welcome back. last monday president trump shocked the political work by striking deals with senator chuck schumer of new york and house minority leader nancy pelosi. one was for immigration and one was to provide hurricane relief money for texas and to fund the government for another 90 days. is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship or a one time only moment? joining me now is nancy pelosi. welcome back to meet the press. good morning. my pleasure to be here. before we get to the business side of washington, you represent san francisco, the golden state warriors, along with colin kaepernick. i know this is more high topic of mind in your district, i imagine i know where you are on the president s comments on this. what would you like him to do if you think he would do it?
to keep it. once we do, the republican name is on health care. it won t work. we ll have republicans absorb the blame for a terrible health care system. so if block grant is in there, you re a no. there is no room for you to move? i would block grant at preobama levels. if you want to look at 2009 say do you want to block grant medicaid, i would say say yes. after you have doubled the spending on the entitlement programs, we have a $700 trillion deficit this year. we can t keep piling on money. we have to have some that are for repealing obamacare. you probably heard the speculation, but the national review put it this way about you. there has been widespread speculation that paul is blaing a game on obamacare. he does not wish to really see major changes to it and he will find libertarian sounding problems with the bill.
john mccain, but you. let me play it. rand paul voted twice, yes. okay? he was very good. and i have not given up on him. i think he may come around, okay? all right, senator, in the president s words, are you going to come around? i have always been a yes for repeal, but the bill unfortunately, the graham/cassidy bill keeps most of the obamacare spending, almost all of it and just reshuffling it and block grants it to the states. i don t think block granting it makes it go away, it just makes the money you re spending still in obama care. reshuffle it, take the money from democrat states and giving it to republican states. it sets up a food fight over the formula. what happens when the democrats win? they are going to try to claw back that money. this is a bad idea, not repeal.
d.c. now, democrats are learning how the tweets from the president come to be and they think it is positive that he said this about the dreamers, whether or not he follows through is going to be the longer term question here, andrea. now we re hearing from your colleague that there may be the votes, the preliminary votes, to try to knock down rand paul s amendment to try to have budget cuts offset the money going to fema for the hurricane relief, even before their lunches. they re moving a pace indeed. thanks for all the great reporting and as though that were not enough on the hill today, donald trump jr. is still at this hour being interviewed on capitol hill by senate committee investigators on the judiciary committee. more on that coming up next right here on andrea mitchell reports. stay with us. (woman) when you have type 2 diabetes, there s a moment of truth. and now with victoza®, a better moment of proof. victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar
going to be approved. the deal that was cut yesterday with democrats and then reluctantly agreed to by republicans, they do think that they have the votes to push back against rand paul who is demanding a an offset cutting from foreign aid to make up for the money t does look like that first tranche of hurricane relief money, that s for harvey, not for irma yet actually, no just to give you an update and some clarification on that, the money is designated for fema. it is not specific to harvey. so we that fema is going to put that where it is needed. fema, i was at their headquarters yesterday, they re about to move individuals out of harvey and bring them down to the virgin islands and to san juan to work on that. and speaker ryan was passing through the halls just a few moments ago and informed me that the senate has added on an additional $7.5 billion to that package when it comes back to