not if this white house is to function. not if you care about what s in donald trump s best interests. not if you care about what s in this country s best interests. you will not in the office work alongside the chief of staff, or you will cause your father to fail. it s that simple, if you want donald trump to succeed, get out of the way, and you will let the chief of staff do the chief of staff s job. you report to the chief of staff, the chief of staff reports to his boss donald trump. and that s it. if you ve been the trump whisperer or the moderating force, you ve been terrible at it. i mean, it s been a failure for six months. there is no trump whisperer. so own it. mike s great column is posted in the daily beast. check it out. coming up next experts say the president has been good for economic growth but that he might just might maybe overstating his role. we ll talk exclusively to the former new york city mayor, michael bloomberg, and goldman
here. when it comes to the debt limit, who s going to actually determine what comes out of the house? is it going to be your group, the moderates, the tuesday group pushing for a clean debt limit extension or whether it be the freedom caucus and they ll probably want some cuts or some other part of the deal? well, bob, good to see you. i believe procedural consideration should be given to those members in the tuesday group, the moderates, so to speak. we are the ones who are going to put the votes up. i d like to determine how we vote on this bill, specifically we need a bipartisan, bicameral budge eight agreement to provide for some budgetary stability and we need a debt limit to provide market stability. we should put the two together. we should negotiate this ping. we should negotiate it before october 1st and get it done. that would be the best thing to do to provide budgetary and market stability and we ll put the votes up for it. congressman, this is mike barnical. you refere
mike barnical writing in the daily beast about the boston neighborhood that made john kelly. their neighborhood was 1950s post-war era, largely irish and catholic, nearly an apartment in almost every two-family home touched by the impact of world war ii and korea. there were more veterans on the block than hydrants. this was john kelly s world then and today, devotion to the chain of command, to family, to country, to loyalty, honor, courage, to history to the memory of those who sacrificed all. today general kelly works for a commander in chief who could not be more unlike his chief of staff. where kelly symbolizes honor and honesty, trump symbolizes
working toward getting at least 50 people in a comfortable place. reporter: mr. leader is your effort to repeal obamacare dead? no, no. we re continuing to talk about it. it s a very complicated subject. i remember how challenging it was for the democrats when they were enacting this in 2009 and 2010, a big complicated subject, we have a lot of discussions going on. reporter: will your ongoing discussions involve democrats at all? they re not in participating with us. mark halpern, talk about the complicated relationship between mitch mcconnell and the white house. well, you know, the white house delegated a lot. the president tweeted a few moments ago fake news says he s not involved. that s mike barnical said he was not engaged. he s nowhere near as involved as a formal president would be in the first six months of his administration trying to pass this major initiative. we talked last hour trying to work with democrats. i don t think there s a bill that could pass th
that s a lesson top line democratic candidates have not learned. mike barnical wants to know where you got the idea to go to the cbo unannounced? yes. no, it was senator brian shotz s idea. we admitted it was absurd but we wanted to ex-poles the absurdity of the situation we re in. we re five days out from a debate on a piece of legislation that will reorder one-fifth of the american health care system and it is a challenge right now to get everybody s attention off of russia and on to health care, and so this exercise yesterday was an effort to do that. some call it a brilliant stunt. second, what do you say to liberal activists who argue ossoff was not liberal enough? oh, good lord. everybody s politics is going to be dictated by the district and state they come from. again i think every democrat has to be focused on this message of