a tough agenda. and as you know from covering washington for a long time, budgets are something that even a congress that gets other things done struggles to get things done. what does that agenda look like to you. it looks tough. i will say harvey has kind of broad people together. you talked about the wall and the possibility of a government shutdown. you know, trump has backed down a little bit about that in private and harvey s a big reason for that because it s brought people together. they know they need to get this done. a government shutdown during such a huge rebuilding effort would not look good. so, i think this is a place where they can come together. what s going interesting is going to happen is what will it look like, a short term spending bill? that s what it sounds like.
harvey relief money, raising the debt limit, keeping the government open, crafting a tax reform bill and maybe giving health care one more shot in the senate. frank oe, by any measure, that is a aggressive agenda. for a congress that actually gets things done, that would be a tough agenda. and as you know from covering washington for a long time, budgets are something that even a congress that gets other things done struggles to get things done. what does that agenda look like to you. it looks tough. i will say harvey has kind of broad people together. you talked about the wall and the possibility of a government shutdown. you know, trump has backed down a little bit about that in private and harvey s a big reason for that because it s brought people together. they know they need to get this done.
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would be the health care bill that he called great in the rose garden of the white house as he and house republicans had that victory lap celebrating its passage last month. joining our conversation, two reporters covering washington, ashley parker, who reporter for the washington post, and jeremy peters, political reporter for the new york times. foregive me, some problems on our end. ashley, let s go to the potential firing of mueller. this has been our ongoing headline for what, 24 hours now. spokeswoman tonight said the president has no intention of firing the special counsel. how long is an answer like that valid for with an unpredictable president like this? i think you know, ever since president trump s friend chris rudy first floated that idea publicly and sort of set off a bombshell, you know, in washington at this point is getting use today s bombshells, that has been a question the
political reporter for the new york times. forgive me, some problems on our end. ashley, let s go to the potential firing of mueller. this has been our ongoing headline for, what, 24 hours now. a spokeswoman tonight said the president has no intention of firing the special counsel. how long is an answer like that valid for with an unpredictable president like this? i think, you know, ever since president trump s friend chris ruddy first floated that idea publicly and sort of set off a bombshell, you know, in a washington used to bombshells, that has been the question the president has been getting. he personally has not weighed in. i think at least until he personally weighs in and we hear it from his mouth, that will continue to be a question, especially because sarah huckabee sanders response was he has no intention of doing it, you know, but he certainly has the right to do it. that s sort of a no, but not