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Happy with what senator scott had to say when it came to issues of race, but he listened, nonetheless, but hes taken a beating. he knows hes taken a beating on this. and he listened. tim scott brought up issues of charlottesville, but he also brought up issues of the fact that this administration does not have certain times of african americans in leadership. when i say certain types, republicans, high ranking republicans who know how to work washington, who know how to work both ends of pennsyl...

What other topics were on the table with the president beyond charlottesville with tim scott? >> they talked about tax reform. they talked about moving to a -- looking at different ways to bring the country together and about continuing ongoing conversations, making sure that they stayed in constant contact with one another and having a pretty open and regular conversation. >> were there conversations about hbcu -- >> sources were saying that there was a conversation about a request from black r...

Mcconnell is the person who knows how to make legislation happen in washington, and trust -- trump does not trust him at least not yet so if theyre going to get anything done they have to repair that first and foremost, they have to get on the same page about what they want to get done, they have to decide what the framework is going to look like for tax reform, what are we going to bundle together, are we going to bundle the border wall, and the d.r.e.a.m.ers, are they going to bundle the hurri...

List what have congress is doing this fall is russia. lot of folks in congress are concentrating on russia right now in these investigations and these committees, the intelligence committees in both chambers have a lot of work to do this fall. >> they do and the senate will have nominations to process so there is just a lot on congresss plate here, dealing with a party leader in the president that as abby mentioned number one has not figured out how to work a deal in washington. its not like wor...

>> look, theyre in a marriage of convenience, no trust, bad blood and the president keeps adding to it. >> hold on, were going to see it at 4:00 p.m. today. so the president is meeting with speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell today. >> their game faces will be on presumably the democrats and republicans and its a glimmer of what might have been if the president pursued the art of the deal and for example led with infrastructure, tried to forge bipartisan coalitions but he hasnt. hes played to his b...

Anyone on the world has been okay south korea after north koreas nuclear test. >> weve been down this path before, if you go back to 2000, when the south korean president kim dae-jung tried to achieve a level of appeasement and a reunification through diplomatic efforts. he went to pyongyang and won the nobel peace prize, spent billions of dollars and it went nowhere, so you understand that theres some legitimate skepticism in terms of where we think an agreement between seoul and pyongyang woul...

Took office and even before have not shown that they are able to do a lot of these things on a high wire act, even if were just talking one of them, let alone the list i just ticked off. >> the very first words out of david druckers mouth were no big deal. this is the art of the deal. president who as far as i can tell really hasnt made very many deals at all and now hes got this menu, this list of things that needs to get done, abby. has he shown any ability to work washington the way it needs ...

And it protects them currently from being deported but that could change. the president is punting the fate of these hundreds of thousands of dreamers to congress. cnns joe johns is live at the white house with more. what are we expecting, joe? >> alisyn, what to do about daca is a question the president has struggled with over weeks and months and today does appear to be decision day with the attorney general set to make the announcement at the briefing here in washington later this morning. se...

It is not a new development, but it is a problem for decades, and compounded by more than a decade of war. that is why when i came into the office i said that we would systematically work to fix these problems, and we have been working hard to address them. my attitude is that for folks who have been fighting on the battlefield, they should not have to fight a bureaucracy at home to get the care they have earned. the presumption has always been that we have to do better, and robs review is a com...

Destroyed. but the muslim brotherhood ied logically, they dislike the united states but have accepted a sort of partnership and now they claim not helping them. were talking 33 million demonstrators and majority in egypt, they are shocked that we basically are partnering with the muslim brotherhood, are not trying to find a political solution whereby egypt will move forward to democracy. theres a lot of work washington needs to do ahead. >> you reference the christians there, they make up about ...