Differences and its amazing sometimes how little our differences are. Announcer plus, the banishing Political Center. The president is the leader of the Republican Party. Announcer are moderates rapidly becoming an extinction species. And checking in on the irma Recovery Efforts from florida to the Virgin Islands. Its been the biggest hurricane to ever pass through the Virgin Islands. All of the windows blew out. Completely flooded. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. The civil war one heck of a distraction away from what could be a civil war on the left. Decisions inside the Democratic Party are now exposed to a bit more by sunlight and in dramatic fashion in some ways. Sometimes anywhere you look. Divided how they deal with the president. Democrats call him a fraud and now cozying up to some, talking deals, tax reform and the budget to name a few. What did they do . He met with a group of democrats at the
That conversation. But the nra also proposed loosening other gun regulations. Will anything really change . Plus the radicalizing of a conservative movement. Former talk show host charlie psychs said the ride has lost its mind and he is partly to blame. And with so many of the Trump Administration jobs still unfilled or in acting modes, who is running the government . This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. Some republicans finally seem ready to have a debate on something involving guns, excepting it an issue where there might not be any debate and it is not about guns, not in the way you might think. It is over a gun accessory that practically nobody had ever heard of until las vegas gunman Stephen Paddock retrofitted guns with a bump type stock. This device which is legal allows you to convert a semi automatic into what isnt. And this is a gun debate on regulations or a ruse to avoid that debate. Today we saw
Whether or not we want to authorize this operation in the appropriations process. Does that mean [ inaudible ] so theres going to be a debate to come out of this because some people are going to say, wait a minute. You candescignate anybody you want to designate. The congress is not set up to be military commanders. 535 members of congress dont sit down and designate what threats the nation faces. These groups morph weekly. They pledge allegiance to isil and other groups by the day. So its just impractical, and i think unconstitutional, for the congress to make that decision. Having said that, when you designate somebody an individual or a group, you need to inform us because then we have the ability to say, we dont agree and well not fund that operation. So the Intel Community has a collaborative process with the leaders of the intel committee. What senator mccain is trying to do here, as the war expands, as the military has more authority that congress is going to require more inform
Like what were talking about. Well talk to republican congressman kevin brady. The man in charge of getting the tax bill cut passed in the house. This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. We begin the night with a purge of the gop establishment. A crisis of confidence in Mitch Mcconnell, a weakened president whos now scrubbing his twitter feed and the political earthquake in alabama underneath it all. If youre not familiar with this guy, pull up a chair. Because after knocking off the president , mcconnells preferred knt in the alabama runoff by nearly ten points, roy moore with a phrase Christian Conservative doesnt even begin to describe him, could very well be your next u. S. Senator. If you dont understand just how freaked out some folks in the gop in the white house are about what that means, then you dont know roy moore. First off, he doesnt appear to believe in the constitution as its written. Our rights
Unusual White House Press briefing appearance. Absolutely stuns me, and i thought, at least that was sacred. And deadline day do you really want amazon setting up shop in your hometown . This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. We begin tonight with a vicious cycle of mistrust. Folks, President Trump has conditioned a lot of us not to believe what he says, whether its his position on a Bipartisan Health care deal or an account of what he told the family of a fallen soldier. The president has not earned the benefit of doubt or frankly lost it with many folks and plenty of folks in his inner circle including leaders in his own party frequently telling us not give him the benefit of the doubt, whether on russia, iran, voter fraud, free press and so on it causes a lot of chaos at times. When that chaos collides with a heart wrenching issue like grieving military families, the result can be extremely difficult to wat