indira, let s talk about it s an unduly busy september because we have a budget resolution that has to occur otherwise the government shuts down. we have the aftermath of harvey which is going to be expensive. we have a president who until harvey hit was talking about allowing the government to shut down so he can get funding for the budget wall. that s urgent stuff to get done. the president started touring around the country discussing tax reform which there isn t any meat on those bones either. tell me how you see the next few weeks proceeding. i think it s going to be difficult for the president because he has his list of things, his want to dos and must dos. for the president, a lot of those are personal. it s about fulfilling not just the agenda for the american people, but the agenda he wants for donald trump. and that of course means the base and the wall. and he has threatened to shut down the government over the wall. don t forget. he said that mexico was going to pay for
a good question was asked during the briefing yesterday, what is the president considering between now and tuesday that could lean him in one direction or the other and what we heard from the speaker of the house, paul ryan. let s play what he said in a radio interview back in his own state. i don t think he should do that. and i believe this is something that congress has to fix. so this is a twist here. what is the impact of what we re hearing from the speaker on potentially the the decision-making process over the next 72 hours. well you are hearing from the speaker of the house, attempting to slam on the brakes. you have to remember, what is happening. we re coming back to school. summer break is over. it is labor day. congress is coming back. there is a ton of work that has to be done. harvey hit and it just jammed up everything. there is so much that has to be done with harvey on top of everything else they already had to do. we are not getting the priorities from the whi
harvey relief money, raising the debt limit, keeping the government open, crafting a tax reform bill and maybe giving health care one more shot in the senate. frank oe, by any measure, that is a aggressive agenda. for a congress that actually gets things done, that would be a tough agenda. and as you know from covering washington for a long time, budgets are something that even a congress that gets other things done struggles to get things done. what does that agenda look like to you. it looks tough. i will say harvey has kind of broad people together. you talked about the wall and the possibility of a government shutdown. you know, trump has backed down a little bit about that in private and harvey s a big reason for that because it s brought people together. they know they need to get this done.
i don t know about the legality about this and the shifting because no one does because it s been quiet. we can see who mueller is hiring, the caliber of investigators that he is hiring. we can now see that the white house is on the back foot. the credibility has been shot. indira, let s talk about it s an unduly busy september because we have a budget resolution that has to occur otherwise the government shuts down. we have the aftermath of harvey which is going to be expensive. we have a president who until harvey hit was talking about allowing the government to shut down so he can get funding for the budget wall. that s urgent stuff to get done. the president started touring around the country discussing tax reform which there isn t any meat on those bones either. tell me how you see the next few weeks proceeding. i think it s going to be difficult for the president because he has his list of things, his want to dos and must dos. for the the president knows are
spike here in texas, you re seeing them go up across the country. north carolina a spike of 29 cents a gallon since harvey hit. same with georgia. more bad news. when you thought this, you could see the light at the end of the tunnel, analysts saying we might see gas prices go up more because it could take a while to get the refineries back online. at gas stations you may see it go higher than that. a punch on the economy. alison kosik, thank you very much for that perspective. that s right. still to come, we ll talk to the man who wrote the book on the great deluge after hurricane katrina. what lessons can we learn and what can we learn as houston tries to rebuild and the president heading down this weekend. that s next. nutrient with 3x better absorption.