>> just hours after the senate passes major tax legislation this morning, the fight has begun to reconcile it for the house version. >> president trump celebrating his major legislative win at a fundraiser, while brushing 0 of a guilty plea by his former national security advisor in the robert mueller probe. >> we're at the reagan library where the country's minds are looking for ways to him prove military readiness. >> welcome to america's news headquarters from washington d.c., i'm jillian turner.

>> great to be with you, and great to be with you at home. i'm leland vittert. the senate literally burped the midnight oil last night and republicans did not need the vice-president to get the reform through the senate, though he was there. >> we're halfway there the. the republicans got this through with vote to spare even though democrats did everything they could to block it. >> i would be glad to gut and destroy this legislation. >> how high the stench is rising in this chamber as we debate the bill tonight. in my long career in politics i have not seen a more aggressive piece of legislation. >> they also took to twitter showing the last minute changes that were handwritten on the bill, complaining there was no way anyone had time to read the entire piece of legislation, much less study it and figure out how it would effect the

economy. here is senator john tester of montana. can you tell me what that word is? you have better eyes than me, this is unbelievable. >> in the end, the republicans were able to push it through, giving a huge victory. the g.o.p. went from 35 to 20% corporate tax rate and 10% cut for individuals. and add more a trillion to the deficit, but republican leaders say that doesn't take into account the massive growth the bill would unleash. >> the 1.5 trillion dollar deficit only to be filled, only requires us to grow 4/10 of 1% over the next ten years. goodness, gracious, that's very much achievable. i'm totally convinced this is a revenue neutral bill. actually revenue producer bill that's going to get america moving again.

the next step is reconciliation with the house bill. and the republicans seem to be very motivated to cut a deal with each other. no democrats voted yes in either chamber. >> now in terms. senate bill we have to sort of read through it and see exactly what it does. a lot of changes were made last night. caroline, thank you. gillian has a more on the fight to come. let's go to john garamendi for insight. good afternoon, congressman, thank you for joining us. >> it was good morning here in california. i was chuckling the last comment made by your colleague. we're going to have to read through it and see exactly what it does. how is it that one of the most important critical things in the entire economy that's rearranging the entire tax structure, after it passes we're going to read it and understand what it does. this is really a serious, serious problem in the legislative effort. not one hearing, not one hearing. >> picking up. >> not one hearing in the

senate, my goodness. >> picking up on that thread, congressman, my colleague caroline mentioned in her reported senator tester's sweet, i was handed a 479 piece tax bill a few hours before the vote. you saw some of the handwriting scribbled in the margins wasn't ledgeable, so what do you make of the strategy here? . was that intentional? >> what do i make of this? first of all, it's legislative malpractice, to do a-- let's understand what we're doing with the tax bill, we're rearranging the entire american economy and the underlying social implications of how that economy affects every citizen in this nation, without even one hearing, now, they had two markups in the senate and we had one markup in the house, but there was no discussion about the way in which the bill actually affects corporations, individuals, small businesses,

farmers, on and on down the line. that's malpractice, and after you vote for it, to say, well, i think we better read it and understand what's in it, that's just, it's unconscionable that's what's happening. now in the process of trying to sort this out in a conference committee, they could hold hearings and hopefully they will, although there's no indication that that will happen. >> congressman, i want you to take a quick listen to this sound from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and i want to get your reaction. >> this has gone through the regular order, the democrats had plenty of notice. chairman hatch can attest to all of multiple hearings, markups, open amendment process, and everybody had plenty of opportunity to see the measure. you complain about process when you're losing. and that's what you heard on the floor tonight. >> so he's essentially saying, mr. congressman, that you and your colleagues are now whining

about process because you lost this round. what do you say to that? >> of course, you can say whatever you want to say, but the facts are the facts and these are not alternate facts, these are real facts. there was never a hearing in the house, there was never a hearing in the senate. there is a markup and not one democratic amendment was analyzed by anybody other than democrats, and neither were the amendments offered by the republicans, there's been no public analysis done by congress on this legislation. now, putting that aside, there are some things we do know about this tax cut. it is an enormous boon to the super wealthy, there's no doubt that president trump is celebrating in new york city among the plutocrats. what's happening is the largest transfer of wealth in recent american history from the

working men and women. and there's a texas two-step that's going to happen here, it's already been said by senator marco rubio, the second step is to cut medicare and medicaid. >> now, congressman, i don't mean to interrupt you, 15 seconds. is there anything the republican caucus can do between now and christmas to try and bring in one of or two of your democratic colleagues or is this done and dusted? >> the republicans made it clear, they've not reached out to the democrats and not tried to. they say they a're going to do ourselves. and the american public, what you're doing to me is harming the american middle class because ultimately their tax breaks and the corporate tax breaks go on to state and local taxes deducted by corporations, but not by individuals. come on, this is just not fair to the american men and women

working out there. and by the way, if you're flipping burgers at burger king, you're getting a minimum wage and paying 8% on your wages. >> all right, congressman, it sounds like you're saying there's not a whole lot that's going to happen in the next few weeks, barring a miracle to bring in the democrats, which is unfortunate. >> no, no, you can't bring in the democrats if you open this process. go through the public hearing process and ask us what do we think, how can this be improved. they've not done that. >> it seems you're saying this is unlikely to happen, is that right? >> well, theres a he abouten absolutely no indication that that would happen up to this moment. what would happen beyond this? i'm hopeful. >> thank you so much for your time this afternoon, we'll have you back soon. >> thank you. >> congressman garamendi. >> coming up we'll have tennessee congress woman and chairwoman of the house committee diane black and rec sellation coming up. and the president is in new york attending a fundraiser.

before leaving washington the president talked about the tax vote and former national advisor security's michael flynn. and he seemed to be in good spirits when he left. >> he certainly did. despite that there's a sense of anxiety at the white house just what michael flynn could tell special investor mueller's team and how that could impact the administration. those concerns were on full display yesterday. the white house tried to diminish the role that flynn played during the campaign, the transition and the early days of the trump administration. in a moment, trump's attorney ty cobb pointed out that flynn was a former official in the obama administration and only served as national security advisor for 25 days before he was fired. in a statement he went down to play down the significance of flynn's guilty plea and cast a silver lining on the investigation, saying the false statements involved mirror the false statements to white house

officials which resulted in his resignation in february of this year. nothing about the plea implicates anyone other than mr. flynn. the conclusion of this stage of the special counsel's work, indication that the special counsel is moving with deliberate speed and clears the way for a prompt and reasonable conclusion. and this morning, president trump briefly commented on his former national security advisor now cooperating with federal investigators and said he is not concerned. >> no, i'm not. and what has been shown is no collusion. no collusion. there's been absolutely-- there's been absolutely no collusion, so we're very happy. we'll see what happens, thank you all very much. >> despite that the charging documents showed yesterday that more individuals than the trump transition team were aware of flynn's conversations with russians ambassador than the white house previously suggested, including jared kushner and that's why congressional investigators would like to be speaking with him again. leland. >> we'll see if he makes himself

available. on a gray day from the white house, and the president is set to come back. garrett, thank you. with that we'll bring in washington post, and josh, you've got the president in that sound bite saying he is not concerned. and at the same time, you've got garrett saying there's a real anxiety at the white house. can both of those things be true at once? >> well, i think yesterday was a mixed bag. obviously, michael flynn was a white house advisor, top-notch security advertiser. having time plead guilty is certainly not good news and that he's cooperating going forward. certainly, we know him to know, you know, a lot of secrets about the administration. he was a top person on the campaign. and at the same time, what they got him for yesterday was not collusion with russia, it was lying to the fbi during the transition. >> and collusion in and of itself isn't a crime as we've all known and reported on. the question though, is there a

real anxiety inside the white house, do you have any sources calling you on the record and off the record, gee, we're worried, the president's worried, we're circling the wagons? >> there's concern about what they don't know. >> what's the concern about? >> they don't know what mike flynn will say. they don't know what will emerge. a lot of folks who work in the white house were not intimately involved in the campaign. and someone told me last night the president had a number of senior staff to the residents for dinner, a christmas themed dinner in a good mood. seemed in good spirits and seemed pretty unconcerned about this. and today we see something, absolutely no collusion, there's nothing to be said there. and i think there is some concern about you i also think that they're trying to put a good spin on it. >> let's talk about the reporting of this. because there's been so much of unnamed sources and we saw some of the danger of that yesterday. abc had to walk back what was an explosive report, essentially saying that then candidate trump

had ordered then advisor flynn to make contact with the russians and then they put out this tweet, correction of abc news special report, flynn prepared to testify that president-elect donald trump directored him to make contact with the russians as a way to fight isis in syria, and confidante now says. and something as fast moving as yesterday, to get in right? >> it's very challenging. you know, there are a lot of people who are giving you information and some is accurate and some is not. a lot of good reporting has been done. analysis on court documents, on what came out publicly and in these fast moving situations it's incumbent on us all to make sure before we write it. >> and to say when the markets crashed on the initial reports and pivot back to what the

president was saying. he was getting up in front of a crowd, cipriani, i have a new campaign slogan, crediting somebody he met earlier in the day for it. he said i'm going to start asking people how their 401(k) is doing. how confident is the white house if they keep the economic numbers going forward, that they're almost bulletproof vis-a-vis the mueller investigation? >> weighing out the president feels, he feels the economy is doing well and the stock market, the unemployment is going down, that some of the drama in washington over rex tillerson, over tweets and-- a lot of people are tuning out that noise and caring about bottom line in their pocket. whether or not that's true, obviously is ahead. and i think that james carville famously said, it's the economy, stupid. and for the president the economy is doing well. a lot of people don't tune in

and watch every single development. >> you took james carville's words right out of my mouth. you're reporting that the president saying the government shutdown would be good for him is pretty fascinating as in "the washington post." we'll circle back and talk about it. thanks on a new gig. >> thanks so much. >> gillian. >> a new report of sexual harassment in the house has nancy pelosi calling on one of the representatives to resign after misconduct surfaced on friday. ellison joins us with more on the fascinating story. >> this is a congressman from nevada and nancy pelosi pretty quickly called on him to resign. she said in her statement, in part. the young woman's documented account is convincing. keywin should resign after in buzz feed a woman identified

only as samantha told reporters he repeatedly harassed her during the 2016 campaign. she abruptly quit because kihuen repeatedly asked her for dates and she said no. he told buzz feed he's story for anything he did that, quote, made her feel uncomfortable. he's the most recent lawmaker accused of sexual harassment, but certainly not the only one. according to a report in politico. $84,000 taxpayers dollars were used to settle a sexual harassment claim from a texas congressman. and some are calling a secret slush fund in the past 20 years has reported bye paid more than $17 million for violations are various rules including sexual

harassment. democratic leaders are calling on democratic representative john conyers after one of his accusers spoke out on the today show. and he admitted using $27,000 to settle harassment claims of a former staffer who had now been identified as marianne brown. >> he pointed to areas of genital areas of his body and asked me to, you know, touch it. >> he will continue to defend himself until the cows come home. >> no one's asked al franken to step down and there are photos, and there is an admission. >> senator al franken is accused of groping five women, a number of house democrats have called on him to step down, however, the senate has been a bit of a different story, gillian. we've seen and this is what you heard conyers' attorney point out. democrats in the senate high ranking ones seem to say, hold

on, let the ethics investigation play out. and you've heard attorney reed suggest-- >> and the let's not pile on, although allegations are tough to listen to. >> and sexual harassment claims, details just how long nbc's top brass knew about claims against matt lauer. plus, calls growing to boycott san francisco after the country's most famous sanctuary city failed to convict an illegal immigrant on the debt of katherine steinle on manslaughter. hi, jen. >> we're here at the defense forum where the talk is about

the north korean threat and how to rebuild the military. we'll have the details coming up.

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reagan's air force one and marine one aircraft. parked in simi valley, california where hundreds of america's brightest military minds are gathering to discuss military issues of the day, one military readiness after high profile and deadly accidents. our correspondent jennifer griffin is live with the latest on this. good afternoon or good morning to you, jennifer. >> hello, gillian. we're here at the reagan national defense forum. it's one of the premier defense conferences with top guests such as hr mcmasters and, the national security advisor, mike palm p palm-- pompeo, the issues are everything from the north korea threat to how to rebuild the military. i spoke to the current chairman of the house armed services committee, max thornberry, who describes the situation this way. >> something is wrong and part

of what's wrong is that we have been stretching our military thinner and thinner, asking them to do more and more, but not giving the resources they need to do what we ask them to do. it is a crisis when we have an increasing number of accidents, some of which, unfortunately, take the lives of our military personnel. i think it's a crisis when more than half of the f-18's in the navy cannot fly today because they're waiting on maintenance. >> and gillian, i'm joined by the former chairman. house armed services committee, congressman buck mckeen, thank you for joining us, why did you start this forum? >> jennifer, next week we'll it the pearl harbor memoriam day.

and it would live in infamy. we could be on one of these right now. if one of those, north korea, russia, china, wants to test us, it would not be good for us. when i was in congress we had the strategy to be in two major conflicts and win and then one and now it's we can show up. we have the smallest navy we've had since world war i, the smallest army they've had since world war ii. we have the smallest air force since it was created. and i know he went to a marine base, talked to a commander there that said he had taken his child to a museum and found a part on an f-16 that he was able to talk the museum people into giving him so he could put it on one of his planes to try to fly it. >> we've reported on this cannibalization of planes going to the bone yard, half of the b-1 bombers can't fly right now. is this a crisis?

>> it is definitely a crisis. how can you call it anything else? i mean, we-- we were lured into a false sense of security before pearl harbor. what if it happened now? i mean, we just saw the north koreans shoot off a missile a couple of days ago that could reach anywhere in the continental united states. we need to wake up. people with the budget cuts, the military, you know, when i was chairm chairman, the military plans five years ahead. they're told in five years you'll have this amount of money and planned like that and they try to make investments like that. and then five years later, they have $100 billion less in that year than they were told they would have previously. that's very difficult to mrn. and then what they have to do is there are certainly things they just have to do. they have to turn the lights on, and the things that they can

maybe hold off a little bit on are the training, the maintenance, those kind of things. >> essentially, they've been robbing peter to pay paul. >> exactly. >> putting off maintenance after 16 years of war, and we've heard about how that is affecting and we're seeing how these budget cuts seem to be impacting, causing a rise in accidents. thank you very much for joining me here at the reagan library for the reagan defense forum. we'll be bringing you live coverage all day and please stay with us and we will see you later on. bye, gillian. >> thanks for at that reporting, jennifer. a quick question before you go. i think it's your fifth year covering the forum, is that right. >> that's right, i'll be hosting a panel on military readiness with the head of the marine corps commandant robert neller and we will be talking to members of industry, northrop grumman and boeing about how to get these parts that they need for the planes that, as we've

reported, have been -- half of the navy's f-18's can't fly and half of the b-1 is bomber force can't fly and that is seriously a crisis situation from those i'm speaking to out here at the forum, gillian. gillian: thanks for joining us from there and we will have general neller at the 1:00 hour. much more coming up on fox news. at 4 p.m., bret baier sits down an h.r. mcmaster at the defense forum. you'll be able to watch it live. in the next hour, marine corps general neller, what they need forward in the 21st century. coverage from the reagan national defense forum continues with fox news sunday. national security advisor mcmaster joins fox's own chris wallace live in the simi valley.

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. gillian: fox news alert. leland: the president is in new york and he is tweeting about the national security advisor's guilty plea. >> i had to fire general flynn

because he lied to the fbi, the president continues it's a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful, there was nothing to hide. and to day after general flynn pled guilty, outside of flynn's son's home in alexandria, virginia, he has been implicated although not charged. the big question as to what the flynn-flynn son connection is. more on that in a minute and now we bring in former core prosecutor, former deputy assistant director at the doj, bob driscoll. thanks for being here. all right, from the president, his actions, meaning flynn's action during the transition were lawful. hard to argue with that. >> certainly, from what was in the information yesterday, na was filed, all of that contact between the election and the inauguration, that that's, i think, typical. >> so, for as much as everyone is reading into this and

erroneous abc news report and hysteria, suddenly there's-- and that could be michael flynn being stupid and lying to the fbi. >> what leads people to think there's more is the pretty sweet deal. >> and manafort might say what does flynn know that we don't. >> and the filings were likely there with flynn and knowing showed up. leland: the money that he took, and the alleged kidnapping thing. >> the question is why not? do he have something valuable enough to get that good a deal from the special counsel out of it. leland: there's all the innuendo and sources and sort of conspiracy out there, but then there's also what was in the

court filings. i want to read one of those to you. these facts do not constitute all the facts known to the parties concerning the charged offenses, they're being submitted to demonstrate sufficient facts exist that the defendant committed the offense to which he is pleading guilty. if you're the lawyer-- ments i'm worried about the turkey information about flynn and why why that made it in. and clearly the special counsel's offices is reserving the right to come back in. there's risk there's more out there. leland: sources inside the white house say they're very worried. we heard garrett tenney at the white house saying the white house is pretty anxious what flynn might say. they know what the conversations were, the president knows the conversations he had with general flynn who became national security advisor flynn.

jared kushner knows what conversations they had during the campaign. they know what they did. by virtue of the fact that they're worried, is there something there to be worried about? >> it's hard to know how worried they are, when you hear reports like that. but, yeah, i mean, it all comes down to don rumsfeld, we don't know what we don't know. if there's no "there" there, there's no there there. and flynn cooperates to what he knows. and if there's no collusion there, it doesn't become collusion if flynn points out. and there is indication on public sources there is on the straight collusion front, none of this changes anything. i think that people are worried, in particular, if i were kushner's lawyer or other lawyers, get someone high enough up in conversations that you were already likely asked about so if flynn gave a different description of any of the those conversations than they did, then that's a false statement risk, it's not a substantive

crime. leland: exactly what they got flynn on. quickly i want you on record. fox news just now confirming the special counsel's office, robert mueller's office has removed peter strossok a special investigator attached to mueller for allegedly making conversations or having text conversations that were negative to president trump. not saying that he did anything wrong, but that somehow this puts a cloud over the investigation. is this a blip or something more? >> it's valuable politically. you have someone key in the clinton investigation looks like, and i read that story in the green room, it looks like possibly a clinton partisan, you know, does that change the facts? it doesn't, but, you know, certainly will give the president, as we've already seen, it did not take him long to jump on that story-- >> it brings up sort of a question of propriety and how smart you are if you're a senior

fbi agency investigating things, one would think you wouldn't put your political views in text messages, but as we've seen decency doesn't always trump things in the town. bob, good to see you, thank you very much. a lot more on this on media buzz, 11 a.m. eastern. catch the latest on the coverage, we alluded to that, talking about abc. how in its panel talking about the coverage of nbc's firing of matt lauer, a lot to break down there tomorrow on media buzz. gillian: also, coming up now in custody, after searching nearly a week, police have tracked down the assistant coach accused of running off with his student. more shocking sexual harassment allegations of big media icons this week. how the press has handled accusations against them, of their own. >> people knew about matt lauer for years and other people knew

about charlie rose for years. you know why the press didn't say anything about it? why they didn't expose these members? because it wasn't convenient for them.

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>> the search for a missing 17-year-old florida girl is over. she was found thousands of miles away in upstate new york. here is a video of 27-year-old rd. this guy coach boys soccer at fort white high school where the young girl attended school. authorities say she disappeared from her home on saturday. there was an alert police officer in new york state that pulled rodriguez over and found the girl, as we said, safe in the car. >> sexual harassment allegations put some of the biggest names in media out of a job. matt lauer, charlie rose,

garrison, and how have the news media treated the reports as opposed to reports of harassment in other institutions like the u.s. congress? joining me to discussion this is michael graham, columnist, and host of michael in the morning podca podcast. good to see you. >> happy to be here. gillian: there's been a domino effects against heavy hitting media figures in recent years. the way i see, it kind of starts with bill cosby and ricochets all the way through to this week with garrison keeler and matt lauer. is this the new normal. hang on i wanted to make sure that check to make sure no one lost their job while we were talking. i was a huge garrison fan-- the lake woebegone, these are my

peeps. i don't know about you, every time i hear the phrase, open secret, coming from a media organization, i think to myself, excuse me, there's no such thing. if it's open, it's not a secret. you are literally in the news distribution business. you know about bad behavior of people like matt lauer or to me, the stellar example, charlie rose. how do you not report this. remember, charlie rose's bad behavior, among the feminist activated liberals of pbs, was so notorious, that they had a nickname for when he gave unwanted back rubs to women, you got the old crusty paw from charlie rose and one woman was invited into his shower as he walked around in a towel. oh, you got the shower treatment. that's covering up for people in the media.

gillian: who is covering up? is it the media? drill down into nbc's handling of matt lauer. according to their time line, they got the first report and fired him the next day. according to their timeline they moved as quickly as they could. and sources are coming in and saying, that's not true. people have been reporting on his behavior to higher ups at nbc for years, and what do you make of that. >> i parsed original statement from nbc that said, current management only found out recently. current manager means that some where there's a director of local sales and suddenly that is management. variety has been working on this story for at least two months. they've known at least for two months minimum and reports are coming out. this is about two things, one is the money power, the revenue stream that is the today show. and once again, the other is

this culture of a deal that we've been living under since 1998, the clinton contract, that feminists and liberal women offering men and. gillian: wait a minute, michael. can you really go political on this? i think part of the problem here is that republicans like to blame dems, dems like to blame republicans. sexual harassment, misconduct is not a political issue. people who are the victims, i don't think going down this rabbit hole is the best approach. >> the behavior isn't political, but the reaction to the political. and one who was supposed be to a speaker of the house and was out because of the consensual affair he had and walked forward. and before the trump candidacy, republicans were very strict on self-policing, and they decided

they made a different decision when judge roy moore. that's the new part, but until then, we operated under the clinton contract if you had the right political position you can put your interns in any position you want and people will circle the wagon and defend you. john conyers, not open secrets. and matt lauer, charlie rose, quote, open secrets. why didn't these media members go on the attack. i guarantee if they had been part of media out lets and different persuasions, that would have not only been open, but published. gillian: i think it's fair to say that folks on both side of the aisle, media, industry, government, both sides of the aisle, everybody has been complicit up to a point and have their faults. we want to bring you back soon to follow up on this. >> excellent, thanks so much. leland: could there be a boycott brewing over san francisco's jury acquitting the man

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san francisco, america's most famous sanctuary city reaching a boiling pot after the death of kate steinle and an illegal immigrant. >> the surprise verdict sparked outrage in a political firestorm across the country and as a result the doj announced friday it will issued an arrest warrant for jose zarate who had been deported several times before shooting kate steinle in 2015. he was convicted for possessing a firearm and remains behind bars. his attorney argued that the shooting was a freak agent. president trump who has frequently used the steinle shooting as an argument for tougher immigration policies criticized the verdict along with attorney general jeff sessions. >> it's time for this country to get its head on street. that's cities should not be protecting criminal aliens. people who come into the country

unawfully and commit another crime and then they hide that individual and don't let them, as they did with zarate, be turned over to the ice officers so they can be properly turned over. and zarate, despite the request to hold the seven time felon for deportation. and they maintain it will be a sanctuary city and listen to scott weiner. >> there was a verdict to express the views. what the president is doing is using this family's and this community's horrible tragedy to fan the flames of hatred against immigrants. >> other parts of the country are not as understanding. there are twitter #boycott san francisco. leland: will carr, los angeles.

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>> america's news headquarters, a lot of news coming out of washington. heather: major tax reform legislation is one step closer to reality. the senate and house must find a way to reconcile their plans. we will talk with diane black coming up later. leland: donald trump fundraising in new york celebrating that majors legislative win and on twitter brushing off a guilty plea by national security advisor in the robert mueller russia probe, what the white house is saying about it.

jillian: the republican plan past the hurdle with a narrow passage vote in the senate but now the house and senate have to reconcile their competing versions of the bill. caroline has the latest on reconciliation. >> reporter: there are some surprises we will be finding out in the next few days but what we have been talking about, the main points of the bill, permanently cuts the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%, cuts individual tax rates more modestly for the next we 10 years and official estimate says it would add $1 trillion to the deficit but republican leaders say that doesn't take into account the growth bill would unleash, talking about the stock markets we have seen with market anticipating tax reform but democrats say it is a tax scam businesses and the wealthy will benefit the most and middle income families will get a tax

increase after a decade. that is the part of the bill taken read. other parts were hand written in the middle of the night. >> can you tell me what that word is? if you can you have that arise and me. this is unbelievable. >> reporter: republicans had plenty of time to review the bill in time for both sides to come together. here is mitch mcconnell. >> the multiple hearings, markups, open amendment process, everybody had plenty of opportunity to see the measure. you complain about process when you are losing and that is what you heard on the floor tonight. >> reporter: bob corker was the only republican not to vote yes. jillian: what is the next step? where do they go? >> reporter: the house and senate, donald trump has set christmas as the deadline.

that is going to be tight, only if you legislative days left, gop leaders say they can get it done. will certainly try. jillian: all right. leland: a little more on how senate and house plans will come together, nice to see you here. >> reporter: great to be with you. leland: we had john earlier, the gentleman from california last hour, this is what he had to say. >> we are arranging the entire american economy and the underlying social implications of how that economy affect every citizen in this nation, without even one hearing. after you vote for it to say we better read it and understand what is in it, it is unconscionable that that is what is happening. leland: you noted how excited you where the senate passed a bill. is it problematic that not even the senators who voted for it necessarily know everything in

it? >> it seems to me they should know because we have been talking tax reform for seven years since i have been in congress, we have been dealing with this, we had well over 40 hearings on it, members of the house have had an opportunity to see it. we put out three or four years ago. leland: we don't know what is in the bill. if you go through and read it changes were made last night, not that that is right or wrong but asking you how can you come out and say we have known what is in it for three or four years when that is substantially not true? >> it is on the house side. >> i was asking about the senate bill which you supported. >> i support what they have done up to this point to give us an opportunity to go into conference committee. i know the big features but i will tell you, it will take a little time to mesh the work, we

will consider the best of both plans. we might have things in our plan they really like, that will be part of the regular order. leland: let's talk about those differences and what needs to be worked out between the house and senate plan. the alternative minimum tax on the list, salt deduction meaning local and state income deductions, the pass-through rate, the individual mandate, there was a big part of the senate, the estate tax, does it get repealed or not? individual rates still aren't matched with these two bills, the mortgage interest deduction not matched, the house has 500,000, the senate keeps the million. as difficult as it was to get this through the senate how confident are you that you can come up with a reconciliation plan that can make it back to the senate? >> we set out a priority years ago to look at something that was simpler. if we look at what our goals are

and both of those plans, we will see which one gets us to that goal. in addition we have been looking at the middle income which needs the greatest tax relief. if we look at those as our goal everything that drives us should be towards those goals. there are numbers that are different, if we want to do simplification we need [blooge >> that is a word you brought up. you read through these bills, there is an awful lot of special-interest pork. there are special deductions for microbreweries, $10 million for south korean tuna company in american samoa. there are special orange growers, special breaks for private check companies and people who own private jets put in by a senator from a state with a big private jet

operation. some of your colleagues have to give up their pet projects for this to make it through? should they have to? >> you are talking about the senate version and not the house version. the kind of things that were put on like a christmas tree for senators will be in part of this discussion and i won't say at this point because we don't know who the conferees will be but they will have to make those decisions about when you dial these things in, it is going to cause us to dial something up to put those in. those are things that will probably really be part of the conversation whether they are needed because we want to bring those rates down and make it simple. leland: you are chairwoman of the budget committee and this is one of the sites on capitol hill, the distraction of sexual harassment and funding the government deadline, whether the government shuts down in the next week or so. reporting out of the washington

post, josh saying the president believes a government shutdown would be good for him. whether it is good for republicans as a whole yet to be seen, how do you come down on that? you agree with the president? >> i say the house is done its job, the appropriation bill, they have been sitting for two months, we asked the senate, we sent it to the senate, regular order, with the appropriation bill has done so there's not a reason we should even be here but i say take up these appropriation bills, they are sitting there, you had time to look at them, let's get them done before the end of the year. leland: appreciate you being here. jillian: donald trump is celebrating the senate tax code in new york today as well as making the first public comments about general michael flynn's guilty plea. garrett tenney joins us from the white house with the latest on what the president is saying.

>> reporter: donald trump is in new york for a few fundraisers and is touting tax reform but if you look at his twitter account you can see he is also talking about his former national security advisor, this past hour he tweeted i had a general fire -- general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi, he has pled guilty to those lies, it is a shame his actions during the transition were lawful, there was nothing to hide. this morning as he was leaving the white house the president said he is not concerned about flynn cooperating with investigators. >> i am not. what has been shown is no collusion, no collusion, there has been absolutely no collusion so we are very happy. we will see what happens, thank you all very much. >> there is a lot of uncertainty just what michelson could tell robert mueller's team, you don't know what you don't know. that is true because unlike

other individuals, charged by robert mueller, deeply involved in the happenings throughout the campaign to the transition to the early days of the administration and with broad powers of special counsel to investigate any issues in the course of this has the potential to open up a lot of doors. jillian: for the latest on robert mueller's investigation i want to bring in john busy from the wall street journal, thanks for joining us. i want to ask about this breaking news that mueller's team removed a top senior fbi agent over anti-trump texts he sent to colleagues. what do you read into that? >> he sent them anti-trump texts to colleagues and mueller doesn't want that influencing his investigation. best we can judge just like you from what he's doing is he wants people remaining impartial and

investigating what mueller wants to come to a conclusion about, was it collusion between the trump campaign and russia? inappropriate collusion, was there subsequent obstruction of justice as the fbi began to investigate that issue and others concerning the trump campaign. jillian: donald trump insisted that there was no collusion and no collusion has been proven but we also know that his first national security adviser, general michael flynn has pleaded guilty and struck a deal with mueller's team, specifically pleaded guilty to lying under oath to the fbi. what did he lie about? can you get into the details? they are pretty important. >> he lied about what he talked with the russian ambassador about, talked about sanctions, he had not talked to him about sanctions. the fbi caught him in a lie.

also, when you about what donald trump has said about this investigation in the past, he has said many things about it many of which have been proven false, particularly about contact between various individuals and russian diplomats, individuals that were associated with russia. it is not surprising the president said what he said this morning and your correspondent had it right on the mark, we don't know what we don't know yet. this is an investigation that is ongoing and very importantly, the signals being sent by mueller where he has cut a deal with flynn, flynn could have been presumably if all the charges against flynn that mueller had at his disposal were brought to bear, a prison sentence of substantial years might have been in the offing for general flynn if he had been found guilty but instead, a much

lighter possible sentence has been presented and only one charge was brought against him which he pled guilty to, the deal was struck and mueller must feel he is going to get something as a result of the deal but we don't know what it is. jillian: the white house with their official response yesterday, said we can pull that up on the screen so viewers can see it, this plea does not implicate anyone other than flynn himself, essentially saying the buck stops there. at the same time we are also hearing jared kushner is tied into the guilty plea because he was somebody that instructed him to reach out to the transition, is it fair of the white house to say there's nothing in this or are they right? >> tire cobb is the president's lawyer, you expect them to never do his job and ed diminish as much as he can, he also said general flynn of the former

obama administration official which he was. jillian: until he was fired. >> he was removed from his position and donald trump was warned by the obama administration about general flynn and encouraged not to give him a senior post. tire cobb is doing what he was hired to do, being a lawyer for the president. we are reporting jared kushner was one of the campaign officials, general flynn discussed his conversations with the russian ambassador. the implications of that we don't know yet. he is not really tied into any guilty plea, no charges were brought against -- jillian: allegedly according to reporting, michael flynn said, instructed him to reach ever

closer to donald trump, it is significant his son-in-law was somebody in these discussions with general flynn. >> the white house has been insisting this is wrapping up very soon. maybe not heading in that direction as rapidly as we once were, thank you for your time. leland: despite calls to resign by the house minority leader two democratic congressman accused of sexual misconduct remain in congress and say they are considering their options this weekend. allison barber with us now. there was a time in washington

not long ago when if party leadership told you to resign that meant something. >> two democratic lawmakers, john conyers, staying put for the foreseeable future, the most recent person caught up in these allegations reached out his office but so far haven't heard back. in a statement about feed, apologize for anything he did that, quote, made his former staff are uncomfortable. he later added to that statement and told buzz feed he did not recall any of the circumstances described by this former campaign staffer. it all happened in 2016. a woman who was the finance director during the 2016 campaign quit because he harassed her repeatedly asking for sex. the story was called, quote, convincing. the most recent lawmaker accused of sexual harassment, accused of

it, politico is reporting $84,000, taxpayer dollars to settle a 2014 sexual-harassment claim, accused of groping, the ethics committee, into those allegations. three former staffers, john conyers sexually harassed them, nancy pelosi, conyers adamantly denied the allegations, $20,000 from his offices, part of his former staffers. >> two members of congress with the settlements. are these settlements the same with distinctions here. >> the big thing is conyers, money from his office's budget and congressional treasury, a secret slush fund is on the books, the office of compliance

overseas this created in the mid-90s, members of congress, some have now gone to legislation to get rid of it. >> we will require settlements going back to 95, the nature of the claim was disclosed, the amount was disclosed and the perpetrator. >> enough is enough. >> this has paid $17 million in settlements for various violations including but not only sexual-harassment, compliance releasing data yesterday and 6 claims since 2013, one related to sexual-harassment. leland: the settlements are both

taxpayer dollars. thanks. >> the national security agency, pled guilty to violating the espionage act, charged with working at home without authorization on sensitive hacking tools, this employee worked with the developer and the agency's very elite hacking unit using antivirus software from a russian firm. this is obviously a major security breach, tipping off the nsa. >> wonder if they got anything after this. the world debate how to respond to north korean dictator kim jung un's latest icbm test so what choices does donald trump have. as the nation's top military leaders meet to come up with ways to improve readiness of our men and women in uniform, commandant of the marine corps general robert mueller standing by, good to see you, we are with you in a minute. ♪ just serve classy snacks and be a gracious host,

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>> as america's leading military experts and authorities meet at the reagan national defense forum. on the front lines is the question of military readiness.

navy and marine leaders say they are facing setbacks at a time when tensions and the united states and north korea have never been higher. joining me now from the reagan national library is general robert mueller, commandant of the marine corps, and honor to have your time this afternoon. >> great to be here. jillian: the united states in the 21st century has a more dynamic and complex national security environment than ever before. you know more about this than anyone else, you face threats from nonstate actors, asymmetric threats to more traditional state actors like north korea. do you feel confident today that the us marine corps is as prepared as it can be to face down these threats? >> i don't think you are ever as prepared as you want to be but i can assure you and the american people that readiness is ready

but we have challenges, in a post-cold war world we have the world we have, not the world we want and there are issues we are trying to address. jillian: according to the report from june of this year the services are smaller and this ready to fight than they have been in years making the need to rebuild their forces a top priority. do you see that as an accurate depiction and more importantly do you feel like the marine corps and other services have made progress since june? >> we made some progress but not enough. we are trying to do three things at once, fight the current fight, which we are doing, try to recapitalize the legacy force and modernize the force. to do that we have got to work harder but need a consistent,

steady resource stream, money loaned a big fix it but it will help. jillian: money doesn't solve all problems but helps with a lot of them. here we bring in congress and their role and the trend in recent years is to authorize continuing resolution. the service branches don't know from one year to the next what the budget parameters are. what are you doing to work with senior members to assuage the problem and are you a proponent of getting rid of the continuing resolution? >> support getting rid of the budget control act. the cr is better than the budget control act, we need a budget like we got this spring, hoping we were going to get this over the course of several years.

we see there is commitment, we have an all volunteer force, we have some challenges but the marine corps will go, and we are going to go fight, we wanted to be a fair fight, we want to be as ready as we can be. jillian: you mentioned modernizing the force, we about things like weapons procurement and technology but an important part of the modernization program is the incorporation of women down to the line units of the institute level. how is that process from your perspective going so far? is it more challenging than you would have expected, less challenging, different? i ask because this is something that is important to a lot of

americans. >> when policy was changed we had a plan which was implemented. a number of women in marine divisions increased almost to 1000. the marine corps running 9% of the forces, the number of women in combat units is small, we have our first infantry officer and artillery, quite frankly talking to the units out there, they are out there doing their job, they are marines and we expect them to perform. jillian: thank you for your time this afternoon. we hope to check back with you soon. stick with us, much more from the reagan national defense forum on fox news this weekend, tune in today at 4:00 eastern. bret baer sits down with national security advisor hr mcmaster at the forum, you can watch it live and coverage from the library will continue tomorrow as well. a special edition of fox news

sunday, national security adviser mc master returns to fox news to join chris wallace in the seamy valley. check your local listings. leland: still had with michael flynn's guilty plea in the russia probe, that happened friday. will it detracts from the overnight tax victory. >> frankly last night was one of the big nights. >> michael flynn -- >> we will see what happens, thank you very much. a tiny sword? bread...breadstick? a matchstick! a lamppost! coin slot! no? uhhh... 10 seconds. a stick! a walking stick! eiffel tower, mount kilimanjaro! (ding) time! sorry, it's a tandem bicycle. what? what?! as long as sloths are slow, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.

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leland: the president seemingly unfazed by his former national security advisor playing guilty to lying to the fbi and as the president hit the fundraising circuit in new york he highlighted the economy, tax cuts making it out of the senate, fair and balanced panel, mike davis, radio talkshow host out of dallas, texas, democratic

strategist, former member of the clinton philadelphia financing, good to see you as always. i was struck by what the president said this morning in new york, i have a new campaign slogan, how do you like your 401(k)? it struck accord with the crowd and to that end it seems some of the economy is doing well, folks are willing to give him slack on this. >> james carville himself was right when he said his economy, we are on course with one of the best pricings ever but there is other stuff going on, the tax plan has supporters and detractors, there's russia stuff we will get to and 50 seconds but the economy is booming, it is a pro business climate and it is about time. leland: are you willing to take on a fellow arkansas and? >> we have seen it is the

economy, stupid. i don't the folks who are with the president by the folks he promised to bring jobs back to blues you can go to johnstown, pennsylvania and find people struggling. >> hold on, i got a text message from a coal mine company ceo saying they are putting in a permit for yet another mine, it doesn't happen overnight but you can't deny a lot of cities donald trump flipped from blue to red things are getting better, but getting it back to work. >> i recommend spending time in those cities, i recommend inviting -- donald trump is exciting that he saved. the tao is up and going up, chastising president obama say

it was sluggish, we haven't seen the kind of job growth under donald trump he promised the people will hold accountable. it is the economy, stupid. >> i spent a lot of time in a number of cities talking -- somebody to say -- on to the other part of the story, how the white house is responding to michael flynn's guilty plea, listen to how they are responding and democratic spin on it and get to market, listen. >> dismissing mike flynn, i kid you not, as a former obama administration official. that was funny when time, said that. that is like announcing dixon's resignation as former california congressman steps down from a position in washington. leland: does she have a point?

>> i go to rachel for evenhanded analysis on a trump administration but the actual factual facts, this was a michael flynn problem like a papadopoulos problem, some people might have been overzealous, known there were sharks circling and make a big deal out of anything russia related like we are seeing now. if michael flynn lied i will -- michael flynn lied it is a michael flynn problem, still 0 evidence of collusion. leland: into the question. is the right spin job from the white house think the guy that letter number of the president's campaign rallies, write them off as an obama administration official? >> that is a trump world sharp elbow, that doesn't matter. it is never a great day when something associated with the white house winds up in trouble but the entire mueller probe -- leland: i got to --

>> evidence is 0. leland: we haven't seen any evidence. >> this is just the beginning, you have the former national security advisor entering a plea agreement pleading guilty to lying to the fbi and agreeing to cooperate with a special prosecutor. it is a significant deal. don't know why in the world, tends to make light of the national security adviser spent hours a day, there are many more facts to come out, this didn't end by giving is the president said, it won't end by christmas. the special prosecutor is doing his job and being methodical. >> a lot more to learn is a place we can both agree to end. jillian: another provocation for north korea. why kim jung un's latest missile

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>> the warning system, the icbm test, 11/2 million americans call the aloha state home plus all the tourists. >> 2200 miles into space from 50 minutes. experts believe the missile have enough range to hit any target inside the continental united states. south korea can't realize the possibility the north will complete its nuclear program within one year. horrifying fact that true, joining us to discuss the latest developments is dean chang of the heritage foundation. this sounds rather bone chilling, the advances they made on tuesday. is this a game changer? >> it is not a game changer in

the sense we have seen this coming and watch the evolution of the program. what it is is another new stage. we have seen the north koreans develop icbms, extending -- living up to what they say, we will hit anywhere we want. jillian: it sounds like they got the missile and the nuclear warhead but have yet to put them together and deliver them to the united states. >> that is right. this test was -- the size of a nuclear warhead and not there yet. given the pace of the development, the hydrogen bomb program, had 5, 10 years, now we are looking at one, 2, 3 years. jillian: which is appalling and frightening, to most americans, hearing about this today, the

idea, the immediate reality is horrifying. >> right now you have hawaiians hearing the air raid sirens. are we going to start hearing that in chicago and washington and denver? jillian: what provoked this test tuesday? pyongyang like to be strategic about when they lost -- launch these missile tests usually in response to something or a major event in the us like a holiday or a preview to something. where they sending a specific message? >> they were sending a couple messages possibly. one of them was we behaved ourselves for 60 days but don't forget we are here. jillian: referencing the fact they haven't launched tests for a couple months. there has been radio silence. >> it could be the president's visit during that period, various players, the chinese

etc. got them to be quiet for a period and now that the president is back, that could be the precipitating event, i behave myself, now it is your turn too. jillian: it seems the north korea situation has turned on a dime. two weeks ago donald trump returned from his tour and was touting a success the largely successful visit, he rallied our asian allies in defiance of the north korean nuclear threat, made substantive progress on the nuclear issue. and things just deteriorated rapidly. >> we need to look a couple steps back, the north koreans were operating according to their schedule. their schedule, developing and icbm, nuclear warhead, i don't think anything anyone has done, not us, not the increased

chinese pressure, has really slowed that down, mostly because north koreans are isolated, not beholden to the chinese or anyone else, this message may be aimed at beijing, you are not the boss of me. i might be quiet for a little bit but at the end of the day i will decide whether to test missiles. >> reporter: a grave reminder they are acting on their own timeline and in their own national security interests. thanks for being with us. leland: after the break in the development in the search for missing north carolina girl, why authorities say they think she is dead. ♪

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toddler. they had search crews looking for her but now they believe she is dead. the boyfriend of the child as mother has been arrested, brian guinness following this from new york. >> reporter: investigators believe 3-year-old maria woods is dead and they are searching for the child's body in the north carolina woods but they don't know why the sheriff's office believes she is dead or how she died.

700 volunteers have been searching for little maria all week in jacksonville, north carolina. 120 miles southeast of raleigh. the girl's mother christie reported her daughter missing monday morning, she last saw her when she put her to bed the night before. late yesterday the sheriff's office arrested 32-year-old earl timray, her mother's boyfriend who lived in the home, faces 5 charges in connection with the girl's death including concealing a death, obstruction of justice but according to the arrest warrant, he removed maria's body from the scene of her death and secretly disposed of the girl's body knowing she died from unnatural causes. we don't know how maria may have died or what evidence investigators found that makes them believe she is dead. notice he has not been charged with murder though prosecutors say more charges could be filed. the girl's biological father who

was in a custody battle over maria criticize the mother's version of events from the beginning saying he does not believe his daughter was ever abducted. >> walked right up in their, grabbed the 3-year-old out of the bed, she didn't cry, didn't scream, nobody heard nothing? regions the fbi has been assisting in this investigation, items were taken for further testing and people are being urged to call crimestoppers, this is a full on recovery effort. leland: the investigation continues, thank you. leland: today marks one year since one of the deadliest fires in oakland, california have history which claim 36 lives, you tore through a warehouse last the summer, trapped concertgoers and warehouse residents and prevented them from getting out, the city of oakland was criticized for not

inspecting the warehouse with other buildings across the city, inspectors are being more assertive, the city faces severe challenges. >> the demand is so great from warehouses to apartments for inspection, behind, we need to be more aggressive, we care. we won't forget and don't want this to happen again. leland: we will talk about how this man is doing more for everybody. a heart attack doesn't care what you eat or how healthy you look. no matter who you are, a heart attack can happen without warning. a bayer aspirin regimen can help prevent another heart attack. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen.

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jillian: members of the catholic church getting the christmas season underway in the holy land. the custodian of the church investment properties presiding over ceremonies earlier this morning, looking at local scouts playing about types and drums and other church officials marched to the church of the nativity. a giant christmas tree is expected to be lit later tonight. leland: you are never too old to do what you love or help others, 100 one-year-old world i of the veteran in pittsburgh kansas, volunteering salvation army bellringing for the past ten years. when he started he was 91.

he said i don't have a lot of money but i have a lot of time and i can help out. >> i want to give a shout out to my 100 one-year-old grandfather. leland: we will see you tomorrow. jillian: goodbye, everyone. ♪ >> welcome to the journal editorial board, another big step forward in the republican effort to overhaul the tax code, the senate passing tax cuts and jobs act by a vote of 51-49 after a last-minute scramble to bring one republican holdout along, mitch mcconnell calling the early morning vote a great day for the country. >> 31 years since we have done comprehensive tax reform. we have an opportunity to make america more competitive, keep jobs from being shipped offshore