The next number of years. Joining me from washington, damian paletta, a White House Reporter for the Washington Post. Margaret talev, a Senior Analyst for bloomberg and cnn. With me in new york is dan senor. A former advisor to paul ryan and mitt romney. Im pleased to have all of them here to talk about this. Tell me what happened. It was a huge meeting for the president. He had a really rough first seven or eight months. Now he goes into september where there were a lot of chips stacked against him. He had to reach a deal to fund the government, avoid a shutdown, get money for the recovery of hurricane harvey, and convince lawmakers to extend the debt ceiling. This is a debt ceiling he repeatedly, before he was president , said should not be raised. He goes into this meeting with Republican Leaders and democratic leaders. He walks out cutting a deal with nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Not only do they agree to extend the debt ceiling into early december and fund the government until then, but he makes a gentlemans agreement with Chuck Schumer to consider forever getting rid of the debt ceiling votes that have plagued Congress Since the 1990s. It would remove the requirements every year or two where congress agreed to raise the borrowing limit. It is something a lot have said needs to be there to prevent the government from spending too much money and here he is talking with Chuck Schumer about potentially getting rid of the debt ceiling forever. Charlie margaret, what would you add . Margaret President Trump is not an establishment republican. This might have been a gesture of bipartisanship. It might have been an elbow to the two republicans he is the most frustrated with, Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan. It may be testing the waters for internal republican politics to see if either of them could stop him. There is a lot more here to unpack. I think it is going to take at least until december to get a better sense of what is going on. Charlie there you go. There is a sense of growing tension between the president and Republican Leadership. Yeah. One thing we knew from the election is candidate trump ran against both parties. We tend to think about him as a republican. He was for repealing obamacare but he was completely against republican plans to reform medicare. He talked tough about extreme vetting of muslims and going after muslim terrorists, but he was critical of republican foreignpolicy over the last couple of decades. There was this third wave message to his campaign. I think this reflects, which is not a real independent thirdway governing strategy, it is situational governing. It is in the moment. Its like, i cut a deal with this one, i cant get Health Care Reform passed, we will cut a deal with the democrats. It is not clear what he is getting beyond a few good news cycles. I do not think this helps President Trump in the long run. He did not get anything for it. It is very damaging to elected republican officials. Charlie what do republican officials want him to do . They wanted him to force the democrats, to use the leverage they had, to vote for an extension of the debt ceiling that went past the next election, went past november of 2018. Instead, by doing the shortterm debt ceiling extension, that means on the eve of the midterm elections when the republicans will be fighting for their lives we will go through all of this again. Democrats are giddy. One democrat official i spoke to today started talking about getting all sorts of funding. Dacarelated funding, parts of obamacare enshrined, talking about we are going to use all our leverage on the eve of the election because republicans will be terrified of the government shutting down as they are heading into midterms. The closer you get to the midterms and you have this sort of showdown, the worse it is for republicans which is why Republican Leaders wanted to get past november of 2018. Charlie what are they think about daca and what happened . Same thing. Jeff sessions gave this strong statement about daca. And then the president seemed to be walking it back a little bit. If congress cannot deal with it, i will. Apparently today, nancy pelosi called the president and he put out a tweet saying no one will get hurt who is affected by daca in the next six months even though the Justice Department memo contradicts that. Thats what i mean, it does not seem like grand strategy. This is all situational shorttermism. Charlie can you imagine the president is calling up, responding to a call from the former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi . I was alarmed by that. I could not believe it happened. If you watch what has happened over the past few weeks, he has been playing political footsie with democrats. He went to missouri and gave the speech about tax reform. He pulled his punches on Claire Mccaskill saying he hopes he can work with her on tax reform. Nancy pelosi . I was alarmed by that. I could not believe it happened. If you watch what has happened over the past few weeks, he has been playing political footsie with democrats. He went to missouri and gave the speech about tax reform. He pulled his punches on Claire Mccaskill saying he hopes he can work with her on tax reform. She put out a positive statement about it. He goes to north dakota and gives a speech about tax reform and brings the democrat senator up on the stage with him and says nice things about her. She is up for reelection. Senator joe manchin has had nice things to say about tax reform. Maybe there is a message or maybe he is careening from one impulsive decision to the next. It is hard to tell. If he wants a legacy issue, if he wants a legacy vote, these tax cuts are his best chance. By playing these games with democrats, trying to bring some of them in, maybe he is opening himself up for a deal in a few months. Charlie could that be possible, margaret . I think what the president was doing was trading a tactical gain now for a strategic question mark later. Talking to republicans today trying to make lemonade out of what the president left for them yesterday, they say number one, the ability to pass this quickly is good to get todays vote done. The spending bill pushed forward. The debt ceiling vote could be dragged into next year. It makes things more complicated down the line. I dont think chuck and nancy as President Trump is calling them this week Charlie Chuck and nancy, his best friends. I dont think they have it made were there is any trust at all. But i think they are thinking now we have a wedge we did not have a few days ago. Theyve been flummoxed by their own leadership vacuum and difficulty of trying to govern as a minority in both chambers. Now they think they have found some kind of window. Republicans i talked to think it is not as bad as yesterday. Maybe thats just spin. Its definitely more complicated. The real question is, is this the prelude to a fight against the existing Leadership Structure from a president who ran against the establishment or is it just trying to get from one week to the next, a clear path to the next vote, without repercussions for the stock market . I agree with margaret. I dont think this jeopardizes tax reform. I think republicans can still get tax reform passed early next year. If they do, that may eclipse all the angst around this deal and republicans could head into the midterms in a strong position having passed tax reform on the one hand. On the other hand, if we have another showdown over the debt ceiling and conservatives put all sorts of demands that are untenable for the Republican Leadership to work out with the democratic leadership, there is a messy this goal cliff situation. It will hurt republican chances in the midterms. If the republicans come back to congress in january of 2019 in a minority position, it is bad news for donald trump. As much as the president is buddybuddy with nancy and chuck, nancy and chuck with subpoena power, and the majority in the house looking to breathe down the throat of this administration, they will have a lot more capacity to do that than they do now. Charlie i spoke to steve bannon for a 60 minutes piece this weekend. And he told me, and we knew a little bit about this. He told me conservative groups, including the leader of the freedom caucus, are beating a path to his door and sitting and talking with him about how they can find some common ground. It is against the leadership. It is against the leadership. Yes. However, there was reporting in the Washington Post today about how people are talking about who could be a challenger to speaker ryan if there were to be a revolt. The two names the post managed to come up with were Rick Santorum and newt gingrich. Ok . These are two individuals who have not served in congress for over a decade. The idea that no names could surface from inside the conference highly unlikely. Charlie a former senator and a former speaker. The Republican Leadership in the house has a lot of problems. But the goodwill and close relations speaker ryan has with most of the caucuses gives him a lot of running room. The fact he never really hunted for this job, never really wanted this job, he said im happy to just be chairman of the ways and means committee. The fact he really does not want it gives him a lot of running room. I think we are in a challenging environment. Your interview with steve bannon will reveal the revolt brewing. I think this deal they reached yesterday is problematic. I dont think it results in some sort of coup because i do not think there is anyone to step in. Charlie who is more likely to win the house in 2018 . I think republicans are more likely to win, but they will probably lose seats. The majority will probably be more narrow. You could get a wave election and a lot can change. We will see what happens with the mueller investigation. We will see what happens with the fiscal cliff situation. Things can change dramatically. Right now, i say republicans hang on. Charlie what is happening with tax reform . Damian there will be a hearing next week in the senate. We are hearing a lot of happy talk out of the white house and republican negotiators on this. I think they are making progress. Obviously, they are far apart. We heard speaker ryan say this morning he envisions the Corporate Tax rate in the mid20s where President Trump has said he wants it down to 15 . Right now, it is 35 . That is a big difference. I guess you could say President Trump is maybe trying to do a real estate deal and overshooting in his first offer so we can come back to a place where members can agree. There are a lot of tricky parts of tax reform. If you just cut tax rates, it creates a huge hole in the deficit and debt. It is hard to find tax breaks you can eliminate to pay for those because every tax break has some industry in washington that will zealously protect it. They have not gotten to that part yet. They have not found a way to claw back the trillions of dollars they plan on cutting. When they make progress on that and get republicans, if they can go into the midterms telling voters they got a big tax cut they can deliver, that could energize a lot of votes. Charlie margaret, when you look at this president how he is doing, here he is a man with an Approval Rating in the 30s at war with some of his republican colleagues. Conflict within his staff. A huge challenge from north korea. What do we expect in the fall . Look, this is not an easy situation. It is a situation he has managed to govern from so far because within that base his support is still strong and because republicans control both. Chambers of congress. Chambers of congress. The president is playing with fire to the extent if he really wants a leadership by in his own party, the only way it works for him is if he retains control of both chambers of congress. North korea is a very difficult situation. It is a unifying situation in that both sides of the aisle want to calm things down and move prudently. The president has a lot of challenges overseas and at home. He is trying to thread a tricky needle to do the change he campaigned on without alienating that magic mix of the people he needs to protect him politically. Charlie thank you so much. Good to see you. We will be back in a moment. Stay with us. Charlie Jake Gyllenhaal is here. The Academy Award nominated actor is known for his range and versatility in theater and film. His movies include Brokeback Mountain and nightcrawler. His new movie is called stronger. It tells the story of the man who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon bombing. Here is a look at the trailer. Listen up. This young lady is running the marathon for womens hospital. Donate to a good cause. [applause] im going to be there at the finish line. Im going to make a big sign for you. Doesnt show up for anything. And then he shows up. There was an explosion. Your legs are gone, bro. [grunting] i cant do this. I cant do it. You have three appointments. You just have to show up. I showed up for you you remind me of my son. He died. Helping you made me feel like i helped my son. And for that, i am grateful. Youre grateful . Through the perilous fight we showed the world they cannot break us no matter what they do. In the hospital, i wanted to give up. We will rise up boston strong. And now . I just want to live. Rise up i want people to see how amazing life is. Im going to walk with you again someday. Charlie in addition to starring in the film, he also produced it through his new company. Nine stories productions. Jake is a friend of this program and i am always pleased to see him. Welcome. Tell me about how this came about. Jake it has been a long, circuitous journey. It first came to me as an actor. It was an adaptation of a book written by jeff bauman, who i play in the movie. He wrote a book very quickly after the event of his recovery. It was made into a script by a wonderful producer named todd lieberman. He gave it to me as an actor. As these journeys go, the making of the movie was a difficult one, and getting financing. We joined forces with his company and my company. I brought it to the people who financed my company, and the movie came into being. Charlie what is it about . Jake you know, i think it is about moving through the unfathomable. Getting through to a place that seemed like you could never get to, that you would never that thing i was always taught when i went to church or temple, because i was raised in both ways, that narrow passageway. That passage that is so narrow you dont know if you will ever get through it, but somehow you get into what you can say is the Promised Land in one way or another. That is what jeff has done with his life, and that is what the movie is about. Charlie how was he able to do it . Jake i think it was a number of communities. The community of boston, the city of boston. The most important, his girlfriend and wife. They have now split up. His partner who is the mother of his daughter and one of the great loves of his life. And the two of them together, she was running in the marathon and he was there. They had broken up. And he was there to try to get back together with her. He made the sign and was standing there at the finish line. Charlie she looks back. And bam. Jake she was in reality a bit further away from the finish line. She never finished the race that year. When we were filming in boston at the time, we were filming during marathon again. Erin finished the marathon, and jeff met her there for the first time she finished the marathon. That was a beautiful moment. It is really her and him, the story of the two of them and how they got through it. Charlie are they together now . Jake they are not. They have a daughter they are raising her together. Charlie they were married and divorced. Jake they have a beautiful daughter, nora. They are with each other all the time. Jeff has been, as he will say in his own words, 13 months sober to this day. He has been through a lot of things, jeff, a lot. It was not just the event. A lot of people see or hear about the story and think about the event. We tend to move towards that. When in truth, it is really everything that happens after that, but i think we tend to focus on the people who have done this horrific crime and the moment itself. And not very often do we stay with the people who are the survivors who get through it. And jeffs story is incredible. Charlie when i saw it, you know what it reminded me of . It made me think about this happened at the Boston Marathon. There were people like jeff at that event. They had to recover. We know some of the stories. Other stories we dont know. American men and women in the Armed Services in iraq and afghanistan are facing this kind of thing all the time. All the time. Jake yes. Charlie ongoing. The longest war in one case. Jake yes. I think also what i realized through this film, and i dont know if it is necessarily it is a larger group than even that. What this inspires, with the story seems to inspire is every Single Person story of struggle. I think particularly for this country now, the idea of being able to move through into a space of hope is what jeff gives us. I think all of those men and women in the military who have either served or been injured or are getting through, they are a constant inspiration in the same way. I think it is bigger than that. It is all of us. Every person has a story, a story of struggle. Jeff somehow gives them hope. Charlie it is not just recovering from losing your legs. Whether it is an addiction or whether it is failure in life. Jake when this trailer came out, i went down this strange rabbit hole. I love this movie so much. It came out and there are these funny things where people watch the trailer and videotape themselves watching trailers now. You can look on youtube. You