fine. but then i have two other brothers that i have not been able to get any information. so this is my hometown, there was no way to be able to get there even when i went with governor cuomo. i did not want to interfere also with the search and rescue operations so i decided to come back without seeing them. can i quickly that s that is so sad you weren t able to see them. can i quickly ask you, mid-october is the latest guidance we received when congress will get an official emergency funding request to send more money to allow for more money to go to puerto rico, is mid-october is that good enough? no, it s not. no, it s not. and it is the responsibility of the federal government that when natural disasters strike, that we show up, that we bring the resources and it is responsibility of the leadership in the house, in the congress to
make sure that we can return the communities themselves to habitability. so, the president has to have a team. he already has. but he also has to have margins of success as we go down the timeline to full recovery. this is going to be throughout his entire first term. s going to have to come back multiple times to these areas to take stock? what exactly has been done and measure the success of what was promised to what was delivered. leland: just worth noting. the people responsible for delivering some of that are people walking off the stairs. we saw ben carson travelling with the president and the president has at least made, sort of his first entree into requesting help for everybody, 14.55 billion dollars in an emergency funding request to ensure that the federal agencies can ten with the harvey response, that heads to congress. that s one of the things that congress is going to have to deal with. they come back into session next
the families here. we heard from white house homeland security advisor tom today that the white house will come soon with an emergency funding request, but it ll billion separate from the debt ceiling. doable? i don t know yet. and i think that he may have been speaking a little bit out of school because he had his, the members of congress, the leadership it s going to draft this legislation. this is all coming at a key time, very difficult time on the hill. fiscal season, they have to get the government funded passed september 30 tot avoid a shutdown and they re reaching that debt limit. there will be a debt default. the one thing that the republican leaders believe is that if you add the hurricane harvey package to debt ceiling increase, debt ceiling is never anything that most members don t want to vote for. you have that there, it ll almost impossible to vote against harvey funding package when you have a the debt ceiling increase attached to it. so that is one thing they re look
several central american nations at the white house next week. he ll talk about stemming the tide of illegal immigrant children with the presidents of el salvador, honduras and guatemala. we re waiting for congress to act on the president s $3.7 billion emergency funding request. there are two weeks left in the session and some lawmakers want substantial policy strings attached. let s bring in brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to george w. bush, and a professor of public policy, politics and international affairs at georgetown university, and jehmu green, former president of the women s media center, fox news contributor and co-founder of define american, a campaign to elevate the immigration conversation. thank you for joining us. brad, you say president obama is neglecting to include a key country in these meetings, mexico. absolutely. but for mexico letting these child migrants come across their border, they would have never gotten to our border and had our border been secure
news. our coverage of the malaysia airlines plane shootdown continues tomorrow. don t miss chris wallace interview with secretary of state john kerry on fox news sunday. mr. kerry will discuss the latest on the downing of flight 17, the israeli gaza conflict, and the extension of the nuclear talks with iran. check your local listing. president obama taking new tact to try and stem the flood of illegal immigrants in central america, planning a big meeting. when he has that meeting, he will be sitting down with leaders of those countries from where these immigrants are coming. meantime, congress prepared to act on the emergency funding request before they wrap up for the summer. our political panel will weigh in on what we can expect on the continuing immigration crisis. plus, he went on a journey of a lifetime. tragically it took a deadly turn for this new york stockbroker. we will fill you in when we come back. ji9