re-election to the house. including my next guest. charlie dent has been the co-chair of 50 moderate republicans known as the tuesday group. hey, congressman, react to what you just heard from steve king. i find it interesting that he says it would be petalent to leave the president on one issue. he wouldn t do it, and yet he fears that the president s base would do it. does the president jeopardize his base if he provides protection for daca? oh, i don t know about that. michael, i ve got to tell you, there is strong support in congress for the agreement that was reached last week on the debt ceiling. and there s also strong bipartisan support for an agreement on daca and enhanced border security. you know, the debt ceiling agreement that we reached last week passed overwhelmingly. and there are a minorities of people beating their gums saying it s a terrible thing. no, it was actually the right
charlie dent has been the co-chair of the informal caucus of 50 moderate republicans known as the tuesday group. hey, congressman, react to what you just heard from steve king. i find it interesting that he says it would be petulant to leave the president on one issue. he wouldn t do it. and yet he fears that the president s base would do it. does the president jeopardize his base if he provides protection for daka? i don t know about that. michael, i got to tell you, there s strong support in congress for the agreement that was reached last week on the debt ceiling, and there s also strong bipartisan support for an agreement on daka and enhanced border security. you know, the debt ceiling agreement that we reached last week passed overwhelmingly and they re a minority of people who are beating their guns, saying this is a terrible thing. it was actually the right thing to do. the president shut be given krez
months, then the fiscal conservatives, those were the 90. but it was not because of hurricane funding. that i agree with, i guess i wonder, like what do you think about when you think about the ree reliability of a governing coalition in this congress. we need to prove it. it s up to us. my gosh, if we haven t figured it out by now, we need to build a governing coalition. we need to rely on democrats. there s nothing wrong with that. i don t know when they became a dirty deal, to talk to people from the other side of the aisle. you re retiring. retiring, but after 29 years. not saying you re retiring early. just state iing a fact that youe retiring and that you saw yesterday charlie charlie from washington state, all members of the tuesday group, the moderates, the governing coalition.
euphrates. back to morning joe. seven-term republican congressman charlie dent surprised many yesterday when he announced he will not seek reelection next year. the co-chairman of the tuesday group who has been critical of president trump and declined to support him in last year s election said he reached his decision earlier that s summer and noted the political climate in d.c. was an impact on the decision. dave reich effort s decision also deciding not to seek e reelection in 2018. but another one earlier this year, republicans will be forced to defend three open swing districts in next year s midterms. charlie dent, the kind of guy you hoped wouldn t leave
the cbo s assessment, they are not really that different from what we saw take place the first time around in the original version, yet the house passed this one, so where did they find, oh, yeah, this is better, let s pass it? where did they find the differences? well, i mean, obviously as you covered at the time, back ventures both in the house freedom caucus and the moderate group called the tuesday group, they had to hash out a deal and this is the result. it s the sausage making of legislation, but again, i think the senate is not going to diffdefer to what the house is going to do. i think they are asking the right questions about what s wrong with the bill, the problems that were identified in that cbo report, and again, i m reasonably optimistic the senate will produce something better, but we re going to have to wait and see. right, and they are going to be putting together basically from the bare bones their own piece of legislation, but we have certain folks on the right