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If i don t get my border wall. what we see so often with the president he tends to make decisions in five and ten-minute increments. i m sure this is not what he wants right now and this is a mess he finds himself in and he doesn t have a way out and while i do think he was sparring with john karl in the ending question, would you do that? would you do that? i do think he s turning to his advisers and turning to people around him and sort of looking for a way out of this because he has not given himself any way out of it and there s no good way to do it other than that, other than if he were willing to allow republicans in the senate who are in control on capitol hill to cut a deal and bring it to him and sign it which he has walked away from. we saw just a few weeks ago. mitch mcconnell mitch mcconnell s current position is i m not going to bring anything to the floor that the president has not said that he would sign and enough democrats would not support because he s been burn ....
Items like chip and daca and immigration more generally. where do you think major hangups will be? you are right, they averted a government shutdown for only a few weeks. had to reconsider the whole spending question. in two weeks now the government could shut down again. their major spending questions. as you said, there are also big ones on healthcare. on immigration and with all of this, the overarching question is, the midterms are coming and how is that going to play in? as soon as they get back in early january they will have to deal with a number of healthcare questions and a number of spending questions that are really going to make things pretty difficult on capitol hill for everyone involved. and an interest of the kitchen sink theory. i want you to take a listen, take a look at the treatment by the president on infrastructure. maybe we do not have it. ....
Priorities are and what the timeline is. the reason i m being so vague is not because i don t know the answer, but no one knows the answer. a lot of folks are sitting down only now thinking about the timeline that they want to start taking these things on. frankly, when you have a good president and members of the democratic party as well talking about putting up with other priorities altogether whether it is on something like infrastructure or in the democratic party tried to figure out a fix for..it simply complicates the overall spending question. gave, unfortunate time we have to leave it there but it s unlikely congress is going to be having many challenges. we ll have you back then to get your take. thank you so much! thank you. coming up, defense secretary james mattis sang the us military needs to be on high alert. the storm clouds are gathering. what he told our troops that they need to be ready to go. ....
Spend to make it stop? on the spending question, you know, president trump s declaration doesn t immediately direct federal funding to the crisis which would have been the case if he had declared a national disaster and tapped into fema money. so instead, his declaration will shift federal grants toward the crisis and expand treatment in rural areas. do you like that idea? it depends. you really have to dig down on this. if they re going to draw from the fema money, there might not be any fema money left due to the hurricanes and everything that s been going on with the natural disasters. so i think it s a step in the right direction. i think governor christie was spot on in these things come in blocks. we have to move in blocks and slowly because each block that you open up opens up another door to more issues. there s no one more than me or our organization that wants to get out there and start helping everyone as much as we can. ....
But at the same time we have all been struck by what was a tragedy that we didn t think we would ever encounter. nine amazing people that forever changed south carolina s history. reporter: the families of those nine victims present to see firsthand the governor sign into law a bill that will remove the confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds, a place its flown since the 1960s. pending question is reporter: change comes after days of debate that culminated with the passage of a bill of 93-27 vote. the end of a marathon session in the state house that was marked by dozens of amendment introduced by pro flag representatives who believe the flag is a symbol of southern heritage not hate. this amendment recognizes his access, his reasons. i m going to ask you today to support this amendment. reporter: the debate lasting ....