we ll have to see moving ahead. greg palkot, thank you very much. to our nation s capitol, and busy week for the white house and for congress. on wednesday, the president says he ll make a major announcement on tax reform, and the trump administration is also suggesting we ll see progress on health care in the coming days. but house speaker paul ryan says the focus this week will be on reaching a deal on the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, a sticking point is money for the wall along the border with mexico. republicans say the deal will happen. if it doesn t, the government would shut down on the same day the president holds a rally, 100th day in office. the white house plans to tout the progress made so far. here s the president s budget director, mick mulvaney. what i think folks don t realize is that we ve signed more legislation into law in the first 100 days than anybody in the last 50 years. we put out more executive orders than any previous administration in th
insomnia. harris: we saw the president say, not that that wasn t funny but we re running out of time. we ll laugh later. harris: maybe 100 days was a ridiculous point and other presidents agreed 100 days you need more than that to see what s going on. polling has come via washington post and abc news, some of it is distressing, some of it is good for the president. the most people in 15 years think the economy is getting better. that sort of thing. trump voters are behind him, 94%, evan? trump voters of that poll, i would be happy for donald trump. his supporters, only 2% regret voting for him. they re very happy. i d be distressed if i were a democrat. only 28% of the country believe that democrats understand concerns and when you see that, even though republicans might have a low number as well, not that low, you see that you re turning people are turned off by democrats and republicans and democrats can t get the people to vote for them. harris: you know what it sounds
hill. lawmakers working to avoid a government shutdown that happens potentially next saturday. funding the government is a top priority. the president is focused on tax reform can, republicans get it all done? throw in obamacare this week, too. we re approaching 100 days. maybe that matters, maybe it
he previously said he was hoping for a vote to come this week, now there is, quote, no particular rush, he s focused on other things right now. jessica tarlov is a democratic strategist and senior director of research at bustle.com. evan siegfried author of gop gps . i finished it, i know you sent it to me. start off with obamacare, how it all fits in, i understood the president to say not long ago, you needed to get that done before you got to tax reform and before you could talk about spending, your thoughts. in defense of the president. what we re talking about the american health care act 2.0 talking about doing before tax reform. they re saying tax reform in june. last week he was saying he wanted to do the ahda 2.0 very soon. they are working on a deal and get it before congress and have different members on the gop side and the democratic side if
about how the other americans detained are doing. one man is doing ten years hard labor accuse said of espionage. the other is sentenced to 15 years hard labor for moving a political sign from hotel walls. harris: that s the most recent we remember that got a lot of attention because of his age because he s so young. we ve been working with the swedes and through the swedish intaeshgs just the last word with you, any word from them on how this latest american is doing, or do we know yet? reporter: we don t know yet, we have his name, his age, we don t know why they detained him. it s possible they could give him up in a few days. as of now, the north korean officials have him, it is very hard to get any information out of there, especially because we have no diplomatic relations. harris: you know, it s interesting, an update on the two phone calls that president trump is expected to make in about 90 minutes or so, talking with both the japanese and the chinese leaders on one right