ed her. last day to register to vote is october 9th. rapper kanye west is set to meet with president trump at the white house later this week. according to the new york times west will have lunch with the president on thursday. prior to that, sit down. the times says he ll meet with jared kushner. the paper says that west wants to discuss job opportunities for former convicts as well as ways to increase the number of manufacturing jobs near his hometown of chicago. a representative for west confirmed the meeting with the times, while the white house did not immediately respond. west s wife kim kardashian also met with the president and kushner back in may to discuss overhauling the criminal justice system. west and trump previously met following the 2016 election at trump tower. on sunday, the rapper left social media again after he was criticized for delivering a pro trump speech following his recent performance on saturday
saying he believes neil gorsuch should be nominated a couple days ago, maybe a couple weeks ago. he said it would be great disrespect, it was a great disrespect for harry reid to change the rules and vote the nuclear option a few years ago. he wouldn t answer whether or not he believes the same for mitch mcconnell. we re going to find out if he ends up supporting it going forward. in the meantime, sean spicer is holding his press briefing of the he s about to take questions. what you missed while we were listening to this is he came out and had a big check. he said donald trump would be donating the first quarter s salary, $78,000, to the national park service. and then the secretary of the interior, ryan ziki, came up and thank the sean spicer, thank ed president for doing so and spoke a little about what they would do with that money. in the meantime, sean spicer is still talking so we ll go to him right now. if the democrats get their way, and i know it s looking
some of them lo allr the extent of the damaly varies from neighborhood to neighborhood. in some of the lower areas near the levees we saw very deep flooding. but this was not the apocalypse that new orleans feared. that said, though, it would be a mistake to undersell it. this was new orleans certainly didn t dodge the bullet, this was an immense catastrophe for the city and it s going to be very difficult, very time-consuming, and very costly to recover. jeffrey kofman, thanks very much. thank ed.abc avid er ot of town beforerica they interviewed the re thehere this morning, the winds began picking up. reporter: it was shortly after 7:00 this morning. the eye of the hurricane wasn t even here yet and the roof of the superdome was buckling. the howling winds were peeling back parts of the roof. it began pouring inside. for the 10,000 people sitting underneath the massive metal
long-term recovery and restoration plan. he assigned ray mabus, his secretary of the navy, former governor of mississippi, both a guy as the president called him a son of the gulf coast. this has to be now to be credible, it has to be sustained. it has to be well-funded. it has to go for many, many years. but that s a big deal too. it was in that speech. didn t get much credit for it. and we ll hold him to that for the next year, five years, eight years, how long he is president and his successor too will have to be working on gulf restoration. thank you paul, thank ed, and james too. we ll go wall to wall and introduce you to new language. what is the q4,000? it is bp s next big thing to cap and contain this oil spill. and then one-on-one with the sometimes controversial republican congressman michele bachmann. she says the president should stand up to bp. the company should not be made chumps. ed rollins mentioned him earlier in the program, he is the new claims man. he gets to
he is not in charge of this spill. can he at least on this day claim hey, look, we got some things done. he got good results today. obviously there is now a substantial sum of money to pay these claims that are going to be out there. and i think, you know, that was a major accomplishment. bp apologized. it may not be enough to many people, but i think at the end of the day, it s a giant step forward and the president deserves credit for it. what was interesting, ed and paul, all this talk of maybe would there be drama, would there be fighting? the president saying he is looking to kick a little a-s-s. it seemeded very business like and polite. listen to the chairman describing how close he is working with the president of the united states. what has been clear today is that this administration and our company are fully aligned in our interests of closing this well, cleaning the beaches, and care for those that are affected. i m guessing they would not like to be cast as fully