So what is the administrations plan to house the children or to reunite the families . My guest this morning republican senator James Langford of oklahoma and independent senator angus king of maine who caucuses with the democrats. Also, Refugee Crisis. Why are so many people from Central America coming to the United States . What are they fleeing . Richard engel of nbc news has a report from his trip to el salvador. And political culture wars. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is asked to leave a restaurant because she works for President Trump. Her father, Mike Huckabee tweets this picture with the caption, nancy pelosi introduces her Campaign Committee. Is all of this The New Normal . Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news capital news correspondent kasie hunt, and Erick Erickson editor of the resurgent. Welcome to sunday. Its Meet The Press. The longestrunning show in television history, this is Meet The Press with chuck
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back now with the panel. stephen hayes, editor in chief of the weekly standard. heather mcgee, nbc news capitol hill, kasie hunt and erick eriksson. steve hayes, president trump had his first retreat and you could argue the first guardrail that the republican party signed on to to erect him and reverse himself. what does that mean? it was the public pressure. the president didn t do this easily and this is an ad hoc president leaving his staff and congressional republicans to scramble in his wake and try to make things right. if you think about the white house line on this, the line that the president s supporters took. they went from separating families was the right thing to do, to the separating families were terrible, but democrats made us do it, it s awful and only congress can fix it to the president s executive order has solved the problem and obviously there s inconsistency there. you re seeing the president scramble and he doesn t know what he thinks and this is a presiden
back now with endgame. al back now with end game. all right. we had a couple of interesting former republicans, i guess, calling for democrats to take control of house. first you had michael bloomberg. he s going to support flipping the house. he says republicans in congress have had two years they could govern responsibly. they failed. as we approach the 2018 mid terms it is critical wee elect people would can lead in ways this congress won t. you can argue whether bloomberg was a republican before, switched to democrat. i ll take your point. how about george will? the republican caucus must be substantially reduced so substantially their remnants reduced to minorities will be stripped of the article 1 constitutional powers. a legislature whose unexercised muscles have atrophied because of people like them. mr. eriksson, what do you make of this?
version of the bill on monday. and where will the house members be? on vacation. they sure do like to skip town. since january, the house has been in session just 125 days. in nine months, they spent only 125 days in session. there s a whole lot of time away from washington, and we realize they take some of that time to meet with constituents back in their home districts and do other official business. but keeping them honest, when the government could be on the brink of shutting down, this is no time for a recess. after all, most american workers would never be able to take time off whaen a big project has to get done on deadline. funding the government, that s a big project with a very important deadline. and consider this. according to expedia.com, the average american worker gets 18 vacation days a year. 18. and they only use 14 of them. did i mention that since january, congress has only been in session for 125 days? plus, the divided 112th congress promises to be on pac
they killed the bill hours later. the senate will vote on another version of the bill on monday. and where will the house members be? on vacation. they sure do like to skip town. since january, the house has been in session just 125 days. in nine months, they spent only 125 days in session. there s a whole lot of time away from washington, and we realize they take some of that time to meet with constituents back in their home districts and do other official business. but keeping them honest, when the government could be on the brink of shutting down, this is no time for a recess. after all, most american workers would never be able to take time off whaen a big project has to get done on deadline. funding the government, that s a big project with a very important deadline. and consider this. according to expedia.com, the average american worker gets 18 vacation days a year. 18. and they only use 14 of them. did i mention that since january, congress has only been in session fo