hurricane harvey. the president has reached out to both the governors of texas and louisiana last night offering any assistance that will be needed. david, al zen? jason, thanks very much. what does all this mean? we ll bring in cnn political analyst john avlon and abby phillip and a.b. stoddard, associate editor at realclearpolitics. we ll get to the first real test for president trump, and any natural disaster is. i m stumped as he takes on republican lead that s there s this notion of the trump brand versus the republican brand. he s made it clear he ll take on his own party and isolate himself in the process. let s focus for a second on how unusual it is. the republicans have unified control of government, and while donald trump may want to play the resurgent outsider, the reality is he s running one of