>> i never thought i would be quoted as looking like villains from james bond. i guess i should take it as a compliment that a look like a villain in a great successful james bond movie. i was very excited having my sig -- signature on the money. >> we'll be back tomorrow. "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: and we start with a fox news alert on new drama in the senate race in alabama. the first woman to publicly accuse roy moore of sexual misconduct is sharing some disturbing details of an encounter when she was 14 years old. while the white house makes it clear the president will not be campaigning for moore because of discomfort with the allegations against the candidate. this thing is heating up. good morning, i'm jon scott. >> i'm julie banderas. roy moore is pledging the stay in the race still.

today we're learning new information from his first accuser. she described her encounters with moore when she was a teenager saying she went to his home where he seduced her, took off her clothing and touched her. >> i was a 14-year-old child trying to play in an adult's world and he was 32 years old. >> jon: jonathan cyri live with more from birmingham. >> roy moore continues to denial the allegations against him, something that savannah guthrie brought up during that "today" show interview. listen. >> roy moore denies these allegations and says he doesn't know you. >> i wonder how many -- he doesn't know. >> moore faces increasing calls from national republicans to drop out of the race president trump isn't among them. white house aide mark short

explained the president wants to leave it up to alabama voters to decide. >> serious questions about the allegations and the president has raised those and one of the reasons why he hasn't gone down to campaign for roy moore. >> the moore campaign continues to attack his democratic opponent for being too liberal on issues such as taxes and the border wall. campaigning at a weekend fish fry doug jones laughed at the moore campaign's efforts to label him as far left. >> that's pretty absurd. you know, that's their only hope. look, they are in desperation mode right now. they're trying to flip stuff back. if you look at the positions i've got on healthcare, if you look at the positions i've got on jobs and looking at the supportive from the business community, i think i'm pretty mainstream. >> jones is trying to stay away from all of the controversy surrounding his opponent instead focusing on what he calls kitchen table issues such

as jobs and economy and even though moore is facing dwindling support from national republicans, he still enjoys the support of many gop leaders here in this state. both campaigns continue, jon. >> jon: thank you. >> melissa: new information to tell you about in the russia investigation with word the special counsel just sent a wide ranging request for documents from the justice department. as robert mueller's team is set to interview several more senior white house staffers amid reports the president's son-in-law is under increased scrutiny over, among other things, the trump tower meeting with russian operatives last june. joining us now is aaron blake, senior politics reporter at the "washington post". thank you very much. the administration maintains mueller hasn't turned up anything to prove collusion between the trump campaign and russians. mueller is digging into whether president trump or other official improperly tried to influence an ongoing

investigation. is this more fishing by the special counsel? >> well, the fact that we don't know this is actually led to a concrete conclusion isn't that surprising. you won't get to that point until the investigation is over. it does seem to be getting to what would seem to be the final stages here with the special counsel's office interviewing a couple people in particular hope hicks, the communications director and don mcgahn, the white house counsel who have been involved in a lot of things that the special counsel is apparently investigating. the fact that we're also seeing now that the special counsel is subpoenaing documents from the justice department relating to obstruct shun of justice investigation i believe it is wrapping up here. we'll have to see since we don't know anything for certain in this investigation. it seems to be coming to a head right now. >> it's far from over. some might think that mueller

is ending his inquiries. i believe it's just the beginning. attorney general jeff sessions deputy attorney general rod rosenstein both played key roles in comey's removal. what do you think robert mueller is expecting to see in the emails regarding the firing of james comey. >> any time you talk about obstruction of justice the key element there is that you need to find what is called a corrupt intent. basically it can't just be that the president decided to fire the guy who was investigating him and this guy also happened to be, you know, heading up that investigation. it also needs to -- there needs to be evidence rather that the president did this expressly for the purposes of obstructing justice. we've of course had the president and his public comments in that nbc news interview him talking about how when he fired comey, he was thinking about the russia investigation but i don't think

it's explicit enough in those comments that it was 100% the reason that he fired comey. >> you know, mueller is particularly interested in emails pertaining to jeff sessions to recusing himself. as we know, president trump has publicly criticized him, chastised him for doing so. what more do you think we'll learn and will come out of his recusal and how it affected the president? >> that's the part of this that's a little bit harder to read. that doesn't necessarily go to questions of obstruction of justice. perhaps it goes to questions about potential collusion. why did jeff sessions feel the need to recuse himself from this case? he said that he was examining that issue for several weeks before his contacts with the russian ambassador became news. i guess the special counsel maybe wants to find out if that's exactly what he decided. if he actually had been looking at this for some time before he recused himself.

that's about the only thing that makes sense as far as i'm concerned. >> last week was interesting. senate and house democrats hammered sessions for previously telling congress under oath that no trump campaign associates communicated with russian operatives or intermediaries. some democrats accused him of deliberately lying to lawmakers and sessions denies and said he didn't remember because of the chaos of the campaign. does sessions face possible charges next? >> you know, it's difficult to say. we don't know anything like that. we don't have any indications that this investigation is going after him. you know, it's clear that his responses to questions about contacts with russians have evolved over the course of the year. he seemed to offer a pretty blanket denial from the beginning. he later explained that he was speaking about contacts in a campaign context. so we basically have seen a

bunch of revisions to his initial comments as he has been grilled at these hearings. but we don't know if he is actually the focus of investigators or just a piece of a larger puzzle. >> the hammering there we apologize. they're doing some construction. we'll have a beautiful, brand-new studio newsroom coming up. that's what's happening upstairs. aaron blake, thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> jon: the white house making a major push for tax reform looking to get a deal done by the end of the year. but president trump also weighing in again on the ucla basketball players arrested for shoplifting in china. president frustrated over their response to his efforts in securing their release. kristen fisher live at the white house with that. kristen. >> tax reform will be a topic when president trump sits down with his cabinet in 30 minutes. how much does the white house

support the senate bill's inclusion of the repealing the obamacare mandate. over the weekend the white house budget director mulvaney made it clear while this administration clearly doesn't like the individual mandate and wants to get rid of it, that ultimately it is not willing to jeopardize tax reform in order to make sure that repeal is included in the bill as well. listen here. >> if we can repeal part of obamacare as part of the tax bill and have a tax bill that is still a good tax bill that can pass, that's great. if it becomes an impediment to getting the best tax bill we can we're okay with taking it out. >> one vote that could become critical is the vote that comes from alabama's next senator roy moore or doug jones. this morning counsel to the president kellyanne conway made clear and kind of reminded voters how the democrat in that race, doug jones, would likely vote in regards to this tax bill.

>> folks, don't be fooled. he will be a vote against tax cuts. >> so vote roy moore? >> i'm telling you we want to votes in the senate to get this tax bill through. >> she is not telling voters in alabama to vote for roy moore she is reminding them of how his democratic opponent, doug jones, would likely vote if they vote for him and put him in the senate after all this. now one other thing that's been on president trump's mind throughout the weekend and today is the belittling from one of the fathers of the ucla basketball players that president trump helped get out of china after they were accused of shoplifting. so yesterday president trump said on twitter quote, now that the three basketball players are out of china and safe from years in jail la var ball, the father of d'angelo is unaccepting what i did for his son and shoplifting snow -- no

big deal. president trump frustrated he is not getting more credit and gratitude from these players and their families after he personally asked the chinese president xi for help to bring them back to the united states, jon. >> jon: here is the good news. it's a holiday week. things will slow down at the white house by thursday we think. >> don't say that. now you jinxed it. >> a wild weekend in weather causing a freak accident in lower manhattan. what happened when high winds sent a scaffold crashing down on a busy street. plus the first woman to accuse roy moore of sexual misconduct breaks her silence. our media panel will discuss that next. >> i wanted to walk into his office and say hey, remember me? you need to knock this stuff off. i need to go public.

>> julie: wild weather over the weekend from the midwest to the

northeast. 85 mile-per-hour winds actually ripped through frankfurt, indiana. severely damaging dozens of homes and a high school. syracuse waking up under a blanket of snow. here in new york city several people were treated for minor injuries. thank god nobody was killed when strong winds collapsed a building scaffolding. look at this video shot by cell phone trapping a few pedestrians underneath all that debris. it happened sunday morning at a busy intersection in downtown manhattan. >> jon: scary. this fox news alert. roy moore's first accuser is speaking out in public for the first time. leigh corfman recounts what happened in an episode with moore when she was only 14 years old. >> it took years for me to regain a sense of confidence in

myself and i felt guilty. i felt like i was the one that was to blame. and it was decades before i was able to let that go. >> jon: she says the "washington post" sought her out and she was not paid for telling her story. let's bring in our media panel today. hugo from "the washington examiner". and an investigator and fox news contributor. when these charges first came out, judy, i was skeptical that 30 years later and right ahead of an election all of a sudden there are these pretty unpleasant charges against roy moore. but the more you hear the women at the center of this, the more credible they begin to sound. >> right. the woman whose testimony and whose interview you just heard goes on to say that she is a republican and that she did

tell people about this at the time but for various reasons she had young children, she didn't want to confront him with it and urge him not to pursue a political career. when she finally decided to get up the courage to come forward she said that she still hesitated to the "washington post". she said she wouldn't do it unless they found other women who had been harassed. well, jon, the total is now nine accusers and i think her testimony ultimately the people of alabama will decide, but her interview was -- struck me as very credible. >> jon: in a court you're innocent until proven guilty. moore maintains his innocence. the voters seem to think otherwise. he is now losing to doug jones, his opponent, which wasn't the case before these act -- accusations game out.

>> this isn't a court of law. this stuff will never go to a court of law. it is up to voters, which is really what it should be. i think that people in washington from the president on down have said well, the voters -- they don't believe roy moore, they believe he is not telling the truth on this and increasingly people believe the women who have made the allegations against him. but ultimately this is a point that is being put to the voters of alabama and they'll make the decision. there is a really important thing here, though. even though i suspect that the democrat is going to win the race and roy moore will go away, if roy moore wins, the issue then comes back to washington because the senate will have to decide how they treat him. they never -- the senate has never before taken disciplinary action against one of its members for something that he or she did before they were elected. >> jon: there is talk about the senate ethics panel taking this thing up. he wasn't in the senate at the time the accusations emerged.

i want to change the topic to something that our chris wallace wrote in the "washington post" over the weekend. a column in which he says he thinks president trump's reaction to the mainstream media is self-defeating. here is part of it. he says i believe some of my colleagues, many of my colleagues, think this president has gone so far over the line bashing the media it has given them -- an excuse to cross the line themselves to push back. as tempting as that may be, i think it's a big mistake. judy, give us your thought on that. chris cited some examples from cbs news and others where they in his view bashed the president unfairly. >> i think there is a reaction to donald trump's attack on us and i think those who claim to be fair and balanced or objective, i word i am increasingly skeptical about, need to try harder not to strike back at him when he strikes at us. however, chris wallace also

went on to say in that very important article that the president's attempt to delegitimize the press is an assault on democracy and he had said more than 141 times that we were printing, quote, fake news. this is in between january and october. and also i would go on to say that he himself has on more than 1600 occasions issued statements or tweets that are either false or misleading. so what is the media -- what are the media supposed to do when he does this? are we supposed to ignore it or report it and then have him lash back at us? in other words, i think we're in a very dangerous cycle here but i think chris wallace's piece impressed me because it did focus on this effort to delegitimize a pillar of our democracy. >> jon: what is the net affect when the president tweets about fake news 141 times between january and october.

>> i think the president was absolutely wrong to call the news media the enemy of the people. but i think it's legitimate for him to say if he had put it this way that the media often does not serve the public well. one of the reasons why he won the election is that he struck a cord with people all over the country in many of the things that he said. one of the cords he struck was in the -- was with those people who think that the media is in the control of its left-leaning and that it has disdain for people who don't agree with it on politics, economics and cultural issues. so the question is, there is a chicken and egg issue here. which came first? was donald trump -- did he initiate the war with the media, or was he striking a cord for people who felt the media were ignoring and disdaing them? i think there is probably truth on both sides.

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>> jon: this fox news alert. "the new york times" is suspending one of its white house correspondents. glen thrush after vox reported several women have come forward saying he has made inappropriate sexual advances. the behavior attributed to glen is concerning and not keeping with the standards and values of the "new york times." it goes on to say we intend to

investigate. while we do, glen will be suspended. thrush came to fame covering the trump white house. he was even in skits on "saturday night live". a sign that you've made it. >> julie: they haven't made fun of me there. >> jon: just wait. >> julie: murderer charles manson is dead at 83. manson and his family of followers were behind a gruesome murder spree that left seven people dead in 1969. his most famous victim was sharon tait 8 1/2 months pregnant at the time of her death. we're live in los angeles with more. >> manson was a felon and celebrity. the crimes he committed shocked the country but also fascinated viewers. his life was bizarre, crime was a mystery and his trial was pure theater. actress sharon tait was pregnant and manson's cult

hogtied her and stabbed her 15 times. they killed two more the next month. manson collected this group of drifters and runaways and young woman in the counter culture 60s, committing petty crimes to support a lifestyle of drugs and mandatory group sex. small and scrawny himself, man son's intellect and charisma overwhelmed his followers who committed the murders on his behalf. under state law all five including manson got the gas chamber. the sentences were reduced to life when california outlawed the death penalty. >> i never broke nobody's will. i never told anybody to do anything other than what they wanted to do. >> at the time the murders appear to have been committed by blacks with words like death to pigs and did black panthers paw prints. manson hoped to ignite a race war during his cult would go

underground and emerge to take leadership. at trial his followers yelled at witnesses. manson with that tattoo on his forehead lunged at the judge. >> death was charlie's trip. he spoke constantly of death. their life was murder. >> manson died last night of natural causes at a hospital in bakersfield. unless a relative comes forward to claim his body the state can simply cremate him and bury one of the country's most infamous killers. >> julie: william >> jon: a border agent killed in the line of duty. new details on what happened straight ahead. the senate preparing to take up tax reform after the thanksgiving holiday. some senators still not on board. can the white house win them over? our panel debates next. >> we have a tax bill now that

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reactions. casey stiegel is live in dallas with more. what happened, casey? >> there is really some conflicting information out there as to exactly what did happen here. initial reports seem to indicate that these u.s. border patrol agents came under fire but the f.b.i. now saying that is not the case. however, they won't provide any other details other than they are just looking for suspects or possible witnesses. now the border patrol union's vice president has told a local affiliate in el paso they believe rocks were used but no federal agencies confirming that. agent martinez was killed in the line of duty while out patrolling the big bend sector of texas along the southern border. a second agent was also seriously hurt in the incident but is recovering at an area hospital. martinez was an el paso native and had been with u.s. border patrol since august of 2013. he was just 36 years old.

now reaction is coming in from all over. president trump tweeted about it using it as an opportunity to talk about renewed efforts to build that border wall and republican senator ted cruz also releasing a statement. the senator here from texas it reads in part i'm quoting here, this is a stark reminder of the ongoing threat that an unsecure border poses to the safety of our communities and those charged with defending them. according to the customs and border protection website 38 u.s. border patrol agents have been killed in the line of duty since 2003. back to you. >> julie: casey stiegel, thank you. >> very good provisions in the senate bill, the doubling of the child tax credit and making it refundable. the biggest mistake was putting in a provision from the affordable care act into the

senate bill. that is not in the house bill. i hope that will be dropped. >> jon: the white house is making a full-court press for tax reform put you heard there maine senator susan kol cins said she wants to drop the provision of the mandate. we have our panel here. leslie, you think dropping that obamacare mandate repeal is a good thing? >> yes, i do. i think what we saw happen in the house could for republicans perhaps happen in the senate. jon, this is the problem both democrats and republicans have had historically. on the left i see it happen more on the right. you go toward the finish line. let's add something else we want. when you add these line items it becomes problematic and you have more individuals such as susan collins that might say

hold off. we need them to be two separate pieces of legislation. i think they should be two separate pieces of legislation. i think the republicans would have an easier chance passing in the senate if they did heed senator collins advice. >> jon: what about that idea keeping a tax bill a tax bill and doing something else with healthcare? >> that's the problem. the individual mandate is a tax. that's what the supreme court saw it as and what the american people see it as. it would be -- susan collins played tricks with her words there because this is not a full repeal and replace like what went down earlier in the session. this is just the most least popular part of obamacare which is that individual mandate. that more and more individuals opted out of, why a lot of the exchanges went bankrupt. they didn't have the funding to keep the exchanges profitable and therefore it did not work. removing this tax from the american people and leaving it in the tax plan is not a bad

idea. >> jon: but leslie, the idea that you can force -- the u.s. government can force people to buy something, that's pretty unpopular. >> it may be unpopular, jon but something we're accustomed to whether on a state or federal level. we have to have insurance if we drive a vehicle. the list goes on. there are certain types of insurances or licenses you must have if you own a gun or fish or hunt. i don't have an issue with that. to kevin's point when you look at the numbers of people signing up and that benefit from that mandate i would largely disagree with him. to his party's concern is you want something that is not going the add to the deficit and adding this in would further add to the deficit. >> jon: but you are asking, kevin, you're demanding that younger people pay for health insurance coverage that they probably don't need just so that their contributions can

subsidize the needs of older people. >> a lot of people opted out of doing that. it really did feed into problem with why the exchanges failed on the state level across the board. to leslie's point, auto insurance and gun insurance, a lot of other things are optional. if you don't want to drive you don't have to buy insurance. for simply breathing and walking around the government will make you buy insurance, that's not what a free society in a free market does. >> jon: so the idea i guess the question, leslie, is would dropping that mandate from this tax bill, would dropping the individual mandate from the tax bill, the repeal of the individual mandate, do you think that makes it more likely the overall tax bill passes the senate? >> i think it makes it more likely. i still don't think it will. there are issues for deficit and quite frankly there are senators like jeff flake that may not like the president saying what he is going to do

or attacking him. people are leaving the senate and therefore they may in a sense leave their party with a vote. i do want to say one quick thing to kevin's point. kevin, you know i'm married to a surgeon and i am part owner of a huge orthopedic medical group. one of the things that we had in healthcare is that young people who might feel healthy now become sick and when they become sick they wait to the point of being critically ill and come to the emergency room and have seen so many hospitals close because they couldn't handle the load of sick people. they didn't have the healthcare representatives to take care of that. that's an issue with none of this addresses. >> obamacare didn't take care of that, either. but jon, to your last question to leslie, the issue here is that if -- whether or not it will pass, if republicans do

what republicans do and that is respect the fiscal priority of the taxpayer, then they will pass this in reconciliation. it doesn't have to worry about passing the full senate. get it into committee and the president will sign it. i don't love either one of these bills but this is an element i think should be in there. >> jon: you guys need to continue the debate. thank you both. >> julie: police in pennsylvania searching for a cop killer. why the manhunt has an entire community on edge and president trump pushing hard for the gop tax plan. will it give americans the tax relief they so desperately want? >> this is not about a win for the president. this is about giving the forgotten man and woman who put this man in office because they've been forgotten for decades through regulation and taxation.

>> we feel very confident. it is up to the legislators who for years if not decades have been promising their constituents they are going to get meaningful tax cuts and tax overhaul. and we're very happy that the house and senate have come up with what i call trump speed not swamp speed in getting their bills to the floor fairly quickly. we feel really great that both bills adhere to the president's four core principles for tax cuts and tax relief. repatriation, simplification and reducing the corporate tax rate so we're below the average for developed countries instead of the highest. we feel great. >> julie: kellyanne conway sounding confident about what tax reform will do for the american people. the american people might not feel exactly the same way. a recent poll showing 59% believe the gop tax plan favors the rich. let's bring in our panel brian is an associate professor of business and economics at king's college in new york and

julian, former staff director for the house government reform committee. thank you for talking to us. all right. according to a report released by the joint committee on taxation, congress's official nonpartisan analysts, if you make between $10,000 and $75,000 a year, your taxes are going to go up. what are the working class to make of this? >> that it's another broken promise and kellyanne conway was saying the trump voters, the folks that voted for trump were promised this. they are getting a bee in a bonnet here. for taxpayers that make under $100,000, you will see a tax increase after a short period of time. we're paying with it for a loan from the chinese. 13 million people will be

kicked off of healthcare. medicare is getting cut. there is almost nothing in here that is good for people that make under $100,000 after a few years. and the joint committee on taxation, which works for the republicans in the congress says that all of the benefits after a few short years are going to people that make more than $100,000 and particularly more than a million dollars. >> julie: i don't expect democrats to have anything positive to say. of course they will complain but when it comes to corporate tax cuts this is what i don't understand because it was actually democrats four years ago that complained about our corporate tax rate being among the highest in the world. now why do they have a problem with reducing it from 35 to 20%? >> exactly. the whole story here is how do you raise people's incomes. not just about cutting taxes, it is raising incomes. the answer is as democrats know they knew it four years ago the answer is cutting business taxes, taxes on corporations and taxes on small businesses. that's exactly what both the house and senate bill do. when you look at who will

benefit from this thing and focus on the business taxes the answer is those are the taxes that drive hiring and investment and that's job creation and that's how people's wages go up. that's the focus here as kellyanne conway said. >> i can't believe as a professor of business that you would say something like that. >> julie: which part? >> the fact of the matter is we don't have the highest tax rate in the world. you look at the exemption. >> much higher than the average. >> when you look at the exemptions and loopholes we're at about 27%. the average is 27.9%. we're lower than the average. that's one. secondly, corporations are sitting on $2 trillion of cash now. the idea giving them more tax breaks will lead to hiring and investment is something that's not taken seriously by nearly any economist. the crs did a study of tax cuts including tax cuts for corporations since 1945 and they found in not one instance is there any credible data that

shows corporate tax cuts leads to more investment in jobs. george bush ronald reagan cut taxes. higher deficits, lower growth. bill clinton and obama raised taxes, lower deficits as a result. i think the data here doesn't bear what you are saying. >> julie: i have to argue that for a second. i don't know about you or both of you if you're a corporation owner, if you speak with one they will tell you that if those tax breaks are in fact doled out to corporations they would have excess in money to perhaps hire more people and -- >> why gary cohn asked the corporate leaders the raise their hands as to whether it was increase investment in jobs you got a half hearted response from the corporate ceos a week ago. no data supports that argument. >> julie: considering how

unaffordable healthcare is and unaffordable health insurance is under obamacare these corporations could use the tax break to not only pay people's salaries but pay for people's health insurance. >> can i just say julian is making an argument for the corporate tax rate saying there are loopholes companies can get. do we want companies in the u.s. playing the loophole game or do we want to cut taxes so instead of spending time trying to get through loopholes they spend time investing in the u.s. i want to see the $2 trillion come back to the u.s. the only way to see it is to cut the tax rates here. he is making the case there is no data for corporate tax rates benefiting the u.s. that's bunk. they reinvest that money. you are making that up. you're playing the rich versus poor game. that's not the game here. >> no, what they do is they buy back stock an increase dividends. no data. the public -- two out of three voters think this is a tax plan

that benefits the rich only and they don't like it. >> julie: that's all the time we have. thank you both. >> jon: president trump is meeting with his cabinet right now. he announced that he intends to return north korea to the list of state sponsors of terror. right now three countries are on that list, iran, sudan and syria. george w. bush removed north korea from the list in 2008 around the time that the administration thought that it was cooperating with the world on its nuclear ambitions. that apparently is not the case. president trump announcing that he intends to return north korea to the list of state sponsors of terrorism. we'll hear from the president shortly. more on this developing story as we get it. tries to get in my way? watch me. ♪

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>> jon: new information on the war in afghanistan, a new strategy emerging when it comes to the taliban that centers on the opium trade. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. >> in an interview from kabul the top u.s. commander in afghanistan announced a series of air strikes on taliban drug labs in the northern province that he said were funding the taliban insurgeony. clear from listening the new strategy after 16 years of war is to brand the taliban insurgency as a narcotics insurgeony. >> it includes as close as canada, europe, russia, iran, and of course all across the balkans. 200 million of the opium

industry goes into the taliban's bank accounts. this fuels a really pays for the insurgency. >> he showed reporters at the pentagon several videos from b-52 and f22 raptor air strikes in 24 hours said he targeted poppy-producing labs in afghanistan's northern province. what's baffling is why the u.s. military hasn't made it a priority in the past 16 years of fighting? today he said afghanistan is responsible for 85% of the world's opium market. a $60 billion industry. 4% of the heroin is from afghanistan and most of the processing facilities for afghan poppy have always been inside pakistan. i understand we now have tape from the president. back to you, jon. >> jon: thank you, jennifer. >> president trump: people are respectsing our country again, believe me. we brought back more than $300

billion worth of deals which could reach well over a trillion dollars within a very near future. that means jobs for the united states at a very high level. as you know, we've just come up with the best job performance in over 17 years. this is a lot more jobs. we think the number will get a lot better. we'll also put a lot of people that have not been able to find jobs, we'll put them back to work because they aren't registered right now. they will be registered in a positive sense. japanese car companies will be opening up and expanding their plants in our country. we worked very closely with prime minister abe on that. we're renegotiating our bad trade deal with south korea and we cannot continue to be treated unfairly when it comes to trade any longer.

it's not fair to our companies and it is not fair to our workers. last year we lost over 800 billion dollars on trade deals with other countries. so we had a negative number, a trade deficit of almost 800 billion dollars with other countries. that's not going to be happening. that's changing. i explained that to them from the standpoint of asia and they understand it. every one of them understand it. one of the primary goals of our trip was to pursue the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. i want to begin this morning by meeting and by talking about the fact that we will be instituting a very critical step and that will start right now. today the united states is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.

it should have happened a long time ago. it should have happened years ago. in addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation north korea has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism including assassinations on foreign soil. as we take this action today, our thoughts turn to otto warmbier, a wonderful young man and to countless others so brutally affected by the north korean oppression. this designation will impose further sanctions and penalties on north korea and related persons and supports our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the murderous regime that you've all been reading about and in some cases writing about. tomorrow the treasury department will be announcing an additional sanction and a very large one on north korea and this will be going on over the next two weeks. the highest level of sanctions by the time it's finished over

a two-week period. the north korean regime must be lawful. it must end its unlawful nuclear and ballistic missile development and cease all support for international terrorism, which it is not doing. today cabinet discussions will also focus on crucial domestic policy issues. i want to congratulate the house of representatives for passing a vital and historic tax cut last week and i'm very hopeful the senate will do the same very soon. we are going to give the american people a huge tax cut for christmas. hopefully that will with the democrats given us no votes for tax cuts, obstructionists, it will be up to the republicans to come through for americans. i hope they will. it is up to the senate, and if

they approve it, the house and senate will get together. i will be the right in the middle of it, and we'll come up with a bill that will be spectacular for growth and spectacular for the people of this country. i tax plan will ring urgent relief to hardworking families, reduce rates, reduce the income tax at a rate of 0. expand the child tax credit, very important, and as most families will be able to file on a single sheet of paper. we will restore america's competitive edge to bring back our jobs. we want to bring our jobs back to our country. we were decimated over the last 40 years. we want to bring our jobs back to the united states. we'll go from being one of the highest taxed nations to one of the lowest taxed nations in the world. hobart rates will be reduced from 35% all the