a spokesman for manafort says it s 100% false to suggest this meeting including any discussion of contributions to the trump campaign or the republican party. when donald trump jr. talked about the meeting he called it nothing and manafort said he was on his phone most of the time. the whole contact took how long? 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. and jared left after five or ten. yes. like she said and paul manafort. on his phone. the whole time. like i said it was pretty apparent this is not what we were in there talking about. it does appear manafort was on his phone to take notes. nbc s reporting says manafort ses notes typed on a smartphone described by one source as cryptic were turned over to the house and senate
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melissa, what s next, if the president calls them chuck and nancy back to dinner, trying to work out a deal with democrats. the president, of course, appreciated the praise when he came up with the deal relating to the debt ceiling and harvey aid. not so much the pushback from conservatives on the daca deal, but is that potentially in the cards? i think we ll have to see. in terms of health care, republicans are pressing up very quickly against a september 30th deadline and senator cassidy has said he wants to continue and push forward and ideally pass a bill overhauling the health care system, but like you mention, republicans have a very packed agenda in the next few weeks. we have a march 5th deadline in terms of when daca will be rescinded, we have a budget deal expiring at the beginning of december. we have heard a lot of rumblings for months now about an infrastructure plan, tax reform, so whether or not republicans decide to put health care aside in the next few weeks and sh
For these states that have been impacted so severely to recover. neil: how did you feel about the way the aid was contracted, sir? the president working with democrats to raise the debt ceiling, tie at least initially harvey, largely harvey aid, to that? a lot of your conservatives were not happy, including members i spoke with from the freedom caucus and other groups. how about you? i get that, neil. i understand that most cases around here people don t like voting to raise the debt limit. it s something that we like to get reforms attached to and like to get a longer term with respect to raising it. but i also think that these were extraordinary circumstances. the president was determined to show a unified front in terms of what we were facing. so i think this is a short term deal. they re three month extensions. don t read much to what happened last week other than this was a president and a congress trying
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Utter those words on this program. what i am happy with is we have a deal that the people that need this harvey aid, this funding will get it. fema will not run out of money and folks will get help. what we have to at least recognize here is if the republicans had the votes they wouldn t have had to play ball with the democrats. they did not have the votes. nancy pelosi knew they didn t have the votes, chuck schumer knew they didn t have the votes and donald trump knew they didn t have the votes. this is a president trying to avoid another embarrassment. he has not one win in eight months. who doesn t love to help hurting people. if donald trump can get a win this way, he was going to take this win. this sets it up for the democrats to come with a stronger position toward the end of this year when we have to do this again. if you are from the outside looking in, if you are in texas looking at this, you say, i ll