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good morning, everyone. phil is making jokes before 6:00 a.m. its friday. were glad youre with us. five things to know for this friday, september 8th. we want to start with weather breaking overnight. hurricane lee intensify ing int a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 160 miles per hour. that was double what it was 24 hours ago. the big question, is it going to hit the east coast or make a turn and stay in the atlantic. and eight sightings, but an escaped murderer is still on ...

>> yeah, ive heard a lot of people say, who cares what happens to the house, joe biden is the president. anything they try to do in congress, who never signed into law, and that is mostly correct, but republicans having control of the house is huge in terms of spending fights on capitol hill. we got a debt ceiling fight coming up, other fiscal cliffs, republicans trying to pick fights with the biden administration over border wall funding, which brings back memory memories of the trump administr...

President can actually control this question. there are not running on what they would do vis-à-vis inflation. theyre really saying, its a problem. >> yeah, and i think a lot of that revolves around what you are seeing from house republicans are now, a focus on becoming spending fights and using that leverage. another thing that john fetterman talks about a lot is being that 51st vote in the senate. obviously, we have a 50/50 senate right now, the only reason democrats are in control of that th...

Particular. but i think that there was potentially miscalculation in terms of how democrats were going to respond to this moment. the thinking was ultimately they would come to the table and there was an attempt to make that happen a number of times. but ultimately when push came to shove they couldnt come to an agreement. >> is there any sense that the president will head to ma mara lago? a couple has to pay up to a quarter million dollars for this big event? you can imagine these folks want to...

Helping themselves out in what was really a tragedy as well as this one and it was very vivid, maybe more vivid in terms of national coverage than new york, i got to tell you, i didnt hear anybody talking about offsets. i heard them saying lets get the money to people like haley barbour. lets get them the money. >> i understand that, but lets look at history. the dynamics were a little different. you were in a totally different political climate. all weve been talking about in the last two years...

Their own pocketbooks, when the southern republicans were helping themselves out in what was really a tragedy as well as this one and it was very vivid, maybe more vivid in terms of national coverage than new york, i got to tell you, i didnt hear anybody talking about offsets. i heard them saying lets get the money to people like haley barbour. lets get them the money. >> i understand that, but lets look at history. the dynamics were a little different. you were in a totally different political ...

How can they govern with so many members that are determined to show up with concrete -- to say no? >> i havent read the piece and i have a lot of respect for tom cotton. he served in america combat, an awfully good american. to the point, i personally think it was a mistake not to have supported john boehners plan b. would have given us the leverage we needed and would have walked off with a better deal than we got. going forward on the spending fights, republicans are united. honestly the pres...