move forward on fixing the problems that we work collaboratively between the executive and congressional blanch. mitch mcconnell says he understands why president trump gave democrats a win. stiglitz feeling was we needed to come together to not create nfeeling was we needed to a picture of divisiveness the time of genuine national crisis. even though it was chuck schumer s idea, mcconnell says he will offer and vote for a three-month extension to to the debt ceilin ceiling. the big question becomes to the president s decision to side with democrats this time damage is already frayed relationship with the republican majority leader? bret: peter doocy, thank you. what do you think question what do you think the deal is good? should harvey relief be tied to the debt ceiling or anything else? let me know on twitter @bretbaier. use the hashtag #specialreport or on facebook at facebook.com/bretbaiersr.
there you see him arriving in north dakota. he traveled there with a democratic senator, senator heidi heitkamp who is up for reelection in 2018, consider vulnerable in a state donald trump won overwhelmingly. she was on this trip. we are back with the panel. olivier what about this tax reform push? we don t really have a plan yet, you can make the argument for the principle of tax reform and tax cuts. you can make it before the blueprint comes out. it s interesting to me that if you look back at the summer, he went after dean heller, jeff flake, john mccain, mitch mcconnell. he went after paul ryan. he lightly went after claire mccaskill when he traveled to missouri. this was a light touch against democrats and i m hearing
chuck schumer, nancy plosive, and the whole republican leadership group. we walked out of there mitch and paul and everybody, kevin and we walked out and everyone he was happy. not too happy because you can never be too happy, but they were happy enough. it was nice to see that happen for a change because that hasn t happened for a long time. harris: of the other democrat, nancy pelosi said republicans did not appear to have the vote for a longer extension of the debt limit. if you have the votes, if you don t have the votes, three months. harris: we are also hearing from the white house to my first president trump this morning spoke with senators mcconnell and schumer as well as a speaker ryan and pull oc in the white house says
negotiators in history have offered to suspend the debt ceiling for four months. pathetic. it s a different time when you are running the show. democrats are probably thinking if this is what we can expect to get and turn in return, they are going to be lined up outside the oval offic. there is a reason they are grinning from ear to ear. they got their clean debt ceiling increase and the spending increase to boot in the form of harvey relief. i don t think it s just a matter of bruised egos of mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. the treasury secretary steven mnuchin also advised against cutting the deal. trumpeted not only go against congressional leaders are telling him. he s going against what his cabinet members were telling him. they fear this maintains the leverage democrats will have when this issue comes up again.
cause. it s turned into another one. at least ten storm related deaths in orange county. 70 state wide. there have been 200,000 homes damaged or destroyed by the storm storm and up to a million vehicles ruined. fema has received 600,000 registrations for assistance. bret: a long recovery. gasoline prices have jumped since harvey made landfall. the current national average $2.66 a gallon. it was $2.35 a month ago. great meeting with chuck schumer, nancy pelosi. and the whole republican leadership group, and i will tell you we walked out of there mitch and paul and everybody, kevin. and we walked out and everybody was happy. not too happy because you can never be too happy. but they were happy enough. bret: s book was the art of the deal.