riding on this fall agenda, which you were discussing with senator blount. what can get done this fall? on one hand they have the must-dos. on the other hand he does need something that s a signature. right. how does he get the signature? they look look they re in conflict. senator blount occurred to me that tax reform kept going down the bottom of the list when you have the priorities to keep the federal government functioning. the legislative agenda is a tax cut of some kind that keeps going down that calendar and maybe even until next year now. think about health care and tax reform, and health care only the president is messing around still with health care. but, you know, in this way, the hurricane, which is a tragedy and we re thinking about the people that we ve seen on tv and elsewhere, it s also an opportunity because it changes the agenda. if he can deliver on hurricane relief in a serious way, even though it doesn t get to tax reform, maybe that s an agenda item
we re also glad to be back in the heartland with the very, very fine folks of missouri. [ applause ] and i said to senator blount and billy long on the plane coming in, can i say missouri or should i say missouri? they said whatever you want is okay. so i said, good. but i m especially to be pleased here in springfield, the birth place of a great american icon, the legendary route 66. who would have known that? this is the place where the main street of america got its start and this is where america s main street will begin its big
the heartland with the very, very fine folks of missouri. and i said to senator blount and i said to billy long on the plane coming in, can i say missouri or should i say missoura? and they said whatever you want is okay so i said, good. but i m especially pleased to be here in springfield, the birthplace of a great american icon, the legendry route 66. who would have known that? president trump there in springfield, missouri. we just wanted to dip in and hear those comments on hurricane harvey. we saw him in corpus christi and austin. he is there beginning this effort to sell this sweeping
brett bayer. wow. lot to dig into here. let me start with the tone. sean spicer, all the way through, he must have said almost 100 time, this is not about mike flynn doing anything illegal. that isn t an issue. he said it again and again. we were confident about that. this is about him losing the trust of the president. does he succeed in changing the narrative to that, do you think, brett? listen, politically this is not a good start to this week at all. for the trump administration. let s just put that on the table. and the democrats smell blood in the water here on this russia issue. they are not going to let it go. they are going to continue to press. they have some republicans, including lindsey graham, john mccain, senator blount from missouri who have come out and said there needs to be a full scale investigation. i thought it was interesting that remember the evolution that we ve had here. kellyanne conway saying the
we need some answers to a whole lot of questions. but the obvious questions are, what did the president know and when did he know it? we also have a little bit of news here. on the republican side, senator roy blount of missouri saying that it is likely that michael flynn will be called before the senate intelligence committee. melissa? melissa: all the focus is on flynn but what is the latest on the effort to scrap president obama s signature health care law? reporter: top republicans talked about that today. a key priority of both the trump white house an the new congress. i fully recognize and respect the strong feelings that people have about this issue. we should be passionate about this issue. it is about people s lives. this affects every person and every family in america. that s why we are taking a step by step approach. so people can see the changes that we are making so they can see how they will help. with the confirmation of tom price as health and human