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Effectively abandon the recovery efforts and within a few short hours there was some strong backlash from puerto rico, including from the governor of the territory who had been working very closely with put president trump on this recovery or over the last few weeks. he spoke out. and we saw trump administration officials try to back pelgd. the u.s. government is committed to the full recovery effort in puerto rico as long as they need it. we just think eventually you want to pull back and let t...

And we saw trump administration officials try to back pedal. the u.s. government is committed to the full recovery effort in puerto rico as long as they need it. we just think eventually you want to pull back and let the territory and the locals take over the rebuilding process from there. but we have to remember after katrina in 2005, the federal recovery effort took many months, even years in some cases, down there. this is a long period of time, and the presidents growing impatient after only...

For that reason among others. >> he was such a great writer. sometimes acerbic and funny. i know what a force of nature he was. >> some of that comes through in his opinions. it comes through more forcefully in his speeches. it was an opportunity to let more of his personality come through and his dramatic nature would come through. obviously his humor. these are very funny speeches. >> one of the things that became well-known certainly at his memorial is his relationship with ruth badser ginsbu...

Corker sort of lent some credibility to help trump beat back people like carrie who questioned his foreign policy acumen and now seeing up close viewed tillerson, mattis and kelly as the only things standing between chaos. >> corker elected 2006 -- >> i think confirmed -- >> very well. he is nobodys idea of a kind of republican squish. hes not a jeff flake style libertarian. and he was willing to work closely with the administration. there were a lot of republicans who felt even if they had thei...

We know that that is what they will do. bernie sanders has estimated it would be $1.4 trillion per year how much it would cost, urban institute estimates $2.5 trillion a year. republicans would say that is democrats passing a multitrillion dollar pass cut. is this the time to make that rhetorical shift for the party? >> it is, but look the bill when it passes is going to pass some day, i agree not in the immediate foreseeable future, it will look very different like the one that was dropped by b...

Risk. and thats why i think lawyers probably said anybody who was involved in that decision probably should not be talking to the president and probably should not be working at the white house. >> and eli, to the matter of mr. bannon, a very tough assessment of the presidents political acumen from the same man who just declared himself wing man for life, friends forever. >> thats right. steve bannon is sort of a legend in his own mind here. he showed a lot of leg to josh green in terms of allow...

Harris: fox is alert. hurricane irma became a rather became a officially a problem for us as it moved into the keys with this first official hurricane force wind gusts. it has been an hour now and it is whipping florida from coast to coast but lets bring back governor mike huckabee who had just said some very wise words about sometimes you have to bend and even break the rules to get things done. i said you might be talking about the way to the top, president trump and ideas and things that he h...

Tactic of intimidating someone, even if you dont have a very strong legal argument to make, it would be donald trump. >> right. >> thats the scenario we face. we have these conservative attorneying general who are failing to file a lawsuit against daca. never mind there are 20 different state attorneys general against the country who are prepared to defend the legality of daca. no matter the long, well-established legal precedent of democratic and republican presidents using their own discretion...

No matter the legal precedent of democratic and republican presidents using their discretion in terms of making sure our enforcement resources are used properly in an immigration context. but you are right, this is one other example of president donald trump basically making clear hes a novice when it comes to governing. and he lacked the kind of acumen that we expect from people who are wielding presidential authority to accomplish their goals. and instead its clear he doesnt know what he wants...

Yet this relationship is really is worse one between the two. >> mcconnell was critical of trump during the campaign, but in his own very dry, subtle way, that the white house picked up on, but trump has a certain president for mcconnell. hes an age peer, hes roughly the same age, he had a long record of accomplishments, trump admired his political acumen. he punched through gorsuch, which is one of the main accomplishments of this administration. but the moment that, you know, he comes up short...