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Can you tell us what the conditions are like there now? >> reporter: well, i can tell you that earlier this evening we were out there just about an hour ago. there were a couple hundred people waiting to get in. when they come in here they need to be screened first. they go through a security check then they have to register with the american red cross. the good news, it had stopped raining if are the first time today which is a welcome relief. otherwise youre stand in the elements. you mentione...

Are sleeping on folding chairs or on the floor. and thats if people can make it through the struggle to get to the convention center in the first place. today we have watched as people lined up for hours to board buses to try to get to that shelter. people have really gotten themselves there any way they can, including by dump trucks if necessary. but any vehicle that can get through or around or over the flood water. at times today there was just gigantic logjam at the front door. evacuees clam...

We have to speak to mitch, and have to speak to everybody. >> shannon: i was love watching people. theres so much fun. i love the signs and everything else. this idea, the filibuster, i brought this up with congressman trent franks, the republican from arizona and he said this in, the republicans used to say there is no way we are going to kill the filibuster on his judicial nominees with the supreme court. obviously, they change their mind. he thinks they can be convinced because right now, the...

Thats the only thing he actually knows how to do. this presidents first reaction to everything is to tweet. up to now, there were indications that the president had just grown impatient with the advice he was getting from the defense department lawyers and the white house lawyers about a transgender ban in the military, so he decided to break the logjam by tweeting. the defense department immediately made it clear that they do not create new policies by tweet and that nothing had changed in our ...

Because hes a successful businessman and a dealmaker pretty wants to get things done. congress needs to want to get to work. when you see these things like obamacare, repealing obamacare, which so many republicans ran on for years and raise money on, now up republicans under came out a few days ago and said we need to hold the meetings, some committees and find out the problems. you had seven years to do that. at the time to act is now at the president said, his pen is ready, he is ready to act....

Going on the road. thats what the president started doing last night. if he can break this logjam on healthcare. you can see the energy there last night. apes ains president also had a message to lawmakers when it comes to healthcare. he had message to criminal illegal immigrants is he going to get them out of the country. he had a message for jeff sessions that we have seen play out in the media the last few days. steve: i dont know that he mentioned jeff sessions last night in ohio but it was ...

Version of the health care repeal bill and then the first amendment hes promising would be essentially gutting that and instead replacing it with a straight repeal plan. that is up likely to get 50 votes. what were going to be doing today is focussing in on the moderate senators and seeing if they would be willing to even get this plan started. >> steven kornacki, youve got to weigh in here for me. giving the middle finger to your own party, how is that one going to fly? >> i think what kasie wa...

Jobs out of high school and college, the american people are rightly cranky right now. wages have been flat for 40 years because productivitys been flat. how do you fix productivity? no one appears to know the answer. its fairly stunning. you have to incentivize business to be more productive. theres only one way to do that. that to me is the most important piece but we have a logjam with this health care piece and then erasing the debt ceiling these pieces are getting in the way of doing tax re...

Those voters feel abandoned by the democratic party. >> first, let me just say in the last harris poll, the republican party was negatively perceived by 63%, and the democratic party was negatively perceived by 60%. lets say right now that no one is really "winning" any decisive edge from the previous contents. thats what the special election shows. i think that they have to put together some kind of platform that puts progress over partisanship here in order to break the logjam. and whoever doe...

That is functioning smoothly given its priority regime survival. more pressure only strengthens its resolve to buy even more insurance. so how to handle it under these circumstances. well the first way to break the logjam in u.s. policy would be to convince china to put real pressure on its ally, that wont happen by serving president xi chocolate cake at mar-a-lago. under pressure north korea could collapse and the newly unified korea would resemble south korea. washington will have to promise b...