mick mulvaney joins us. mr. director, thanks for being with us. first on hurricane relief funding. obviously you ve already gotten it across the finish line the first down payment on harvey funding. you re looking at a big ticket. you know how much. no, and we won t know for quite some time. that s why we have broken it up into smaller pieces, the amount of money we asked for last week that congress give us on a bipartisan basis was enough to get us through basically the middle of october. the numbers can change depending upon how substantial the damage was in florida. a lot of this is guesswork. it s early on. we have enough money to buy time and learn about the damage in texas, learned about the damage in florida. it could be months before the totals are in. we will deal with this as we go. just to make sure the first things first, we are taking care of people who needed immediately. folks who are still underwater in texas, and deal with the larger issues of rebuilding the states l
anything done and simply aren t right now. jonathan, same question. the amazing thing is on the debt limit deal with the appropriations and harvey funding, these guys just needed the air cover from trump. mitch mcconnell and ryan had to pretend they didn t like it. on the floor 80 votes and house floor 360 votes and went to the president. i don t understand how that the frustrating donald trump s agenda or getting in the way as steve bannon suggestioignifica t guestsuggests. perhaps this is unanswerable. how do they view having steve bannon on the outside of the west wing when they are sitting in the west wing and especially having watched an interview like that? well, you love to ask me unanswerable questions. i will say today we saw sarah huckabee sanders from the podium and talked earlier about the
this debt deal and the harvey funding, these guys, ryan and mcconnell just needed the air cover. mitch mcconnell and paul ryan didn t love the deal. mcconnell put it on the floor of the senate and got eight floors. paul ryan got 316 votes and it went to the president. i don t understand how that s frustrating donald trump s agenda or getting in the way as steve bannon suggests. i think steve bannon likes to break things rather than building them, and he s doing that now that he s out of the white house. so anita could you march, perhaps this is unanswerable. how do they view having steve bannon on the outside of the west wing when they re sitting in the west wing and especially having watched appear interview like that? well, you love to ask me unanswerable questions. i will today we saw sarah huckabee sanders from the podium. we talked a little bit earlier about the briefing. it was a little bit uncomfortable. i would say most of the questions today were about steve
i d say so. what are other republicans, that s what paul ryan is saying, but what are other republicans saying on capitol hill. tough be confident conservatives are not happy. reporter: i talked to a number of senators and some said they understand this needed to be done. they were okay with the debt ceiling, but conservative reps that were upset about it. among them, rand paul, who is opposed to a debt ceiling increase without significant spending reforms in any case and thinks it s a problem it s tied to harvey funding. the other is sass of nebraska. he said the pelosi-schumer-trump deal was a bad deal. he essentially said if this were a deal hatched by a democratic president that republicans in congress would never go for it. so, there are certainly some conservatives concerned bt it. the problem is the votes aren t
kushner, a russian lawyer and others. the president s son had been invited to testify in july but his legal team reached a deal to speak in private. a lawyer for donald trump jr. studies looking forward to a professional and productive meeting. bret: thank you. president trump strikes a deal with democrats on harvey relief, the debt, and government funding he will get reaction from the panel when we come