broadcaster. ledrew says his contract doesn't restrict that and his decision to come on this network is the real offense. he's learned how canada views dissent. he's welcome back here. thanks. sean is next. >> sean: thanks, tucker. welcome to "hannity." a fox news alert. stunning news tonight out of san francisco. the illegal immigrant accused of killing kate steinle found not guilty. we know he had seven prior felony convictions. he was facing his sixth deportation. and now his attorney is blaming donald trump. we'll explain how sanctuary city laws killed kate steinle. the gop is on the verge of keeping a big campaign promise, a crucial tax reform vote in the senate coming as early as tomorrow. it's not perfect but will bring

back jobs, slash rates for corporations and middle class americans, increase take-home pay for millions of american men and women. predictably, the obstructionist level is playing class warfare politics with your paycheck. we'll explain in detail. also breaking tonight, a nightmare over at nbc news. matt lauer fired after disturbing claims of sexual misconduct. tonight, the question, what did nbc executives know, what did other hosts know and when did they know it? it appears the chaos at the peacock network is getting to liberal joe scarborough. he's lashing out at president trump like never before. we will show you his complete and total emotional national meltdown. plus, new sexual misconduct allegations against senator grope himself, al franken. there's growing calls for john conyers to resign, including one of the biggest flip-flops in

history from nancy pelosi. all of that in tonight's important breaking news monologue. our top story, sad breaking news in the kate steinle murder case. the illegal immigrant, garcia zarate that killed kate steinle was acquitted a short time ago of murder and man slaughter charges before he shot steinle. get this. he was released from a san francisco jail despite a federal request that he be held for his sixth deportation. he already had seven prior felony convictions. it was san francisco, sanctuary city policies that killed kate steinle. they did not obey the law. they follow ridiculous liberal policies. because of their stupidity and their "form of justice" and carry more about the rights of

illegal convicted felons, tonight kate steinle is dead and her family has received no justice. here's the attorney for the illegal immigrant after the verdict taking a shot at the president. really? >> for those who might criticize this verdict, there's a number of people that have commented on this case in the last couple years. the attorney general of the united states, the president, vice president of the united states. let me just remind them that they are themselves under investigation by special prosecutor in washington d.c., and they may themselves soon avail themselves of the presumption of innocence and beyond a reasonable doubt standard. so i would ask them to reflect on that before they comment or disparage the result in this case. >> sean: i want to go through the details. this family of -- the steinle

family have been waiting two years for this justice. kate steinle was arm and arm with her father on that pier. here you have a guy, homeless at the time. claimed he found the gun with a piece of cloth under his swivel chair at a pier. then he says he picked it up. he accidentally fired it. it ricochetted and hit kate steinle in the back. we know more about mr. zarete. that is in fact because he had little experience with guns, as his attorney said. but we did find out other facts. he had been requested by the federal government that in fact he be -- that he be handed over to federal authorities. they didn't do it. the reasonable they didn't do it is because of the sanctuary city laws that are in san francisco. the same laws now that have been adopted by the governor of california, jerry brown. you look at his track record, the deportations, the felony convictions. tonight america has to ask a

very important question. tell us, what good comes out of a sanctuary city law? people that never respect our laws and sovereignty come into this country again and again and again. six times. after being deported? after all of those felonies? an american young woman is killed with her father walking on a pier in san francisco? we'll have a lot more. michelle malcolm joins us in a minute. with the tax vote in the senate looming, many are wondering tonight what tax reform could mean for their bottom line. here's the statistics. as of now, important to every forgotten man and woman that voted in this election, this bill increases the minimum deduction to $12,000 for individuals. 24,000 for joint filers. ends the mandate penalty under obamacare. it removes the alternative minimum tax. the top marginal rate will be

lowered. 38.5%. not enough in my mind. the crucial part is in the dramatic reduction in the corporate tax rates from one of the highest at 35% in the world to 20%. of course, the 10% tax on repatriation for multinational corporations, foreign cash. that means trillions potentially coming into this country and factories and manufacturing centers being built for the forgotten men and women in poverty, out of work. the question is, what does this mean for you? here's some examples the mainstream media won't show you. a middle until factually of 4 with $70,000 in earnings, they can receive 60% tax cut. a single parent with around $40,000 in earnings will likely see a 50% reduction in their taxes. this is real money in hard working americans pockets. no, the bill is not perfect. i would have preferred dramatic across the board cuts like the

reagan era, but it's an important starting point. lowering the corporate rate. spurring economic growth. for decades hopefully to come. listen to the gloom and doom of democrats. this bill will destroy the middle class and end america. watch the petty display of class warfare from earlier today. >> it's astounding. if the president and republicans in congress set out to pass a middle class tax cut as they claim, if that's where they set out, this bill misses the mark. >> they keep pushing it because it's a pay-off to their big donors. if the republicans ram this thing through, they're going to explode the dead, going to raise taxes on hard working families. >> if the deficit goes up by 1.4 trillion, i believe without any doubt that the republican party will come down here to the senate and go to the house and say my goodness, we have raised

the deficit and in order to deal with that, we have got to cut social security, medicare, medicaid, nutrition, education, affordable housing and every program that is important. >> sean: you have to remember, almost a decade the same people you see bashing this tax reduction, this tax reform are the same politicians that gave us the "economic wisdom" of barack obama. you know, what about these democrats? what they're not going to tell you is this. what happened under the obama economy? they'll never tell you how bad it is. we told you during the last election, the slowest economic recovery from a recession since the 40s. 11 million more americans on food stamps. eight million more in poverty. a homeownership rate at its lowest in 15 years. 50 million americans in poverty. an increase of eight million.

obama, the only president never to reach 3% growth in the country of the gdp. president trump, gdp, 3.3%. the highest rate in three years. in october, 261,000 jobs were created. two million since president trump was elected. unemployment, a 17-year low. consumer confidence, 17-year high. medium existing home prices in october, 2017, up 8.7%. since january. the stock market today another record. all-time record. based on that alone, who do you trust? the obama people and their liberal media, the friends on the left side of the aisle? they want this bill to fail when they failed all of us for eight years? or what about this president that has literally put confidence in the heart of american corporations by getting rid of obama regulations and red

tape. we now have seen what economic growth could mean and what an economic turn-around could be. this bill must pass. our economic future depends on it. we'll discuss the tax bill later and bring you a vote. in fact, we'll update you in any votes throughout the night in the senate. we turn to the ongoing nightmare that is nbc news today. it's been a day since matt lauer was abruptly fired. multiple women have couple forward with shocking allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse. some allegations include exposing himself to a staffer, demanding she perform a sex act. giving an adult toy as a present along with a note suggesting it be used in front of him. an instance where matt lauer summoned a staffer where he had sex with her until she passed out. and lauer took her to see a nurse.

matt lauer issued an apology stating some of the allegations are untrue or mischaracterized. more damning tapes about a misconduct and may have been an open secret at the peacock network. take a look at this clip from meredi meredith veirra where she talks about his bag of sex toys. >> i have to say, i went into your office once. do you remember this? >> yeah. >> snooping. you had a huge bag of sex toys. do you remember this? >> wait a minute. >> you did. in your closet. >> can we explain what happened? you were there. we had a guest on the show who was a -- what was she? a sex therapist. when she left -- you did the segment. >> i didn't. >> when she left, she gave each of us a shopping bag of stuff. true story. >> sean: and matt lauer with an awkward interview with anne

hathaway where he obsesses over a wardrobe malfunction. >> good morning, ann. >> good morning. seen a lot of you lately. >> sorry about that. i'd be happy to stay home. >> let's get it out of the way. had a wardrobe malfunction the other night. what is the lesson learned from something like that other than you keep smiling, which you always do. >> well, it was obviously an unfortunate incident. yeah. so let's get -- >> the most creative terms of questions i have ever heard. >> sean: earlier today, a reporter from "variety" said that matt lauer's conduct was well-known about his conduct. >> high level executives knew about his behavior. it was known by many employees at "the today show" including employees that have gone on television and said publicly we had no idea. according to our reporting, some

of these -- some of the other personalities were aware of these allegations. according to our sources, the co-anchors were aware of the allegations. they're having trouble reckoning what some of these anchors said in private conversations versus what was said on tv. >> current anchors or former? >> both. this isn't the end of the story. we believe there's more women coming forward and more evidence about who knew what when that will come out. >> sean: what did the folks at nbc know, when did they know it. andy lack is "deeply saddened by this turn of events." but are lthey? and chief zucker is saying that "i didn't know this matt." so was zucker in the dark? did he turn a blind eye?

the allegations need to be investigated and those that knew about this behavior should be called out. with allegations abounding, all of the stress at nbc news seems to be getting to crazy joe liberal scarborough especially after trump made this accusation in a tweet. so now that matt lauer is gone, when will nbc terminate the contract of phil griffin, he runs nbc, the conspiracy network. will they terminate low ratings joe scarborough based on the unsolved mystery that took place in florida years ago. investigate. liberal joe had a complete mental and emotional breakdown on national television. watch. >> we are facing a showdown with a nuclear power, and you have somebody inside the white house with the new york daily news that is mentally unfit, that people close to him is mentally unfit.

that people close to him during the campaign told me had early stages of dementia. when is this the right time to talk about a mentally unstable president in the white house, and a nuclear show down with another unstable mad man in north korea? everybody around donald trump knows he's not stable. everybody around donald trump knows he's not stable. everybody. >> sean: i know for a fact that's not true. by the way, now we have dr. liberal joe. he's diagnosing on television in the morning. maybe liberal joe, maybe you should worry about getting his emotions in check and not letting this obsessive compulsive nonstop hatred of president trump send him over the edge. joe, you need help. there's a lot more in terms of serious news that you should be

covering. by the way, nobody should worry about liberal joe and the allegations and his friends in the democratic party. the senate ethics committee has opened a preliminary inquiry to the groping allegations against senator al franken. this comes after yet another woman, an army veteran, has come forward to accuse franken of groping her in a uso tour in 03. while franken faces more allegations, his colleagues in the house, john conyers in particular, he's facing growing calls to resign after multiple sexual harassment allegations and accusations involving a tax-payer funded settlement. his long time defender, nancy pelosi, has done a complete 180. today she's now calling for conyers to step down. watch this. >> the allegations against congressman conyers as we have learned more since sunday are serious, disappointing and very credible.

very sad. the brave women that have come forward are owed justice. i pray for congressman conyers and his family and wish them well. however, congressman conyers should resign. >> sean: remember, this comes less than a week after nancy pelosi defended conyers. called him an icon. talked about due process. i guess she remembered that she considers herself a champion for women's rights. meanwhile, john conyers who is hospitalized with stress induced symptoms is remaining defiant. his lawyer fired back at pelosi. >> it's not up to nancy pelosi. nancy pelosi did not elect the congressman and she sure as hell won't be the one to tell him to leave. >> sean: we'll have more on these democratic scandals that are plaguing them later tonight in the show. first, we have a lot more in our top story. kate steinle's killer found not guilty.

now walking free. kate steinle killed in july of 2015, walking arm and arm with her father on a pier in san francisco. shot and killed by an illegal immigrant, jose garcia zarate. he had seven prior felony convictions, four involving narcotics. he was facing six deportation at the time he shot and killed this innocent woman. they said he accidentally killed her. said it was an accident that the bullet ricochetted off the concrete and hit kate steinle. his lawyers said he found the gun moments before he shot her. it gets worse. he says his client had never fired a gun before and got scared after it went off. what did he do? he threw it off the pier. they found it the next day. as i said at if top of the show, sanctuary cities tonight, those that support them, they are to blame for the death of kate

steinle. with reaction now, michelle malcon. look at all of this in detail. this guy, six deportations he was facing. the federal government said to san francisco turn this guy over. and they refused to obey the law. >> sean, my outrage is laden with melancoly. i have reported on many of these cases and there's so little, if any, accountability for people in the federal, state and local government that have blood on their hands. kate steinle and her family never wanted or wished for the publicity that they have gotten, the paid that they have suffered and the fact that they have no choice but to be front and center in the headlines as they suffer as a result of this verdict. this really is, i think, a

damning indictment of so-called san francisco values. where is nancy pelosi tonight? where has she been the last 25 years? this is her city. it's her open borders policies that have haunted so many innocent people and innocent lives in san francisco. it is the conversion of america into a sanctuary nation instead of a sovereign nation that has endangered us and one of the primary reasons that president trump was elected in the first place. people made a choice after seeing this fork in the road, after seeing both political parties, both republicans and their big business donors and democrats and their identity politics, grievance mongers and the collusion. the sanctuary problem still exists today. when will this city and county sheriff in san francisco and

that mayor and the governor ever be held accountable for the deaths as a result of bloody open borders? >> sean: he spent much of his adult life behind closed -- behind bars. six times, as i said. he said once he aimed at a sea animal. he said another time that it fired when he stepped on it. i've been a pistol marksman since i was 11 years old. guns don't go off by themselves. there can be accidental shootings. a sea animal. thing you change his story here. there's a word for that. it's called lying. not even close to being the same story. >> that's right. it strains credulity. i'll get to his attorney in a minute, which were disgusting, some of which you showed. the idea that he happened upon this weapon. it was oopsy an accident when there were witnesses that

testified at the trial that they saw him twirling the gun around recklessly beforehand and then scurrying away when the police were looking for who it was that caused kate steinle to fall to the ground and be shot in the back as she was warming arm and arm with her father on a happy day. the idea that this defense attorney now is politicizing this verdict and rubbing salt into the wounds of kate steinle's family is disgusting. it shows you the mentality and probably infected much of the jury. did you know, sean, that any discussion of immigration policy and jose zarate's five prior deportations, the detainer that was ignored by city and county officials, the pending six deportations, the seven felony convictions including four narcotics convictions, none of that was allowed to be presented to the jury? no wonder they got a verdict they did. >> sean: thanks, michelle.

the federal government requested -- thanks for your time tonight. >> you bet. >> sean: requested when he was released from the san francisco jail that he be handed over to the federal government. the sanctuary city laws prevented them from doing that. this was his sixth -- to be his sixth deportation. how do you get back in the country? because of wide open borders. he spent 46 months in jail. the feds requested he be handed over to be deported again. in the process, an innocent woman is dead. huge breaking news tonight. we have a lot to cover. we'll have a live report from san francisco on kate steinle's killer being set free. more on the looming show down on capitol hill and the latest from nbc with matt lauer. stay with us. (♪)

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>> sean: tonight heart breaking news for the family of kate steinle. the illegal immigrant responsible for kate's death was found not guilty of murder or involuntary manslaughter by a jury earlier tonight. we have claudia cowan with us. one of the things that stands out at me more than anything else, he said he was aiming at a sea animal. then he claims later that he stepped on it. >> the defense certainly made much out of mr. zarate's conflicting statements that he made to the media, that he made to the press. they took issue with some of the police translations as well. so the defense did a great job, sean, picking apart this mutteled confession and statement about shooting at sea lions and stepping on guns and so forth. what a stunning end to this case that many had considered a

referendum on illegal immigration and sanctuary city policies. but in san francisco, it was a local murder case with mostly substantial evidence. the fact that a defendant, jose garcia zarate was a multiple felon and deportee and protected by san francisco's decision to refuse to comply with immigration officials, none of that was presented as evidence and the jury was not allowed to consider any of that and not to consider any politics as well when they went in to deliberate. they had deliberated about 30 hours when late this afternoon we got the word that they had reached a verdict and decided that kate steinle's death was in fact a tragic accident. now we're hearing from kate steinle's family. jim steinle saying they're "saddened and shocked." kate's brother brad said "i'm not surprised. the system failed kate from the start of the chain of events. why would the verdict be

different?" outside the courtroom, the lawyers said the jury made the right decision. the jurors quickly left after the verdict was read. they had nothing to say to reporters. garcia zarate was convicted of being a felon in position of a firearm and that conviction does carry a sentence of 16 months, two years or three years. the judge will make that determination probably next month. again, what a stunning end to this case and a big victory for the san francisco public defender's office. >> sean: thanks, claudia. the system did fail the steinle family. joining us with more, larry elder, dan bongino. the idea that he could say, dan, that he was aiming -- the words "aiming" at a sea animal in this case, and then saying he stepped on it. could that -- this -- can this

firearm go off by stepping on it? i understand the trigger is one that you really have to pull. >> sean, when i was a secret service agent, we used this firearm. this was -- we had a different variation of the round. a 40 caliber round. this was a sig sour 40 caliber handgun. the answer is hell know, it can't go off by stepping on it and won't go off by fiddling with it. you have to put force on the trigger, this is a complete travesty of justice. clearly san francisco told the world that justice is political in san francisco. this is a travesty and outrage. >> sean: this was supposed to be this man's sixth deportation. you have the federals request to the san francisco jail where he was being held for 46 months. they totally ignored it. they ignored the law. >> they did.

>> sean: and because our borders are so wide open, he could come back in all these times. it speaks volumes. i say that those sanctuary laws and our weak borders killed this poor woman. >> well, i agree with you 100%. i didn't believe they would get a first degree verdict or a second degree. i assumed it would be involuntary manslaughter. the point is he shouldn't have been here in the first place. he should have been deported. by the way, california -- the bay area has since changed sanctuary city law. if you applied the same facts, he would not have been deported. california is a sanctuary state. san francisco is a sanctuary city and this person shouldn't have been here in the first place irrespective of the law and the facts of the case. >> sean: let's go ban to dan and talk about this. does this impact the daca

debate, impact the need, the necessity the president ran so hard on building a wall, building a wall. now we have plans in the process of being made. in other words, blueprints for what the wall will be. does this finally motivate congress to secure the borders so that somebody can't come back six separate times? >> gosh, sean. i really hope so. i mean, this is a troubling night. i mean, i feel for the family. this is just a really unbelievable human tragedy. think about what happened. we have a guy in the country illegally five times. he admitted to being on drugs. he admitted to at least firing the weapon. he disputes how. he admits to running away. he's caught on video running away on video. he throws the gun into the san francisco bay. then he gets in front of a san francisco jury and is even acquitted, sean. of involuntary manslaughter. i mean, how do you look the american people in the eye? i'm serious.

if you're in that jury and say justice was done tonight to this woman who by the way, sean, her aorta was suffered as a 40 caliber round went through her back and pierced her aorta. >> sean: i agree. a seven-time convicted felon. sixth deportation this was going to be. i ask everybody watching tv tonight, put yourself in the place of this young woman or the parents, the family, the friends of this young woman that was -- her life was gone and we had every opportunity to make sure this convicted felon didn't come back in. but we didn't secure our borders and the system failed by allowing him not to be handed over to the federal government that requested him based on what the law of the land is. >> right. sean, i would hope this is a wake-up call. this is california, this is the

same state where jahmile shaw jr. was shot and killed by an illegal alien that shouldn't have been in the country. after that happened, after kate steinle happened, that's when the governor signed the sanctuary state bill. they were known and did it anyway. this is california. the same state where o.j. simpson butchered two people and got away with it. robert shaw, same thing and got away with it. you never know what will happen before a jury. after the o.j. simpson case happened, i stopped trying to predict what would happen. this man should not have been in the country in the first place. shouldn't have been a trial in the first place because he shouldn't have been here. >> sean: thank you for being with us. this system failed this young family. our thoughts and prayers. i'd the devastated. think if it was your family. when we come back, tommy, jessica and the outrageous verdict in san francisco. we get white house reaction from ed henry. tomorrow morning, watch

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>> sean: fox news alert. jose garcia zarate found not guilty in the 2015 shooting death of kate steinle. he was wanted for his sixth deportation. he shot steinle on a pier in san francisco before then running and tossing the gun into the bay, running from the scene

of the crime. earlier today, his lawyer sounded off on the president. this is outrageous. watch this. >> for those that might criticize this verdict, there's a number of people that have commented on this case in the last couple years. the attorney general of the united states, the president and vice president of the united states. let me just remind them that they are themselves under investigation by a special prosecutor in washington d.c., and they may themselves soon avail themselves of the presumption of innocence and beyond a reasonable doubt standard. so i would ask them to reflect on that before they comment on disparage the results in this case. >> sean: joining us, dana lash and tommy and jessica. this is the sixth deportation.

they wouldn't hand him over to the federal government who requested to hand him over. did this sanctuary city law kill kate steinle? >> well, the illegal immigrant himself killed kate steinle. the policy allowed him to stay here. there will be a change in this. ralph -- >> sean: could you say without sanctuary cities in all likelihood kate steinle would be alive tonight. >> without the same policy -- >> sean: would she be alive tonight? >> she was 32, 33 i imagine she would be alive. >> sean: borders are so porous that a man can sneak in a sixth or seventh time? >> we have a net outflow of the country -- >> sean: do you want to build the border wall? >> no. because it's ineffective -- >> sean: tell that to b.b. netanyahu. he says it's changed israel.

>> israel and the united states are very different. >> sean: walls work. >> i do not believe that. a number of republicans don't believe that. talk to a republican congressman. in texas they say that's not the case. you want more agents there, i'm fine with that. >> sean: let's go to tommy. your thoughts. >> well, to answer jessica's questions, there's physical barriers work. democrats will be put in an interesting situation now. they have to choose between illegal immigrants and the american people. i'm anxiously awaiting the response of the democratic party. because i think it's going to help us in 2020. >> sean: dana, like you, i've been firing -- i've been using firearms since i'm young. he said he was aiming this at a see animal. and then it became i stepped on it. then it ricochetted and hit kate steinle in the back. this particular six hour, it's not one that i fired. i was wondering if you have. >> i have. i thought what dan said earlier was pretty spot on.

i thought that the defense was moronic on this. there's things the jury saw that we didn't see. it's interesting that the same people that want to look at forensic reports as concerns ballistics, they ignored that in the mike brown case. for the lawyer to invoke donald trump and falsely also say that there's an investigation based on criminal propaganda which substantiated a fisa warrant is bizarre. people in california are not protected. the courts have said there's no justice, no peace for the law abiding. those that break the law are given preference over law abiding americans and california has declared itself to be a dangerous state. they have decided they want to make it impossible for law-abiding americans to choose their pro choice right of self-defense. but if you're an illegal alien and you're in that state be protected as a sanctuary state, you're afforded all of the luxuries of american citizens

including rights that we have sacrificed for, due process. you're given a slap on the wrist. this wasn't even involuntary manslaughter isn't a front to due process and all the law abiding systems in california. this is shameful. >> sean: the system failed on so many different levels. if i'm president trump tonight, i'm saying no federal dollars to any or state like california. you said you agree. sanctuary city law was in existence, this girl would likely be alive tonight. why should the federal government give a penny to any city that doesn't want to obey the laws of this country? >> i think all sanctuary cities should cooperate with ice officials. >> sean: if they don't, we shouldn't give them federal dollars. if i'm president trump, i'm saying not a dime to these cities. >> there's a lot that that money gets used for -- >> sean: too bad. if you allow criminals,

felons -- >> mayors are paying attention to what happened today. i believe they'll change -- >> sean: i won't hold my breath. that's not going to bring back cat steinle. >> it's not. it's a tragedy. but you'll get if 11 million illegals here out of a country, get rid of a policy that many republicans have backed to make sure that we can come out of the shadows to cooperate with law enforcement. >> sean: let me go to tomi. >> i know somebody that resides in california, me as a california woman, that illegals are protected and americans are not. any time you defend sanctuary cities, i have to ask you, why would you defend a policy that is harboring criminals? that's the end of the discussion. >> it's not the end of the discussion. >> when you have a national tragedy and we have dana on the panel that is a firearms experts, when we have a mass

shooting, we don't say take away the guns -- >> sean: liberals do all the time. >> they don't say -- we want responsible -- >> i have to interject. >> please. >> law-abiding americans are blamed for the actions of criminal thugs like zarate, this individual that murdered kate steinle. law-abiding americans that are second amendment practitioners that are blamed for the actions of repeat offenders like this illegal alien. when the illegal alien does it, it was an accident. he meant to shoot a seal. if only law-abiding americans got the courtesy as much as this individuals. it's never going to happen. now you can understand why so many law-abiding americans are so disgruntled at this. >> sean: i have to let you go. sad night. thoughts and prayers with this family. the system failed the family and this young girl. ed henry next from the capitol will give us an update on three big stories. later, the war on the trump women has reached an incredible unbelievable new slow.

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. >> sean: all right. ed henry following three big stories from the capitol tonight as we get to other news. what's going on? >> a tough statement just in from the attorney general on the kate steinle verdict. jeff sessions saying in part that cities choosing to put "criminal aliens to the streets rather than turning them over to federal immigration authorities put the public safety at risk." i can tell you republicans have spoken, too, on capitol hill tonight and saying this verdict could give the president new

impetos on the new agenda. and john mccain said he will support the tax cuts. he sunk repeal and replace obamacare. his support makes it likely the president will get a victory on that as early as tomorrow. the president has been touting a stock market on fire. the dow seeing it's 63rd record close and could go higher. the corporate tax rate will be dropping from 35% to 20%. the personal side, there's been claims that this helps very few people. the joint committee on taxation put out a new report saying 60% of u.s. households will get a tax cut. 8% will pay more. democrats jumped on that same study. the committee saying that the economic impact will not be very strong and that this will strongly increase the deficit. republicans pushing back on that today saying that they're undercounting the impact on the

economy. that will be hashed out tomorrow with a likely final vote on friday. the bottom line, the other big story tonight, reports out of north korea that the north koreans may be willing to negotiate about its nuclear weapons program. that is a bit of a surprise. remember earlier this week that missile launch suggesting that north korea could reach various u.s. cities. there's nuclear experts saying this could be a sign that kim jong-un just wants to show that he has a deterrent but doesn't want to use the missiles and weapons as an offensive weapon against the u.s. president trump said he doesn't want to negotiate with kim jong-un. but this sign tonight that maybe the president tough rhetoric has been working with north korea might lead them to the table. >> sean: sounds like kim jong-un doesn't want to be obliterated, which would have to happen. not a lot of good options there. thanks, ed. joining us with more reaction, white house senior adviser, mercedes schlapp.

mercedes, when you look at the 60 plus percent of americans that will see a reduction of taxes -- and by the way, because i live in a liberal state like new york, i won't have one. but states like florida, texas, no state income tax have been subsidizing these big spending, big taxing liberal states like california and new york, right? >> right. i mean, you have to think about what the president here is committing to. he's committing to ensuring that middle class families receive a tax cut. that was a primary focus in addition to making sure that they simplify the tax code and to ensure that they reduce the corporate taxes. when you lower the corporate taxes, many benefits go to the american worker. you're starting to see investments, building in factories. starting to see communities that will be revitalized. when you have more of these investments, more corporations

coming back to the united states, not planting themselves out in other countries, but really coming back to what we call the american model, it's a huge benefit for these communities that have really been strangled under what we would call so much regulation under the obama years. not enough economic growth. what are we seeing? we're seeing consumer confidence up. business is optimistic. so there's really this sense of president trump has said, the rocket fuel economy where you're going to see by year ten, the gdp between 3 to 5% growth that is real economic growth and real results. >> sean: i have to imagine the president that ran so strongly on securing our borders -- by the way, kate's law was passed in the house. one of the many bills that haven't been taken up in the senate, about 300 of them. i hope this tax bill is a wave of work now and maybe a sense of urgency by mcconnell and company. i ask you this. i can only imagine, this is only

going to fuel the desire of this country to protect innocent people here. they requested the turnover. he was in custody. open borders allowed him back in every time. >> well, i got to tell you, i remember when president trump in the campaign said where is the sanctuary for kate steinle? let's think about that. this is an important moment right here where we're outraged by what we're seeing. obviously what we have noticed is the fact that there's this incredible need for the end of sanctuary cities. something that the president has pushed through on his principles of immigration and something that he focused on as well as closing the loop holes and that we're going to enforce the immigration laws. this is incredibly important in addition to border security. the jurisdictions refuse to and this criminal alien over to the federal authorities. the city didn't honor the ice

detainer. what happens there, you have innocent lives lost, innocent blood shed. because of that -- >> sean: so scary. everybody should think about that. >> the focus should be to ensure the safety of the american people. >> sean: congrats on your new position. when we come back, new lows to attacking melania trump. wait till you she this. it's outrageous. they're defined by accomplishments. by victories. by those with the resourcefulness, the ingenuity, and the grit to help ensure the next energy to power our dreams, will be american energy.

>> sean: before we go tonight, i have to highlight how the media is yet again stooping to new lows in their attacks against the trump family and in particular, ivanka trump, the first lady, melania trump. let me explain. the white house released a photo of the first lady, melania trump, decorating the white house for christmas. instead of complimenting how beautiful everything looked and the effort put in, what does the far left hate trump media do? they attack the first lady. look at this. the daily beast, step inside melania trump's nightmare before christmas. these people are vicious. and then they go after ivanka trump. check out this headline. from news week, ivanka trump plagiarizes one of her own speeches in india. you dopes, you can't plagiarize herself, your own speech.

you know how many speeches? i give the same jobs at a lot of them. you people are so dumb. we're fair and balanced. laura is standing by with her baby pictures. did you bring it. >> laura: no, no. i'm going to do it tomorrow. too many serious things. >> sean: i'm so angry over this tragedy, how the system failed the steinle family. i know you're angry, too. >> laura: we'll be all over it. thanks so much. >> sean: have a good show. >> laura: good evening from washington. this is "the ingraham angle." let's get to the top story. a stunning very digit out of san francisco. a five-time deported illegal alien with seven previous felony convictions was found, believe it or not, not guilty of murdering 32-year-old kate steinle on july 1, 2015.