secretary of treasury, the office of management are all on the same page as paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. somehow the president didn t get the message. the idea nancy pelosi had more leverage here the only way democrats were able to with hold is filibustering harvey funding. think about that. that would absolutely never happen. they had no leverage and walked out with a perfect deal. that s what paul ryan was saying. democrats with a three-month extension will playing politics with harvey funding. that s it. that s it. that s right. they would have had to make the case and lost and lost badly. my guess is there s a huge defection and democrats would have supported whatever republicans wanted to go along with. simone, how do you do this moment? it is bipartisanship? do you stand with donald trump now? you will never get me to
if you look at the devastation to people s homes, to the infrastructure of the cities and towns, to the businesses there, that it will probably be over $100 billion. what about tieing it s going to go to the senate. then it comes back. what about tieing it to the debt ceiling? there s some conversation that is what some of the administration want, democratic leaders schumer and pelosi say they would support it if it s tied to a three-month debt ceiling increase. do you like a three-month increase? i think for most democrats, we believe this should be a clean bill. we should be able to vote on hurricane harvey relief. it should be separate from the debt ceiling. it s a decision made by the speaker and mitch mcconnell. i support increasing the debt ceiling. i happen to agree with both of those things. still, i think that we would prefer they be separate. do you think it s playing politics if they tie it to the debt ceiling? i would prefer it be clean.
chris lu is here. assistant to president obama. it s great to have you as well. let s just start right there with harvey funding. congressman, if the funding is needed desperately, obviously, these are two things that are there s a good argument both need to pass and need to pass quickly, a debt ceiling increase and emergency aid for harvey victims. do you think tieing them together is smart? i don t think it s necessary. i don t think it s a deal killer either. i think they out to quickly get the $7.9 billion move it over to the senate. if the senate moves it to $14 billion, no problem pass it by the weekend. i think in terms of the debt ceiling, i can say this, democrat and republican secretaries of treasury bluff the house a lot, bluff the legislative branch saying we are running out of money and they move cds around and they get an extension.
make a big difference. let s turn back to washington right now and capitol hill where this is also a focus. lawmakers are getting ready to vote on first round of disaster relief funds for hurricane harvey victims. the white house wants nearly $8 billion as a down payment. hugely important given fema could be out of money in days. discussing another monster storm fast approaching. ryan nobles is on capitol hill following this. ryan, the house is up first on this. what are you hearing about this harvey funding vote that s going to happen? it seems clear that at least this first round of debate over the harvey funding bill should pass through the house sometime this afternoon. they could begin voting on this as soon as 12:00 noon eastern time. the question becomes then what happens to this harvey aid package once it makes its way back over to the senate. that s where there is some concern that democrats will try and push to add the racing the
mitch and paul and everybody, kevin. we walked out and we everybody was happy. not too happy. they were happy enough. it was nice to see it happen. it hasn t happened for a long time in this country. bret: president trump in north dakota describing a meeting in the oval office with the leadership in congress. there you see through the window chuck schumer, the democratic leader in the senate, forcefully talking to the president. he got what he wanted which was, schumer, that is, a three-month extension extension of the debt ceiling, the fight over funding, and over harvey funding. december 15 is now d-day before the end of the congressional session before congress, the democratic leaders in congress