sarah westwood? guest: certainly not. this years started with a lot of hope about what they would be able to get done. there was hope for an infrastructure package, health care reform, tax, and we see they are just barely going to get one of those things over the finish the end of the year. so i do not think republicans have correctly assessed how challenging it would be. the --nd or adjutant in anna edgerton, were you expecting to be reporting from the capital in the last week before christmas? guest: i think because they were not able to get some of those other things done, passing tax reform goes all the more important. they have to have something to show for their first year of united government, and the tax bill is top of a lot of conservative priorities, and they would get the talking point to say they were able to accomplish something. it some of it is temporary and will not get the simplicity that they hoped, but it would give if theyolitical win were able to get it onto the president's desk.

sarah westwood? guest: it is true that a lot of the affordable care act are not necessarily perform as a democrats said it was going to. there was the botched rollout of healthcare.gov and through today, there have been a lot of problems. democrats say that is because republicans have created a lot of uncertainty and have been unwilling to take the steps needed to stabilize the market. republicans are saying that we towed you guys it would not work and not enough young people the cost it to offset of the older and sicker people. particularly in states where republican governors did not take the mandate expansion. republicans are poised to make them even worse. the health insurance sign of was just last week. would the administration view that as a success? were there flawless sign-ups this year? guest: there were a lot of fears on the left because the republican administration cut the outreach budget for obamacare, so they thought we would see fewer sign-ups. that is not necessarily what we saw, even

sarah westwood? guest: certainly not. this years started with a lot of hope about what they would be able to get done. there was hope for an infrastructure package, health care reform, tax, and we see they are just barely going to get one of those things over the finish the end of the year. so i do not think republicans have correctly assessed how challenging it would be. the --nd or adjutant in anna edgerton, were you expecting to be reporting from the capital in the last week before christmas? guest: i think because they were not able to get some of those other things done, passing tax reform goes all the more important. they have to have something to show for their first year of united government, and the tax bill is top of a lot of conservative priorities, and they would get the talking point to say they were able to accomplish something. it some of it is temporary and will not get the simplicity that they hoped, but it would give if theyolitical win were able to get it onto the president's desk. rules committee will

. >> sarah westwood is white house reporter for the washington examiner. anna, congressional reporter for bloomberg, here to talk about the week ahead and what a week it is likely to bek with a lot to get done. we talked with our viewers and listeners in the first hour about the tax reform bill, but a lot of other materials on the table as well.th first, your impressions, did yo you, as the year began, did either of you expect the week before christmas there would be so much to get done in the last five days? >> guest: certainly not. republicans control all three branches of government. they started this year with a lot of high hopes about what they could get done. they were trying to get an infrastructure package done by the end of the year, healthcare reform, tax reform and we see that they are just barely going to get one of those things over the finish line by the end of the airport i don't think republicansns correctly assessed how challenging it would be to get things through the senate with such a slim majority >> as you are covering the halls, did

sarah westwood? guest: certainly not. this years started with a lot of hope about what they would be able to get done. there was hope for an infrastructure package, health care reform, tax, and we see they are just barely going to get one of those things over the finish the end of the year. so i do not think republicans have correctly assessed how challenging it would be. the --nd or adjutant in anna edgerton, were you expecting to be reporting from the capital in the last week before christmas? guest: i think because they were not able to get some of those other things done, passing tax reform goes all the more important. they have to have something to show for their first year of united government, and the tax bill is top of a lot of conservative priorities, and they would get the talking point to say they were able to accomplish something. it some of it is temporary and will not get the simplicity that they hoped, but it would give if theyolitical win were able to get it onto the president's desk.

sarah westwood. >> certainly not. republicans control all three branches of government. they started this year with a lot of high hopes what they could get done. there was talk about an infrastructure package done by the end of the year. health reform and tax reform. i don't think republicans correctly assessed how challenging it would be to get things through the senate with such a slim majority. >> as you were covering it, did you see this big ball of things to cover and expect to reporting it before christmas? >> exactly. because we weren't able to get these other things done, passing tax reform is all important. they have to have something to show for the first year of united government. the tax bill checks off a lot of conservative priorities and talking points to say they were able to accomplish something. some will be temporary and won't get the simplicity they had hoped to but gives them a political win if they can get it through both chambers on the president's desk. >> let's talk tax reform. the rules committee meets and the house supposed to take it up tomorro

josh moon, sarah westwood and rick tyler. we'll talk more about this in the coming weeks as well. that'll do it for this week. join me next sunday at 5:00 p.m. to break down the major stories of the week. both internationally and domestically. you can reach out to me on social media. be sure to join kasie hunt at 7:00 for kasie d.c. and then watch "headlines, michael flynn" an in depth look at the man at the center of the russia investigation. but first up, it's "meet the press." ( ♪ ) when it comes to holiday shopping, my wife loves style, my son is all about technology and my daughter? she just loves horses. don't you just love one-stop shopping? i do. ring in the holidays with buick. get up to 20% below msrp on most 2017 luxury suv models. that's over $7,100 on this buick envision essence. experience the new buick this holiday season. more people shop online for the holidays than ever before. and the united states postal service delivers more of those purchases to homes than anyone else in the country. because we know, even the smallest things are sometimes the biggest. >>> t

we'll bring in washington examiner sarah westwood and national political reporter for us at msnbc news, jonathan allen. jonathan, back to the tweets. that is a phrase we say a lot here on the show. this is significant, right? i mean, this is -- the tweet over the weekend sent shockwaves around. then john dawd fell on the sword told msnbc, i'm going to get out of the tweet business. i didn't mean to break a lot of this news. but here's what sean spicer said back when he was the press secretary about the president's tweets. >> well, the president is the president of the united states, so they are considered official statements by the president of the united states. >> you now have kellyanne conway on fox news backing up dowd saying it's correct, he dictated this tweet. it seems as though the administration, the administration officials know this was a misstep. this was a bad move. >> well, absolutely. and it should always be said no one got in trouble for the unsent tweet, right? >> right. >> maybe sometimes you get yourself in more trouble. i think the question is whether or not the pre

all right, thank you, dana mill banks, sarah westwood and catherine rampell. let's look beyond the headlines, everybody. >>> we are learning that a $300 million home is just one of several ultra luxury items for a saudi prince who talked about fiscal responsibility. "the new york times" reporting that mohammed bin salman bought the home back in 2015. his portfolio of acquisitions also includes a $500 million yacht. the 32-year-old heir to the saudi throne is cracking down, though, on corruption among the country's super wealthy. >>> we're also getting a first look at prince harry's meeting with former president barack obama for an interview on the bbc. the full interview will air on december 27th. the prince, however, gave his guest a couple of tips. >> do i have to speak faster, because i'm a slow speaker? >> no, not at all. >> do i need a british accent? >> but if you start using long pauses between your answers, you're probably going to get the face. >> let me see the face. oh, okay. >> long pauses. >>> and the word of the year is femini feminism. merriam-w

sarah westwood and jonathan lamere are back with me as well. nick, explain what matters is on the series of e-mails from the transition team? >> it matters because this relates what flynn was doing with ambassador kislyak. who knew about it? did they know what flynn said to the ambassador? it matters a lot. and these e-mails, they are all government e-mails. i mean, they are.gov. they belong to the government. >> do they believe the e-mails could have been obtained in a legal way? >> absolutely not. these are government-owned e-mails. this is just an effort to try to undermine the mueller investigation in terms of public relations. if they really believed that there was an issue here, and that the e-mails were obtained improperly, they would go into court to get the e-mails back as opposed to sending a letter to a congressional committee so they could release the letter and make this a public relations issue. >> so you're saying this is more of a political strategy than a legal one. but will they, do you think we will see them file something in

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let's go live to washington and bring in politics reporter and sarah westwood is back with us. she's the white house correspondent for the washington examiner. as we go through all these exit polls trying to find out what was motivating the people in alabama, what do you see? what tipped him over the edge, doug jones? >> i think it's a combination of factors as eric was describing. it's almost sort of the perfect storm that doug jones needed to pull off this victory. you have the combination of the heavy african american turnout, you have apparently a bit of lackluster performance among republicans, some folks who just couldn't bring themselves to vote for roy moore either stayed home or as we see a heavy number of write-ins. so it seems to be a swirl of those factors. the president's unpopularity. it's hard to pin this on one thing but it seems that exactly what doug jones needed, all those factors came together last night. >> sarah, decency wins was the message from republican senator jeff flake who did donate to doug jones. to you, what is the message that alabama sent last

for more, we have sarah westwood from the washington examiner. people have questioned you. 52-48 versus 51-49. whether republicans, the majority thin as it is gets thinner or not. then a lot is in the balance, right? >> exactly. republicans are very worried about either scenario. the trepidation about how to seat roy moore if he were to seat, which committee to put him on, if any and worried about losing precious seats in the senate when their majority is already too thin for comfort. remember, obamacare repeat and replace vote went down by one vote and tax reforms passed by one vote. president mike pence can break a tie if republicans have a 50/50 split with the democrats. but if roy moore were to lose this election, on any given policy, republicans could only afford to lose one senator. >> i'm wondering if that was the thinking behind this infrastructure plan of the president early next year? that could certainly gather a lot more democratic votes than we have sheen thus far, which is easy to do. that's zero. this would be more than that. but t

sarah westwood and andre bauer here from south carolina with us. thank you for being here. sarah, you can't help but recognize that president of the united states trump has been very, agen shg, as ryan said, sf the 2015 nuclear deal between the u.s. and iran. is that at stake in any way? is the state of that aggravated by what we're seeing, this back and forth, this morning? >> well, certainly, the deal is something that president trump has wanted to tear up since day one. he said that on the campaign trail. and although he recertificates fied it ear it early in his administration, he says that they're no longer going to certify iranian's position. obviously, congress is not great at getting things done so it just sat there. but chris criticism is what he laid out in september when he started drawing his distinction between the iranian regime and the iranian people. and trying to put this focus on some of the discontent that the iranian people feel about the corruption of the government, as he put it. so, it's not a new approach but a que of underscoring the sentiments that

joining me now to look at this, sarah westwood, washington correspondent for "the washington examiner," charlie savage with "the new york times," mark stern with "slate," and gabe, i'll start with you. perhaps front and center for a while was president trump versus robert mueller, who's leading this investigation into russia's involvement in the election. and we certainly saw this come to light recently in the interview conducted by "the new york times" with the president this week, the president saying "it doesn't bother me because i hope he's going to be fair. i think that he's going to be fair." this has not always been the tone the president has struck over 2017 toward robert mueller. >> not at all. not only the president, but lots of republicans across washington have tried hard to move towards discrediting mueller in the investigation. they're not necessarily thrilled with the turns the investigation has taken, wrapping up top members of the trump campaign, and a lot of people have been trying to essentially poison the well and say, you know, no matter what he comes up with, onc

. >> host: anna edgerton, she's on twitter at nfh for an sarah westwood, white house reporter for the "washtington examiner" onex twitter. thanks to both of you for coming by. >> guest: thank you. >> this morning the u.n. security council to reconvene at meeting from earlier, which would include a vote on the u.s. embassy in israel's pending mood to jerusalem. egypt putting forward a resolution calling on member states not to remove their embassies while we wait for security council meetings to reconvene, we'll take a look at the australian parliament with members of the cabinet about president trump's decision a few weeks ago to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. they also have questions on other topics during the session as well. ♪ >> hello comment tom, welcome to the final edition before 2017. we begin in the senate with questions and concern that they were his firefighting products and effects there have been at least. >> thank you, mr. president. the minister defends, the defense contractor at a summit of chemicals organized in new zealand and the australian governme

westwood, white house correspondent for "the washington examiner." also with us, jordan fabian, white house correspondent for "the hill." kimberly, i'm going to start with you. in his first television interview in weeks today, roy moore, as we just heard, maintaining the allegations, the sexual misconductings against him, that they're false, that he didn't molest anyone. do you think voters will believe him or have they made their choice? >> i think if that's the issue, that will make the difference. i think at this point, that is baked in. i think people have made up their minds and chosen either to believe the people who are accusing him or believe roy moore or decide that it doesn't matter, they're going to vote on other issues. so, i think at this point, the fact that in that interview he's saying that none of this happened, he's actually pushing back more. i mean, before he would say things like i would never date a young woman without her mother's permission. now he's saying he's never dated a young woman ever. so even though that story's chang

. >> let's bring in sarah westwood, white house correspondent for "the washington examiner," bob cusack. bob, starting with you and your reaction to what congressman mike quigley said there about his gop colleagues' apparent attempts to rush the investigation. as you look at this, do you believe this is a partisan take or is there evidence republicans are trying to rush this through? >> well, i certainly think that the house intelligence committee, i mean there's been no cooperation there. i think some of the senate probes going on about russia -- remember, there are four probes. special counsel, one in the house and two in the senate. we've been hearing that they're not going to be wrapping up in the senate any time soon. but what if the house intelligence committee wraps up? then i think the president and the white house could say, okay, now it's time for the other ones to wrap up. rona graff is a key person. she's his long-time scheduler so she has a lot of access to information. it's very interesting that democrats were not told or given a heads-up on this interview or at least most

congressional reporter and adjutant and sarah westwood. americastate of race in and its implications for minority education with robert woodson of the woodson center and shelby steele, the senior at the hoover institution, c-span's washington journal, live, beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on monday morning, when the discussion. -- join the discussion. british by mr. theresa may takes questions from members of the house commons and then a discussion on the tax reform bill. and at 11:00, another test to see q&a with gordon wood, talking about his book on the relationship between john adams and thomas jefferson. during question time on wednesday, the british prime minister theresa may answered questions on homelessness, brazen negotiations and the state of the british economy. this is just over 40 minutes. work. >> order. questions for the prime minister. mrs. gerald gillam. >> number one, mister speaker. >> thank you, mister speaker. this week marks the 6-month anniversary of the tower fire, i will attend the national memorial service tomorro

sarah westwood, great to see you. we heard this from a number of lawmakers saying this is a rumor. the white house keeps knocking it down. >> exactly. republicans and white officials seldom mention removing mueller at all. the talk about removing mueller from the special counsel office is almost limited to democrats. they are happy to build-up speculation about removing the special counsel. what you have heard from president trump and his allies are criticism of the conduct of some of the agents below mueller like peter strzok who exchanged text messages bashing president trump and another fbi agent whose wife was linked to the company that produced the dossier at the heart of the russian investigation. it's important not to inflate that with criticism of the special counsel. president trump has been careful not to go after mueller the man. >> shannon: i want to play what we heard from the president and the white house press secretary to show folks how adamant they are about this. >> [inaudible]. >> no, i am not. >> for the 1,000th time we have no intentions of firing bob mueller.

we ask sarah westwood and we want to talk about them now. good to see you. >> good to see you. the one we have a couple of things going on here, we have -- we know we were talking about lisa bloom, there was discussion of payday. one woman said apparently she was offered at $750,000 ultimately decided it wasn't comfortable for her to come forward and tell her story. what were you able to find out? >> there were claims made by several women that lisa bloom solicited payments from donors affiliated with the clinton campaign to pay their relocation expenses, their security expenses associated with the publicity they would get if they want to forward with accusations against president trump. at the end of the day, the reporting shows that only two women definitely accepted payments from lisa bloom but it's the type of thing that brings into question the credibility of all of the accusers against president trum president trump. there are a lot of allegations made against the president, there is no reason to doubt the veracity of all of them but it's the type of thing the democrats w

westwood. and, the state of race in .merica, and its implications c-span's washington journal, live beginning at 7:00 a.m.. join the discussion. the house and senate could vote on the tax reform bill on tuesday. here's more about what is in the bill from today's "washington journal." this is about one hour. steve: sunday roundtable looking at the plant. joining us is andy greene, managing director for economic policy at the center for american progress. and, grover norquist. grover, let us begin with you. will it simplify america's tax code? grover: it will simplify it will reduce it. it is both tax reform, which means a lot of the complications that was there goes away,

sarah westwood. i think that's the white house staff attorneys calming the president down. knowing he is in a precarious legal position to not push at mueller. that was the most anding. -- interesting. he said no collusion. he is still maintaining innocence but is allowing special counsel robert mueller to do his job. >> could make white house staffers gray? >> we heard that president trump gave no head's up to the staff. it was the right place and the right time for the "new york times" reporter who was having lunch in mar a lago. there were some things that president trump said that his staff may not have liked. we talked about what rights president trump has and doesn't have in reopening the clinton emails investigation. what was most interesting was the centric tone talking about legislative items. disappointment that senator joe did not come to the table to negotiate. talking about his willing innocence to negotiate -- willingness to negotiate on health care. >> we will await to hear the senator's reaction. >> his remarks on immigration were interesting. laid down wher

westwood, white house correspondent for the "washington examiner" ." republicans came off this huge legislative win, they need to keep the momentum going into thousand 18. the question is, how important is it for donald trump, the president and the g.o.p. to notch a couple of more wins before the midterm? >> absolutely that something republicans want to be able to do, they want to have a reason to keep republican majorities in congress. legislating in a normal election year is complicated, lawmakers are focused on rallying their bases, they are not really focused on actual governing in election years. president trump, the environment he's created is incredibly partisan and polarized. it will be extremely difficult to get anything else done this year. beyond that there is no clear consensus about what to do next. the white house wants to do an infrastructure package, speaker ryan is interested in looking at entitlement reform. there is no clear path to the next step to continue this momentum. >> julie: despite their efforts, up until tax overhaul the re

neil: sarah westwood, thank you very, very much. >> thank you. neil: all right, we have been able to do the some is, cross on ts, what apparently has been the tax bill that the senate, house, conference forum are sheaing up to introduce as the plan. it will call for a top individual rate of 37% versus 39.6. right now, it was 38 1/2% in the senate plan that was originally proposed. down to 37%. it set as 21% corporate rate, not the 22% that was originally feared by some or the 20%, that was originally passed out of the house. and the senate. but again, all of this we're told, to offset the damage that is going to befall those who live in high-taxed states. it doesn't address anything about the amt, how that sticks around for businesses and individuals from best i can tell. but these concessions in this wiggling back and forth seem to be a pay to pacify those who are saying that there's no way in heck they could send that back to their constituents with a straight face but in doing so they might have lost a couple senators along the line. rand paul

our panel sarah westwood, white house correspondent eric shiffer , chairman and ceo and chairman of reputation management consultants and back with us, adriana cohen. sarah, you know sarah huckabee sanders probably better than most people and i've got to tell you, this felt like the lowest of low blows. what were your thoughts when you heard it? >> i think it's astounding how much fire sarah sanders takes personally when no matter your politics she's a nice person. like you mentioned she's the first working mother to hold the job of press secretary she's only the third woman in history and when she was named press secretary, it was the first time in history that a woman concurrently held the press secretary positions at the white house, the justice department, the state department and the pentagon all of those press secretaries are women, but because she works for trump, it seems like the basic standards of decency dictating how we talk about women in politics have been suspended commentators have gone after her weight her intelligence her accent and you know, they don't face the same kind of

westwood. americastate of race in and its implications for minority education with robert woodson of the woodson center and shelby steele, the senior at the hoover institution, c-span's washington journal, live, beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on monday morning, when the discussion. -- join the discussion. british by mr. theresa may takes questions from members of the house commons and then a discussion on the tax reform bill. and at 11:00, another test to see q&a with gordon wood, talking about his book on the relationship between john adams and thomas jefferson. during question time on wednesday, the british prime minister theresa may answered questions on homelessness, brazen negotiations and the state of the british

here is amy holmes, sarah westwood back with us, deneen borelli. sarah, start with you. i thought it was pretty tactful that president trump expresses, has uttered dismay and disapproval of the actions that have surfaced about the fbi, the mueller investigation. he took a differenten to, a conciliatory, supportive tone of law enforcement as he addressed the law enforcement graduation ceremony. >> remember the audience in the ceremony was mostly state and local police officers that had taken just a course at the quantico academy. it wasn't necessarily agents in the audience. it is clear, president trump recognizes he can't fire mueller, he would unleash pandemonium but can continue to draw attention from questionable conduct on agents on mueller's team. he can't bring up alleged bias when one of the aides it standing in the courtroom but the argument the investigation is affected by bias gained more credibility, now that he's drawing attention to it before there's real risk to him or any of his closest aides. charles: amy, a lot of republican senators who continue to circ

sarah westwood, the reaction now from the republican party going forward, what happens do you think inside the white house? >> well, certainly the white house is going to be worried about how this reflects on its credibility and its clout heading into 2018. the implications for the party are not good. but on the other hand, i think a lot of republicans in congress are secretly or openingly as you just proved breathing a sigh of relief that they don't have to deal with a roy moore -- roy moore being in the senate for years to come. republicans would constantly be asked to react to the latest roy moore controversy. it seems like every time he opened his mouth he said something appalling that republicans would have been forced to grapple with. and so with him gone, that's one less vote in the senate for the president's agenda, but it certainly doesn't have to force them to confront the controversy over whether they were going to seat him, whether they were going to put him on committees. how do you cosponsor legislation who's been accused of preying on children, so that is one dilemma republi

sarah westwood? guest: certainly not. this years started with a lot of hope about what they would be able to get done. there was hope for an infrastructure package, health care reform, tax, and we see they are just barely going to get one of those things over the finish the end of the year. so i do not think republicans have correctly assessed how challenging it would be. the --nd or adjutant in anna edgerton, were you expecting to be reporting from the capital in the last week before christmas? guest: i think because they were not able to get some of those other things done, passing tax reform goes all the more important. they have to have something to show for their first year of united government, and the tax bill is top of a lot of conservative priorities, and they would get the talking point to say they were able to accomplish something. it some of it is temporary and will not get the simplicity that they hoped, but it would give if theyolitical win were able to get it onto the president's desk. rules committee will

. >>> to discuss, kyle felter of the washington examiner and sarah westwood, white house correspondent for "the washington examiner." doug jones is courting the black vote and cory booker and john lewis voting for him. why do you think the black voters are not inclined to vote for jones with the problem right now? kyle? >> it seems like a problem democrats have on a regular basis. there is always this kind of initial movement where they might try to -- this is something you solve with hillary clinton. they try to maybe bring in moderate republicans when there is a controversial republican candidate such as roy moore or with hillary clinton, donald trump. then maybe they don't see the level of enthusiasm they want there. so instead of trying to court new voters, they try to firm up traditional base support such as black voters. and this might be something that doug jones might have seen here in recent weeks as the polling has skewed back to roy moore after, you know, there was a few good weeks for doug jones there. maybe that is what he is trying to do now is trying to firm up this trad

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host: sarah westwood is white house reporter for the "washington examiner." anna edgerton, congressional reporter for bloomberg. they are here to talk about the week ahead. there is a lot to get done. we talked about the tax reform bill in the first hour,