Get into later. Espn, versus itself, which is crazy story. Kaepernick versus foreman, something a lot of people are talking about. All coming up. Matchup number one which is trump versus the establishment. This wide open feud between President Trump and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. It has been a big story this week but now, new developments, just minutes ago, the white house released a statement confirming, these two men will meet, hold a previouslyscheduled meeting after the august recess. As part of the white house statement, president donald j. Trump and senator Mitch Mcconnell remain united on many shared priorities, including middle class tax relief, strengthening military, constructing a border wall and other important issues. As the president was more inclusive in his public remarks today. Watch. We have no division too deep for us to heal and there is no enemy too strong for us to overcome. Because in america we never lose faith. We never forget who we are, and we never stop striving for a better future. Together, we can not fail. Connell all right, congressman lee zelden is the first guest from long island. Thanks for coming on again. We always appreciate it. Thank you. Connell the president s comments, i think he is not referring directly to senator Mitch Mcconnell but now the white house in its statement is. Are the two of these men in middle of drawing some sort of truce . More importantly, do they need to . Well, yeah, absolutely and that can be a very good thing because there is a lot that the president wants so accomplish to accomplish that the Senate Republicans want to accomplish, the House Republicans as well. You take tax reform, everyone may be in agreement on at least 90 of what it should look like. As far as the appropriations process goes, securing the southern border, the house passed legislation just before the august recess for the appropriation. On the senate side, if theyre going to have any difficulty getting the 60 votes i agree with the president , that the senate should change their rules and just pass the appropriations bill with 51. It fund the need to secure our border. It avoid a government shut down. What the American People voted for last november. Connell talk about government shut down, well talk in a few minutes, that is one of the things rattled market a little bit. Nothing crazy. Wall street was down. That came up at the president s rally last night this feud with mcconnell out there, now looks like theyre trying to patch up, that is bothering investors as well. You think the president realizes he needs senator mcconnell . Well, i think that they, in many respects they need each other because they have priorities. Senator mcconnell, Senate Republicans want legislation passed into law they want the president to sign of the president has important priorities he campaigned on still pushing, that needs to get through congress first. Idea lonally, they actually agree on a lot more than their political opposition is willing to give them credit for especially on the highest priorities that were all talking about as, looking forward with tax reform and appropriations process. Connell i dont know if it matters, congressman, but who is right in your view with this president and back and forth between the establishment and his own party . The president is trying to shake the status quo and he is absolutely correct in his advocacy for the Senate Republicans to change the filibuster rule, to insure that we are able to get the government that the American People voted for. When you see that there is a House Republican majority now, a Senate Republican majority, President Trump now in the white house, not Hillary Clinton, and what we campaigned for, if, if you need eight democrats, Senate Democrats to pass our priorities, theyre not going to give us the most important stuff. They will play games. They will abuse the filibuster rule. If they will abuse it, many respects theyre punishing, penalizing the American Public for it for their own political gamesmanship. Connell a lot can get done if the Republican Party gets together on some of these issues. Maybe theyre trying to now as they look to patch things up. Congressman selden thanks for coming on. Always good to see you. Connell now this. Were building a wall on the southern border which is absolutely necessary. [cheering] build that wall. Build that wall. Build that wall. Now the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it but, believe me, we have to close down our government, were building that wall. Connell congressman, andy biggs is our next guest. He joins us now. You were at the rally last night, right out in arizona . I sure was. Connell something we heard, i mentioned to congressman zeldin, you hear about the government shut down, investors we talk to theyre concerned about that, that would seem to hurt the president s entire agenda, tax reform included. Do you think he was serious last night about the Government Shutdown threat . I think he was serious about the Government Shutdown threat but it is important to understand we dont know what he meant by the Government Shutdown threat . Did he mean cart blance much across the board, generic shutdown or something more finite or articulated. He is probably talking about something more articulated. In particular he mentions democrats, i think what he is talking about the of 0 vote filibuster rule you were talking about with lee 60 vote. That is on his mind. There is tremendous leverage there. I dont think he is talking about pulling the plug on the entire government. Connell okay, but what he said was, if we have to shut the government down well do it. We have a vote coming up that could do just that. You can see youre absolutely right. We have a vote coming up that could happen. I dont think that is going to happen. If youre talking just across the board, i dont think President Trump would say, lets hamper our military. Lets stop the border enforcement guys. Lets stop all that. I dont think he means that. Connell do you think things can still at end of the day only matters if things can still get done. Congressman, do you think things can still get done . Tax reform, first and foremost of peoples priorities. Shut the government down, hard to imagine even getting to tax reform . That would be a really, really big deal. So he has got priorities. We all have priorities. Tax reform has got to get done. Every republican knows that. Connell you need a win. Yeah. That is the win. You have got to get that done. And so you got to do that. But, and the good news is that the republicans in the house already voted out that border wall funding. Now it is up to the senate to deliver the good there. Connell congressman biggs, good to see you. We appreciate it. Thanks. Want to bring up new numbers might give us an idea why the president thinks he can maybe win this battle such as it is with the establishment of his own party, even if there is an attempt to patch things up tonight. Mr. Trumps campaign pollster, says republicans will still blame congress, not trump, if nothing gets done. These are numbers he tweeted out himself. 2,000 selfdescribed gop voters polled who is to blame for the Obamacare Repeal and replace failure, 82 said gop and congress, not the president. So with us now, fox news political contributor, tammy bruce, democratic strategist Kevin Walling as well. All right, tammy, to me looks at these numbers, the president , this is his own pollster putting them out, i know theyre saying all the right things patching things up between he and senator mcconnell but he attacked so many people in his own party, there must be a method to the madness, no . A lot of that is of course selfdefense of the we saw what happened last year, positions many people in the Republican Party took obviously. So im sure mr. Trump knew when he was coming in there would be a fight. That the establishment wasnt just giving up. They werent giving up last year but of course were defeated. Beyond President Trumps own pollster, quinnepiac has poll with congress. In march they were 18 . Now 10 . That is 44 drop in midst of health care fight. President trumps numbers steady in the low 40s. Not stellar but more than 10 . American people responded to congress being the bad guy. Normally individual get voted on as individuals for their own seats, so they tend not to worry about a congressional rating but both senator mcconnell and senator flake are drowning in their states now. Theyre both at 18 . That is a signal i think, a warning bell to other republicans not only will the republican level be low, approval rating, but individual republicans are going to be seen as being a particular problem. They will be affected. I think that will move some republican as well, when it comes to helping the president , not being obstructionist themselves. Connell tammy, on the war within the Republican Party, democrats licking their chops over this . What is the approach from that side . Even in case you missed, signs this evening to try to patch things up with the statement put out, what do you think of it . I agree with tammys comments, these are not stellar for president and gop support in congress. The president s own pollster says he has seen an erosion of six Percentage Points since june of his base support. Now that support for gop congress is down 30 . These are great numbers for democrats across the board. Im working with a number of congressional campaigns across the country competitive because of these numbers, as tammy points out with erosion of gop support for senators flake and mcconnell and others. And were seeing those number across the board. Were getting more competitive as democrats in races tammy, with this statement, Mitch Mcconnell put out a similar statement, none of this makes any sense, fighting amongst themselves. Lets not mistake fact republicans are not being well liked in congress that the American People will turn to democrats. We know what their fund raising problem. The fact they have become a weak Regional Club when it comes to seats connell they dont get anything done at all. Somebody pays some price for that. Yes, they will, but there is also people being primaried. You have got new republican candidates. There isnt this finite bubble who will run for office and who can be in the senate but i do think that the president s comments last night, perhaps a wakeup call to mr. Mcconnell. Numbers he is facing are wakeup call. Connell right. You cant be never trumpers when American People voted this in and options like for mr. Flake. It might not be him but it will be a republican who will be in that seat. I think democrats have to get their own act together as they have no bench at all. They have nowhere to go. They have no money. Republicans have tons of money but theyre stuck with being, jealous of mr. Trumps win. Connell come back to all of this. Thanks to you both. You will be back. There is breaking story from overseas. Pass along the mayor of rotterdam in the netherlands says a concert by an American Band has been canceled. This follow as warning from spanish authorities. Sometime after Police Stopped a van with spanish license plates. It allegedly contained gas bottles, near the venue of the concert. The vans driver is in custody. Well see. Well keep you updated on any developments from overseas on that. Our next match, right or wrong, does President Trump win every single time he attacks the media . Thats next. Parodontax, the toothpaste that helps prevent bleeding gums. If you spit blood when you brush or floss you may have gum problems and could be on the journey to much worse. Help stop the journey of gum disease. Try parodontax toothpaste. So we need tablets installed. With the menu app ready to roll. In 12 weeks. Yeah. The world of fast food is being changed by faster networks. Data, applications, customer experience. Which is why comcast business delivers Consistent Network Performance and speed across all your locations. Fast connections everywhere. Thats how you outmaneuver. Only people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself and the fake news. You would think they would want to make our country great again, and i honestly believe they dont. If you wanted to discover the source of the digsdivision in our country, look no further than the fake news and the crooked media. Connell well, President Trump absolutely blasting the Mainstream Media at that rally in phoenix last night, blaming them for divisions in the country after charlottesville, then the president added to comments on twitter today, last night in phoenix i read things from my statements on charlottesville that the Fake News Media didnt cover fairly. People got it. Now to be fair, what we didnt get was the full story. The president omitted a portion of his comments that sparked the most criticisms use of term, many sides, when he was talking about the violence. But when we talk about the president , against the media, the question tonight is, does it matter . Who wins when trump versus the media . Chris hahn, joins us progressive radio show host, former aide to senator schumer, liz peek, columnist for the fiscal times. Good to see you both. We talked about this topic over and over of the last night was different level in many ways. I think there is calculation believe it or not here, even as many people made, i understand it, leaving out the many sides comment, the president and his team are calculating we win every time we go after the news media. What do you think . Sad thing, it is like trench warfare. Neither side is winning and neither side can afford to back down. The media can not back down on allout hatred for donald trump. Nothing is bert for subscription levels of washington post, New York Times, than donald trump. Really the case four out of five are top stories things really hateful an venomous about donald trump. That tells you all you need to know. By the way it is working for donald trump, 65 of americans, including majority of democrats think the Mainstream Media is full of fake news. Connell we say all the time the guy goes on instincts chris, i mentioned tony from polling, those numbers and others you can not lose with this, even if, again to be fair, even if youre not always telling the whole story as he did last night. He yadi yadad for seinfeld fans, over the best part. You dont pick a fight with people buy ink bit barrels and picks cycles by the billions. It will catch up. Connell he has under yet. I think his numbers are dropping quickly. I disagree with the term hate. I think the media is hating on donald trump. They are rewarding what he is saying and doing. He is not acting like a president. He is acting like a reality star. He takes everything personally. They rise above it. Every now and then they take something personally but this president connell quinnepiac number, overall polls showed from quinnepiac that the media is trusted more than President Trump. That is what overall numbers showed but they also showed here, liz, on party breakdown, republicans have almost no trust in the news media. They trust overwhelmingly their president. So even if, they trust what he says. They dont by the way much better out come than gallup. Gallup had media at 36 media approval rating, same as donald trump. Depend who you look at. When you say there isnt hatred in the media, have early on how fashion industry that donald trump is won, because they much rather dress Hillary Clinton then melania trump. That was a true story. I read everything. I dont know what youre talking about. True, fashion section, excuse me, let me. Fashion section of New York Times. I read it because every section of New York Times i clear live dont read fashion section. Maybe you should. Every section of the New York Times has indulged in this antitrump venomous coverage. It has been relentless. I think you know, i think he tried in the beginning. He sat down with the Editorial Board of the New York Times, wall street journal, et cetera. Connell all consult its say believe me and nobody else cult its. Pretty soon winter is coming with russia. He doesnt want anybody to believe. What Mitch Mcconnell wind up saying about i am had, what senate. Is is about to be censured in september. Connell you say yadi yada, she says russia, russia, russia. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger and russia. I will read the fax section. Connell marcia, marcia. Another big story, former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, im sure you heard of he was on with our own neil cavuto whether he thinks President Trump will grant him a pardon. It was a first on fox interview. Well talk about that coming up next. Free . Yeah. Could save thousands. You should probably buy me dinner. No. Go to lendingtree. 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