Transcripts For FBC Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo 20170827

From texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick with us. Plus Committee Chairman congressman mccall is here. Also the fallout from the pardon of sheriff joe arpaio. Was it the right time to make this move . We will talk to a congressman about that. Tough reelection battle, arizona senator jeff flake takes on President Trump. Will that tactic score many points against his g. O. P. Primary challenger dr. Kelly ward . As we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. And we kick it off of course were watching a very dangerous situation unfolding as we speak this hour in southeastern texas. Houston, the nations fourth largest city, inundated with widespread and catastrophic flooding. Over 1,000 water rescues performed there overnight. So far at least two have been confirmed dead. The number is expected to climb. Emergency responders are simply overwhelmed. Officials are telling people in the houston area to call 911 only if you are in a lifethreatening situation. If your life is in imminent danger. Griff jenkins is live on the ground in houston, texas right now with the very latest. Good morning. Good morning maria. The county Flood Control calling this is the worst flood event in 500 years. The rivers, cresting at points never before seen, even surpassing that of Tropical Storm allison in 2001 that crippled this city. You see behind me, the hpd, police department, trying to assist with a motorist that seems to be stranded. We are on the west side of houston, maria, having just gotten off the overpass because many of the overpasses are absolutely stuck. Now, what you mentioned before, this is the catastrophic life threatening event that they warned of. We know of one fatality confirmed. There are reports of more, but we know one confirmed of a woman overnight who drove into these floodwaters, became stranded, got out and drowned. Thats why they say turn around, dont drown. Guess what . That advice now is no longer necessarily valid because if you turn around, there may be nowhere to go because it isnt one particular area of houston that has been impacted. Its the entire city. These rain bands absolutely deluging the lowlying areas because houston is one of the most floodprone parts of the country, cities that is. The message from the officials that you mentioned about dont call 911 unless you have a life threatening situation. Thats because they are absolutely exhausted, stretched to their limits, and they need to get to the most critical ones. They are saying even in areas where you may be trapped in your house, a foot of water coming in, it is a horrific experience, but if its not life threatening, just get to higher ground. The National Weather service saying if worse comes to worse, get on your roof. And what you are seeing playing out now, just look down this street. Youve got the lights out. That car way down there trying to get through. The highways literally looking like rivers at this point, maria. Yeah, i mean, we are watching on the screen as youre talking, griff, real rescues situations happening as we speak. What do you expect in the area . In the coming hours and days . Hey, maria, we expect worse to come. Battery is dying. We have been in this situation unable to get back to our hotel, because we will need to wrap before i lose the signal, conditions will be worse and become historically horrific in the next 24 to 48 hours. We will check back as the news develops. Thank you very much. Be safe there, griff. Thank you. We want to get more on this. Im joined right now by texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick. He joins me on the phone. Governor, thanks very much for joining us this morning. Can you characterize the impact here to the broader economy . Put this in context for us, please. Well, thank you, maria. First of all, this storm is already record setting with maybe 20 or 24 more inches of rain to come, so the Economic Loss and impact is going to be even greater. You have a city of 2 1 2 million in houston, harris county, which is the Third Largest county in the country, of another 2 million plus, so you have about 5 Million People impacted that i would say right now generalizing across that entire area, most people are paralyzed in their neighborhoods. You can get out some areas, some streets at some point, but eventually you will be blocked by water somewhere. Were going to break in the rain today, maybe a little while for a few hours not much and then be pounded again overnight. The Economic Impact maria will be in the billions. We have in texas the Economic Stabilization fund, called the rainy day fund. We have 10 billion in reserve. That 10 billion is more than most states have combined. It is a healthy balance, but our budget is over 100 billion a year, about 10 of our budget. So we do have that as a backup for times in economic downturns or crises like this, but our costs to individuals, many people dont have Flood Insurance. Many people who have never flooded before now on their second floor or rooftop because the first floor is flooded. There will be hundreds and hundre hundre hundreds thousands homes will be affected. The difference from rockport is about 200 miles from houston. That would be like a storm hitting new york and boston being flooded. And thats the distances were talking about. All of those homes in between, and now, you know, houston alone is larger than about 25 to 26 states in population. So now you have hundreds of thousands of people in houston, san antonio, many areas are under water, and thats another 200 milings away. Miles away. You have this massive area. It is too early to calculate, but it will be in the billions and billions. I have seen one report from core logic that said 39 billion potential if everybody was hit. Ive seen forbes come out with a report of 20 billion. Our state will analyze all of this after the fact, but it will be in the billions. One of the most if not the most expensive storm ever. Not only that, but talk to us about the businesses in the area. I mean, we know the impact to the oil and gas refineries and the facilities, many are shut down. Thats going to have a broad impact across the country; correct . Yes, and of course, you know, my focus as Lieutenant Governor and greg abbott and the President Trump and the white house has offered quick help and fast help to us, which we greatly appreciate, but my focus is on life, but on the business side, i know this is a business oriented show, we produce about 6 billion 6 Million Barrels of oil a day, refined product. We have about 2 million now offline. So thats about a third. Thats a rough number. Our refineries, to my knowledge, have not been damaged again, to my knowledge have not been damaged. The problem will be, maria, of people being able to go to work. You cant get out of your homes. All of those people who work on those refineries are focused on their families and their homes. I would anticipate we will have the refineries off line longer than people felt. We dont know the impact of the rain. Maybe by wednesday or thursday. That will have an Economic Impact as well. Plus we have already deployed 1800 guardsmen. Im sure there will probably be more in search and rescue. We have 900 state troopers now being pulled from all over the state in this area. Local cost for First Responders is going to be significant. Just the cost of rebuilding and remodelling and theres always a back end to that, on the construction side, repair side, but theres going to be a tremendous Economic Impact to our business. You cant open your business today. No one can get to your place. If you are selling pizza or you are selling movie tickets, no one can get out. You are shut down. I was supposed to be with you in a camera up link today as you know and we couldnt get to the tv studio. In fact one tv studio here has water in their first floor. This is going to have a tremendous Economic Impact. But, maria, even though this is a texas sized storm, we will have a texas sized effort and were best prepared to handle this than any other place in the country, but it is going to be a long long road, and some people and some people wont be able to open their businesses for days and weeks. And some people wont get back to their homes potentially for months. Which is why the administration, the federal government was so fast in terms of responding to what texas needs. Look, i know it is hard to predict whats going to happen in the next couple of days in terms of the cleanup and the flooding because we dont know the impact of more rain coming. We will keep checking back with you. Governor, thank you for your leadership. Thanks for joining us this morning. Thank you, we appreciate the white house working with us quickly and right now were in rescue, rescuing lives first and then after that its rescue and recovery, and then after that that next stage comes to cleanup and build back, but right now were focused on lives and our First Responders are brave and doing incredible job all across this vast region. Thank you. Thank you. We will be watching and check back of course. Thank you very much Lieutenant Governor dan patrick there. More coming on the situation in houston in a couple of moments. Plus another shakeup inside the Trump White House to report. The president is facing pushback from his own party this morning over the controversial pardon of former sheriff joe arpaio. Former utah dont let dust and allergens get between you and lifes beautiful moments. Flonase outperforms the 1 nondrowsy allergy pill. It helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause symptoms. Pills block one and 6 is greater than 1. 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President trump facing backlash this morning for pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio convicted of contempt last month for ignoring an 11 court order to stop profiling latino drivers and immigration detentions. A former counterterrorism advisor says that the movement that put President Trump in office is losing out to moderates like Economic Advisor gary kohn and Jared Kushner the president s soninlaw. Joining us now is former chairman of Oversight Committee and Fox News Contributor jason chaffetz. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Lets talk about sheriff arpaio what are your thoughts on the pardon from the president . I wish the president had waited till he was actually sentenced but nevertheless the president has the right to do and joe arpaio is a patriot in many peoples books including mine he served his community for decades, widely popular elected multiple times and certainly in contrast to barack obama, president obama commuted more than 1700 people, so everything from drug dealers and counterfeiters, people who were engaged in forgery and certainly chelsea manning, you know, theres hardly a comparison to what donald trump is doing. So what do you think is going on then jason . I mean, like one of the first things that we hear from congressman paul ryan, the speaker of the house is that he doesnt agree with President Trump. Once again, youre seeing this indication that so many people in the party do not care if he succeeds or not, are not necessarily on his team, youve got critical economic plans in place right now, people are wondering if you are going to get tax reform, if the congress is going to get tax reform done, and yet, continuations of divisions. Yesterday, paul ryan says i dont agree with the president. Well, i mean, the speaker gets his opinion, but again, lets focus on the democrats here. I know the speaker has been concerned that the president was picking on members of congress, but under the constitution, the president has the unilateral right to commute whatever sentence he wants and for him to do one for somebody that he believes in and supports, it should hardly a be a surprise, nobody should be surprised by that, but i dont think it does anything productive. Which is why the question come up about his own party not backing him because you are right it is the democrats who have been obstructionists and they dont want his agenda to get by, so they are doing everything that they can to get in front of it, now, they are screaming outrage over the confederate statues obviously and yet the republicans are not backing the president. Thats really what im getting at. And then theres all of this going on, one of the president s early supporters, he told me just the other day, look, maria, i can be a bigger help to the boss on the outside and thats why im doing it, the make America Great and tie make America Great people like the democrats in the white house are keeping the white house on lockdown. What do you make of that . Well, hes got an important voice and he certainly was instrumental in helping get the president elected. Hes a very very bright person on foreign policy, but again, heres the concern. When you take the joe arpaio situation, you take this gorka situation, what were not talking about is talking about tax reform and laying the foundation. You come in september, they have to do the debt ceiling, passing a budget, we have these huge massive things let alone healthcare and thats not where the discussion is. Somehow we need the president and the speaker and mcconnell get on the same page and put a unified message about tax reform on the table so the American People are ready for it when it comes up for a vote. Do you think they will be able to get this done . At this point im betting on tax cuts not necessarily tax reform. What do they have 12 day once they get back to actually get real legislative victories . Theres 12 legislative days on the calendar, six of those are fly in and fly out days. I dont think tax reform has to get nor will it get done before the end of september. The real deadline there is funding the government, getting the border wall funding done plus be able to put in, you know, dealing with the debt ceiling. I think you are going to find that it is going to be they are going to probably punt on those things. I think you will see shortterm continuing resolutions thats my guess in talking to my colleagues there. By the time we get into late december, when nobody is paying attention, they will put it into one big bill and then try to pass it then. Thats my guess. So you do think ive seen this happen before. It sounds like you think they will get something done this year before the 2018 elections . I do. And like you, i worry that it is just going to be a tax cut as opposed to to true tax reform. The fact they havent released something, havent marked it up yet is a key indicator to me that they are concerned about i heard the speaker say the other day there are multiple options on debt ceiling and im not worried about it. Let me decipher that for you, that means they dont have a plan that they can get passed otherwise they would lay it out there and champion it. Thats my concern. You were the chairman of the Oversight Committee are we expecting that this i. T. Guy who worked with this entire family, is that story going to get much bigger . Well, it should. This is very very serious. Somebody who has i. T. Clearance who can surf into the house of representatives, ties to Wasserman Schultz this is a much much more serious that will i think blossom. I think they probably let him sit there for a little bit to see who he was communicating with to see this is a lone operator would be naive at best. This is a very big story. Operating alone means it is more than bank fraud is what i hear . Yeah. Jason, thank you very much for joining us. This is very serious. Thank you. Finish your point, jason, im sorry, there is a delay, i apologize. It is very very serious and to be able to follow the trail electronically of where money was flowing, where information was flowing, i know they are on top of it, i know they were watching it before they actually arrested him, and i do think it is a much much more serious situation. Jason chaffetz, good the see you, sir good to see you, sir, thank you very much. We will be watching that. Meanwhile Tropical Storm harvey hammering houston. Update on that situation coming up after the break. President s showdown with arizona senator jeff flake, we arizona senator jeff flake, we will hear from his parodontax, the toothpaste that helps arizona senator jeff flake, we will hear from his prevent bleeding gums. If you spit blood when you brush or floss you may have gum problems and could be on the journey to much worse. Help stop the journey of gum disease. Try parodontax toothpaste. You totanobodys hurt, new car. But there will still be pain. 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Crews are performing more than a thousand rescue operations. That happened overnight. And just a few minutes, texas congressman and Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael Mccall will join me live to talk about the rescue operations and where we are now. We want to switch gears right now and talk about this, President Trump verbally sparring with arizona senator jeff flake. Their feud intensifying as the race heats up for flakes seat in the 2018 midterm elections. The president deeming encouraging competitors to seek flakes seat. Flake responded by saying trump could face a primary challenger himself in 2020. Joining me right now is dr. Kelly ward, former Republican Arizona state senator and current g. O. P. Primary challenger for senator flakes arizona seat. Good to see you, kelly. Thank you very much for joining us this morning. Good morning, maria. We certainly are all praying for the people of texas. Yes, we are. Weve got that covered. Were going to go back as news develops there. Dr. Ward, give us your qualifications. Why you believe you should have that senate seat. Make the case. Well, i will tell you, maria, i was a very effective Arizona State senator. I got things done through the legislative process. I was able to put forth excellent policy ideas, get it through the sometimes complicated process and get to it the executives desk. People saw that success in arizona and they want me to take that to washington. They are sick and tired of the do Nothing Congress and senate, especially the senate. So i look forward to getting there and getting things done. Whats the problem, though . I mean when you look at what has just taken place in terms of healthcare, that the senate they didnt even look at the houses version of the healthcare bill. Youve got massive divisiveness within the senate about President Trumps policies, if you didnt, you would have seen more get done. What do you think needs to happen to bring people together . I definitely think in 2018 we need to elect people who have that America First agenda in mind. People who want to secure the border. Who want to stop illegal immigration. Who want to repeal obama care finally. Who want to keep the economy growing. Who want to fix the tax code and want to make sure that our military is the strongest in the world. Unfortunately we have a lot of people in washington, especially in the senate, who like to talk a lot, but dont like to get a lot of things done and havent been able to collaborate with each other, house to senate, within the Republican Party to accomplish the agenda that the American People are crying out for. What does the president need to do in terms of his own leadership to govern in terms of getting some legislative victory . We were just talking with jason chaffetz, they only have the congress a couple of days left when they get back from their summer recess, in order to get big things done like tax reform, is it doable . You know, i think it is going to be a big challenge. Our government is set up to have change, but if they arent in washington, d. C. Putting their noses to the grindstone and getting things done, it will be very difficult. I think the president and his leadership will go a long way, if we can get the leader in the house and senate to come together and accomplish those goals that america wants. What have you done in terms of getting the support from within your own party . We see jeff flake out has a very contemptuous relationship with President Trump. What is your thought in terms of how this plays out . I think senator flake is going in the wrong direction, attacking the president at every turn. He wasnt for trump during the primary. He wasnt for the president after he became the nominee. He certainly hasnt been for the president since hes been in the white house. The polls are showing im up by double digits on senator flake. I want to work with the people in washington, d. C. As well as the people across this country to accomplish the goals that are set before us to make this country great again. Just want to point out that senator flake has said that if the president keeps up his behavior, quote unquote, hes going to face a challenger from the Republican Party in 2020, and then of course we also hear rumors that john kasich is going to hook up with another governor and be have their own Campaign Going into 2020. Do you think the Republican Party will produce a competitor to President Trump in 2020 . I certainly think that would be a big mistake for the establishment wing of the Republican Party to attempt. I think President Trump and his leadership is what the country wanted. Thats why hes in the white house. And i think that hes got lofty goals that we should be accomplish that will put America First. All right. Dr. Kelli ward, we appreciate you coming on this morning. We hope you will come back soon. We will be watching the developments. Thank you. Thank you. By the way john kasich said no okay that was his quote when asked if he was in fact readying to run for president in 2020. This morning in one of sundays shows no okay . That was his answer. Our live coverage of the flooding in houston is continuing this morning. We are taking a look at the federal Disaster Response so far with Homeland Security chairman and texas congressman mike mccall. Hes next as we look ahead on sunday morning futures right now. Today, were out here with some big news about type 2 diabetes. You have type 2 diabetes, right . Yes. So let me ask you this. How does diabetes affect your heart . It doesnt, does it . Actually, it does. 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Bring your challenges. Welcome back. The flood waters still rising in houston this morning. Over 1,000 water rescues overnight alone. President trump and his fema Team Monitoring developments. The president tweeted this out this morning great coordination between agencies at all levels of government continuing rains and flash floods are being dealt with, thousands rescued. Any people are now saying that this is the worst storm or hurricane that they have ever seen. Good news we have great talent on the ground. Joining us to talk about washingtons response so far is texas congressman Michael Mccall, chairman of the house Homeland Security committee which oversees the federal Emergency Management agency or fema. So good to see you. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you very much. What can you tell us in terms of femas response and what needs to be done now . Well, first, let me applaud my governor and the president for immediately even before the hurricane hit declaring major disaster areas, and that allows why is that important . Because that allows fema to come in and provide the assistance in advance. Thats something after katrina and rita we saw didnt work so well. I passed a bill in the congress to deal with that very issue. I think this has been one of the best responses to one of the worst hurricanes that ive seen in my lifetime hit the coast of texas. You know, i know that texas is such an important part of the u. S. Economy. So you have to believe that this disaster is going to impact the broad economy as well, putting obviously the loss of life is most important, but putting that aside for a moment and looking at the broad Economic Impact, how do you see it . Well, loss of life is the highest priority. We have deployed searchandrescue teams, coast guard both air and water, the National Guardsmen have been activated. You know, my father grand father, im sorry, survived the 1900 hurricane of galveston, where 10,000 people died in that hurricane. I think we have handled this obviously far better than that, but from an economic standpoint, as you point out, maria, we are going to see some serious economic damage. All the parts in houston with the exception of brownsville have been shut down, including the houston shipping channel which involves a lot of energy and commerce and also just when you look at houston, what got hit so hard last night in many parts of my district, with this flooding, youre going to see a lot of economic damage there, and thats where, you know, i have been talking to fema, talking to our state emergency manager to make sure those assets are on the ground to, you know, assist in this recovery. You sent a letter to the president urging his authorization of the governors request for the disaster declaration. That was pretty fast approval there. Tell us about this major disaster declaration for texas. It triggers the release of federal funds to help with individuals and communities with the disaster. Where that does that money come from . Well, once it is declared a major disaster, then thats when fema assistance is allowed to come in. Thats why that was so important to do early on, and again, i applaud the president for doing that. Just last night, harris county, that being houston, was declared a major Disaster Recovery area, which will allow fema assistance to now go in. They have been prepositioned, the assets and personnel, but now with this declaration in houston rg houston, after what we saw last night with the flooding, now we will see that money coming in, both in terms of rescue operations, food, water and a lot of Public Safety assistance. I think first and foremost is saving lives and thats what were doing. So there was so much discussion about the administrations proposed budget cutting making budget cuts to fema and yet the president was incredibly quick to respond here in terms of unleashing the needed money. Well, i think theres no more whether its a man made terrorist event or a natural disaster, no major event like that should i mean, we have a role in the federal government to play here, whether it happened in new jersey or louisiana with katrina or now here in texas, so we do have a Disaster Recovery relief fund that right now the economic costs are in the billions. Its foreseeable that those funds may be depleted, and one of the first things we do when we get back into congress after the august recess, may be to be looking at an emergency supplemental to help pay for this assistance to the people of the great state of texas. Yeah, you make a great point, congressman, because you will be getting back to a lot of really fast deadlines in terms of the debt ceiling, in terms of the budget and then in terms of getting policy done. Can you walk us through what that first couple of weeks looks like when Congress Gets back in a week . Well i mean were looking at bold tax reform. We want to get that piece done. I hope the senate will go back and take a look at healthcare reform. We have a debt ceiling. We have threats of shutting the government down. I think, you know, we have funding we have all major Appropriations Bills coming out of the house, in september they will be going over to the senate. It is my sincere hope the senate will entertain these republican Appropriations Bills including funding for the wall which i know is so important to the president. I think it is such an important point you make, these Appropriations Bills, are they going to get all messed up now congressman because the left is trying to put new amendments about taking confederate statues down . Is this more obstructionism of the president s ajgendagenda . Were trying to stay on message. The statues is one issue. I think what happened in charlottesville needs to be condemned. I will be having a hearing after 9 11 on both worldwide terrorism threats from radical islam, but also from domestic terrorism of neonazis and white supremacists. But lets not get too off message. We have a lot on our plate to deal with, what the American People want us to respond to, whether it be healthcare, taxes, border security, and national security. Yeah, and im confident that youve got all of your ducks in order on all of that but people recognizes theres only a little time left and now this disaster. What are the next couple of days and months look like, mr. Chairman, in terms of texas and the impact . I know we really dont know because were getting more rain in houston this week. Right. And were expecting 1 to 2 more feet of rain in houston. It is not capable of handling that kind of rain. We will see major flooding, major disaster, we dont want to see loss of life. Thats our number one priority. The rescue teams are already deployed and out there, but, you know, this is a very historic proportions in the sense it is a category 4 hurricane, it hovers over the coast of texas, and then stays there and then drops enormous amounts of rain that the coastal lines coastal cities cannot absorb and therefore you will have major flooding, major damage, and hopefully not more loss of life. And i know that most of those homes or a big portion of the homes actually dont even have Flood Insurance because they are right there on the coast. And that is what fema is designed to do. Fema is not the operational arm to come in. Thats the state and locals, but fema comes in and provides the assistance needed after the event. They are coming in right now to provide individual assistance, individual assistance of housing and recovery assistance and moving debris. We would like to see people return to their homes and not have to bring in these prefab homes like what we saw with katrina although that is one of the contingency plans we are looking at right now. Congressman, good to have you on the program this morning. Thank you very much for your insights. We appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you for your leadership, congressman mccall joining us there. White house making headlines. White house making headlines. Top advisor gorka why should over two hundred years of citi history white house making headlines. Top advisor gorka matter to you . Well, because it tells us something powerful about progress that whether times are good or bad, people and their ideas will continue to move the world forward. 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President trumps counterterrorism advisor Sebastian Gorka now the latest aide to exit the white house this weekend whether he jumped or was pushed out, gorka making it pretty clear hes moving on because he sees power in the white house tilting toward moderates. Lets bring in our panel right here. The Senior Vice President for Global Strategy Group and a democratic strategist, a National Political reporter for real clear politics and it is great to see you both. Thank you very much for joining us. Gorka told me this weekend that the quote antimake America Great caucus in the white house has the white house on lockdown. What do you think that means . Im not sure what that means i love that anybody who is not him or steve bannon is somehow against making America Great. Im sure they are trying to make the argument that these are the moderate wing is somehow in charge, but thats just not the case. I mean, it continues to be the most conservative cabinet in history as related by cpac. The only people who are out of it are sort of the nationalist gorka bannon wing but you continue to have a president behaving the same way. The truth is there are different factions in the white house isnt that right kaitlyn . When you look at somebody like a gary kohn who supported president obama who supported the clintons or Jared Kushner same thing ivanka his daughter same thing, is that whats going on here . That the moderates or the democrats are gaining a foothold in the white house . There certainly are different factions as you mentioned. I think there were a lot of questions about what impact or what influence gorka actually had in this white house. He was on tv a lot. The president liked his defense of him but as you were saying he can have that impact on the outside and to your point, absolutely i think were seeing with all these changes in the white house, donald trump, the president , remains very much the same, and i think he has argued and others have argued that no matter who comes in and out, hes going to kind of be the same person. But there are, you know, competing factions in this white house. We have seen this week remarkable criticisms of the president coming from people like gary kohn, Rex Tillerson on fox news today, with some harsh words for the president in terms of america values saying the president speaks for himself. Thats kind of what hes competing with here. It is amazing. They are practically at war with each other and often at war with the president himself. I mean, what other president has gone after members of his own cabinet in the way that donald trump has and now has people in his own administration going after him. It is a little crazy. Will they be able to get anything done in the midst of all of this . The president has his own way of doing things obviously. And so far up until just a couple of weeks ago i feel like everyone under who he was and sort of accepted, but now youre really getting pushback from people saying look you need to change this, get off twitter; right . People have been telling him to get off twitter two years he was successful in the end of Campaign Last year when he was off twitter. The real problem he has now is hes really picking fights with republicans; right . They are picking fights with him too; right . Hes going after Early Morning tweets going after ryan and mcconnell for sort of nothing right after their unity statement; right . So the result of that so far is that he has been able not to accomplish his agenda, right, whether its healthcare or tax reform or getting the debt ceiling increased or anything else you are looking at an agenda thats completely stalled. Thats interesting because it does impact things. It has. I mean the relationship hes had with mccain, you dont want to draw too many conclusions to why mccain came back from arizona and voted no on the healthcare bill, but maybe there was something personal going on there. Well, interestingly, jeff flake has voted with President Trumps agenda 93 of the time according to some estimates he voted for the healthcare bill in the senate, whats interesting here about just moving this back to gorka it does show some extent the influence of john kelly, and when it comes to gary kohn, the important thing to note about that criticism is hes tasked with kind of being the point person on tax reform so hes going to be dealing with these republicans many of whom on this issue many of whom have been critical of the president s handling of charlottesville and other events im wondering if thats a way for him to kind of reestablish himself with those republicans in order to get everybody on the same page for policy. We will talk about that. I would also like to get your take on what jeff flake said and that is if the president keeps up this behavior there will be a real challenger to him in 2020. Think about that. I want to get your take on that. 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I had been talking to republicans in advance of this pardon because the president had talked about it in arizona, and the feedback i was getting was that this would drive a further wedge within the Republican Party at a delicate time, that it would animate democrats who think that all their thoughts on arpaio think that will drive voters to their side and it there are questions among republicans who have already been critical of this president about what this means in terms of a law and order person candidate who became president. Questions about the legal aspects of this i think you are going to hear a lot from republicans, but you are also going to hear from republicans who think this is a good idea, who think that arpaio was given a raw deal. Right. So the divisions are stark on this issue, but they are similar to what weve seen in the past. So Much Division and yet here we go right off the bat, paul ryan comes out and says i disagree with the president. Once again, divisiveness within the Republican Party. Yeah. I mean, look, again, the president himself is essentially driving a wedge in his own party to make sure that he cant get his agenda done. I mean he didnt need to do this. There was no political need for him to pardon this guy. He pardoned him because joe arpaio was nice to donald trump; right . Which is essentially how he makes his policy decisions. We will see about that. He also thought he was wronged. Potentially but you know he was also a supporter of him. When you support him, he does things for whether the law and order it is. It is another wedge between he and ryan, mccain, critical votes in the congress that trump needs to get any of his agenda done. Again you are driving a wedge that makes sure he cant get done what he said he would get done easily. The president supporters blame paul ryan. The president supporters will say look, theres a huge portion of the Republican Party that does not want the president to succeed. And the president supporters are 33 of the voting populist. Thats the problem. Thats why his Approval Rating has stayed around there. When you look at what the president might be trying to do here is certainly wants to rev up his base ahead of these big legislative fights coming in september. We saw that apparent in the rally in phoenix at the rally in phoenix, the pardoning of sheriff arpaio or former sheriff arpaio is certainly a way to, you know, rev up the base at a critical time for him, but it also to your point earlier about driving this wedge between the Republican Party, its not going to get any more republicans on his side on this issue. Particularly since, you know, president s make controversial pardons a lot. This is not the first president to make a controversial pardon. There is a question, though, about the timing because he wasnt even sentenced yet and traditionally you wait about five years after the sentencing and going through doj processing. Quick break. We want t parodontax, the toothpaste that helps prevent bleeding gums. If you spit blood when you brush or floss you may have gum problems and could be on the journey to much worse. Help stop the journey of gum disease. Try parodontax toothpaste. con artists. theyll try anything to get your Medicare Card number. So they can steal your identity, commit medicare fraud. What can you do . Guard your card . Guard your card . Just like your credit card. Nobody gets my number, unless i know they should have it. To protect your identity, new Medicare Cards without Social Security numbers will be mailed next year. Visit medicare. Gov fraud stay sharp people maria continuing live coverage out of houston continuing on fox news. What the most of important next week when Congress Gets back. It will be interesting to hear how republicans react when they are out in their districts. Whether they are hearing you better stick with this president or this is what we think should happen. In the shorter term, look at the president s response to the aftermath of this hurricane. Natural disasters present big challenges for president s. Maria great to see you both. Thank you so much. That will do it for sunday morning futures. Good night from new york. From fox business headquarters in new york city the new wall street week. Maria welcome to wall street week a program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. I maria bartiromo. Coming up in a few moments some of the biggest voices in the startup scene will join our roundtable. Headlines impacting everything from wall street to main street this past week. 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