A bit of time inside with the Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, who has been a friend of mine for a long time. Long before my world of politics. Early into his world of politics, i think. But weve been friends for a long time. We are probably now, despite what we read, were probably now, i think, at least as far as im concerned closer than ever before and the relationship is very good. Melissa chief White House Correspondent john roberts. Closer than anything before could mean anything depending how close they were before. Its true, everything is relative. No question about it. Yesterdays events with the president and the Senate Majority leader had an air of familiarity about it after Rex Tillerson came out a couple of weeks ago to say everything is fine between the president and me and then last week the chief of staff john kelly came out to say the same thing. The president , Senate Majority leader coming out saying despite tears rhetoric between them their relationship is good and they are on the same page. There was a disconnect between the two leaders for the timetable for tax reform. The president wants to get it done this year. Mitch mcconnell has only said he wants to get it done, quote, this congress. And yesterday left room for it to be completed next year, not this year. Listen here. Would you be okay if tax reform were not passed until next year . I would like very much to see it be done this year. The goal is to get it done this callender year but important to remember that obama signed obamacare in march of year two and doddfrank in july of year two. Contract that with what paul ryan. He will keep the house in session through the christmas break if necessary to make sure that he gets tax reform passed in the house by the end of the year. Thats why the budget director, mick mulvaney, expressed some frustration with the senate as he was interviewed with Brian Kilmeade this morning. Im frustrated and the president is frustrated and people back home are frustrated. They ran promising to repeal and replace obamacare. They havent done that. And tax reform and were hitting a hurtle. We want to folks in the senate to deliver on their promises. The president has a joint press availability for the greek president. The possibility of more u. S. Investment in greece to bolster its status as a nato nation and more important with the growing tensions between grao ebs and turkey. They may have a few words with him. Talking about donald trump might become the nominee of the Republican Party he said with this nomination marks, the ideas it represents and the appeal it reaches and the threat to become even president , i hope we will not face this evil. He will need a pretty good ice breaker i would assume today, melissa, after saying that. Melissa i hope we wont see this evil and then he knocks on the door with his wallet open looking for help. John roberts, thank you. Jon President Trump covered a lot of ground in that News Conference yesterday. President trump something that people arent talking about is how many judges weve had approved whether it be the court of appeals, circuit judges, whether it be district judges. We have tremendous right now under review. Well have a major announcement probably next week on the drug crisis and on the opioid massive problem. Democrats are talking to the republicans for a shortterm taking care of what we will call healthcare. So that people can have good healthcare without big spikes. We are going to get drug prices, Prescription Drug prices way down because the world is taking advantage of us and we want to make sure the middle class is the biggest beneficiary of the tax cuts and tax reform. Jon lets talk about that with columnist for real clear politics a. B. Stoddard. Is Christopher Bedford the editor in chief and the author of the art of the donald. The president mentioned that he doesnt feel that his judicial nominations at the federal Appeals Court level and federal bench have gotten a whole lot of publicity. Wall street journal had a front page piece on it last week and we talked about it last week, christopher. Is it possible well, it is Mitch Mcconnell who is helping grease the skids for those nominations. Is it possible that this talk of the war between the majority leader and the president is sort of overblown . I think it is overblown. There has been friction between them and public friction from time to time but a lot of washington, d. C. s reporting over the last few months as trump has been president has rumor mills. Repeating soap opera type stuff and Anonymous Sources. Does it merit months and months of breathtaking coverage . I dont think it does. Theyve worked together in the past. They traded shots back and forth. Even some of the bigger pushers of these rumors, some of the d. C. Newsletters have admitted the bad news often leaks when there is a disagreement and rarely does anyone report on the number of phone calls between them. I think its been overstated. The president did not come through the washington political establishment. He have is not accustomed to the way things work in washington i suppose its fair to say. Have he and Mitch Mcconnell buried the hatchet . Well, john, he was making an attempt yesterday. The president has been known in the last 10 months in office to be able to sort of reset the relationship, make the situation seem much better, more positive. He can turn on the charm. The problem is that they are fleeting. You can talk about Anonymous Sources it doesnt take a seventh grader to figure out if youre president of the United States attacking the Senate Majority leader on twitter and provoking him about the filibuster, a change that a majority of senators in his own party do not support, is just not a way to keep the relationship going and keep it unified enough to get through a very challenging and ambitious agenda. While its the right thing to do for the moment, there is a long time between now and bill signing on tax reform. In those intervening months as you saw the president took two positions on steve bannon outside war against republican establishment incumbents and during these months of legislative toil it will be much more complicating and really negative in terms of the outcome and the process if the president continues to sort of take the side of those trying to burn down the establishment and make it much harder on his relationship with congressional leaders and to get who he ultimately wants through. Jon hold on for a second. Well continue this discussion after a quick fox news aleft. It is related to the economy. Take a look at the dow numbers. 23,000. Another record on the dow. First time ever for that number. Melissa. Melissa we slipped down below it but well pop back up. There we go. Look at these markets that have been fueled higher by expansion, the economy, the possibility of tax cuts. Everything that we have going on right now we hope it isnt squandered by congress if they dont get the legislation through. Something to celebrate on wall street. For all of you out there and your 401ks and investments. Jon should be looking back today. Lets get back to our discussion. You know, its kind of interesting, christopher, a couple of weeks ago, a month ago all the news was about russian collusion and the investigation and was the president going to fire robert mueller. Yesterday at that News Conference he said no, he is not going to do that. Thats not a big headline today. There is not too much to beat out of the russia investigation anymore unless you are a lower rated station that relies on this russia Conspiracy Theory there is nothing to talk about. No new evidence has come out. Yesterday it should have been a big speech, a big headline. It wasnt donald trump melting down people didnt feel like it was news. He has followed the advice of his lawyers and taken a step back off this investigation and he seems to plans to let it fizzle out. He said yesterday the American People arent too interested in this investigation anymore. Jon he mentioned the parade of natural disasters that have bedeviled this country and administration. Hurricanes in texas and florida, puerto rico, virgin islands. You have the terrible fires in california. So far give us your assessment of how the president and the administration are handling those. Well, i think that californians would like more attention paid from the white house and president to the destruction and death and desperation caused by the wildfires. Certainly the president handled harvey and irma, the first two storms very well. The governments response. He is getting poor marks much to his frustration on whats going on in puerto rico because it continues to be desperate. That said, the president does get he has gotten attention recently for the fact that he and his legal team have stayed out of the russia investigation and stopped calling it a witch hunt. He said he wont fire robert mueller, special counsel. He said it again yesterday. He steps on his message as we all know with comments yesterday about how previous president s have not been quick to get on the phone and call families of those who have fallen. This became really the big story yesterday is that everyone was pushing back on the fact he told something that was flat out untrue, offending people who had worked for president george bush at president obama and others, the visits, calls and letters to grieving families. President trump has a good way of stepping on his own message for things he wants to get credit for like what he has gotten the Chinese Government to do in terms of central back activities. Stopping it in north korea, in terms of judges and in terms of the stock market. He has a way of blowing it up. Jon one of the big takeaways yesterday my relationship with this man, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is outstanding. Thats kind of the headline of the day. It is the headline of the day. The two need each other. They absolutely need each other. This is a big week for the u. S. Senate. They need to pass the budget and get through the basic business of the u. S. Senate and then they need to get to work on tax reform. It will be a monumental hurdle. Not every republican was elected saying theyll do tax reform like every single republican was elected to say they would repeal obamacare. It will be difficult. Donald trump needs a win. Today Mitch Mcconnell will be his best friend. Jon wall street thinks theyll get tax reform done. Well see if the politicians can make it happen. Thank you both. Melissa authorities making what theyre calling a final arrest in the killing of border agent brian terry. Whose death exposed a botch gun running sting known as operation fast and furious. More on that ahead. Plus north korea reigniting its war of words with the u. S. Why pyongyang is now saying nuclear war could come at my moment. This is propaganda from the north koreans trying to intimidate those americans who can be intimidated. Unfortunately there are a large number of them. To monitor Drilling Operations in realtime, so our engineers can solve problems with the most precise data at their fingertips. Because safety is never being satisfied. And always working to be better. Anif youve got a lifee. You gotta swiffer melissa just in authorities in mexico making a final arrest in the killing of a border agent. The murder exposed a botched government gun running project known as operation fast and furious and set off political backlash against the obama administration. It allowed criminals to buy guns in the u. S. With the intention of tracking them to mexican cartels. Were live from los angeles with more on this one. William, can you tell us more about the arrest . I sure can. This is the last of seven mexicans indicted in the death of Border Patrol agent brian terry. Five are serving prison time in the u. S. Two in mexican jails. The mexican military and u. S. Law enforcement arrested the 37yearold saturday in the city and state of chihuahua. He is charged with first degree murder with agent terry. He and three other agents were in the arizona desert when they confronted a cartel rip crew. When the agents yelled police the mexican opened fire. Two guns at the sale were sold with the approval of the atf and department of justice. Congress investigated and found then attorney general eric holder in contempt for failing to turn over documents that implicated his department in a coverup and president obama claimed executive privilege. Many documents were eventually released show the doj investigation was a sham to cover up their own ineptitude and to discredit congressional investigation and silence the media. Terrys sister said im happy to know the last fugitive is finally in custody. I have been very hopeful the last six years that ald involved that fatal night will be brought to justice. It is bittersweet news for my family. It wont bring brian back. The man was likely be extradited and one other defendant. Other defendants got 27 to 30 years. Melissa thank you, william. Jon back to that extraordinary News Conference yesterday. The president and Senate Majority leader. What they both have to say about healthcare reform amid a push for a bipartisan deal. Well go in depth. Deadly wildfires in californias wine country. How crews are battling the fastmoving claims and thousands of evacuees head back to find whats left of their homes. Everything burst it flames. 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Melissa joining us now josh holmes former chief of staff to Mitch Mcconnell and jim kessler, former legislative and policy director to senator Charles Schumer and Senior Vice President for policy and cofounder of the third way. Thanks for joining us. Josh, do you share the president s confidence . I think he has done a couple of important things over the last couple of weeks which have created leverage for a movement on healthcare. We saw the first eight months of debate on this issue democrats basically sitting back and admiring their handiwork of obamacare while the whole system collapsed and not the impetus necessary to get them off the dime and into the conversation. By some of the executive actions he has taken with the Association Health plans and with this latest insurance subsidy he has provided the momentum for democrats to have to take another look at this. Clearly republicans are motivated to try to do something. The American People are not satisfied with the Current System as is. Melissa were hearing now from our own reporter, reporting that Lamarr Alexander is working on a transfer of taxpayer dollars to the Insurance Companies to help subsidize the price of insurance. Is that a step in the right direction . There is a saying in washington if you want to get something done, make sure patty murray is involved. The Lamarr Alexanders partner is murray who is from washington state. Those two are adults. They dont play games. They try and get things done and a lot of deals hatched in washington have their thumbprint on it. I want to be clear, though, this is this preserves the basic structure of obamacare. These are fixes to obamacare, not repeal of obamacare. And my belief is that this cements obamacare in place for the foreseeable future. Melissa there is a fix for payments. A lot of people dont like the idea of government subsidizing healthcare for people. By the govern