billion down payment. but that to fund fema, to continue funding through this emergency at least until december in a continuing resolution would include a debt ceiling extension for three months, which is what the democrats wanted, and also to have this hurricane relief. so it s remarkable that he did this in complete defiance of the republicans. mitch mcconnell making it very clear he was not happy. chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. always appreciate your insight and perspective. for more analysis of what has been again by andrea s account and others a pretty remarkable past 24 hours in politics, our panel. cornell, i want to look at the president s i general ee s age
the hurricane relief bill, when it gets to the senate, is there going to be a short-term three-month debt ceiling attached, a long-term bill, nothing. a clean bill, what do democrats want to see? let s get to the bottom line here, when it comes to relief for the victims of harvey, i can tell you the democrats are solid. we re going to help these people. i believe and i ve always believed that i should be ready to step up and help victims of a natural disaster even if it isn t my own state. there are some republicans who are eating their words who voted against hurricane relief for sandy, other instances. they re going to come around and we should make that a priority. the question is whether this will be a vehicle to do something else. i m for a debt ceiling extension, i voted for them. at least i have in recent times. and i believe that we should. but it doesn t have to be a year and a half, that is clearly political, it is a decision to try to get this beyond the next election so t
and move on to tax reform. i won t do that. and ten seconds, steven. this is one of the central promises he made to voters from the very first day he started running for office. lo look, i think you have to get this wall built before you could do the substantial immigration reform that i think we all would like to see. i think you are going to see a clash on this, victor, in the week as head. but i don t think it will lead to a government shut down. but he is not requiring it in september. do you think we ll get to that point potentially in december? you mean the wall? well we ll be facing a shut down. i think the big issue is how do they get to 218 votes to pass a debt ceiling extension. because there is a lot of republicans, victor, who do not want to have vote to raise the debt ceiling. that means paul ryan will have to g to get democrats to do that. that is a heavy lift. and mnuchin said the full faith and credit of the united
this is a president who has friends where you wouldn t expect it and enemies where you wouldn t expect it. you re exactly right, hallie. and a challenge for the republicans moving forward this fall is they may not like the president privately, publicly some of them may be breaking from the president but at the end of the day both sides want a marginal tax cut and may be able to have a clean debt ceiling extension and to have some kind of tax cut arrive on the president s desk and just try to hold together in a fragile way. almost like two in-laws who don t like each other but all just try to go on vacation and make it work. they ll never like each other but they have shared priorities. this is some vacation, bob acosta. we know the president is going after the people that he has problems with. whether that s people in the senate and whether that s people in the media, for example. but also going after a familiar foe. hillary clinton. you heard that and those chants last night in ph
these questions about whether you stop the government for issues like spending and going along with the debt ceiling extension, planned parenthood. are they going to come up in this argument? they are and they have. they have come up in reasonable discussions taking place and sometimes multiple meetings around the capital. i think at the core of this to a lesser degree to the supreme court itself rules and regulations that supplant the legislation itself pushed by the executive branch would be one. the power of the purse has been sacrificed under obamacare, planned parenthood would be another. if this congress won t say no to the president of the united states with the article authority that we have, power of the purse then it is rendered redundant. that is one of the two biggest issues at the core of the division right now. i always think some people are partially right.