it is a busy september coming for the president as well as congress. here are some of the issues for the agenda, securing the aid funding, and relief for harvey. there is also passing a federal budget, there is finally tackling tax reform in addition to that and possible another attempt in healthcare reform. of course, the feud between the president and lawmakers from not only his own party but democrats. there is still uncertainty of what the president will be able to accomplish. lets bring in our editorial writer, we have richard payner under george w. bush and robert tranum. dave, the list goes on and on,
these people came over here to the united states as children from working here and a lot of republicans and democrats want to see immigration reform as president bush did. and i think the president trump needs to seriously consider whether an extremist agenda approach and so forth is productive. if he works with members of congress, he can get it done. he needs to reach out and work with them. hang on a second, robert. i do want to get over to dave here, as we saw in the maobama administration, early on there was one big grand slam and that was healthcare. what maybe that for this administration. tax reform if he can get it by the end of the year. i don t think that s overwhelmingly likely given all the other things on the agenda. if he can do a significant, sign a tax cut measure by the first of january, i think he can count
health insurance program. the flood insurance program runs out in september. there are all sorts of things have to be put together. all of the end of this coming this month rather as they return to congress. robert, are those the extra urgency that ll push some sort of solutions whether you are a democrat or republican and i am going back to david saying those will be north korea and harvey yes, there are three things here, they are all related. first, there is harvey relief for texas and louisiana. that s going to pass when congress comes back from recess on tuesday. there will be a spending bill keeping the government opening between now and december 31st. it is in conceivable that the government will shut down between now and the end of september. there is a strong possibility as i mentioned that the spending bill will go until christmas.
former director of strategic communications for hillary for america and robert tranum, an anybody anybody analyst. we welcome you. ladies first with you, adrian. does gorka have a point? how much does the average american care about this russia story line? look, i m not sure that the average american out in the middle of america who s focused on raising families and providing for families every day cares as much. but what they do care about is the fact that donald trump is not focused on making their lives better. he s not focused on bringing back jobs to some of the flyover states. he s not focused on making all the campaign promise that s he ran on during the election cycle. this russia situation continues to drive the news that, is a distraction. they know that s a distraction from donald trump s ability to actually get anything done for them. what about your response, robert, to this? i think the saens much more nuance. it depends on what average american means f it s an aver
what is in the base. the reality is that the reality is that a lot of democrats and senators that represent purple states are not hearing the same thing. okay. adrian, robert, guys, thanks so much. that s a wrap for me this hour. up next, the congressman whose extraordinary actions ensure that e-mails from donald trump become a part of the nation s record. (flourish spray noise) (flourish spray noise) (flourish spray noise) (flourish spray noise)