mike pence i m told just started speaking in that closed door briefing with house republicans. kirstjen nielsen started first. then russ vote went through his presentation. what the point has been twofold. the administration s position, we heard they are trying to express and get on board all house republicans privately. that s what they believe it s a humanitarian crisis and the president having this fight despite 25% of the government shutdown is worth it. what is important as republican members get more skittish as the pain starts to bite even more as the days and weeks go on, was the presentation from the omb. i m today that the omb director made clear that tax refunds would continue to go out. food stamps would not be affected, which was a big question given the contingency fund that might fall short in february. the effort right now you see from the administration is one that republican leaders on capitol hill i m told made clear had to happen. republicans, particularly in the ho
respond. i think for myrtle beach, it s come through this storm just fine. that inland flooding is a real big issue now. twofold. one for the people who live there, but also for the evacuees who are going to try to come back. the rivers, i m told, are going to be cresting right at the two or three main entryways back into myrtle beach. the mayor of this town says that is a huge concern both for the evacuees and for re-supplying and getting the town back up and running. but as of tonight, through the hurricane blast, now tropical storm blast, i think myrtle beach has done pretty well. don? yeah. it s done pretty well considering. well said, drew griffin. drew, thank you very much. drew actually set me up for my next guest, and that is the mayor of myrtle beach. that s brenda bethune. she has been joining us here every evening here on cnn. mayor, we thank you so much. as i understand, there are five
name. to lift this cloud that has been hovering over the west wing since he took office, since before he took office. what we saw, it s all happening sort of at once here. his tweet storm yesterday morning was remains rather striking here, 24 hours or so later. in which he called for jeff sessions to end this probe. now, of course, we heard sarah sanders in yesterday s white house briefing say that was just hemorrhagesterring an opinion. it wasn t an order. and of course sessions himself can t do it because he recused himself from this probe. but the timing of these negotiations come amid a backdrop of the president growing angrier and angrier with what s happening. i was struck by one of the things that you wrote that a confidant of his told you, he s in a dark place over all of this. that s exactly right. twofold. that he s watching the manafort trial develop live on tv. it is not just something it is something in his face. he s seeing it on cable news. he s upset by it. he b
but the problem is that you eventually run out of our money and i think what the democrats are trying to do right now is rebrand socialism into this democrat socialism, they are trying to move it away from the failed soviet-style socialism that americans are familiar with and repackage it in shiny new packaging and saying this is the future of progressism. the problem is that it s twofold, one you have a very recent failed example of socialism in venezuela where people are starving and they don t have access to adequate medical care and the second is that these policies are way outside the mainstream of where most americans are. for example, democratic socialists of america favor abolishing the senate, so they are fundamentally oppose today our republican-style of government and i think that, you know, this is out of step where most americans are. jason, i want to put a poll
president trump was going to pass up this opportunity. so, we ve talked a little bit about and it s sort of twofold, how it plays with the mid terms. i don t want to say it is purely a crass political calculation, although there is an awareness this is something that does get to, you know, his strength, him being a tough leader, him doing things no previous president certainly president obama who he always likes to one up. he said other presidents, too, have not been able to do. and then there is a sense i think that is less associated with any possibl political gains in november, and is just that what president trump wants at its core is a deal, is a win, is a photo op, is to be able to do what no one else has done, and he finds this idea incredibly appealing and enticing and intriguing and that has made all the more so by the fact as we mentioned earlier on the show, former president obama