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obviously folks will be in florida looking for aid from washington. one quick political question before i let you go, president trump today sided with democrats in agreeing to sign a bill that would tie harvey aid to a debt ceiling bill, raise the debt ceiling for three months, a proposal speaker ryan called dis ridiculous and disgraceful. i m wondering, do you agree with speaker ryan? unfortunately, i wasn t there today. i ve read the press counts. that s not a dodge. i ve been here dealing with this. i prefer to deal with these issues standing on their own. i think it s better that way. i understand why you want to lump them all in here. fema runs out of money friday. theoretically. that s an important thing. the debt limit and other issues are critically important as well. i always think you get a better product when you deal with them standing alone. i d prefer they had done it that way. i m not a big fan with the direction they ve gone with it in this regard. obviously at this ....
Really trying to answer every question as completely and fully as possible. i think republicans and democrats kind of walked away with that impression. and i will say this. if you re someone who you know goes to bed at night and dreams of donald trump being impeached jared kushner just isn t the guy who is going to get you there. he was very honest and at the end of the day there just wasn t much there that we could really grab hold of and say this is concerning to us, this is something that leads to the collusion narrative just really wasn t there today. do you ever take a step back and reflect on the fact that the president has called what you re looking into a hoax? yeah. well, i mean i just disagree with the president on that. i think that there is legitimate questions that needs to be asked. answers we need to to provide the american peep my heavens one way or another the american people deserve an answer to this. if there is nothing to this then we need to tell them. if the ....
I think we have to step up, assume a leadership role and get away from personalization of politics. i think when you look at the overall tone of politics in this country, everybody shares the blame, including the president of the united states and his campaign tone. i would argue the president is at least partially, not in any way totally, but partially to blame for demons that have been unleash. to remind you, all those voices you heard were republican voices from capitol hill. joining us from nationals park, the site of tonight s congressional baseball game, senator jeff flake who was on the ball field when the shooting happened. thanks for coming on, sir. thanks for having me on. you saw congressman scalise today. share what you can, share what you re comfortable telling us about his condition and status. i know they want some privacy for the family. i wasn t there today at the hospital. cheryl and i were there yesterday evening and met with the family. but the condition ....
He s respected by everyone. while he feels allegiance to a man who has helped him, i haven t heard any regret. he s one of the geniuses of our era. bill, how are things over at the white house? you re over there a lot. chaos. hugh just said everything is fine. he said that reince priebus said that everything is fine. i m sure that hugh would not say that everything is fine. i go to the briefings as often as i can. i wasn t there today. i was there yesterday. the entire briefing was consumed with questions about devin nunes and who let him in the white house and what documents he saw and why they laundered, if you will, these documents which seems as they did through devin nunes and you know they want to talk about jobs. they want to talk about infrastructure. they don t want to talk about health care. well, true. they tried it. i think donald trump would like to run away from health care as fast as he can. the problem is that paul ryan keeps saying we re going to try ....
yeah. absolutely. so i did stare him down. and as you and i talked about and i kind of had that moment that i needed. i don t even knew that i needed it at the time. and i stared him down and i felt really good about that. i had seats in the trial for the for another day and for closing arguments and i didn t go. and i m really happy that i didn t go and i wasn t there today. i feel like that moment that i stared him down was the last moment that i had with him and i feel really good about that and i feel good that that was the send-off that that is what i ended it with. i don t want to see him again. and i feel like for myself and everyone is going through their own heartache, but for me that is what i needed. adrianne it is good to have you on again. thank you very much. thank you very much. ....