When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Days after a senior republican senator referred to the white house as adult day care, the man that many believe is in charge of supervising the president , Chief Of Staff john kelly, was sent out before the press to shoot down reports that the president s tantrums are causing big problems. The day began as it often does with a president ial outburst on twitter. This one aimed at the struggling people of puerto rico. Who three weeks after Hurricane Maria are still suffering through an acute deadly crisis, many lacking access to safe water and food, and Urgent Medical care. Well have the latest from the island coming up later this hour. Today the president appeared to blame puerto rico for its current situation, threatening to cut off federal recovery efforts. I quote him here. Electric and all infrastructure were disaster before hurricanes. Congress to decide how much to spend. We cannot keep fema, the
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embrace trump s big lie and voted to over turn the election against joe biden including psychofant fantastic jim jordan said this about ic jim jordan said this abou psychofant said this about this particularly committee we know what this is, this is impeachment round three to go after president trump. that s hey lie, kevin mccarthy wants republican congressman jim banks to serve number two on the committee, jim banks also voted to over turn the election said yesterday nancy pelosi created this committee solely to mal align conservatives and justify the left author yan agenda, that is also a lie. today nancy pelosi said this about whether theel approve the members. i m considering his proposal and ike look to make it clear about how people voted on the president affirming the election of joe biden is not a criterion
tax reform is complicated and it turns out health care is complicate toot. all of these issues have multiple dimensions. there s a reason why we haven t done a big tax reform since 1986. and it s going to be challenging in any situation. when the white house has had to answer this question about the impact of their tax plan on middle income taxpayers, they ve had to say, we can t guarantee that every middle income taxpayer is going to get a tax cut, we can t guarantee there won t be a single middle income taxpayer that won t see a tax increase. that s the reality. these are really tough issues and as they dig into it they re finding out how difficult that could be. trump is a terrible president who nonetheless has sounder political instincts tan anyone in the gop leadership, responding to the story from bloomberg. trump who has in some ways political instincts about this stuff that i think is sounder than, say, paul ryan s. you ve still got the ryan agenda and they cannot make the
and it s going to be challenging in any situation. when the white house has had to answer this question about the impact of their tax plan on middle income taxpayers, they ve had to say, we can t guarantee that every middle income taxpayer is going to get a tax cut, we can t guarantee there won t be a single middle income taxpayer that won t see a tax increase. that s the reality. these are really tough issues and as they dig into it they re finding out how difficult that could be. trump is a terrible president who nonetheless has sounder political instincts tan anyone in the gop leadership, responding to the story from bloomberg. trump who has in some ways political instincts about this stuff that i think is sounder than, say, paul ryan s. you ve still got the ryan agenda and they cannot make the whole thing work. i think he s got great salesman instincts. and being a good salesman works well with the american people if you go past the media, go straight to twitter, things like th
we offer our thoughts and prayers with the congressman. it s great to see him back on the floor. when it comes to health care, we ve regularly said we want to work with americans when it comes to health care. we should be bringing down the cost. we should be making sure preexisting conditions are covered. when you talk about taxes, the fact that there s conversations not around earned income tax credit to actually help communities that need help every single day, so we re ready to come to the table. but what we continue to see out of the trump/pence/ryan agenda, they just want to help the top 1%. the proposal does not help americans and we want to come to the table to do so. president trump had that brief love affair with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, and some members of the democratic party were really angry about it and said do not normalize this