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Disaster relief package, $50 billion. so you can expect it would take at least that long. maybe longer. maybe it is something they can do swiftly. then you have to think about, this is a president who wanted to pass an infrastructure program and he had spent a good amount of time talking about that. there is support among republicans and democrats. heres a place where infrastructure is basically in really, really bad shape sthxt an area where he can maybe put some momentum into his agenda and sa...

My question for you, is there a way the wall ends with nada if he gets to blame someone and doesnt care about the outcome? >> yes but i dont think that congress remains silent. anybody in a seat that isnt safe and think they have to say something about this add mgs and its spending policies why, why theres no infrastructure program, why the health care plan crashed. theyre not going to not say its trump. they will have to say, listen, the president has failed and all of america is watching this ...

>> hang on a second, ron. i want to ask selena on that line of what is expected to happen. what are you looking for in this post steve bannon world, selena? >> im looking for him to have the ability to get tax reform done and infrastructure to get done. i think thats incredibly important for everyone who voted for him but also for the entire country. especially when you go into rust belt states like pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, where the terrain with the hills, valleys, water, water ...

Why cant you get on the bandwagon with my infrastructure program? >> i this i that this is the best place for mitch mcconnell to be because theyre going to find out -- he doesnt care, but he wants to be in a position where they can cut either way. whatever happens in 2018, whatever happens with donald trump. i mean, they want flexibility. nobody wants to be tied to donald trump, and theyre going to do whats in their interest. look, grover norquist said, all we need is a hand to sign the thing. i...

Going back to things that he said a couple of weeks before. like when you are a real estate developer and you are dealing with hype, when you are a brand and dealing with hype, or you are an e.p. on a network show and you are dealing with next week on this, thats all have you to do know. donald trump is just -- all he is concerned with is what just happened and whats going to happen in the next five seconds. >> he also is only used to making a deal with somebody typically in real estate or telev...

In communication that will prevent them from getting the things that the president wants passed? >> i hope its a little kerfuffle. i hope its bluster and not a serious breakdown. if theres not a strong working relationship between the republican in the house and the senate and the white house, if were going to be conducting twitter wars and insulting each other, then nothing will get done. i frankly think that senator mcconnell, maybe it wasnt good for him to make the comment in front of the rot...

Way, if we had that agreement in place, i think wed have better bargaining with the chinese over north korea. people dont like to talk about that. they think these things are about economics. they are not. they are about our role in the world and how much leverage we have. but what i really push the white house to do is do this as part of an infrastructure program. >> delaney authored a bipartisan infrastructure bill in the house, public-private model. and he tackled the third rail of politics, ...

Way, if we had that agreement in place, i think wed have better bargaining with the chinese over north korea. people dont like to talk about that. they think these things are about economics. they are not. they are about our role in the world and how much leverage we have. but what i really push the white house to do is do this as part of an infrastructure program. >> delaney authored a bipartisan infrastructure bill in the house, public-private model. and he tackled the third rail of politics, ...

Reached that low. more importantly for the president more than a million jobs added in the six full months of the trump presidency so far. a good number, but remember during the campaign, the president said, get obama out of the way. well have a trump jobs boom? if you which ugly compare these six months of trump with the same six months last year, the last year of obama, job growth under president obama was more robust than so far under president trump. thats just the so far, but he said, get o...

Thats fixable. >> its not fixable within the communications operation. its fixable if you dont have what they do have and what the president is comfortable with is a completely flat executive administrative part of the white house which means no one is leading and everyone is throwing elbows and fighting their fights by leaking to the press. just one example. early in may, first week of may the president said the infrastructure program will be out in two, maybe three weeks perhaps earlier. well,...