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For decisions. under the leadership of secretary shulkin, the va has steadily delivering on the presidents promise to fix the broken va system. finally, before i open it up to take your questions, as youre all very well aware, i kind of love birthdays around here, and oddly, we have quite a few of them going on. major garrett, happy birthday. but even more importantly, its -- im pretty lucky. i think i have two of the best parents in the world and its my dads birthday, so happy birthday, dad. an...

Recess to avoid having the nation default on its debts. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked about the fracture in the party today in what was we should add the first white house press briefing in around three weeks. >> there seems to be some acrimony between the president and the republican congressional leadership. how do you repair this relationship going into the fall >> look i think the relationships are fine. certainly there are going to be policy differences. but there are als...

Some policy differences but there are also a lot of shared goals. >> reporter: despite talk of shared goals, the president is threatening to shutdown the government if congress refuses to fund a wall on the border with mexico, a threat the white house isnt knocking down. >> we know that the wall and other security measures at the border work, weve seen that take place over the last decade and were committed to making sure the american people are protected and were going to continue to push forwa...

Promised mexico would fund. president trump is once again trolling one of his favorite twitter targets, his own party, tweeting, the only problem i have with mitch mcconnell is that after hearing repeal and replace for seven years, he failed. that should never have happened. no big deal says the white house. >> i think the relationships are fine. certainly there are going to be policy differences, but there are also a lot of shared goal. >> reporter: despite the shared goals, the president is wi...

Veterans that are still waiting for decisions. under the leadership of secretary shulkin, the va is steady developing on the presidents promise to fix the broken va system. finally, before id open it up to take your questions, as youre all very well aware, i kind of love birthdays around here, and oddly, we have quite a few of them going on. major garrett, happy birthday. but even more importantly, its -- im pretty lucky, i think i have two of the best parents in the world, and its my dads birth...

Fine. obviously, there are going to be some policy differences, but there are also a lot of shared goals. were disappointed that obamacare, they failed to get it repealed and replace, but mcconnell has worked with other members to work on those shared goals and well continue to do that when the senate comes back from recess. >> noah, that was a pained, scripted response to try to explain away the problems that are right there for everybody to see, whether its donald trump going after jeff flake ...

Ill talk to the subcommittee and well get full coverage of todays top stories. lets begin with our congressional correspondent phil mattingly. republicans own both sides of penn avenue, so what went so wrong? >> they were faced with a diversion and toxic mix of policy differences and political differences, issues that have set them up for the brink of a failed vote and potentially a failed effort altogether. >> repealing and replacing obamacare! >> reporter: tonight, after seven years of campaig...

Like they have a voice in each process, instead of steam rolling people out in the various agencies or other senior officials. the staff secretarys office down. its all about communicating with each other more and learning the process and they have all talked about that. when they say that its harder than they thought they dont necessarily mean it was like beyond their scope or difficult for them, they mean the bureaucracy has been -- its a tangle and theyre trying to figure out how to unroll it...

>> he was allowed to have this meeting on friday where he essentially told the president, cool off. >> i think there was a lot of things overblown with this that makes it out to the media and makes it more sensational than it truly is. but the president is obviously very pleased with the last week he had and the accomplishment on the foreign policy frontme. i think we had an unbelievable and helpful meeting with the chinese, and he continues to have very strong foreign policy wins in terms of th...

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