of heavy precipitation events are increasing in recent decades. this is something that our urban planners across the country and not just here but around the world are going to have to acknowledge and build around. so the question is the trump administration after we get through this period of mourning and yes words are important, in showing your empathy is important. but the really important thing is getting the policy right and that s something that you can t do overnight and rebuild it bigger and better and responsibly. how is this going to shape the debate in washington and that congress has to fund help for this. i can imagine this playing out in a pretty political fashion. certainly. we don t know how this would play out we were expecting september to be a huge month of fiscal deadlines and it will be. but we re hearing more and more there might be a debt ceiling, harvey relief bill. they might pass a short term cr deal with the border wall, you
equal work and i will fight for this too right along side of him. that was ivanka trump at the republican national convention just last summer vowing to support equal pay. but now the trump administration with an okay from ivanka has taken action to stop a rule that would have required large companies to report employees salaries broken down by race, gender and ethnicity. critics say it weakens the fight for equal pay which has been one of her signature issues. it comes during a busy week of headlines for her and her husband, jared kushner. kushner s family business owes millions of dollars and is struggling to get cash to pay back its loans. and of course there s another headline this week, vanity fair on how isolated jared and ivanka are in d.c. part of it reads, quote, they know they can never have their new york life back as it existed before donald trump started his campaign nor do they want to give up the power of their current positions in washington.
daughters and his mother in fact had various views on issues like choice than he did or so it was reported. so she is playing a very familiar role. i think the problem was they let the expectations get completely out of control. now jared kushner i think is in a somewhat different category. he s gotten much more into the mix of things and his role is extraordinarily ambiguous. i think the question is with john kelly as chief of staff, somebody who wants to cut off all the back channels, somebody who for instance has told both of these folks they need to communicate in the official way through him, does kelly want them in the white house? and does he have the authority to perhaps convince them to go back to their new york to the new york lives? i m not certain how this is going to turn out but it s very clear they are getting less than they bargained for when they came to washington. heidi, can i bring you in on the jared kushner question? this vanity fair story that glenn was w
message received. as a candidate the outsider donald trump promised to drain the swamp of washington core rupgs and as president many believe his efforts have dramatically changed the rules of lobbying. with just a select few having direct contact with the trump hierarchy. the inner workings of this new d.c. dynamic on this week s cover of the new york times magazine. it s called how to get rich in trump s washington. part of the piece focuses on former campaign manager corey lewandowski success of course due to his close relationship to the president. i think what i bring is a level of understanding of the president s thought process only because i had the pri of being next to him for so long. joining me now that article s author. nick, it s good to see you. very much enjoyed your piece in the magazine this week. my main question here, though, is yes, corey lewandowski was close to the president. yes, there is this small cadd ray of people that have access
don t have a president who can push a big vehicle like tax reform, can anyone get anything done, request lobbyists get any of their stuff into any of these bills? what s your view of corey lewandowski s place in the washington ecosystem? is his power is real. his access is real. he has a relationship with the president and he s able to sort of figure out his way into these situations to help out his clients. it s a great piece. everyone should go read it. the question i have is whether general kelly, john kelly, the new white house chief of staff is the biggest threat to this bigs model because he s trying to bring order to the policy process. there are now memos detailing how policy is supposed to be created, how it s debated internally. kelly has can you tell off a lot of the phone calls that come into the president. he s screening people before they have access to the president personally. and that s threatening the very business that these folks are doing. and very quickly, r