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it. i m excited. i m overwhelmed. [singing] that to me is what s amazing. leland: reports from inside country say mugabe is negotiating terms of exit, he could be force today step down as soon as tomorrow, julie. julie: well, senate plans to take up its version of the tax reform plan right after thanksgiving break. the house as you know this week passes bill and both chambers of congress are hoping to have the final legislation on the president s desk before christmas. that ll be here before you know it and a handful of republican holdouts are still holding out in the senate and could derail those efforts, joining me now is congressman walker of north carolina who is a chairman of the republican study committee. we are having issues with our video signal so we apologize because we have mark walker on camera, however, the video signal is terrible. so we can hear him at least, hi,
but we shouldn t use this tragedy to be able to make sure that we re taking care of people tied with other things that conservatives and republicans in general have been pushing back against for nearly an entire year. when steve mnuchin met with the republican study committee, we pushed back when asked to just look the other way on a clean debt ceiling. we re grateful that in texas the floodwaters continue to recede, but here in the swamp it looks like they continue to rise. harris: all right. congressman walker is fired up today. let s talk a little bit about daca. lot of strong language coming from both sides of the political aisle. but then some bipartisan agreement that, yes, congress does need to fix what s happened with illegals coming into the country as children. numbers between 600,000 and 800,000. yes. it is our responsibility. the president did his job on this today. just the very name deferred action means it was for a time in the future for us to pick up.
government can continue borrowing money. harris? harris: i m sure you saw congressman mark walker talking about how complicated this makes things, making that bill so huge. what are key democrats saying about the idea of packaging several of these must pass items together? reporter: they recognize why republicans are looking to do some of that. for one, time is short. for two, the vote on the debt ceiling is never popular with republicans. if you combine it with harvey relief it makes it easier to vote yes. democrats are mocking some of these tactics. i don t know why we cannot deal with these issues in their own right. we have to help the people of texas and louisiana and other parts of the country that suffered from this catastrophe. we ought to do them on their own value, in their own right of doing the right thing on behalf of the american people. why do we have to link it to anything else is beyond me. reporter: democrats will be needed to get a number of issues done so yo
children. a new wave of news with a lot of questions about what happens next for those people and white house press secretary sarah sanders standing firm on congress has to do their job to figure it out. i m harris falkner. the president has given lawmakers that six months or a period of time, as the attorney general said, to find a solution. let s bring in republican congressman mark walker. i do want to talk heavily about that and some other issues. but i understand that you have breaking news now on the hurricane harvey aid package. what is it, sir? yes. we re just hearing part of the hurricane harvey relief package as it comes out of the senate will include or have tied to it raising the debt ceiling as well as a continuing resolution. for many of us that are arriving today, coming from our different homes throughout the country, this is a little unsettling and even more frustrating. harris: why is it happening? we believe that without