we are now hearing that jeff flake is a yes and james lankford is a yes, ron johnson is a yes. susan collins, bob corker? >> those are the last two senators who have not announced or made clear they will vote yes. the if they vote no, republicans will have 50 votes, whether the vote is today or late tonight. as mitch mcconnell made clear, they are appear to have the votes. they are still trying to win over senator cowan's and they make concessions to her, including -- susan collins and they make concessions to her, including the concession for property taxes. bob corker seems less likely. they have the votes. vonnie: why bother giving her any more if it is not something that would attract support in the house during the reconciliation process? why give susan collins anymore, they have the votes? >> i guess they want a cushion. it would help to have 51 and you do not have to call the vice president. eating the $10,000 a sentient is important for a few house republicans who will hold the deciding vote in a goes back to the house in conference. it is a win-win situation for them.

we'll also talk to oklahoma republican senator james lankford, a member of the intelligence committee which is conducting one of the investigation into possible trump campaign collusion with the russians. we'll also have plenty of analysis on all the news of the week and look ahead to next. plus how the tax bill might impact you, it's all ahead on "face the nation." good morning, welcome to "face the nation" i'm john dickerson. republican tax plan is in the home stretch. the final package will be voted on tuesday in the house then moves to the senate. at this point it looks like republicans have enough votes to pass it. one s.5 trillion tax cut plan roughly doubles the standard deduction for both individuals and married couples. it cuts individual tax rates, the top income bracket drops from 9.6 to 37%. the corporate tax rate decreases, too, it goes from 35 to 21%. the bill eliminates the obamacare ban mate with individuals no longer required to purchase health care. it could result in 1 million more people becoming uninsured. child tax credit is doubled to $2,000. income level for th

inclusion of the alternative minimum tax for both individuals and corporations i talked to senator james lankford of oklahoma who is one of the senators who got to yes today. he said that's part of the compromise in washington >> it was really a tradeoff to be able to get lower rates, to make sure we have the revenue. no one wants to be revenue negative we want to be revenue neutral to compensate for bringing down the rates. >> reporter: right now we're waiting for republicans to finish up the formal debate on the bill that should be happening very shortly shortly. after that they'll move on to voting to eight to 15 or so amendments the final amendment will come from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell himself, that will be the final revised version of the tax bill. we're still anticipating a vote to want. >> thank you, ylan mui david seeberg, we know this market has been beholden to tax cuts did you believe or anybody at the colantine think this market was beholden to the market where the dow fell in minutes? >> you're absolutely right algos were triggered institutional traders, institutional

i spoke to republican senator james lankford, and he said this is all part of >> there was really a tradeoff, you have to be able to get to lower rates to be able to make sure you're revenue neutral. no one wants to be revenue negative. we have to to be able to compensate for bringing down the rates. >> reporter: a final vote on this tax bill is still expected to come tonight. assuming it passes, republicans will be on track to get this bill to the president's desk by christmas, tyler. >> ylan mui, thanks, ylan, on capitol hill tonight. >>> the great tax debate wasn't the only thing investors watched and reacted to out of washington today. former national security adviser michael flynn pleaded guilty to charges he lied to federal investigators. and as first reported by abc news, was expected to testify that president trump and transition officials directed him to make contact with the russians on a variety of matters. eamon javers is at the white house tonight. >> reporter: dramatic scenes at the federal courthouse in washington, d.c. today as michael flynn, former national security adviser

. >>> this weekend on "face the nation" john will speak with senator james lankford. >> last week the president said the bureau's reputation is, quote, in tatters over its handling of recent investigations. julianna goldman is at the white house. julianna, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. with most presidents speaking to the course. this is actually president trump's first visit to the fbi. his last visit was canceled after he fired former fbi director james comey who was very popular at the bureau. he called comey a liar and a leaker. today's circumstances perhaps just as fraught considering the ongoing investigation that's reached top white house aides and remember president trump said the fbi's reputation was the worst in history. this is after they found text mojs disparaging candidate trump from a cia agent. it was said there is no finer institution, so, bianna, we will have to see whether president trump echoes those sentiments later today during his speech. >> >>> president trump meantime called russia's president yesterday to say thank you. they spoke after vladimir pu

republican senator james lankford of oklahoma says a bi-partisan group of senators will introduce thelegislation early next week. its goal is to improve communication between federal intelligence agencies and state election officials to stem foreign intervention in elections. republican lindsey graham and democrat kamala harris support the bill. it comes in the wake of allegations of russia's meddling in the 20-16 elections. (justine) power has now been fully restored at hartsfield-jackson atlanta international airport. the country's busiest airport came to a stand-still during a power outage today. it forced the cancelations of all incoming and departing flights-- the source of the power outage is unclear. the airports twitter page also noted, that 5-thousand plus meals are being delivered to standed passengers. (anchor) time now to check on our weather... with meterologist lawrence karnow. lawrence karnow: the winds which howled overnight calmed down in the afternoon leaving behind plenty of sunshine & cool to mild weather. it's still breezy tonight but the winds will decrease throu

senator james lankford and lindsay gram and we have introduced this bill. what it does is it says we have to share information with the states immediately. and that homeland security is sharing any threats to infrastructure and that secondly we give them grants. they have not created their equipment for over ten years. >> i'm reading this executive summary. the core sort of election integrity. cyber defense of the actual electronic areas for voter registration, is that correct? >> that's correct. illinois got broken into. as he practices things like backup paper ballots which we know would be very important if a hack were to occur. i know there's a territorial ethos. i've covered some of those which was covered after the florida debacle. it's on part of states and they have a sense of how to protect the integrity of future elections. >> a number of them are taking steps but i think it's frustrating to them, both republican and democratic secretary of state. they don't want to have that kind of equipment. they want to leave the house and want information. if

. >> sandra: political reporting that james lankford wants to see al franken go through that process,hey of vermont told frank and privately, he regrets urging him to step down. interesting turn in all of this. >> kevin: i love it. the democrats promised something. they want to have the moral high ground. part of it was, it was a trick to go after donald trump. they resurfaced the sexual allegations against donald trump, because they thought with frank and stepping down. >> sandra: i wish we had a split screen with katie and marie, because marie is saying come and katie is smiling. >> marie: i love how partisan politics is the first way you go, knee-jerk reaction. you cannot talk about the issue. >> kevin: i have had a lot of practice because i watch leftists over the last decade. >> marie: 1960 word, leftists. >> kevin: they use al franken as bait, and the next thing you know, he's not going to go away. i am shocked that al franken is not going to go away. >> katie: they're worried about the senate seat going to a republican, even though it would look really bad now that a female lie

earlier today, senator ron johnson agreed to back the measure, as has oklahoma senator james lankforde is a report that president trump may take a stab at tensions across the middle east. the president is considering recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. an announcement is expected next week. that could anger palestinians who claim half of jerusalem, that it would allow the president to pull off a promise to move the u.s. embassy there. and prosecutors have told martin shkreli to forfeit assets for his fourth conviction. that could include a one-of-a-kind album from the wu-tang clan and a german coding machine from a war two. he will be sentenced next month for defrauding investors in hedge funds and scheming to control shares in a biotech company. thanl news powered by more 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am emma chandra. this is bloomberg. vonnie: emma, thank you. breaking news now. we know that the gop likely .lmost has 50 votes to pass john cornyn believes the gop has the votes to pass the tax bill in the senate. te-a-rama isma -- vo due to re

mika will talk about whether a deal will get done, including republican senators bob corker, and james lankfordghing in, adam schiff also joins the conversation. "morning joe," everyone, moments awa away. >>> we lock at the day ahead, halle jackson has more on that, good morning. >> reporter: hey there, good morning to you. even as the president is still savoring this legislative accomplishment, the big one on the tax cut plan, getting ready to at some point in the coming days sign the bill into law. there is also another big deadline congress is facing now, one to avoid a government shutdown, essentially at mid-fight when thursday, today, ticks owe into friday. >> that is going to be the bat tal we will be focusing on over the next 18 or so hours. because something needs to be done, frankly to get the loits back on. it seems like ain't ri at this point congress is going to punt to january, setting up real showdowns then. all of this, by the way, as the president continues to celebrate along with republicans the pass only of the gop tax bill. another busy day at the white house before the holid

. >> james lankford is now a yes vote. this is selloff. >> jeff flake who was holdout on the tax bill, we are getting word he will not be. he will be a yea vote. that would seem to indicate senator, there are enough votes there to get this thing passed. >> i think we'll get this thing passed. >> the market reacting to lots of news because it nervous. >> off the extreme lows of the day. we were down better than 350 points. now down 63. these are fast market conditions and violently swinging ones. liz: the dow in a roller coaster rise, down 350 points, retracing before ending down 40 points to 24,231. with all the turmoil is it is best week for the dow and dow transports as action was really hot on the tape. dow broke down below 24,000 earlier after an abc news report that michael flynn will testify that a top trump official now thought to be jared kushner or steve bannon, among others directed michael flynn to make contact with the russians. to capitol hill where senate republicans are getting ready to close out the vote on

but republican james lankford laments it, "the federal government and the irs should never have the ability through our tax code to limit free speech. this tax reform bill was an appropriate place to address this historic tax problem." the chances of this tax bill passing next week are improving. senator marco rubio is on board because the refundable part of the child tax credit has jumped from 55% to 70% for low income families, republican bob corker also announced he's a "yes" with a phone call to the president for the tennessee senator says, "i believe this one in a generation opportunity to make u.s. businesses domestically more productive and internationally more competitive is one we should not miss." senator thad cochran who had an outpatient procedure to remove and nonmelanoma is expect it to be here next week. and lawmakers think senator john mccain, hospitalized work obligations from brain cancer treatment, will be here too. >> i'm told he'll be here next week and voting. more importantly, and you know, we all wish of the best of health. >> two holds out tonight. senator jeff flak

. >> republican senator james lankford has proposed procedural rules changes would limit debate on executive and judicial nominations. he was the sole witness at a senate rules committee hearing on his proposal. this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> hearing will come to order. today the committee on rules and administration will receive testimony on senate resolution 355, improving procedures for consideration of nominations in the u.s. senate. i want to thank senator lankford who is here with us at the table for agreeing to appear before us today to discuss the merits of his resolution. in 2010 this committee undertook a comprehensive examination of the filibuster in the united states senate. that examination was conducted in response to an ongoing debate about invoking the "nuclear option." while no action was taken immediately following the conclusion of the committee's work, the senate did take steps in early 2013 to modify rules and procedures considering bills, conference reports and certain nominations during that congress. later that same year the senate took a more drastic step and inv

arthel: let's take a listen to the james lankford of oklahoma, he was onen cbs this morning on "facethe justice department to be blind and be fair to all sides, not have a clear political bias and express it so strongly. i don't think it taints the entire process, but it certainly taints that season of it, and it's something you should look at with any political investigation he was on at a -- at the time. we want our agents to be nonpolitical and not actively engaged politically. arthel: senator lankford is on the intelligence committee. do you agree or disagree, jehmu? >> well, i think we should listen to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein himself who said very clearly that he has no concerns about bias in the investigation. he batted down repeatedly the republicans' questions about any sort of bias and how robert mueller has handled this. we also have to keep in mind robert mueller discovered these appalling texts -- and i agree with everyone who says that they are appalling -- he discovered them, and he removed the problem. that's the type of person he is. that's the independ

republican senator james lankford of oklahoma joins us right now from capitol hill, a member of the intelligencenks for joining us. >> glad to be with you, wolf i know you traveled to israel twice this year. what's your reaction to the decision announced by president trump. >> in many ways it's about time. it's obvious when you go visit israel and you sit down with the pript, you meet with him in his office in jerusalem. if you're going to visit with members of the knesset, you meet in the knesset in jerusalem. it's obvious to the world if you're going to meet with the israeli government, it is located in jerusalem. it's always been an odd thing. 1995 was the year congress passed wide bipartisan support to be able to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and declare the capital. that was reaffirmed by the senate as recently as this year with a naps vote in the senate to be able to relocate the embassy back to jerusalem where it should be and where the entire world should recognize the obvious thing there. the capital of israel is jerusalem. >> what do you say to allies, u.s. friends in the

they wrote down messages in sharpie on a big poster board to send to one of their senators james lankfordem know how unhappy they are about his support for that bill. in louisville, kentucky this weekend there was the trump chicken at their big rally. there were trash bags full of fake money at the big rally in boston. there were a bunch of cold people outside the courthouse in frigid milwaukee, wisconsin this weekend. for months now the treasury secretary steve mnuchin, the guy in charge of all the money, he has been insisting that the treasury department would churn out a super-detailed analysis of all the wonderful things this tax bill would do. he's been saying for months that hundreds of people at the treasury department had been working day and night, crunching the numbers for their big report. today we finally got that report. this is it. this is not like the cover page. this is it. this is the entire analysis from the treasury department. it fits on one page. it is 470 words long. and that's only if you include the footnotes. there are no calculations in this report. there are no

represent -- senator james lankford of oklahoma and representative brad wenstrup of ohio have introduced a bill to wipe out the district's death with dignity law. now, that bill was actually passed in committee, didn't get to the floor, i think because there are states that have such laws and two of them are states of our republican leadership. this controversial bill, but you got it in other states, which allows people to take their own lives if they follow a very strict protocol. you don't like -- you don't like it here, well, you don't live here. ou don't pay taxes here. trump's budget also -- president trump's budget also had this and, again, these have -- these are pending, i'm telling you most will not pass because i will fight tooth and nail to keep it from passing. budget autonomy, there is a bill that would repair, that uld -- that would eliminates our local budget autonomy act that passed by 83% of the vote in the district of columbia to keep our own local funds. we raise almost $8 billion on our own from coming here for no purpose except to perhaps attack something to overturn

. >> republican senator james lankford has proposed procedural rules changes would limit debate on executivend judicial nominations. he was the sole witness at a senate rules committee hearing on his proposal. this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> hearing will come to order. today the committee on rules and administration will receive testimony on senate resolution 355, improving procedures f

. >> john looks at the tax bill with the republican senator james lankford and independent senator bernie sanders. that's sunday right here on cbs. >>> president trump is at the fbi training headquarters in quantico, virginia, this morning. his speech to law enforcement managers comes at a sensitive time. last week the president said the bureau's rep tration is in taters over its handling of recent allegations. julianna goldman is at the white house. good morning to you. >> the president made quite a bit of news as he headed to marine one for that speech at the fbi. perhaps the top headline is the president saying alabama senate republican candidate roy moore should concede. he said we'd like to have the seat. but he did sound still optimistic that congress would pass tax reform by christmas. he said it could come as early as next week. now, on his way to the speech at the fbi, the president doubled down on his criticism of the bureau. saying it's a shame what's happened but they'll rebuild. now he was responding to retch lations that former senior investigators sent texts that disparaged

i appreciate the work of my colleague, senator james lankford, congressman mullen and congressman steve russell. it turned out to be a real good team. we were able to get these things done. and we're ready to, already starting to see real progress in improving the veterans care in oklahoma and across the country. because as we are improving the system we had in oklahoma, that same system can be approved in nebraska or any other state. so we need to get our v.a. facilities from their current ratings to the highest standard. the highest standard rating is five stars. we're now up to three stars in oklahoma. we were at one star when we first discovered this problem on that fateful day two years ago today. the article in the "usa today." president trump will continue to be an important partner for oklahoma as we continue to improve our veterans care. his commitment to our veterans is only matched by his commitment to serve his members and our national security. you can't really segregate out and say we're going to take care of our veterans activities and still say we're not going to allow o

james lankford the republican member of the senate homeland security and intel committees. good morning, sir. >> merry christmas. >> bill: to you as well. the democratic leadership reacting to the tax bill yesterday. >> we have a simple message for our republican friends. republicans will rue the day they passed this bill and you can bet democrats will make sure of that. >> american people saw right through this brazen con job republicans tried to sell them. >> bill: rue the day and a con job. >> i'm not sure any american will rue the day they get to keep their own money. some of my democratic colleagues believe you give a tax cut. you allow people to keep more of their own money. they can save it, spend it. both of those things help the economy. as the economy grows more people make more money and more tax revenue comes in. that's how the economic process works. this is not trying to destroy the government. this is trying to allow people to have more control of their own lives and money. >> bill: you didn't come on today to explain their position, but why did not a single

we had james lankford in yesterday, he believes in due process the republicans believe in due process, why is it they believe in it one second for al franken, a guy they've served with and went up and hugged after telling him to get the hell out of the senate because of something roger stone announced to the world. >> is that is yesterday's democrat navigating the fact that they were, i'm sorry to use the term, if bed with the clintons. and so the utter, the unspeakable hypocrisy that they carry on their shoulders every day, that's yesterday's democrat. today's democrat has to understand that we live in a new, honest, very complicated world and that everybody involved with these situation versus to call it as they see it. not call it as they think the way the wind is blowing and they went to way the wind was blowing with al franken. you can say that i was victim shaming or whatever these words are no, i'm looking at all these cases of sexual harassment, accusers, i'm looking at the perpetrators. i'm talking to some of them on both sides and this one is political as well as problematic

senators james lankford and amy klobuchar will be our guests. they just introduced a bipartisan piece of legislation that will avoid for foreign interpret feerns in future elections. bob corker and chris van hollen will join the conversation and representative adam schiff will be here as well. are you watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. ♪ silver bells ♪ traders -- they're always looking for advantages. the smart ones look to fidelity to find them. we give you research and data-visualization tools to help identify potential opportunities. so, you can do it this way... or get everything you need to help capture investment ideas and make smarter trading decisions with fidelity for just $4.95 per online u.s. equity trade. fidelity. open an account today. ♪ open an account today. going somewhere? whoooo. here's some advice. tripadvisor now searches more... ...than 200 booking sites - to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30%. trust this bird's words. tripadvisor. your privacy makes you myt number 1 place to go number 2. i love you, b

stuart: more coming in to us, james lankford, the republican from oklahoma, senator lankford, now, hencerned about the deficit. he is now a yes vote. >> yeah. stuart: so you've got -- look, as you say, liz, this is sausage making at the very last minute. one senator stands up and says i want this, other one says, okay, i've got it -- >> the thing is are they looking for backstops to stop the deficit from growing. do they want the triggers, what is it -- stuart: it's sausage making, and i wonder how much point the -- >> you know, when you're look at the deficit, everybody forgets about spending. why not put limits on government spending? stuart: good luck getting that through. all right, i've got to go. many of you are faithful viewers. a little over two years ago i became a u.s. citizen. that picture is of me after the ceremony. after the break, i'll play you the clip when a congressman handed me an american flag through the tv to congratulate me. it was a moment to remember, and it was two years ago today. how about that? >> oh, my gosh. stuart: and the senate continues to vote hour.

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