>> let's go on this final five, the president insists the government is doing a great job in puerto rico. congressman steve scalise makes his emotional return to the house floor. the white house says its tax plan will help you you keep an extra thousand bucks, fake news was more common real news in the days before the election the president wants the ban on kneeling during the and the anthem in the nfl. puerto rico relief effort underway. many people in the us territory, because remember puerto ricans are americans remain without power and running water. they're also in need of food and fuel. the white house

some heat over the federal government's response the prest to speed up aid for puerto rico as well as the us virgin islands . time is very important . we want everything to move faster. to the extent that that means acts of congress we have to move quickly as well we have urged president trump to muster every available federal resource, ever available federal research, which as he points out is unmatched anywhere in the world. if we want to do it, we can do it. the white house insists it's been doing everything it can to help american citizens of puerto rico . the president waiving shipping restrictions. this is an old law known as the jones act but it's been listed at least for the time being. home lands security advisor tom boss was candidate about the whole timing during the briefing tonight. last night governor wrist el oh called me a

after 8:00. to make sure the additional needs are met as ■we move forward it would be a good idea that we pull out all the tops in case the capacity problem ran into the capacity problem. i spoke to the president and he thought it was right. >> boss says shipments bringing plenty of food and replies but it was the logistics getting these delivered around the island once he got off the boats . the president himself was tweeting about the response tonight saying this, fema and first responders doing a great job in purity rick oh. local itself trying really hard to help but many have lost their homes. military is now on site and i will be there tuesday. wish press would treat fairly. then about 20 minutes later. puerto rico is devastated phone system

great job. good site on capital hill as congressman steve scalise returned to the house floor for the first time since a gunman shot him at a congressional baseball practice in june. he he was met with a standing oh investigation and thunder russ applause. he was thankful in his return to congress. he made it a point to recognize the capital police. there they are. one of the things he did -- you have no idea how great this feels to tuberculosis back here at work in the people's house. it's only strengthened my faith in god and it's really crystallized what shows up as the goodness in people. i got to see that good ness in people. >> so he did praise the officers who took down the gunman and who likely safed a lot of lives that day back in june. and let me tell you you if they didn't act so quickly and even

shot both themselves, continued to engage the shooter and ultimately got him down which not only safed my life, but sav ed the life of a lot of other people in this chamber today. crystal couldn't be with us today, but david bailey is with us. david, you are my here on. you you saved my life. thank you so much. crystal grinder, she was the other police officer . congressman scalise didn't have a whole lot of heads up that he would be returning. they saw them and they were thrilled to see him back. the doors opened and no one came through for a while. we were waying. you could see staff and security. he comes in. everybody is like same old steve . he had very beautiful things to say about the cross party sentiments and feelings and support that he had experienced and that's great. when we're at our best that's the way we're court reporter operating.

heads up that he was going to be on the floor but i don't think any of us imagined exactly how it was going to be. i was so wonderful. heres eat tweet the congressman was talking about. earlier in the day we saw a photo of scalise and his wife looking out at the capital with the caption i'm back. he was struck in the hip and the bullet also tore through blood vessels, bones and internal organs. he spent more than three months undergoing multiple surgery as and then rehab. a major legislative victory is tax re form. we saw the president speak about his plan during a rally in indiana. yesterday the president claimed his plan wouldn't benefit the wealthy, including himself. reporters suggested that getting rid of the alternative minimum tax and the estate would benefit the president or at least his hairs when you look at the tax returns from 2005 the president paid out he paid a lot of his money by

t wouldn't benefit the president, but specifically how it would help the middle class. p if we allow a family to keep another thousand dollars of their income , what does that mean? they can renovate their kitchen, buy a new car, take a family vacation. they can increase their lifestyle. that's what our tax plan is to do. aimed to return more income back to work ing americans. hold on a second, too. i don't know what gary cohen knows about what cars or kitchens cost. he was also asked why he didn't resign. cohen is jewish, he was reportedly pressured to leave his position last month by his wife. then he said the president had to do better to condemn hate groups. this is what cohen said when canned why he didn't resign. why am i here in i am here just for this reason. think about the opportunity that i'm involved in with president trump in being able to rewrite

something that hasn't been done for 31 years. the amount of impact that we can have on the u s economy and us citizens in changing the foreign outlook of the united states, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and i would never miss this. so it doesn't mean cohen is leaving after tax reform is done. he also said there are many more once in a lifetime opportunities at the white house. many of the details have to be worked out by congress. they're banking \tax\tacks reform will be easier than healthcare. they. lindsay gram and bill cassidy of gram- cassidy that's a 70s folk group or the two senators that came up with the bill met today to talk about the future of healthcare. they say they plan to hold congressional hearings and meeting with govern's. the president claimed the gop actually had the votes on the healthcare but there was a senator in the hospital. this is how the white house is explaining that. look, our understanding is that the senator was physically unable

participate in a vote. we're glad that he's fully recuperat ing. the point that we're making that we have the vote on the substance, but not necessarily on the process which is why we're still confident that he woo can move healthcare forward and get it done in the spring. when she say she have the votes on the substance, not the process, remember john mack kay said he supported, he was disappointing in the process. really no substantive hearings, no realtime for debate, but when the president said we have the votes period that wasn't necessarily true because you did have three republican senators who said they were no votes at that interest post office. we'll see what happens forward. senator chuck schumer side they're on the verge of a deal. they were working on healthcare in fact mitchell mcconnell had looked at that plan early on and lined lindsay gram

don't have the votes. we don't want to make it bipartisan process. we may have the votes to pass it which they didn't. at least both sides recognize there has to be some movement and some stability on healthcare moving ahead. meantime, the investigation into the russian interference into the election, representative itself from twitter on capital hill today and a social media site said it had 200 ads. the representation that the twitter team made to the senate intel staff today was deeply disappointing. the notion that their work was basically derivative based upon accounts that facebook had identified showed an enormous lack of understanding from the twitter team of how serious this issue

study from oxford university twitter users in 27 states received just as much if not more fake news than real headlines in the days leading up to the election and we're talk ing about phony manufactured headlines. eleven of those 27 were swing states. oxford found a higher concentration of young news ahefd the election. what's young news, characterized by identify logical extremism. day six green bay payingers they linked arms with the teammates. the packers also encouraged fans to link arms and a handleful of people in the stands joined in. before the game aaron rogers posted a fet ovechkin himself april his teammates. it was taken last week, it was the caption that got a lot of attention. i can't imagine what kind of social media attacks these camera must be enduring after taking a knee during the anthem and wearing

little facetious o rogers' part no doubt about that. president trump weighed in on the interview with fox and friends. i have so many friends that are owners. i've spoken to a couple of them. we are in a situation where we have to do something. i think they're afraid of their players you you want to know the truth and i think it's disgrace ful. they've got to be stuff and they've got to be smart. the president went onto say the nfl has rules for everything else in question, why the league won't make a rule to make players stand for the anthem. up next on the final five, you know a lot of people may call politicians clowns, for one man it is a fact, not an insult. we're speaking with an actual clown who is running for council. in the grand scheme of things you may agree with him. we're back after this.

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>> who said city kuns ill races are boring. zc of course irs waiting for the possibility of a know that mayor bowser is run ning again. we don't know about former mayor vincent gray but in boston voters are weighia clown to city councilment i'm not talking about any politics advertising. we're talking about an actual clown. pat is joining us from boston to explain why. good evening. >> jim, good evening, thanks for having me on. let's get to it. you were on the ballot in november. there were four at large city council slots. there were nine people running. you're one of nine people. the only clown. you're serious about this. there's ate people running. i'm very serious bit. i've actually put a million dollars into my campaign fund which the fake news media wants to ignore. i don't know why they like business

actually make montgomery county honest way. very serious. we've been going all around meeting voters. there are going to be two debates next week. although i hear one team wants to exclude me. i don't know why we started excluding people on the way they look. i thought we did away with that in the # 60s to tell them when all the back room deals, all the corruption, all the giveaways, all the pension padding, i'm going to be right there with the horn right on the city council desk and i'm going to be going, he would, he would, he would. let's talk about this. none of these, baba what, we're not talking about the vote. who just got a pension giveaway. so here's the deal. we checked the website we did some research on you. you you have a serious as

io my other candidate. schools, education, healthcare are the biggest issues. i i promise. i actually have degrees in physics , math and philosophy. i promised to visit every single one of the public cools, something that none of the other candidates promised to do. there's some very impressive candidates why wouldn't we want a lawyer from harvard going to the schools telling the kids, study hard, listen to your teachers. that's who you get ahead in life. the other politicians don't want on do that. they treatise like rubber chickens. i'm tired to be treat ed like a rubber chicken. i want to be a clownment i think they want a real clown to tell them the truth about what's going on. for people in d.c. we've had

democratic mayor, democratic mayor. this anon partisan deal, very non partisan. every other politician in the city of boston is a registered democrat i'm an in. i've seen the republican party. i've seen the democratic party. i have property in new orleans, that's a real party. i don't want to be partying with nancy and chuck and what's the guy from kentucky , who the heck wants to party with him. you want to party with him we'll hang out on about your bon street and we'll party all night long. you mentioned the two debatesment i know there was one city council she said she doesn't want you part of this. people have to listen to you speak. pat, i see a clown running and i think he's kidding about it. you're sitting and you know aware ' talking about. well, you you know, you don't get to have a million dollars honestly by not learning what to do in life. and just

counselor, frankly i think the media goated her into it. i interviewed every single candidate for counselor and mayor right here in this living room right where you're watching pee. i put it on youtube. you can go online. i asked them all the same questions, what are you going to do about the schools and how many schools are you going to visit and what's the school budget going to be? you can look at it online, stm productions. did any of them give a straight answer? maybe three or four of them. the voters have been fantastic. never ' like oh, i get it. we're the clowns. i wanted to have them all much that's real journalism. i asked them what they're going to do. they won't say yeah, ill i'll going to the schools or i'll look into the budget. in the last 15 years, in boston, the budget has gone up, the number of students has gone down by 10 percent. that's

sat scores. we can do a lot better than that. people are going to follow your cam wayne where they can follow you online . look for me on instagram, on twitter, on youtube, pat pie as oh, it's easy to find me. i'm the clown i'm the one telling you the truth. i'm the one giving you you the same straight. i appreciate it. thank you very much. we're going to keep an eye on this for sure. back after this. we took legendary, and made it liberating. we took safe, and made it daring. we took intelligent, and made it utterly irresistible. we took the most advanced e-class ever, and made the most exciting e-class ever. the all-new e-class coupe from mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.

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>> proad dwi is here. any take away from pat pie as oh the clown? >> no. i like the thought of hearing real hard policy talk from someone in a clown getup. in fact, all political debates should be on halloween. pat pie as oh is his legal name. it also means clown in

won't get into the details. pat clown i. things aren't looking good for tom price, the health and human services secretary is apologizing and as he won't be taking the private charter planes anymore. >> you how is he going to live in he said he would reimburse the government for the flights, but here's the thing, price only reportedly plans to pay for his seat. that's about $52,000. the two dozen trips he took on private planes cost more than $400,000. the president said he's not happy about it. he's from central casting, fat cat. the hair and the classes. we need a rich looking villian. there you go. tom price. we're going to see what happens moving forward. i always say the president says we'll see, he's already made up his mind. >> yeah. payton manning shutting out speculation that he'd run for

earlier this w be seeking re election which would leave an open spot for 2018. payton says he has zero considerations but if he lie runs then he would win first. >> he would win fimplets actually team martin would win. that's a reference. because pay the and manning never won a title at tennessee, but payton manning did. he had a season in the nfl with the pittsburgh steelers and that was about it. and now he's a coach. being president, it looks like a tough job itself. >> but being a former president, that's where the money is. three of our former president itself hanging out together at the president's cup today. it is their cup. it's named for them, isn't it. >> it's named for exactly these three presidents. >> exactly. the thing after all of this, there was a picture of the three of them today,

daily caller sent it out, look, the presidents are standing for the anthem. no, kidding. that's sort of a given. it is sort of incumbent of the job itself. i don't think there was any chance you were going to see clinton, were bush and obama all taking a no. that would have been the first thing we talked about at the show. >> that would have been the entire con ex t of the show tonight. >> no clowns on that show. we're back after this on the final five. e.

>> a good night to be sound asleep for steve disa slees.

capital hill. really one of the rare moments that gets everyone on their feet for a tanning ovation, at least for a minute. he is still walking with some assistance. one of the rare occasions it brought everyone together on the same side. meanwhile tossin and turning the librarian at came braij massachusetts, the school chosen by the white house to get ten doctor sues books along with a thank you note from the first lady milan yeah trump. referring to the dr. seuss work, oh the places you go is just clee shai she added my students have access to a librarian with a graduate degree in library science. good for you. i suspect the reason may be more political than anything else. dr. seuss is part of our lives. get over it much that's the fil

this. we're back here to close the week out. make it a great night. the morning crew here at four:25. see you you tomorrow.

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