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The territory today to assess the recovery from hurricane maria as house republicans look to approve an $81 billion disaster aid package for areas hit by hurricanes and wildfires. joining us nadya vel has kes of new york, fighting for more help for the island since hurricane maria devastated the area three months ago. as i understand it you were there about three weeks ago. what do you want the secretary to see today? >> i would like for the secretary to go to the rural areas where the devastati...

Thats usually one reason, to hide the truth. the president is caught up in that mess right now. >> and kate, to that point, add one thing to michaels point, i agree with completely, which is you have a couple of streams here, one you have this so-called collusion stream, but then as michael reports, youve got the obstruction thing and its not likely that if there was going to be any sort of, you know, sort of closing of the collusion part that it would also implicate the obstruction thing. that ...

Special counsel, thats normal in any case like this. but i think this is a whole lot of nothing. >> shannon: two key players have been critical, they are both heading to setting, consented intelligence committee what you think we will learn? >> this underscores what a big week this has been. you have revelation after revelation suggesting between the anti-trump text messages that have really turned this investigation to have been may be people inside the fbi investigation who were pro-clinton, a...

Presidents attorneys and the special counsel, thats normal in any case like this. but i think this is a whole lot of nothing. >> shannon: two key players have been critical, they are both heading to setting, consented intelligence committee what you think we will learn? >> this underscores what a big week this has been. you have revelation after revelation suggesting between the anti-trump text messages that have really turned this investigation to have been may be people inside the fbi investig...

To the special counsel and they have these periodic meetings. they have met before. and they are meeting again as early as next week. and i think, you know, they would like to get some kind of sign from mueller about where hes heading, but mueller and his team, i should point out, are under absolutely no obligation to tell them anything. >> how significant potentially is this meeting? >> well, you heard what gloria was saying there about what she and our colleagues gathered from their sources ab...

A failure of preparation. im sure hes a very nice person. the entire internet and free world is piling in on this guy today. im not going to join in. its going to by a sideshow ultimately when we write the history of the trump/mcconnell judiciary. justice noteil gorsuch, more to come in the next year. obama got 40% of the federal judiciariy. overall conservatives are happy with trump on judicial appointments. >> i want to turn to another trump appointee heading out the door. omarosa, shes callin...

That they have all the support that they need to lock in that legislative language. now as we have been talking about in recent days there are the hurdles, these wild cards that have popped up. you have marco rubio saying he wants more generous child tax credit and mike lee, susan collins, jeff flake, all still tbds then, of course, bob corker. theyve never really relied on his support. he voted against it the first time. he says i still have the same concerns i always have. the last-minute scra...

Congress sends me a bill before christmas, americans will see lower taxes and bigger paychecks beginning in february. just two short months from now. >> this was a top priority for us heading into 2017. providing tax relief for everyone in this country. this is a package that is pro family, pro economic growth. >> the goal was get it done by christmas all along. so we start the new year with a new tax code to get the economy growing and give families relief. were there and happy about it. >> thi...

Joe manchin, who mightve been more susceptible to this or you would think, given his reelection is coming up in a big donald trump state, west virginia. he is still a "no" on this. this was more of a rush job than a thorough job. what do you say? >> we have been working on this for months. actually years. theres been work done in a bipartisan way in the house and senate. there has been worked to lead up to the passage of tax reform. when the republicans took the majority in the last election alo...

However, safe to say anything they have gone through is compounded when their account after all was their nightmare was questioned. in the case of roy moore repeatedly and loudly. lets look at leigh corfman shes made some serious allegations against roy moore in "the washington post" and yesterday on the soft interview on the "today" show. we reject them as false and continue to maintain judge roy moore did not know leigh corfman. but what we find interesting is her story has been told in only t...