look, they re in a marriage of convenience, no trust, bad blood and the president keeps adding to it. hold on, we re going to see it at 4:00 p.m. today. so the president is meeting with speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell today. their game faces will be on presumably the democrats and republicans and it s a glimmer of what might have been if the president pursued the art of the deal and for example led with infrastructure, tried to forge bipartisan coalitions but he hasn t. he s played to his base and attacked his own party in congress and the to do-list is serious and nose saerl the most urgent things will dominate, harvey funding, trying to avoid a government shutdown with unified control of washington and something the markets are depending upon which is tax reform. that seems highly theoretical and difficult in face of the nonoptional things they need to face. no ambassador to south korea which is important given what s happening there and one word we didn t mention looking at
mike: expecting president trump to take action tomorrow on daca. deferred action of childhood arrivals. giving congress a chance to get it right. that is a little bit harder. i think harvey helps politics because it gets people to vote for things like the debt ceiling. daca is another matter. i don t think congress is looking forward to six months of solving the daca problem or else you ll have this terrible political problem on their hands if trump pulls the plug. that s a real difficult problem. harvey made it worse because not only were daca recipients people who were hurt by the flood. you have had daca recipients who are first responders, and one of them even died. i think it s going to be very difficult. mike: this whole issue of raising the debt ceiling. do they do it clean, attach it harvey funding? when is it okay for conservatives to save this government should be cutting spending. i can hardly think of
secretary steve mnuchin said harvey aides should be combined with raising the u.s. debt ceiling. the president and i believe that it should be tied to the harvey funding. that our first priority is to make sure that the state gets money. it is critical. to do that we need to make sure we raise the debt limit. axios reported over the weekend that republican leaders plan to pass a clean harvey aid package through the house. then the senate will attach a debt ceiling raise before sending it back. meanwhile, the death toll from harvey stands at 48 as floodwaters recede. some are beginning to return home. mandatory evacuations remain in place for certain areas as the army corps of engineers release more water to manage the overwhelmed reservoirs. the associated press is reporting that several of houston s super fund sites are also flooded. the sites are designated by the e.p.a. is being among america s most intensely contaminated places. it s raising concerns that toxic materials could
policy and academic circles than the white house. yeah. by rolling out jeff sessions at 11:00 eastern, you expect the rule of law argument, the overreach by president obama. that certainly appears to be the way they will phrase it. congress back in session today, as well. what do you think they take up first, and can they push through harvey relief and the debt ceiling being raised in time for the deadline, end of the month? if you gave me a top hat upside down with 18 pieces of paper, something scribbled on each, i think i might grab that and read it and see if we can river off of that for riff off of that for 60 seconds. now we ll go with harvey funding. it s the most pressing issue given national need. given the fact that if you listen to the treasury secretary mnuchin, his argument is, look, we thought the debt ceiling, this design we would run up against later in the month of september, that might be more fluid now.
as a security partner. kim jong-un with his missiles introduced serious doubts into their minds and the stapts that were made by president trump this weekend targeting south korea and suggesting he was going to end a major free trade pact. another topic to discuss when we next talk which might be tomorrow. mira, thanks for helping us understand this very dangerous situation. mira rapp-hooper from yale law school. okay, congress month long vacation is over. the house met just an hour earlier. both have a lot to get to. harvey funding. they have to raise the debt limit. pass the budget to avoid a shutdown. tackle tax reform and now daca, something that wasn t on the agenda until today. garrett, perhaps the one that has the most bipartisan support is harvey funding. to be clear, the rest of us are