White house. Good morning, al. This morning First Response from the white house to north Koreas Nuclear test overnight. Of course it comes in the form of president ial tweets. The president writing, quote, north korea has conduct add Major Nuclear test. Their words and actions continue to be hostile and dangerous to the United States. North korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to china, this is trying to help but with little success. A couple of thoughts off the bat just reading these tweets. First, the first confirmation of any kind from the United States government that this was, in fact, a nuclear test of the north koreans. Thats important, they have misrepresented their accomplishments along the way. Second you hear the president say its hostile and dangerous to the United States specifically. Not just to allies and friends in the region. Having a specific threat in the
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stuff fighting about a piece of legislation that is or isn t moving on capitol hill. the american people need us talking in common about what we believe in a people that s pre-governmental and then the vast majority of what you do is in your neighborhood where you re coach and little league and you re inviting people to dinner and new business. government has responsibilities but government isn t first. i love that line. i think there s a chance i just may use it again. americans aren t other people, americans are other people. senator ben sasse, thank you so much for being with us. hope to talk to you again soon. thanks for the invite. thank you, senator. appreciate the time. coming up on morning joe, the fight in congress over the filibuster spills into the home state of west virginia s joe manchin. how protesters plan to get his attention today.
abandon the wall. plain and simple. the majority leader mitch mcconnell sent the senate home until thursday and said he won t bring anything to the floor that isn t first blessed by both the democrats and the president. that s how we make a law in this situation. 60 votes in the senate, majority in the house and president trump s signature. that s what s needed. that s what will end this regrettable episode. now it s the third shutdown in two years of full republican control of washington. and if it continues another 11 days, democrats will take control of the house and make it even harder for the president to get what he wants. we are here because the president stayed silent all week as gop lawmakers urged him to make clear his bottom line. his aides sent word, the president understood a math and would take a deal with no border control money but when his conservative base took to
that was a response to a question about her likability and the problem with her likability during the election. that s where she went with that. that answer is not going to help her out in that department. certainly not going to help her out with the families of those lost in benghazi or the people on the scene that wanted to get there sooner to help. i watch that. i can t imagine why her answer to that question isn t first and foremost, look, we lost lives that day. one of the darkest days of her time as secretary of state. that s all she needed to say on that. no, everything is, you know, part of what was a humiliating defeat for her and now there s a million excuses for it. i think democrats are not pleased with the fact that she s taking up all the oxygen in the room with this what happened sort of look backwards in the mirror. it really doesn t help them at all. it s a cathartic experience and
about creating a bipartisan tax plan, their thinking is that the president would also be meeting with ranking members and the minority members on ways and means in the finance committee in advance of the disclosure of the consensus outline coming out in september. can you describe the president s view about how to create a bipartisan tax plan and does he want to get ideas from democrats or does he just want democrats to buy in to the plan that brady and hatch will reveal? just by mere fact that he s been sitting down yesterday and today with multiple members of the democrat party shows that he wants to have that conversation with them. i don t think you can make that more clear than to have those ongoing conversations with multiple members of the democrat party. quick question on florida. how soon will the federal government be able to estimate any with any kind of precision what kind of