He continues with the Florida House speaker Richard Corcoran who discusses the impact of Hurricane Irma on the states finances. Host good morning. It is wednesday, december 6, 2017. The house and senate returning today as they were to stave off a Government Shutdown that would begin just after midnight on friday. Unless a spending deal of is reached, we will talk about where negotiations stand in this morning, but we are less than a week away away from a december 12 special election in alabama. Republican congressional leaders split on whether to support republican roy moore and after steve bannon rallied support last night for the former judge who has been accused of Sexual Misconduct, we are opening phone lines to republicans only in this first hour to hear from you about your support or opposition to roy moore. Phone lines are open and republicans who support roy moore, 202 7488000 is your number. Those who oppose, 202 7488001. Alabama republicans with any opinion on roy moore, 202
And from con vi tribuplease lawrence odonnell, back to the program. Host of the msnbc the last word worked inside the beltway and behind the scenes of hollywood including as a writer for the west wing. His latest text is called, playing with fire. The 1968 election and the transformation of american politics, lawrence odonnell, good to have you on the west coast and on our program. My friend. So good to be in the studio with you. Usually, youre coming on my show. And you i am in new york doing it on satellite from here. And we always get the tavis smiley bump in the ratings, what we are going for. Never in the same room. Sure my ratings will bump that you are on tonight. Let me start with, that, since you went there, what is it like being on that network covering this moment in our nations history . Awe up a it is a completely changed job. There used to be, you know, a section of the day, good three hours of the day where you were trying to figure out what you would cover in an hour of
Nothing attached to it, except funding government through the 22nd, they are meeting with speaker ryan in the next hour that second ter meet nothing two days with speaker ryan, Freedom Caucus a decision come to about whether to support this, this is important because if this group of conservatives get onboard with the plan, speaker ryan has to go to to pass this to pass this spending bill. Really things are on the wire, we have the house really needs to pass this bill in the next 48 hours or so to get to the Senate Passage vote,iday so were Holding Tight trying to see what the Freedom Caucus will do. De to host what are concerns of the Freedom Caucus and you have any of the vote ow count at this point . Are they leaning one way or the other . They started whipping the vote count clean cr earlier this had a lot of undecided, the count wasnt looking good, to postpone a d meeting that would have set up the vote on this. Afternoon. Happen this we are hoping to get Freedom Caucus says they
To do that and when this is all going to happen . Thank you, please allow me to say that i love my country and i dont do this with any degree of solace. This is not something that i came to congress to do. Its being done because i believe that the president is truly unfit to hold the office. And i can say more about that at a later time. But now to answer your question. At or near the 12 00 hour, we will go to the floor and present a privileged resolution. This will be a resolution to impeach donald john trump, president of the United States of america, for high misdemeanors. When that is presented, that simply means i will read it and give notice to the congress of what the intentionality is. Once it has been read and the notice has been given then the speaker decides when the actual resolution will be read again, and he decides whether there will be motions made to either table the resolution, to send it to committee, to there may be a motion to vote it up or down. My hope is that we
Iste house chief of staff first famously the gatekeeper, which means giving the president time and space to think. He is the broker of information, he made sure everything is teed up with information on every side. Takinghe heat shield, the incoming artillery for the president , getting all the blame and none of the credit. At the end of the day, the chief of staff is someone the president counts on to execute his agenda. Him importantly, to tell what he does not want to hear. Host you begin the book by writing about what appears to be an extraordinary answering of chiefs of staff from the past. They were meeting with rahm emanuel, who was working for barack obama. Tell us about that meeting. Extraordinary scene that took place in december 2008, when rahm emanuel was about to start is Barack Obamas chief of staff. We were on the verge of the great depression. Two wars, a bloody stalemate. It was a real crisis and former white house chiefs of staff on every side of the aisle from the ch