Reagan. The repeal and replace obamacare act. Inpenetrable, physical,tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall. We will cancel every illegal obama executive order. But though republicans control the white house and both chambers of commerce, they have failed to pass any significant piece of legislation. The Obamacare Repeal republicans promised for seven years was yanked from the house floor. And the Treasury Secretary has pushed the deadline for tax reform from the summer to the end of the year. The president s one big accomplishment, the confirmation of Supreme CourtJustice Neil Gorsuch was largely delivered by Senate Leader mitch mcconnell. In a new nbc news wall street journal poll, confidence has eroded. Even on the attributes where he performed best. Hes down by seven points since february on being firm and decisive, down six on changing Business As Usual in washington,
thats what we have the white house for. And joining me now, President Trumps Chief Of Staff reince priebus. Welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me. Good to have you here. The president did tweet this, on friday, no matter how much i accomplish during the ridiculous standard ohe first 100 days, it has been a lot, including sc, media will kill. And maybe that will be a response to my question here. Just before the election, i want to put a he made these legislative promises in the first 100 days, tax reform, offshoring of jobs, infrastructure, school choice, health care, child care, immigration, ethics reform. More funding for the military and dealing with crime and drugs. All of them supposed to be legislative action that was announced, not necessarily the expectation that anybody passed. But only one of those legislative priorities has even come close to a vote. Health care. Why does he say it is a ridiculous standard and yet promise all this action before
leading pundits have said is inexcusable, which is to hold up one nominee after the next to fill secretary positions, wait a second no, no, no. These are nominated. You havent nominated. You have slowed down. If you had 190 nominations let me finish. I know what the question is, let me finish. Even on David Shulkin who passed 100 to 0 in the senate, schumer still took up to 30 hours of debate. Ill get to that. We have hundreds of people in the queue. Here is what happens when you slow down the nominations. When you slow down a nomination, you cant actually clearomeone for a nomination into the senate. So when you talk about who we have for assistant of secretary at hud or the state department, those people have been chosen. When you choose one of those people, the process is you have to send that person to og clearance, Office Of Government Ethics clearance and they have to get an fbi background check. You cant get the clearance for 30 or 40 days after you choose
the person. Those people are in queue. When they get clearance, they get sent to the senate. Were behind because of unbelievable obstruction from u. S. Senators that are acting inappropriately. I dont understand how the democrats have anything to do with who you nominate . The president said, you look at a guy like Rex Tillerson. The president said the Secretary Of State has direct authority over the people he chooses to fill the positions within the department of state. If Rex Tillerson gets picked he gets submitted back in december, he doesnt get confirmed until later in the year or, for example, we have a Secretary Of Commerce that was that was chosen in november, not confirmed until february, that person is going to take the time to choose who his undersecretaries are, those undersecretaries that are chosen need 30 days to go through clearance. I got to move on this is very easy. It doesnt make a lot of sense. How doesnt it make sense . You dont have a nominee you dont have these folks arent preparing for their own staff to who theyre going to decide to bring in office. Let me move on here. Let me ask you about the government shutwn, run out of money, if a Bill Isnt Passe by the end of the week, your Budget Director said you want a down payment on the border wall in the Government Funding Bill. If you dont get it, will the president veto the Government Funding Bill . Were already we already have seen progress in regard to getting money for Border Security within the cr. Im pretty confident were going to get something that is satisfactory to the president in regard to Border Security within may not be the wall itself . It will be enough it will be enough in the negotiation for us to move forward with either the construction or the planning or enough for us to move forward through the end of september to get going on the border wall and Border Security in regard to speaker ryan signed off on this saying it is not going to gum up getting this funding bill
done . No. We expect the priorities of the president to be reflective in the cr. So we expect a massive increase in Military Spending. We expect money for Border Security in this bill. And it ought to be. Because the president went overwhelmingly and are you okay are you okay if the money is not designated specifically for the border wall. If it is Zeg Zdesignated for bo security. As long as we get moving with an increase in Military Spending and rebuilding of our military as he promised in one of your Bullet Points and there is enough as far as flexibility for the border wall and Border Security, i think well be okay with it. Were still negotiating this weekend with the appropriators in the house and the senate. Health care, do you have to have a vote this week, are you comfortable if speaker ryan says i need more time to find the votes. I would like to have a vote this week. I think the leadership knows we
would like a vote this week. On monday, were still going to be here working for the American People. Whether Health Care Repeal and replace comes on friday or saturday, or on monday, and The Grand Scheme of things, you know, it is a marathon, not a sprint. Were hopeful for this week. But, again, it is not something that has to happen in order for it to define our success. Has the president taken sides in the french election, officially is he unofficially hoping marie le pen gets in the runoff . Not at all. He is going to support whoever the winner is, we have a longterm relationship that is historical, with the french people and the french government. And no matter who wins, that relationship is going to continue. Hes not his tweet should not be interpreted as him showing preference for le pen . Not at all. He may have some opinions as far as who he thinks might win, but certainly doesnt have a preference. And finally, on maralago other than a right of Center Person who believes in free markets. Can i ask you this . It costs you 200,000 to be a
member of maralago, shouldnt the American People know about anybody that bought a membership to one of those two clubs where they could get access to you when youre with the president on a work trip or the president himself, shouldnt the American People know who those people are, if they bought memberships since the president took office . I dont think it is this is a private business, a private organization, a private club. I dont think that has anything to do somebody decides this is best way to get access to you or the president , there is nothing the American People can do about it. One thing the American People know about President Trump is that he is the boss. And, you know, people if you saw in the New York Times article today, they listed out 20 different people that have all this access, some folks, president doesnt even talk to. But the president talks to a lot of people. Doesnt change his ultimat views. If you go on youtube and look at trade in the 1980s and 1990s, this ishe same person today, hes no different. So while a lot of people like to talk about and argue about who
is talking to President Trump and who is influencing him to make decisions, it is donald trump. It is his agenda, always his agenda and always will be his agenda. Over time, people are going to see hes a guy that will deliver to the American People, putting america first, and making the future better for and across the country. Reince priebus, ill leave it there. A busy week ahead of you. Government will stay open . I believe it will. All right. Well hold you to it. Thank you, sir. Joining me now is the democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi of california, leader pelosi, welcome back to Meet The Press. Good morning. My pleasure to be with you, from texas. Let me ask you, since you are in a coming from a state that might be impacted by a border wall, is there any scenario that you will support or that democrats will help keep the government open if there is money designated to build the wall . The democrats do not support the wall. And i think the republicans on the border states do not support
the wall. The republicans have the votes in the house and the senate. And the white house to keep government open. The burden to keep it open is on the republicans. The wall is in my view immoral, expansive, unwise, and when president says i promised a wall during my campaign, i dont think he said he would pas billions of dollars of cost of the wall on to the taxpayer. Let me ask you this, the Budget Director of the United States said elections have consequences, republicans are in charge. As you just pointed out. There are some democratic Spending Priorities you want to push for including help make sure that while obama care is still law, it is fully functioning. What is wrong with giving the president his money for a border wall and in exchange for a priority that is not his, keeping obamacare fully functional and funded. As a priority that is important to you. What is wrong with that kind of Horse Trading in washington . What is wrong with it, that
scenario, is the wall. The president talks about how tall it is, who is going to pay for it and all the rest of that. You have to understand this part of the country. There is a community with a border going through it. The president , i think, talking about this wall is expressing a sign of weakness. Hes saying i cant control our borters. I have to build a wall. We certainly would like to we as a have a responsibility to control our borders. Building a wall is not an answer, not here, or any place. Let me move on to the state of the Democratic Party now. I think there is obviously depends on where you sit on the georgia result, on whether it is a good thing or bad thing for the party, but let me ask you this. Is the energy inside the Democratic Party a bit overstated if john gets the same number that Hillary Clinton got in that district . Not at all. Hillary clinton is a famous person, running for president of the United States in a high
profile election. John is running in an off year elecon. Low turnout and the rest. The enthusiasm for him, young man, georgetown, 2009, very proud of that, and really just someone who has attracted personally such support. He made a remarkable showing. It is about him and the commitment he has made to the people of that district. Let me ask you what should unify the Democratic Party . What should make somebody a democrat and not a democrat . I ask it in this way. There has been a lot of back and forth, especially among abortion right activists about a decision of the Democratic Party to support a candidate for mayor in omaha, a democrat, who happens to be pro life. And there are some that, at some point, the Democratic NationalCommittee Chairman actually had to put out the following statement, after three days of back and forth, he said, i
fundamentally disagree with heath mellows personal beliefs about womens reproductive health. It is a promising step that the candidate now shares the Democratic Partys position on womens fundamental rights. Each candidate should do the same because every woman should be able to make her own health choices, period. Why dont you interview tom perez. Can you be a democrat and the support of the Democratic Party if youre prolife . Of course. I have served many years in congress with members who have not shared my very positive, my family would say, aggressive position on promoting a womans right to choose. But what you asked the first part of the question before you went off was about what unifies democrats. And what unifies people say all the time, you do such a good job unifying the house democrats. I say, i dont. Our values unify us. We are unified with our commitment to americas Working Families. Job creation, about Budget Policies that invest in the future. Good paying jobs. And thats what we would like to see a debat on, visavis the president of the United States. He promised jobs. Show us the jobs. Where is his Infrastructure Bill . There are many promises made, promises broken, and here is the thing, where is the Infrastructure Bill. President was supposed to have a strong Infrastructure Bill coming up. Infrastructure bill is one of the biggest secrets in washington, d. C. Second only to the president s not showing us his tax returns. We need to see those so we can see how his tax policy will affect his own tax situation. We need to see them, so we can see what is the hold that the russians have on him politically, financially, and personally. Let me this is about this is about job creation, job creation for the middle class, and Working Families who aspire to it, thats what unifies
democrats. Very quickly, i want to show two clips of tv ads that were run against democrats in georgia and montana. Take a look. Nancy pelosis liberal agenda put america 20 trillion in debt and jon ossoff is on her side. Rob quist talks folksy, but his record is more nancy pelosi than montana. Can you trust quist and pelosi with your money . Are you at all concerned that you could play an outsized role, that if youre more unpopular in a specific district you could contribute to the loss of a democrat . Well, when republicans put forth these ads it shows the bankruptcy of their own initiatives. They should be voters in their district want to know what they are going to do for them. But since you brought item, a u im glad you did, i think it is important for voters to know who the candidates will be voting with. Will they be voting with paul ryan who wants to eliminate the
guarantee of medicare . Who has voted to privatize Social Security who is there to dismantle medicaid . And so it is not a question of the person, just as it isnt about the president. It is a question of the policy. So if you want to vote for someone like paul ryan, for speaker, and that is a vote to dismantle medicaid, a vote to eliminate the guarantee of medicare, medicare is a guarantee. You take away the guarantee, you eliminate medicare as we know it. And to move on to private by the way, that those views are shared by the president s appointees to his cabinet. I will leave it there. I have more questions, but never enough time. I appreciate you coming on and sharing your views, coming from texas. Thank you. Thank you. Coming up, russia, syria, north korea and elections in france. How is President Trump doing on Foreign Policy . Going to talk to somebody who is
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