let s bring in chris stirewalt with his thoughts on all of this. [laughter] martha: is he crazy. she is sick. he is crazy. i can t remember which. everybody needs to see a doctor what we heard this week. what a way to run a railroad. i mean, gracious sakes. the dumb is getting pretty getting pretty dank here in washington. let s remember what they are really fighting about. what they are really fighting about who is going to get blamed for the fact that for the next year, for the next 16 months nothing will get done. martha: nada. zero things will be accomplished that matter to the american people. we will be lucky. we saw it today in washington, d.c. one member of congress kill a disaster relief bill worth $19 billion. for a lot of people who really need it because it didn t include wall funding. that s a stunt. that s something you do it tells you the bill wills passed later and signed by the president. it tells how bad things are that s what trump and pelosi are fighting
emergency basis. what i m hearing on capitol hill right now is really three problems. first, they re going around congress with this, kind of usurping their authority, although they believe this is being done on legal grounds. democrats are very concerned this will create, as one democratic senator told me earlier, a cascading effect with the trading back and forth of escalations and tensions with iran itself. obviously, supplying weapons and munitions to two regional allies of the united states who typically are against iran and the uae and saudi arabia would present a major problems. on the republican side of things, the support for saudi arabia over the course of the last nine to ten months in particular has really wilted in the wake of the murder of jamal khashoggi, the journalist who was murdered, as well as some of the actions that saudi arabia has taken in yemen in their civil war. the bottom line here is lawmakers right now, democrats in particular, are incensed, but they do no
investigators. the democrats can t see but the attorney general could see anything he wants. this could be very healthy if it was done in a non-partisan and transparent way. i don t think there s a sense in town that that s what s sglapg when you talk about changing the narrative, it s striking to me how much of the narrative is around 2016, happened three years ago. the president has a booming economy, running for re-election and i feel like we re always making this point, but he has a booming economy that any president would love to run on. he could be working towards an infrastructure bill, towards other accomplishments, even passing a sort of basic function of government, disaster relief bill, and instead you have him relitigating something that happened three years ago, and i think it speaks to their strategy, you know, as we ve said before of motivating their base but it also feels very cynical to me on both side. i think there s a sense in the trump orbit that if they keep foc
feeling the pressure and the heat from all of these investigations that are still existing even though mueller has been put to bed. yeah, and laura, if the president sticks by his words and there will be no work with congress unless and until they stop investigating, i want to just list out, as you well know them, some of the things that will be held up. anything on infrastructure, obviously, the disaster relief bill, which is billions of dollars in help for puerto rico after the hurricane, california after the wildfires, the midwest after flooding, humanitarian aid to help with the migrant crisis at the border. that s just that tranche, if you will. then the debt limit. the country is running up against their borrowing limit, and the country must act, and then the budget talks to avoid another shutdown. all that, according to president trump, is now on hold. what are members saying about this? right. democrats are saying look, he has to come to the table unless they want another s
raising the debt ceiling, which unfortunately, it can t do anything about that. secretary mnuchin has to do by the end of the summer. i want to move on. mitch mcconnell says the senate are you in good hands? won t adjourn now for the memorial day holiday without voting to fund communities hit hard by natural disaster. when you look at what s going on in jefferson city, missouri right now with the storms and people that perished in that state. the senate has plans to vote perhaps as soon as today on a long-awaited disaster relief bill. money for the border wall we re told is holding us up. what is happening? they are still negotiating this. nothing has come from the house. i know that leader mcconnell is working to get a package. our hearts should just go out and our prayers for those impacted those the natural disasters that have taken place.