With congress back we looked at what theyll be working on it, entering coming weeks. This is one hour. Any days a good day to have bob with us but especially as Congress Returns from its august recess. Of busy fall agenda. Childhoo well start with the announcement today on the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. T we expect that at 11. We expect the president to say hill and that program with a sixmonth delay. How do you expect that to go over on capitol hill . It will be really difficultve to pass any type of gmac, even a conservative to. Years ago john boehner, then speaker had a secret group of bipartisan members trying to get some type of deal. They met on and off for over a year, could not come up with a solution that could pass the house. The dream act when president obama did pass the house if fewer than ten republicans supported and they couldnt get the 60 votes in the senate which led to the daca program. Some members have said this is the opportunity, we can do it. But maybe there is a big deal. Maybe theres a dreamers plus trumps wall. But certainly the odds are against it. Talk to that. What things will be tied together here . Theres a lotta big funding deadlines . You think this is one of the things that could be part of a big deal . There could be a big deal on this but the fiscal issues will have to come first. Possibly Harvey Relief with raising the debt ceiling, funding the government, you have other deadlines on defense and Childrens Healthcare. This is Something Congress does a lot, but a lot of members including Speaker Paul Ryan says they dont want to do, having one big bill what you dont have a lot of hearings, you dont see the bill until the last second a minutes pass quickly. Congress has not been able to get its act together rather under democrats or republicans sought the end of the fiscal year they lump them together. Thats what were looking at asng early as this week. The conservatives dont want to raise the debt limit as part as the government funding bill. The chairman had set aside do that, but, that looks to be anid easier way for Republican Leaders including Mitch Mcconnell and ryan to get a bill passed. Host so hurricane Harvey Relief, were expecting a vote tomorrow in the house at 11 00 a. M. One of the concerns about the funding is it became a vehicle that many of the things were hung on, the relief package that was passed, this was the reason why a lot of conservatives said they didnt want to vote for the sandy package. Will that hot happen this time around i know it will happen. Guest this will be one of many bills. Theyll be seeing investments of over 100 billion, one was talking over hundred 50 billing. This is just the beginning of the really for harvey. Theyll be other ones possibly as early as this month. After this passes. The difference between back then and now is were not seen a lot of conservatives say when he talks at the cost of relief with some other. We just havent seen it. This is been more bipartisan. Before the house acted on super storm sandy governor christie called out Speaker Boehner for not acting and that was an embarrassment for the speaker then they subsequently did pass a bill. Right now were not seen the type of partisanship on disaster relief. Therell be fights over this, this is only one of many ills that will probably pass on harvey. Host President Trump tweeted late last week, big week coming up, and then less than a minute ago, congress, get ready to do your job, daca. Thats what the president tweeted out. The relationship between President Trump and president i congressional leaders. What are we expecting to see ino the history . For most of the august recess trump is going after members of his own party including most notably the majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, not getting healthcare done, blamingan mcconnell for that. Mcconnells life is trumps secretary for transportation which is also high priority will probably get kicked into nextthw year. So this will be a little awkward, congressional leaders are meeting with trump today including mcconnell. We havent seen a lot of love between mcconnell intron. This could get awkward. We have the mcconnell is saying we have our priorities, will get them done. But certainly the pressure is on congress to get a lot done. Tw host we will keep watching the twitter page. This is the time a day he often tweets. If theres more will walkk through. Bob cu well continue to talk about your priorities, any of the upcoming deadlines that congress is facing a coming weeks and months. S, bob is with us for the80 8 00 oclock hour. You can call in now. 274880 [inaudible] donnas at first, in virginia, republican, go ahead. Caller how are you doing . My question is, years ago when president bush was in there this money for the wall was alreadywa granted and where did that money go . Was it used for Something Else . How many times was the money granted for the wall but not used for the wall . I dont understand that part at all. Why they didnt use the money they granted for for the wall. Can you answer that . Guest congress to pass whenn bush was president the secure fence act of 2006, that was a Border Security bill, not a wall, the call the defense but it was supported by lottaa democrats including schumer and clinton at the time. Fence so there was funding put intote fie secure fence because it did pass but a lot of critics said the job wasnt finished. That is what now President Trump is saying. That wasnt enough they complete the project, gao, they looked at the issue and spelled it out and they have a full report. If you go online you can findera out all the money that has been appropriated. Certainly there was a fair amount of money spent on the secure fence act the critics say they didnt finish. Host Something Like 2. 3 billion. Indep jim is in florida, line for independence, good morning. Mplan caller good morning. First i would like to reference to earlier colors, one from the left and one from the right, one complaint about 11 an hour wage. The gentleman from the right was a Business Owner complaining that his brick labor costs went from 50 cents at brick to 70 cents per brick. I like to see the brick cost cutdown immigration, bring the brick cost up so the people in the cities and country are getting paid more. Oard with im using this just as a reference obviously it could be done across the board wages, and once the brick gets to a dollar ten, open up this picket and let more immigration in. Doc is a big chip, maybe we could have some great compromise. Give that ship to the left andgi get Something Back for. We have 5 of the worlds population in 20 of the worlds immigrant, 40 of immigrants wind up on welfare. We take a more legal immigrants than any other country. Mm thank you very much. Guest a lot of passion with immigration and thats a difficult to get in the build them. The color mentioned wages,s,ne something democrats said the minimum wage needs to be. Increased, whether 15 on the center 20 but that legislation has been stalled on capitol hill. Be thats a big question, can there be a big deal . We havent really seen massive sweeping bipartisan deals in recent years unless youree govn talking about Something Like funding the government. And that goes to the political will. Do the parties want to have a deal . Ec do they want to give President Trump a victory on something especially as we get closer to the mid turn elections where the looking at the president s Approval Rating the same democrat should pick up seats, its a matter of how many. Host is the lack a big deals sign of the times . Guest absolutely. Well go back to clinton the balanced budget act of 1997 made sweeping reforms to medicare and balance the budget. We see no child left behind witg bush, we just and see that a lot in the obama administration. You saw big bills pass, certainly dodd frank in the Affordable Care act and thoses are muscled through undemocratic boat votes. We havent seen big ones. Thats a sign that the right left are very strong right now. N thats way you have seen jockeying in the 2020 democratic race. Please see republican members like jeff flake whos up next year being primary. Host you talk about a sixmonth delay for the daca program, a lot of can kicking that happens with the deadline set for congress. Obviously well see what Jeff Sessions have to say i will show it here in cspan, but from what you understand so far, is there possible can kicking the can happen after six months . Its an interesting dynamic that they look to be setting up. Theyre setting up a deadline like the sequester were Congress Gave its own deadline said nobody wants a sequester which will cut spending and it was t thought to be an incentive to get a deal and that deal didnt come. Icted ov so somewhat similar that President Trump who has beenen conflicted over what to do with dreamers, in his primary he went hard right on immigration that was a reason why he led wire to wire in the 16 or 17 candidate feel. After that, he softened hishe position and he said kids are important and hes conflicted. This was a compromise like were going to end the program as hesd promised but, congress and paul ryan has said congress should act on this, id be remiss not to bring up jordan story in the hill newspaper they have up patch september agenda. Ough her all the deadlines were talkinge about you can read through her story in the hill newspaper. Bob is here with us until 9 00 oclock to take your questions about those deadlines. Stephen missouri, go ahead. Caller thank you john in cspan. I was cut off on the last segment. I hope you allow me a minute or two. The lease congress does the better off it is for the middle class. Everything you do is against us. On infrastructure theyll build toll roads. Chunky Companies Make you get off those roads and it will jam up the side roads. As for his immigration all they have to do is go after the corporations hiring all of these illegally and then the immigration problem will disappear. With all the problems the money they need ill bet you 100 1 the give a massive tax cut for the rich and forget the poor, thats the way it goes, trumps the biggest liar weve ever had in congress is worse than he is. Thank you cspan. Host congressional Approval Ratings are lower than trumps. I mentioned transportation. Thats something way for talk about but not seen a lot of action. Some people say in retrospect he shouldve started with what transportation it wouldve attracted bipartisan support. But can he do anything that big an Election Year . If its good for the districts, but harry gonna pay for and he mentioned tolls. Thats the part of the equation. How much will the package be . Will be paid for . So some people thought they would do tax reform andr. Transportation. Is that not happening . Guest know, we interviewed Steve Mnuchin on the same day, the morning of and he said no this will just be tax reform bill in congress can do whatever it wants, but there looking like theyre just can do taxes first whether they can reform the entire tax code hasnt been done since 86 in a revamp of the tax code because theres winners and losers but, they could maybe cut taxes. If republicans cant pass some type of taxcut measure it will be a big embarrassment for the gop. They got neil gorsuch through but before they do that they have to pass a budget. If they want to use reconciliation like healthcare where they would need democrats, aney have to pass it for the fiscal year and that was supposed be pass by now. Host on tax return when is it too close to the election that hard deadline . What are the leaders of the house and senate like . Will say it has to be done this year. So, that means moving it sometime this fall and the Senate Finance committee moving it and then coming together t passing a bill. You also have the Republican Party united they were not united enough to pass healthcare legislation that senator john mccain voted no and took down the skinny healthcare bill. You to be more united and that remains to be seen especially. When trump is going after his own party. For radio listeners every two its on the screen, these are september deadlines, and it. The 29th of september the government hits its debtng runs ceiling. The 30th, government funding runs out. Also chip funding, the Childrens HealthInsurance Program funding ends the 30th as well the National FloodInsurance Program and also faa authorization expires thats a a short list of some of the deadlines, never congress. Were talking about them this morning. Richard butler, line for republicans, go ahead. Thank you cspan. F. Sir, in 70 years old. I was all these president s, everybodys can help the middles class. But would happen was just like t reagan, 3 Million People were going to give amnesty to whichh ended up being 12 or 15 Million People which change the culturee of america. When i was a child i could go hitchhiking carry a gun on a bus to go places and do things. Now, our children are killing each other in the streets. Right now, immigration is the most important thing to me. Send them back. The governments responsibility to take care of these people, not mine. My responsibilities to think. One take care my wife, and two, take care my children. Bord not to take care of every mexican or anybody who wants to come across our borders. You stack the deck against americans. Most people on the news today or political hacks put there by administrations. For instance joe dash on fox news. Theres no voice. Host we got your point richer. We read a tweet earlier saying that Congress Needs to use this sixmonth time the administration is giving them to make the program permanent. Can you talk about the debate inside the Republican Party andt how much pushback there will be to ending this program . Shes retiring as she comes from the district that Hillary Clinton won by about 20 points. N she is one i bet voted for the dream act. But she is one of the few. You have this friction we have hardliners who want to build a wall, who said you need to get behind trump, trump did say mexico will pay for but he did campaign on it. It was his number one issue. Then you have others will say we can end the program that obama started we need to continue it. But people believe congress is and should, theres been lawsuits about it whether obama had the authority to do it and whatever happens there will be lawsuits. The states were challenging, president obama and thats why the decision was made. Theres a deadline on this month actually today with the trumpr U Administration had to decide if it is going to repeal. Al. And then if they and the program than other states are gonna challenge this in court. Andrew cuomo, mayor of new york, governor of new york with his tweet yesterday, new york will not demonize diversity in standbys 42000 new yorkers are deported if he rescinds, we will sue. And regardless of what congress does or doesnt do, this will be decided one way or the other by the courts. Madeline wrightson, american selected trump to make the daca decision, not have them punted to congress. Does Congress Want this football that they described as being punted . They have so much to do and youll read this is another thing. Th but sometimes when you have a lot of legislative things you need to do maybe you can trade if you give me this all give you that. We havent seen that trading in recent years thats been successful. Theyve tried it was certainly a even if some supporters are saying why his truck backing down and yielding to congress . You should just and it. So he could get some backlash. To think thats why Jeff Sessions is making that announcement . Its within his jurisdiction. Trump was asked about it last week and the announcement was forthcoming remember, the relationship between Jeff Sessions and trump has been strained at times over his decision to recuse himself. I think its a normal thing to yield to the cabinet a secretary who has jurisdiction over this issue. The attorney general will not be taking questions today does that surprise you . No, they want to control thea message and say what they want. To say. Its unfortunate has i think they should all take questions. Its a big announcement. But i understand they want toif control the message and dont want to answer what would be difficult questions. Sue for marilyn, go ahead. Hello. Ive been a trump supporter since day one. Ters s ive supported him and voted for him and sent money and stood out on overpasses with signs for him. If he does not in this program which he said was an illegally unconstitutional program and send these people out of the country and stop making me responsible for im through with him. If you have an unconstitutional Illegal Program you dont give the United States another six months to operate. I never hear people talking about the parents who supposed y brought these people in. When do they get deported and find and criminally incarcerated for doing what they have done . This program is destroying this country. In our Economic Educational criminal, healthcare, its all related to ilLegal Immigration. M in this congress will tell me have