President , sauli niinisto. They will be in the east room in about 20 minutes time. We expect to get remarks from both of them. The president phrasing the Emergency Response so far on the state and the federal level, all to say, he is amazed with the resilience that the texans have shown in the face of the spirit and how people are coming together like the fellow you see here on his jet ski trying to rescue people on their own. The president will be getting down there for a firsthand look tomorrow. He is going to Corpus Christi. Staying away from houston, because as you can imagine, with the Emergency Response already overwhelmed, adding a president ial visit to houston would not be a good idea. He is supposed to go to Corpus Christi to see firsthand what is going on. How cap helicopter ride. About to go to austin to visit with Governor Greg Abbott for a while. You see people being hauled in the coast guard, helicopters, and citizens themselves patrolling neighborhoods. Trying to get p
Arthel a historic Mountain Town had been threatened by wildfires but now theres a different kind of danger. Americas news headquarters starts right now. Eric we begin with the end of President Trumps second official trip overseas and the start of an eventful week here at home with the healthcare issue on the docket. As you know, the president is heading back home at this hour to arrive later at the white house. After a very busy few days at the g20 summit in germany. President trump and the first lady departing hamburg earlier today after the president held a series of meetings with World Leaders including that showdown with president putin and another highly anticipated sitdown with the chinese president. The president has become sharply critical of china in recent weeks, over beijings reluctance to increase pressure on north korea over its Nuclear Weapons program. Its a topic that leaders did discuss along with trade, but before we discuss and report on russia, the latest on the meet
Where he kind of blind sided everybody by cutting a deal with nancy pelosi and chuck shumer with 30 day debt ceiling. The president really yesterday during that meeting weighed in there, wanted to clear the decks of any extraneous issues he thought were going to muddy the conversation about tax reform, so he could get congress to focus on tax reform. During the course of the meeting it became clear that everybody was retreating to their typical positions and it didnt look like bipartisanship was going to be possible. So the president basically stepped in when it looked like people were saying, okay, were going to agree to disagree. He said, wait, why dont we do this . It blind sided ryan, mccarthy and mcconnell. Chuck shumer very happy about it. We saw the picture of he and the president locked in a partial embrace. But now members of the president s own party saying, whats going on here . Is the president throwing us under the bus to get what he wants with democrats . And how much fur
Directly into florida. So hopefully they will take a turn, going east ward quickly. Were moments away from a live news conference. What is expected to dominate reporter questions . The short term deal with questions on the debt limit and Hurricane Harvey aide. Republicans are furious that President Trump was reaching across the aisle. Isnt it a good thing that congressional leaders talk. That is probably a pretty good thing. Number two welcome the president made it really clear. What he was aiming for in that meeting yesterday is a bipartisan moment while the country is facing two horrible hurricanes. There is this President Trump tweeting about daca and assuring dreamers today not to worry just days after sending his attorney general out to rescind the program. That comes after a phone chat with the president this morning. She called this morning, she said thank you for calling. This is the reassurance we need from you, mr. President , that the six month period is not just a period of
Likely face questions on the friday night moves that he made when the nations attention was turned to this National Disaster emergency, including pardoning the controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio who was convicted of criminal intent in the handling of his immigration crackdown policies. In the meantime, the president met in the oval office with the president of finland and he spoke to reporters. This is a historic amount of water. Theres never been anything like it. So the people are handling it amazingly well and the people of texas, as you know, have really persevered. And when you watch the spirit and the enthusiasm and helping each other, the teamwork, its really been something for people to say even they would say its been pretty incredible in finland. My panel is here to talk about all of this as we await the president s press conference and we even have action out in force with lifesaving attempts that are going on right now as we speak. I do want to begin with cnns brian to