The president and the speaker of the house paul ryan in the Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell. What can out of this meeting as best you can tell and what is the agenda moving ahead for Congressional Republicans . Guest there is a lot of what there about will be in weather wont be. Thing you want to tackle out of the gate in 2018. We know paul ryan has been focused on welfare reform, specifically going after flaws in the medicare program. Something President Trump said he did on what to do ever. He would not touch that program. Mitch mcconnell has been more focused on preserving the public majority in 2018 against a potential some of these are competing priorities and the republicans thought they needed to have a summit at camp david to sit down and decide which way they are going to focus on in 2018. Host this backandforth between paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell on the issue of entitlements, that seemed to be part two of what paul ryan wanted to do after the tax bill. Who do you t
Question. Sean you guys in the Democratic Caucus have narrowed the republican advantage in the senate this week. It looks like there are some other interesting senate races. Some retirements. We are less than a year for the midterms. Will democrats win the majority back in the senate this november . Sen. Van hollen so this was a great week for the senate. For alabama and for the country with the swearing in of doug jones, who ran a Campaign Based on Kitchen Table issues. I am not your negro am not going to make any predictions about global happen i will not make any predictions about what will happen. All i can say is the signs out there that she have an energized Democratic Base and a lot of independent voters who are crossing over to support democrats as they did with doug jones. And a lot of disaffected republicans. And i believe that the steps that the republicans and in congress have taken are going to make things a lot harder for those republicans, including the passage of this t
Jessica well, women are going to be the key not only to take it back because we have the tremendous candidates that are running, but women are also going to be the key because theyre going to decide the election this year. So, yes we have a tremendous opportunity in New Hampshire with Maggie Hassan, Katie Mcginty in pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez masto in nevada, who could be the first latina elected to the United States senate. And, of course, deborah ross in North Carolina. Where things are really changing on the ground. Some democrats did not believe in deborah, but we were with her from day one and i believe she is going to win North Carolina. Kevin when you look at the president ial race, it is obviously historically large gender gap there. We move down ballot, the gender gaps are not quite as large. What do you guys have to do to get these women Senate Campaigns the same level of support as for Hillary Clinton this year . Jessica well, i think were seeing the gop and donald trump
Cspan. Every four years the president ial candidates attend the Al Smith Memorial Foundation dinner to raise money for catholic charities. I have traveled the banquet circuit for many years and never quite understood the logistics and how the absence of one individual, three of do not have seats. That many, many times in the campaign you want to give america back to the little guy. President , i am that man. It is an honor to share the the great al smith. Your grandfather was one of my favorite kinds of gentleman. The kind you ran for president and lost. You are right. A campaign can declare a lot of wardrobe changes. Blue jeans in the morning, perhaps, suit for a lunch fundraiser, sports coat for dinner, but at night, finally relax about wear what i wear around the house. Watch the Al Smith Memorial Foundation dinner with Hillary Clinton and donald, thursday night at 9 00 eastern on cspan and cspan. Org. Republican senator richard burr is running for a third term in south cap North Ca
Jessica well, women are going to be the key not only to take it back because we have the tremendous candidates that are running, but women are also going to be the key because theyre going to decide the election this year. So, yes we have a tremendous opportunity in New Hampshire with Maggie Hassan, Katie Mcginty in pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez masto in nevada, who could be the first latina elected to the United States senate. And, of course, deborah ross in North Carolina. Where things are really changing on the ground. Some democrats did not believe in deborah, but we were with her from day one and i believe she is going to win North Carolina. Kevin when you look at the president ial race, it is obviously historically large gender gap there. We move down ballot, the gender gaps are not quite as large. What do you guys have to do to get these women Senate Campaigns the same level of support as for Hillary Clinton this year . Jessica well, i think were seeing the gop and donald trump