let's go to john bussey from the "wall street journal." he's also a fox news contributor.o we now know the list of people that lied is getting longer and longer. we know the number of contacts with the russians is getting larger and larger. what we don't know is why all of the lying and why all of the contacts. we don't know that. >> yeah. so mueller is peeling the onion back. we're getting some answers to some questions and a lot bigger ones are still outstanding and now have been presented for the public to consider. why was the charging document just one charge? because we learned today explicitly that flynn is cooperating with the prosecutor and has more to say. so bigger fish down the road. that's the presumption that we can reach. why was president flynn trying to get the fbi director -- >> shepard: general flynn. >> why was the president trying to get general flynn off the hook with the former fbi director. >> shepard: which he clearly was. >> he said don't go after him. he's a good guy. >> shepard: can't you just go easy. >> same thing with members of congress. dow

ahead, i'll speak with john bussey. talk about the positives and negatives in this bill and why he says the tax plan could face some political head winds. that's just ahead. >> shepard: just in, fox news has confirmed senator al franken says he will resign january 2 effective january 2. earlier this month, the minnesota democrat announced he will leave the senate after accusations of sexual misconduct. he denied some claims. he said he remembered others differently than accusers but he didn't say when he was leaving. we know along the way there's been new calls from joe manchin and others not to resign. it's a done deal. january 2 is his last day. the minnesota lieutenant governor, the democrat tina smith will take his place in the senate. back to the republican tax plan. let's bring in john bussey, associate editor at the "wall street journal" and a fox news contributor. chips serves about nine million kids. chip will not be renewed this year. >> a big political concerns that the republicans will face over the next 12

john bussey, thank you so much for being here today. we just heard the report. reminding us that the senators there are waiting to come on board. and so the expectation is that actually passing this week. should the white house be celebrating. or should they wait and see if all of those promises actually comes to pass. they are not going to wait. they will celebrate. you can count on that. no matter what your politics are this is a victory for the ministration in washington in for the republican party. this is a big tax overhaul. it happens once a generation it is happening right now. from that standpoint it is a feather in their cap. they will campaign on this. but a whole bunch of questions loom what's can happen to that money that companies now get as a result of paying a much smaller tax bill at than they paid in the past. is it going to go into investing in new factories. and building out new jobs. is it going to go instead into shareholder buybacks and bigger dividends for those who already on the company. and remember they have a lifespan in the job of fo

now to john bussey, associate editor for the "wall street journal." their parent company and our parent company share common ownership. he's also a fox news contributor. so we're playing off the fbi is in tatters here today. >> no, and director wray says the fbi is doing their job and doing it well. remember, president trump lauded wray, very positive of him. what is this really about? you cannot see what kind of transpired today without thinking about russia. this tatters comment happened shortly after the man that he hired to be the national security counsel to the president, michael flynn, pleads guilty to lying to the fbi. this is a man -- >> shepard: but it's the fbi's fault. >> right. not too long after manafort ran his campaign is indicted on money laundering, another man that president trump hired, a couple days before the fbi begins looking around deutsche bank and looking at banking records of people who have done business with the trump organization. so it feels that this is heavily informed by the russia investigation, which is putting pre

the reporting is by jenny strasburg out of the london bureau who john bussey has been trying to make contact. the opening is deutsche bank received a subpoena related to the lender's business with president trump. according to a person briefed on the matter. the "wall street journal" is still reporting that. you heard john roberts say he had sources say it was inaccurate and you heard sarah sanders that the reporters have gotten ahead of their skis. these things take a little bit to develop. when we do, we'll report on it. rich edson on the matter of the moving of the embassy. what sort of reaction are we getting from around the world or there at the state department? >> there's been significant push back in international reception. president trump has been on the phone with his international counter parts today. from the arab states, there's been push back, the change in the u.s. policy. we've been hearing from voices within the state department who have advised on this and their point in this is that jerusalem is already a dynamic issue in this. it's already something in an already

to the "wall street journal" associate editor john bussey "real clear politics" national political reporteraitlyn huey burns. what do you think? >> i don't know. the first law of bureaucratic physics momentum is your friend. neil: right. >> this looks like it is going to happen the reasons we heard. they will not want to say -- neil: spending measure. they will cobble together something. >> cobble together something for couple weeks. the bigger deal what the big spending measure looks like in january. so too for tax reform. they're very keen to stay up on the surf board, on the wave of this one. and there is momentum in congress now for it. neil: yeah, speaking of momentum, we got a little bit of that on board that john mccain is going to vote next week, presumably for it. i'm not taking a leap here. what do you think? >> momentum is crucial. especially since next year they will be down one senate seat, right, with doug jones becoming the democratic senator from alabama of all places. i think momentum's crucial here. i think beyond this the challenge for republicans is multidimensional they