering can it. >> if the media continues to ask for responses to every absurd and baseless rumor, attention-seeking partisans will continue to spread them. >> why do democrats keep beating this drum? >> the president has from time to time expressed publicly his unhappiness with the mueller investigation. the fact that it is a witch-hunt. and he has never taken the idea that he might fire mueller off

the table. many of his allies have been encouraging him to do so. there are small pockets of republicans on the hill. not many but small pockets that questioned the mueller investigation and suggested the president should do something about it. i also think, look, politically the democrats see value in keeping the rub that investigation at the forefront talking about what trump might do. and a lot of this i think stems from how trump has handled the investigation from the beginning. he has constantly questioned it, constantly tried to undermine it. even when i think it would be beneficial to him to just let the investigation work its well, focus on legislation, focus on our agenda, and voters will end up probably making a tkrpl nation. that way is more beneficial to him than if he constantly focuses the spotlight through his tweets and other public pronouncements.

what's important to understand is republicans on the hill don't want to be too up front in criticizing the president. most of them do not want him to fire mueller. they don't want him to deal with implications of what that might mean. they would much rather have it be mueller's responsibility. >> absolutely. this don't need that headache. let's talk about what's happening with israel and the president's move to make jerusalem the capital and move the embassy to jerusalem. so there will be a vote in the u.n. security council and nikki haley said if people vote against this, as countries are threatening to do, they will be taking names. she and the president are taking names. they are keeping a list of who would go against the u.s. here's what the president says about that. >> i like the message that nikki sent yesterday at the united nations for all of these nations that take our money and then vote against us at the security

council or potentially at the assembly. they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then vote against us. we're watching the votes. let them vote against us. we'll save a lot. we don't care. >> karoun, that is really interesting. it's really satisfying on sort of a vengeance level. i know from talking to so many of the die hard trump supporters, they will really love that move. can the president unilaterally do that? >> this whole stick it to the u.n. line has worked for a lot of people, especially a lot of people that support the president, who is not the biggest champion of multilateralism when he was on the campaign trail. nikki haley has to bring her pencil sharpener. there is a long list of names. issues where there is more of a debate about who is right or wrong to the united nations. this is not a move that the security council like the naming

of skwraoupl as the capital. it is one of those final stage negotiation topics when you talk about the israeli-palestinian deal. having done this by the united states, recognizing jerusalem, opens the flood gates for other people to do things that the palestinians wanted but the united states always said leave that to the end. that's one of the last thing we will resolve in this peace negotiation. the united nations has been the place they have gone to do these things. there will be a lot of resistance to what the united states decision has been. you hear the administration is sticking to it. they are saying this is the correct decision. they are going to be very upset and expect loyalty with anybody else we engage with. the united states has a lot of power to wield around the world. but this is a topic that is weakening. it hasn't been the case. it seems strange all of a sudden people would fall into line around this declaration, which

was so unpopular around the world. >> david, your thoughts on this? >> what is interesting about the jerusalem decision, most countries in the u.n. were never going to embrace this. it's -- they usually tend to be more sympathetic to the palestinians and the issue of peace talks between the israelis and the palestinians. is the president's move a part of a broader strategy and a change of direction in how to arrive at at a peace deal? it doesn't right now appear that was the case. but i don't think the president's decision was necessarily the big problem that people make it out to be simply because we have never been able to arrive at a peace deal for decades while leaving the question alone and keeping the u.s. embassy in tel aviv. the president still signed the waiver. much of this is symbolic. he left room for a final status issue to be decided by the party. is strong arming and jawboning at u.n. member nations can gain

him in any ground in support for how him and his team wants to deal with this. so far we have not seen that. >> they wouldn't break ground on a new embassy until a second term or whoever is next. thank you. appreciate your time this morning. gunfire between north korea and south korea as another north korean soldier defects. a live report from seoul next.

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>> reporter: well, alisyn, what we know at this point is this was a young defector. he was late teens, early 20s. we understand he was a low-ranking soldier, according to the south korean military. now, they say he crossed the border just after 8:00 a.m. local time. they say an hour and a half later the south korean military fired 20 shots because they saw north korean soldiers approaching the demarkation line, obviously trying to find him. they didn't realize potentially he had been missing for that time. about 40 minutes later, shots were heard on the north korean side. there was no direct military engagement between north korea and south korea. but the fact is you do not want shots fired on such a tense border. just last month we saw there was that defector that made that daring dash across the dmz. and certainly that was an almost deadly dash, shot multiple times by his former comrades. the question now we are being

asked is why are there so many more soldiers trying to cross across this heavy militaryized border which is heavily mined as well. those are just the ones we hear about. >> that one that did get across, full of intestinal worms, parasites, an elite soldier. let's turn to the weather now. eyes, snow, and rain will make a mess of central and eastern parts of the country. let's get details now from meteorologist chad myers with a look at the forecast. good morning, chad. >> good morning, bill. this weather brought to you by jared, the galleria of jewelry. let's get right to it. we will get some bags on the lift here on the crane, on the carousel. salt lake city and denver are the biggest problems today. also maybe up towards minneapolis. this will get 15, 30 minutes around 30 to 35 minutes. tomorrow, it is texas and louisiana that has the problem.

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virginia's legislature is in limbo this morning. there was a recount after democrat shelly simonds won over yancey. the final tally is a tie. 11,608 votes each. virginia's former attorney general ken cuccinelli joins us now. ken, what are the chances? >> very, very low. this has never happened at the state level before. now, this has happened in local elections in virginia in the past. but it has never happened for the house delegates.

of course what adds so much drama to all of this is right now without this race the state house of delegates is 50 republicans, 49 democrats. so if -- essentially a coin toss. it is not really a coin toss. i'll explain in a moment. a republican with a 50/50 chance, they are up 51-49. simonds, a democrat, wins it, it's 50/50 tie and they go into power sharing. >> let me tell you something. surely there is a very sophisticated high-tech way of determining how to break this tie. so let's take our viewers there. >> there is. >> let me just put up what we have learned. the candidate's names will be printed on a separate sheet of paper. the names will be cut up and placed into a separate film canister. >> old film canister.

who found those? >> then you draw the name from a bowl, a hat or a box. and that president bush the winner. it will be pulling a name out of a hat. >> yes, it will. why they're not flipping a coin, i don't know. the statute doesn't specify a method. it said it has to be random. >> isn't is a coin toss easier? >> i think it would be easier. mind you, the way they got to this was, you know, complaints by one side or the other about every other method. the fact of the matter is assuming you don't have a marked film canister, it is is a 50/50 shot of who will win this race, and it is totally random. just as specified in virginia law. >> okay. but here's the funny things,

among the many funny things. the loser after pulling the name out of a recoue hat, can demand recount. here's a strange suggestion. is there any way they can have a job-sharing agreement or just call it a tie and figure out how to move on? >> no, no, no, no. no. and look, it is funny in part because it's so rare. but the most important thing for what they do right now is that they follow the rules, the law established before this happened. because any change in this going forward that affects this race looks like and probably is programmed to effect the race. so everybody knew what the rules were coming in. yes, you're right, we have nephew had an absolute tie before. nonetheless, the most important thing for confidence in the

system is to follow the rules that were in place. it this is fair. it is weird, but it is fair in the sense that it is even for both sides. no one has an advantage. many years ago when i was an intern in the governor's office way back in college, you remember watching a freshman delegate come in to actually change this law. the law used to say 30 years ago that in a contested election the house could award the seat to the person with the most votes or in a tie to either of the tying candidates or to a candidate with less votes, believe it or not. i mean, the law used to law them to award the race to the loser. now, surely this process looks a whole lot better than that. >> so, ken -- >> virginia is closely tied now. >> when do you predict there

will be an official winner after all of these iterations of recounts? >> right. well, the drawing will take place next week. the date hasn't been set yet. and then as you note, someone will likely sue afterwards. but really the votes have moved. you noted the democrat was ahead by one vote going into this. on election night, the republican was ahead by 10. so at ever point since election day, this race has been within 10 votes. they have moved slightly as much as 11 and back one. so i don't think after this, even though the loser will probably sue, i do not new it will change the outcome. i believe, as a matter of law, that the drawing will determine the final holder of this seat the next two years. >> ken cuccinelli, this is a great reminder that every vote counts. >> every vote counts. >> there you go.

all right. thanks so much, ken. >> good to be with you. >> you too. bill? all eyes on the white house as the year winds down. will president trump speak to the press for the traditional end of year press conference before he heads to mar-a-lago? what about the optics of yesterday's love-a-thon? stay with us, everybody. three waves later, i think it was the other way around... ♪ everything you need to go. ♪ expedia. was supposed to be a wake reup call for our government?sh people all across the country lost their savings, their pensions and their jobs. i'm tom steyer and it turned out that the system that had benefited people like me who are well off, was, in fact, stacked against everyone else. it's why i left my investment firm

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could we see the president hold one last press conference by the end of the year. today there have been no public events on the schedule. brian stelter and bill carter join us. gentlemen, good to be with you. is. >> tradition? you said this is tradition? >> traditional president trump. >> that's the only reason i doubt there will be a press conference. i think there will be today. the president is feeling very good, very confident in the wake of yesterday's tax aoefpbs. so it is a great reason for him to come out and speak and tout his accomplishments for the year. >> however, he tends to enjoy adulation more than interrogation. it will be interesting to see. he is feeling very puffed up. there will be all kinds of other questions that he may not want

to have. >> russia, roy moore. they would come out and have a formal press conference on all the major networks so everyone has a chance to see the president before they head off for christmas. president trump of course is different. for six months his presidency has been defined by two kinds of press appearances. either the shouted question when he's walk to go marine one. he might answer a few. or a friendly interview on fox news. not with a journalist but with a supporter of his. those have been his two types of press appearances. he does not sit down for interviews with major networks ever since is mueller was appointed. he doesn't hold a traditional press conferences. the last one, the sort of kind of last one was in the lobby of trump tower when he famously talked about charlottesville in the very ugly way. >> those sometimes go off the

rails. we might have a montage of some of the memorable motels. so let us play this. >> okay. sit down. i understand the rest of your question. so here's the story, folks. number one, i am the least anti semitic person that you have ever seen in your entire life. number two, racism. the least racist person. i'm really not a bad person, by the way. but the tone is such -- i do get good ratings. i'm not ranting and raving. i'm just telling you you're dishonest people. but i'm not ranting and raving. you're going to give her the same one? >> they are sitting side by side. >> i think there's blame on both sides. there is blame on both sides. i don't have any doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it as well. >> things don't go as planned.

>> i think he likes that format. i think he came out of all of those feeling he did great. >> his aides dread it. >> they stand in the background cowering, but he enjoys it. it is tradition that on the super bowl the president sits down with the network. it would be nbc. he would probably have to sit down with lester holt again. >> do we know if he is going to do it? >> we don't know. >> there's great ratings on super bowl sunday. he really has avoided those kind of situations where he might get asked is uncomfortable questions about russia. that's why today is a curiosity. >> if we lived in a world without twitter, would he feel more, you know, i can go this way. >> he will be in mar-a-lago for a week. that is when he is loose and more himself on twitter. >> the most twitter-y. >> let's talk about yesterday's

republican love fest. let's roll it. as the president was walking out to greet all the supporters of the bill, he had them arranged neatly on both staircases coming down there. and his hand gestures as he was pointing to orrin hatch and all of these folks reminded me of a certain optic. we know he sets these things. he thinks as a producer of a tv show. this is a comedic one. he is the maestro that pulls all the forces together. congress is nothing like an orchestra. first chair tuba player has to suck up to the conductor. >> well. >> and ultimately answers to us. but who is playing who in this particular case? who is using who? and how will those images be used for opposition ads. >> we have never had as theatrical a president of this guy. he is awe performer. that's what he's doing. but the thing with the cabinet

was so of the top. it was like -- it really put the sick in sycophantic. >> i want to go over information put out on fox during their midday show. one of their guests said something really inflammatory. we have to talk about what fox is going to do about that. this moment he talked about what the fbi might have been planning for president trump. listen to this. >> i think they're going to say is what was his intent, right? because that's exactly what fbi director -- former fbi director comey said when he was laying hillary clinton off the hook. and husband intent, regardless of whether it was an assassination attempt or whatever is definitely something -- >> whoa! >> listen, we don't know what it was. we have to make sure this guy

doesn't get in at all costs, what does that mean? there is a spectrum of what does it mean. one thing we know for sure is he was plotting in an election against a candidate. and there's fbi fingerprints all over this. >> very quickly, he said he got this on on social media. that's crap. that's not fact. >> there's a word for that. it's propaganda. and hopefully people see through it. >> thank you both very much. thank you fore our international viewers for watching. for u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. >> the message to the families in america, your tax rates are going down and your paychecks are going up. >> president donald trump delivered. >> we essentially repealed obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate. >> the increase in premiums will far outweigh any tax decrease.