a lot to talk about. a senior administration official tells nbc news, president trump is serious about his tuesday night threat of shutting down the government unless the spending bill includes funding for a wall along the mexican border. the president made a similar threat last spring, but relented on a short-term funding bill to avoid a shutdown at the end of his first hundred days. this as the white house repeatedly dodged whether or not the president had abandoned his campaign pledge that mexico would pay for the wall. sarah, the president promised over and over again during the campaign that mexico would pay for the wall. so why is he now threatening a government shutdown if congress won t pay for it? the president is committed to making sure this gets done. matthew? why is he threatening a shutdown over paying for it? again, he said over and over again, he talked about the campaign, over and over again. he said, mexico is going to pay for the wall. he asked people
mitch mcconnell. we said that before he stepped in the white house because it s true. he contributed to schumer and he understands pelosi. we saw him strike a deal that s very bad for conservatives and very bad for republicans. it s very good for donald trump, it s very good for democrats and i guaranteed you if you polled americans, most would be glad they put off a debt krelg crisis for three months and he funded them again harvey. republicans are going to have to get the votes and understand what we said yesterday on this show, donald trump s going to deal with democrats and that s exactly what he did. we re going to break that down in just a moment. but first, reports of devastation coming in in the wake of hurricane irma. the france s interior minister said the storm has led at least eight dead 90% of the island s structures are reportedly damaged or destroyed. today irma is expected to graze the republican and good morning to you, mika. well stg, and until that change
mark halperin, morning joe economic analyst steve ratner, author of the book a world in disarray richard haas. columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius. joe, i guess it s good he checked. i don t know. i ll tell you why. you start adding up all the people that the president has insulted, we start with the president wanting to get tax reform done, wanting to get something done on capitol hill. you talked about bob corker, a battle with mitch mcconnell. of course, a constant battle with john mccain, susan collins who won t be governor because she s going to stay there to fight the good fight. you can go down the line. ben sasse. the resistance on the republican side against this insanity, this lack of conservative governance is growing. and you just have to what can this guy get done over the next 3 1/2 years? doesn t look like a lot with him insulting a new, important senator every day. how was your weekend, by the way? our weekend was
the last two years have been two of the best world series in i mean recent history. the difference is last year you had a great game seven. last night the astros jumped out in the weekend inning and the pitching held out. 5-1 was the final. they won the first world series in the history of their franchise. they have been to the world series once before, that man right there, george springer, crossing the plate right there, most valuable player, hit another home running homered in four consecutive games, darvish, that s all they needed. 5-1 was the final. this team, joe, was 2011, 2012, 2013, each season lost more than 100 games. they were the worst too emin baseball? i remember saying they should really be playing aaa baseball. no, they were horrific. they were. there is a 2014 sports illustrated cover. yeah. that shows george springer on the cover says 2017 champs? what did they know? they had an incredible farm system and grow up and three years later predicte
it wouldn t go as far as the bill that pat is talking about putting back on, but here s the daily news. one of the other papers that donald trump reads every morning. bump ban isn t fixing this and it s not, but it is though, it is jim, you re seeing first step, something that republicans refuse toe do even after the horrors of las vegas, but, you know, everybody i ve talked to in the white house has said since parkland that the president really wants to move on this. big question whether he does or not but i ll tell you another thing we re about to report that in the white house yesterday he was telding aides that he might be support ifz of raising the minimum age of buying weapons to 21. he spent so much time seeing those children talking on tv that there is a response toyota. whether or not trump follows through, another important thing on the new york post, remember, the president itself talks to murdock multiple times a week and i do do think that all of this is