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It gives everybody that lives here more confidence and pride and a belief that help will come. and, number two, it does increase the help because people say, oh, i didnt know they needed that. ill give some money. ill volunteer. theyre going to need hundreds of crews, electricians to put up all the cables. >> money is not going to be the issue here. its going to be the people. >> thats exactly right. >> theyre trying to lock it up because everybody is mass evacuating. >> what does success look l...

We learned something else too. theres increasing evidence were no longer talking about two parties when it comes to the way these issues break down. were talking about three -- democrats, republicans, and the party of donald trump. let me explain. the true trump voter is one who told us that their vote was solely for donald trump and not some vote that was against hillary clinton. yes, we asked that difference. these voters stand apart from fellow republicans in some key ways. lets start with im...

The book. i dont know if youve fully read it yet. this is a consistent theme. she believes you didnt work hard enough to bring your supporters to the fold the way she did in 08, which is what she was pointing out there. if anything, your supporters may have undermined her candidacy in the general election. do you accept that criticism? >> wow. no, i really dont. look, chuck, right now were focusing on health care. were focusing on the daca issue. were focusing on infrastructure, high cost of pre...

Agenda. >> he is committed to more of a populist agenda, and its conservative and also populist. >> well, he promised a wall and now we are hearing different things? >> he has not signed a deal with the democrats as far as i know. the daca issue is still out there. there are republicans that are still trying to figure out how we are going to deal with the issue. >> you are a republican member of congress, and would you be

Legalize daca so if your head is spinning after all of that, we cant blame you, but imagine what it would be like to be nearly one of the 800,000 people that daca had previously protected. my next guest is a member of the presidents evangelical advisory board. he was among the faith leaders who met with donald trump last week in the oval office as he declared a national day of prayer for hurricane harvey victims. pastor franklin, thank you so much for joining us now. you talked to the president ...

Did and now its up to you guys in congress to fix it. what are you going to do? whats your plan? >> well, the president has been very explicit. he expects congress to do our work as he said yesterday morning on this daca issue. and i have legislation that will recognize these young people, some of who arrived. >>the united states as little children as measures that why its called recognizing americas children act. they would have to earn it. three paths to earn legal status in the united states....

Simplicity into the tax code, keeping jobs here in this country and making our businesses more competitive in the global marketplace. >> we are ducking out of this press conference there on capitol hill where senate republicans are talking about tax reform. of course, theyve just been undercut by the president when it comes to the issue of the debt limit increase. we were hoping to hear something about that. despite the intense backlash against president trumps decision to rescind daca, the appr...

For these children, and i feel like the president has absolutely given that opportunity to the congress. i dont see this as a negative thing, like i mean, he could have just let it expire. we need to look on the bright side here for a minute and give the president little bit of credit. now hes saying, congress, bring me legislation. and i disagree. i dont think the congress is just going to ignore that. i think theyre about to come under tremendous pressure from the hispanic community, from mino...

Legislation from the congress if theyll just do their job and deal with this problem and give a pathway to citizenship for these kids. >> but congress, pastor, has made it clear that they dont intend to deal with this in the short-term. but you say youre optimistic about the six months. i mean, congress has basically poured cold water on that. >> well -- >> what are your concerns about there not being daca protections for young people. >> well, my concerns are that these are kids that have been ...

But let me just say this. what they had was a temporary -- you understand daca was a temporary solution. we have the potential now because of what the president is trying to do to have a permanent solution where these kids can be here permanently and live their life in a productive way in our nation. thats what we all want, i think, most democrats want that. republicans want that. the president wants that. and we want that. >> is there any -- so, youre actually optimistic about this, why, becaus...