congress that is becoming this week s thorn in the side of the white house, henry quar piled on. these will be 500 miles away from the border that which makes it even worse when you re so close and you can t take air force one down to the border. last night i got calls saying who are the local leaders. certainly not the local leaders from the border. and by the way it in about an hour, administration officials will be facing questions on the border crisis. as well as this new spending request. fema administrator, among the witness at the senate homeland security committee hearing speaking to. and speaking of that, senator coburn of oklahoma joined me a few moments ago it talk about what he wants to hear from those witnesses today.about what he wants to hear from those witnesses today.
the risk of them not offering anything back to the president as far as aid is concerned for deal with this crisis? there s a serious risk here. one is that republicans are not reacting with appropriate urgency to a massive political problem. they lost the hispanic vote by 40 points. that s a political crisis. but there is also a real moral risk of looking lying you re blaming children, displaced children, instead of the administration and coyotes. republicans really need to balance this. but we do have a divided government. and obama s not particularly good at appealing to either republicans in congress who have been alienated in many negotiations, but also not been good at that, and many democrats in congress don t think he s particularly good at dealing with the congress. it s not a strength. he s not a linden johnson figure when it comes to influencing a difficult congressional environment. i have to say one thing, eric
immediately opposed did suggest they may insist on some spending cuts to either offset the bill or frankly bring the price tag down itself. michael steele said the speaker still supports deploying the national guard to provide humanitarian sport. asked whether will he believes the funding request will pass, marco rubio saying no, given the mood here in washington, i don t have confidence it will happen. talk about a nightmare for republicans if this thing doesn t pass congress. endangered red state democrats have been very quiet about the border crisis. but members from border states are speaking out. yesterday arizona democrat ron barber saying it is way past time for the federal government to get serious about securing the border. it is unacceptable that it has taken a massive humanitarian crisis in which tens of thousands of children have entered our country illegally to get the president and washington to take notice and act. and this morning, a member of
day. one has to assume it either gets done in the next 7 weeks or it doesn t get done at all. but the third layer suis us, th media. we sometimes add fuel to the fire along the way. but here is the rub. notice how quickly some of the older stories have disappeared from the front pages. remember ukraine? what about the v.a.? a week later, it knows the media will be devouring another story. of course what matters most politically is what the public is digesting. the collection of these stories clearly reaches crisis. what else explains the president s job rating or congress. joining me now, anita done and michael gerson. welcome to both of anita, let me start with you.uo
approval ratings. it s now tweens ap he s and hea toddler. yes, it is quite appropriate. and here is the problem. i think it s a problem on sdlt going for any administration. is that i think it is too easy to pick out anything on any given day and announce that there a crisis. the reality is that government big, unwieldy, anybody who knows in the government knows that. a lot of government that works all the time. a lot of government that works all the time and frankly a lot of government doing a very good job and at the v.a., there are a lot of doctors and people performing heroic things for an agency that is overburdened from two wars. and congress didn t want to fund it the level it needs to be funded at. so i think it will be a problem for the next president, too. republicans need to look line they want to govern, so what is