We re already seeing bickering between different sides. we all know about the battle over sandy and how some members of congress in texas didn t support. are we going to see that kind of thing. and a lot of republicans from the north east said while they remember how badly sandy went in terms of congressional help they re not going to repeat that. i think giving health care one more shot in the senate, the reason they have to do that is because they re time limited. there s something that causes the senate to have to address this by the end of september or they lose their window for doing so and they have to introduce a entire lie new bill. what do you think of that? do you think president trump will take another kick at the obama repeal plan. not if he wants to score a win. that seems to be his priority, make sure i win something. if he s going to try to win something, right now keeping the government open the this point is a win. making sure the government pace its bills on tim
An aggressive agenda. for a congress that actually gets things done, that would be a tough agenda. and as you know, from covering washington for a long time, budgets are sometimes that even a congress that gets other things done struggles to get done. so what does that agenda look like to you? it does look tough. i will say that harvey has kind of brought people together. you talked about the wall and the possibility of a government shutdown. you know, president trump has backed down a little bit about that in private. and harvey is a big reason for that, because it s brought people together. they know they need to get this done. a government shutdown during such a huge rebuilding effort would not look good. so i think this is a place where they can come together. what s going to happen is, what is it going to look like? is it going to be a short-term spending bill that s kind of what it sounds like. we re seeing some bickering
It kind of tells you what you need to know. ultimately the president is in charge, not the chief of staff. and the president will get to do what he wants to do. jonathan what s your take on this? it s inevitable that it s already happening to some extent that trump is going to rebel against this new order around him. something pretty interesting happened today. it might seem minor to a lot of people but it s a big deal. keith schiller donald trump s personal security guard but really like a brother to him is leaving the white house. and that s a big deal. he is someone who has been with trump for almost two decades. trump confides in him. tells him everything. he is the first person that trump sees in the morning. walks him from the residence and back to the residence at the night. he is old friends, often feeding him information from people on the outside. trump asks him advice, policy
They know that. i mean, like it is a damning chronology. you have a president of the united states sitting at home in his golf club with his son-in-law and daughter, and a 31-year-old aide drafting this letter, presenting it to his team, including the vice president on the monday, and then they all come out with this phoney line about they were acting on rosenstein s recommendation. this chronology is just being completely blown up. trump had blown it up with his interview with restore holt and other things he said. you but the fact that pence was in the room in the oval that is what we call a bad fact. i don t know about the legality about this and the shifting because no one does because it s been quiet. we can see who mueller is hiring, the caliber of investigators that he is hiring. we can now see that the white house is on the back foot. the credibility has been shot.
Someone with donald trump s track record, i don t expect necessarily that s going to be a priority. that said, i think raising the debt limit, making sure that harvey aid is funded, and making sure the government stays open are the only things that americans are really concerned about on that list. tax reform is just a nice name for giving tax cuts to the wealthy. i think that s an important point you make. franco, the idea of a tax reform bill while the administration and congress would like something of meaning to take place before the end of 2017, they had originally said this bill, the treasury secretary said they would have tax reform before the august recess, now the end of the year. but in a hard to get done congress, i don t know how that gets done, even though the president is giving speeches to support it. it s going to be extremely hard. trump, with almost every new president, you have a honeymoon period that happens.